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By Dom Francis Byrne O.S.B. "Peace must be worked for within one's own heart before the world at large can discover peace and harmony," more than 4,000 pilgrims were told at New Norcia on Sunday last. B ishop Wi l l iam love reached out to every infirm in Perth, but we are F oley, of Geraldton, person with their own par- one with them in spirit," he added. who led the ceremo- ticular weakness. nies, told the gather- "We have come here Bishop Foley paid tribute ing that they had come today to find meaning and to Bishop Salvado and the from a troubled world. strength from Mary, the early Benedictine pioneers who showed a readiness
Mother of Good Counsel," "In this world there is he added. "to walk with Mary in a mbition, jealousy and "In a sense we are on a love". people seeking wealth and wider pilgrimage of faith He outlined the incident this can lead not only to towards God our Father in which Our Lady of stepping on our neigh- and we entreat Mary our G ood Counsel was bour's toes, but also his Mother to guide us along invoked by Bishop Salhead," he said. vado and his monks when the way." "There is trouble in many Bishop Foley said that we a bush fire threatened the parts of our globe today must look closer to home mission and its crop in in Lebanon, Afghanistan, in order to begin to bring 1847. in Europe where blind about world peace. "In a sence we are here hatred and violent attacks to remember that today all ask ourhave led to an inability to We should one great act of faith in our are what particselves a ccept other people as ular attitudes to people? Our Lady's powerful intermade in God's image." cession, he said. The pilgrims consisted of "The Gospel message is A procession around the d ifferent ethnic groups one in which we can find streets of the township folfrom many parishes in the the peace of Christ which lowed the open-air Mass he has promised us." he and the Rosary was recited Perth Archdiocese. Several priests and aco- added. by Deacon Dom Chrislytes from Perth partici- Bishop Foley said that topher Power, OSB. pated in the ceremonies A rchbishop Goody was The theme of the day was along with various school with the pilgrims in spirit. p unctuated with an and college groups. " Archbishop Goody is emphasis on peace -Bishop Foley said in his unable to be present today including the Prayers of moving homily that God's' as are many of the ill and the Faithful.
ABOVE: Bishop Foley (left) and the procession of priests and acolytes which accompanied the image of Our Lady of Good Counsel at New Norcia. BELOW LEFT: National groups with their religious banners and people dressed in many national costumes added to the colour of the procession that was followed by benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
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SHOOTING OF POPE USSR INVOLVED W ASHINGTON (NC) — The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in May, 1981, was probably hatched by or with the knowledge of the Soviet Union and its eastern bloc communist satellite, Bulgaria, witnesses told a congressional panel on September 23.
One witness said, the Soviets may have been behind the assassination attempt not just because they were angry about a letter the pope reportedly sent them threatening to return to Poland if the Soviets invaded it, but a lso because they feared John Paul would lead a reunification of the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches — thereby threatening their power over people in the Soviet Union and its satellites.
Except for this theory postulated by Atanas Slavov, a Bulgarian writer in exile, the hearing covered much of the same ground reported recently in the news media, linking Mehmet Ali Agca, the convicted papal assailant, with a criminal network supervised by the Bulgarian secret police, who in turn were controlled by the Soviet Union's KGB secret police. The hearing was held by house and senate members of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which monitors implementation of the Helsinki Accords. One member, Senator Alfonse D'Amato, said he persorrilly knows an unidentified monsignor who carried the pope's letter to Soviet president Leonid Brezhniev in which the pope reportedly wanred he would return to stand beside his Polish countrymen if the Soviets invaded Poland. D'Amato said his monsignor friend "was quite convinced the Russians were behind the assassination attempt."
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This century seen as new age of martyrs
Sick progress NEWS AROUND
BRISBANE — Few things sickened him more than talk of "progress" — the o pening of yet another coal mine, or whatever it was — as if progress meant nothing more than putting more money into a few pockets.
A rchbishop Rush said at the opening of the Brisbane archdiocesan Pastoral Council to make a stronger plea for social justice. High unemployment, w ide-spread poverty and poor housing — which struck at the family, the theme of the council meeting — made a mockery of this sort of "progress", he said. Boasting that one state was making more progress of this sort than another was juvenile. "It's childish, and it's about time we grew up," Archbishop Rush said.
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MELBOURNE — "We live in a century that is a new Age of Martyrs, rivalling the bloodiest and most intense persecutions of Christianity's history," said Father J. Jordan SJ. in St Patrick's Catherdral. ' Tens of mi l lions Christ himself was tried by He used it to describe all have been eliminated Pilate — "They must have those peoples who after the in our time by and in got mixed up in politics: if war fell under Stalin's grim the name of atheistic they had been more 'reaso- regime, after years of hopthe end of the war c ommunism, which is nable' they would not have ing thatrestore freedom. would been noticed." d istinguished by two At the other end of the "Unlike Iron Curtain, the features, '" he told the scale there are those with term Church of Silence has e cumenical service vivid recollections of the dropped out of use, and a for Captive Nations. monstrous crimes of Stalin moment's reflection tells
unassailable courage and moral force — by physical violence. Why should he be exempt when Christ, whose servant and vicar he is, suffered death? The Church of Silence has become a deafening chorus, whose passionate belief, and clamour for justice ring out around the world. They turn to us for our support, and they wonder why there is so much indifference to their fate, as if we were two different species of being, and not brothers and sisters in Christ. They know from experience what our voices raised up on their behalf would do and they may legitimately ask themselves whether we have become the Church of Silence.
us why. First, it is an absolute and his successors. creed or philosophy, that And inevitably some The Church in the Soviet claims to obey universal there are who are embit- bloc has a voice that is laws. It claims to explain tered by these experiences, heard through the world, a and even filled with hatred. voice of faith in God, of all, and to cater for all. It has, therefore, world- It is the aim and hope of faith in Christ and a voice wide ambitions that distin- Friends of the Prisoners to that demands inalienable guish it from other develop a response to this human rights. totalitarian regimes that new Age of Martyrs which The Polish free trade BRISBANE: The clergy education may at any given time be is authentically Christian: union Solidarity, cannot appeal this year raised $135,000 in more inhuman than com- I. We must know the be understood apart from munism. facts about our brothers the religious fervour of the the Brisbane archdiocese. "Secondly, it is ideologi- and sisters in captivity, dis- Polish people, nor from The total compares cally and specifically cern the pattern of repres- the spiritual leadership of with $113,000 last opposed to all religious sion that underlies John Paul II. belief and practice and will communist policies and Is it any wonder that the year. forces of evil tried to desThe appeal is for the tolerate either only where actions. upkeep and education of and when it is expedient to 2. Our response must be troy him in the only way positive: The horrors of they know when faced with Pius XII seminarians in do so. communist regimes could Brisbane; Queensland Institute of Catholic Education never have arisen if there seminarians at St Paul's not been injustices had ASCOT VALE CAMPUS SYDNEY — Catholic hospitals national seminary in Syd- Deaths, slavery that astute communist wish to retain the right to determine ney; on-going clerical eduLECTURER leaders were able to exploit and the archdiotheir own policy in the "medico mor- cation to their advantage. A just Since 1917, in accordance in Religious Education cesan vocations office. with its stated philosophy, society need have no fear als" area — and already there were (limited tenure — 3 years) c ommunism has been of its citizens opting for The campus offers a pre -service Bachelor of Education (Primary), a Graduate pressure groups seeking to destroy responsible for the deaths, communism: so we must Diploma in Education (Secondary), and Graduate Diplomas in Multi -Cultural that right — Cardinal Freeman the suffering and the slav- ensure we build a just Education and Religious Education. The campus provides for a substantial number of teachers to upgrade their qualifications through upgrading ery, of millions — many of society here. warned when he presided at the programs leading to the Bachelor of Education. them only because of their 3. We must be forgiving. a nnual meeting of Lewisham The successful applicant will teach courses in religious education and related religion — and the suffer- The tragic events of this Hospital. f ields of religious study to both graduate and under-graduate teacher ing and the enslavement go c entury would give education students, and will plan, implement and evaluate programs of Marxist-Leninism its ultion to this day. Cardinal Freeman said "Area boards have been professional experience to enable experienced teachers to extend their skills Many are indifferent to mate triumph if it were to the Church hospital sys- mentioned in some quar- HOBART: Mr Peter Fer- this and competence in religious education. Age of Martyrs — plant in our hearts hatred tem should be represented ters. These could endanger rall, MBE, has been coldly In addition to appropriate under-graduate studies, the successful applicant and bitterness. so. in an effective way at the the autonomy of individ- unanimously elected as the will be expected to have tertiary qualifications which include major studies in There is great ignorance 4. Our response must be religious education and to have wide experience of religious education t op level of the proposed ual hospitals and their new state president of the of the reality of life behind active. Our care and conprograms. Experience of in-service or pre-service teacher education Department of Health. ability to function under Society of St Vincent de the iron or bamboo cur- cern for the oppressed is programs particularly in the area of curriculum theory and practice will be He added: "As far as their own distinctive philo- Paul in Tasmania. tains; that ignorance hollow if we do not do even considered an advantage. Catholic hospitals are con- sophy and ethical stand- Mr Ferrall has been a affects whole peoples and a little for their comfort, or The level of appointment is at Lecturer)) Salary range $20,963 to $23.970 cerned there is a danger in ards." member of the society for their governments. even their release. per annum the lack of consultation. The cardinal explained 14 years, for the past 6n There are those who will "It was Pope Pius XII Enquiries concerning the format of application can be addressed to The Cardinal Freeman again that in the Health Com- y ears as Launceston say of the persecuted, as who first used the expresDirector, Institute of Catholic Education, Ascot Vale Campus, 251 Mt warned: "It is possible that mission Act the chairman regional council president. Alexander Road, Ascot Vale, Victoria, 3032, Australia (telephone (03) has often been said since sion, Church of Silence. the growth in regional of the commission was 376 2522). Closing date for applications is Friday, 15 October 1982. responsibility and control explicitly responsible for of the health system could third schedule hospitals. The Diocese of Toowoomba presents multiply problems for the Such hospitals needed proCatholic institutions. tection. 'SHEPHERD AMID SHEPHERDS'
Self-determination on 'medico morals' sought
Tasmania gets new SVP head
ACR aids Lebanon
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SYDNEY — ACR last week sent a donation of $30,000 to assist reconstruction programmes The money will go towards the rebuilding of 2,000 houses in southern Lebanon damaged or destroyed during the Israeli invasion. The reconstruction programme, which will cost over $2 million, is being organised by Caritas Lebanon, the official disaster relief agency of the Catholic Church in Lebanon. Caritas has surveyed the housing situation in s outhern Lebanon, excluding Beirut, and estimates that at least 8,000 houses have been destroyed. In West Beirut, unofficial estimates put the number of destroyed d wellings at over 10,000.
Summer is now over, and with the northern winter approaching, it is imperative that people have warm, secure shelter before the cold weather begins in earnest. Caritas also reports that the evacuation of the PLO means that the houes built now are unlikely to be destroyed again in the foreseeable future. The recent donation brings to $50,000 the amount sent to Lebanon by ACR this year.
World leaders visit here for 56th Charismatic conference
Two world leaders in the Catholic charismatic renewal movement will be the keynote speakers at the fifth annual charismatic conference, in January next year. They are Mr Ralph Martin and Father Michael Scanlan, TOR. The conference is work of renewal in the enant Community and the one of a series to be Church, with regard in C atholic Charismatic conducted nationally, particular, to the special Renewal in WA. in January, 1983, and needs within the Catholic Conference planners are is to be held at the Church today. elated that two such emiPerth Concert Hall Mr Martin is a former nent leaders in the renewal director of the Interna- movement will be present from January 7-9.
tional Communication together, to lead the forthThe conference series Office for the charismatic coming conference. theme is Christ for Today renewal, in Belgium, where -- A Crisis of Truth. he worked with Cardinal Chairman of the organisThe Perth conference will Leo Suenens. ing committee of the conend with a Mass and healing service at St Mary's He is involved in speaking ference, Mr Peter Dudley, engagements around the said that the conference Cathedral. Throughout the series of world on the crisis of truth would provide a unique opportunity for Catholics conferences, Mr Martin theme. to appreciate the challenge Father Scanlan is te presiand Father Scanlan will call for a response from dent of the University of to personal faith and lifesChristians to work for spir- Stuebenville in Ohio. Both tyle confronting people in itual reform and to streng- men are authors, and are the Church today. then authentic faith, leaders in Christian com- "Mr Martin and Father morality and mission in the munities in the United Scanlan are truly proStates. Church today. phetic in their vital mesPope John Paul II has Sponsors of the Perth sage to contemporary publicly encouraged this conference are Bethel Cov- Catholics." he said.
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Parish help to Prayers for deaf , be sought for youth homes Parishes will be approached to help find metropolitan accommodation for youth, especially Catholic youth from the country. This was decided at committee will research munication with the DPC the quarterly meeting the matter in detail over and foster a greater sense of the Diocesan Pas- the next few months and of community throughout toral Council last Sat- come up with a statement the diocese. Parish counfor consideration by the cils also will be invited to urday which heard a archbi shop. submit items for considerreport from the coun- Parish Contact: High- ation by the DPC. — cil's youth committee. lights of the DPC meetings The report said that in will be circulated to all par- (Report supplied bJ addition to youth affected ishes to build better corn John Quilty.)
by family crises or unemployment there were other A t the church opening of Deafness Awareness Week six people represented their different y outh seeking accommoforms of hearing disability and the different methods they had taken to break through the dation who had funds and communication barrier: (From left) Cliff Evans, Mary Burke, Anthony Zappia, Lance Farmer, the support of their parents Lynette Sayers and Jenny O'Rourke. but who needed cheap, independent housing. This The church observance of Deafness Awareness Week was marked by a was especially true of country youth coming to special service last Sunday at the St Francis Xavier church, East Perth. the city. Deafness Awareness Crisis accommodation Week started in WA six for youth is already years ago and has now covered by Youthcare a been taken up in other service of Centrecare. countries as well as other One of the suggestions states in Australia. adopted by last Saturday's last Sunday's meeting was to approach Perth's Anglican Synod moved the s During ervice two people parishes for help in finding ordination of women in Australia a explained how they had board for youth in metroNational Chaplain of the Young Christian Stupolitan homes, possibly step closer but the national decision sought to break through through a direct link with a still swings on a number of other to a noisy world from dents' Movement, Father Gerry Gallagher, of their world of deafness. country parish. votes and may be blocked by a recent Cliff Evans who works Melbourne, is in Perth for a month to work with The diocesan council also in the Public Works heard an exposition of the Adelaide vote against the step. the YCS. Department and who has new rite of Christian Initiadeaf the 22 been past for Monday night, at On synod The voted to tion presented by Father The YCS movement ing the students' world, Frank O'Dea, Blessed Sac- the South Perth civic change the current practice years as a result of menin- exists in all states of there are those who suffer rament Father, of Allen- c entre where the by which an Anglican is gitis at the age of 15 Australia, in 16 differ- or who are maltreated or in dale Square, who has synod is being held, required to have been con- explained how he relies some way marginalised," conducted the rite in Mel- the 250 members of firmed before being admit- heavily on lip reading ent dioceses and has he said. bourne and also in Perth. the synod voted 153 to ted to the sacrament of since hearing aids are of its national office in He said, "YCS sees it is Holy Communion which is no use to him. He is urg- Melbourne. called to co-operate in 97 in favour of changing his Anglican church building a church and Programmes' steps ing the Anglican con- around the age of 12. Until it becomes national to appoint a special cha- In Perth, Father Gal- society which welcome lagher is working mainly stitution so that a policy the local archbishop plain to the deaf. these people and which Father O'Dea outlined canon on the matter will be able to dispense Lynette Sayers, a pro- with the leaders of the give them the respect and the steps in the 12-month and YCS archdiocesan m ay eventually be from the confirmation cessor operator with Teld ignity which God programme that includes requirement and admit ecom, has been deaf since helping them to assess the e vangelisation contact introduced nationally. children to Holy Com- birth and uses finger strengths and weaknesses intended all should have." Father Gallagher will be with prospective particiAll three houses, archbi- munion when they are felt spelling and signing but of the local movement. in Perth until mid-October pants in the course, the shop, clergy and laity t o be ready for the she demonstrated how He is also visiting a and can be contacted at the c atechumenate stage in voted for the constitu- sacrament. she is now developing her which the people studying tional change and there A consequence of this skills in speech. Lynette number of groups at their YCS Office in North Perth weekly meetings. (phone: 328 4071) or the faith are publicly wel- were both clergy and laity move could be a suggested is a member of the t hrough Father John comed to the Christian including a few women in postponing of the age of Catholic Association for YCS groups offer stu- Dwyer, Perth YCS chac ommunity, the purifica- the minority vote at South confirmation to a later age, the Deaf. dents a chance to develop plain (phone: 444 1556). tion and enlightenment Perth. The congregation was say 18, when other responstage which includes bap- In Adelaide a fortnight sibilities would also be told that barriers for deaf responsibility for an active ********************************** Or*** * tism and reception at ago the synod voted 180 to spelt out to the candidate. people still exist, espe- and involved faith as com- * Easter and finally the Pen- 109 against the constitu- The Perth synod also rati- cially when unemploy- mitted Christians who are capable of exercising leadtecost stage with further tional change, the archbi- fied the current Anglican ment is an issue. ership and contributing to 4 Remodel that old bathroom instruction especially on shop voting in favour but practice that divorced perThe prayers of interces- the life of their community, 4. *** the Eucharist. * the other two houses vot- sons can be admitted to a sion were presented in Add family school, whether it is * * In the discussion which ing solidly against. * second marriage at the dis- whatever method was or parish. * PRESTIGE and Value * f ollowed Father O'Dea's The next national vote cretion of the bishop. This used by each person * — * * to your home talk it was pointed out that takes place at the Anglican usually entails an investi- finger spelling, singing, The part played by the spreading the gospel is an General Synod in 1985 and gation and period of coun- cueing or oral. adult assistant to the YCS obligation on all Catholics all metropolitan synods selling at the discretion of and that it included fellow will have to have voted in the bishop. group is important, so without absorption' has PTY LTD Catholics receiving the favour for an affirmative Father Gallagher is visiting been a fundamental ideal message as well as others vote to be taken nationally assistants and discussing 211 Newcastle Street — 328 6955 of the current conversa- their role A rchbishop's outside the faith. with them both then. - TERMS AVAILABLE — tions and in any future Catholics had to realise During the 90-minute individually and at a joint ddress a reunion of our Churches, ********** *************** ************ they had something to sell debate at South Perth the meeting. M11111111111111111111111111111111111111111WMIMW111111111111111111111111111111111111111E others and they should synod members accepted In his opening address to the papacy is itself bound t o be reformed and Before taking up the posiimprove their Catholic the opinion of a former the Perth synod Archbition of full-time chaplain k nowledge through Rene- synod that there was no shop Peter Carnley re- changed. wal of Faith and similar t heological opinion ferred to the issue of papal "When it comes into crea- 18 months ago, Father programmes. against the ordination of primacy that has been tive contact with a synodi- Gallagher was involved in 1 1 Clothes, kitchen tables and chairs, g. Contact with interested women. raised in the Anglican cal system of church parish work in the diocese single and double beds and mat-I people is often done by a Prominent among the Roman Catholic Commis- government such as we of Sandhurst for 12 years. t resses, kitchen untensils, cutlery, g Anglicans have, it would leaflet drop in a parish opponent's on Monday sion discussions. inevitably area. change He will continue in this E wardrobes, dressing tables, cots, 1:4 dramanight was Dean David "This is a land mark in the Festival of Light: The Robarts, of St George's work of the reintegration tically. work until the end of next prams, pushers DPC received a request for Cathedral, who said that of the Roman Catholic "The A RCIC Final year. Anything useless to you c o-operation with the FOL the ordination of women Church and the Churches Report seems to envisage a After attending a YCS E in fighting pornography was an issue that tampered of the Anglican Communmay be useful to us universal primacy not World Council meeting in a nd it was decided first to with the whole fabric of ion. There has been some unlike the primacy of the Montreal last month, hear a speaker from FOL Christianity. discussion of the appropri- Archbishop of Canterbury Father Gallagher said, before making a further The Anglican synod also ateness of the universal pri- with respect to the Angli- "One of the strongest c ommitinnt. voted in favour of a prac- macy of Rome which the can Communion or, on the We collect trends emerging in YCS is _ Aboriginal Land Rights: tice for Holy Communion report suggests as a possinational level, of our own the consciousness of the Because the subject of that could eventually have bility for the reunited Primate with respect to the need to work for a Church A boriginal Land Rights an influence on the age of church of the future. has come up at the last two c onfirmation in that "It is to be remembered independently organised of the poor. and synodically governed meetings of the DPC a sub- church. that the maxim of 'unity dioceses. "In every society includ-
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Record An acid test for the poor brain that is bombarded by messages from every side is to ask whether it remembers that last Sunday was dubbed Social Justice Sunday in the Catholic Church and other main denominations. The same brain has had to cope with the Year of This, the Month of That, the Week for Them and the Sunday for Those. If it was lucky the brain had to be awake for the few seconds in what was expected to be a brilliant sermon during which the preacher locked into the issue of social justice. Then comes the practical question: Having been Socially Just last Sunday what's next so that we can get on with our faith morals, action, contemplation, sharing and caring, charity and concern and the other issues that are gazetted to occupy the rest of the year after we have paused for Easter, Pentecost, Christmas and a dozen or so other feasts that deserve our passing attention as well? This is just part of the problem that faces the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace as it attempts to highlight a matter of Christian concern and puts out a statement to provoke thought, reflection and hopefully some action. Before the subject is hardly raised, it seems to have vanished into a sea of other urgencies from tax evasion to Aboriginal protests in Brisbane. Over the past five years the attention of those Catholics who bother to read the annual CCJP statements has been summoned on Aborigines ( 1978), Unemployment (1979), Poverty and Power (1980), Pacific Partners (1981). Some of the statements made a ripple as contentious ideas were disputed for a week or two in the press. Then there was silence. Housing for the needy, the issue tackled in 1982 is an equally difficult subject because it is an issue that is not going to be solved in a short time, let alone on a solitary Social Justice Sunday airing. The little brain sitting in the pew becomes even more confused as politicians bluster about what they have done or will do, as unions and industry drone on monotonously about injecting funds as though an economic syringe will appear from nowhere and at no cost to the many other projects being urged on the government. There are big numbers of Australians who are being excluded from the housing they need but they are victims not just without a roof over their heads but also of a philosophy that treats a house not only as a home but also as a capital asset Affluent Australians who do not hold back from these profits in their free-enterprise worldbeating plateau of home ownership will have to learn from other countries that government sponsored housing projects are a sign of responsible concern for all citizens and not a second rate solution to a passing difficulty. Christians may not stand much chance of stimulating the heady schemes for national housing policies as advocated in the CCJP statement but at least at the parish and local community level they can take up the cudgels on behalf of the homeless and like the widow in the gospel pester the government for answers as to why these poorer people are not being housed. Those who have comfortable roofs over their heads are their brothers' keepers.
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Sir, R etired A.L.P. parliamentarian, Tom Hartrey (Record September 1 6) takes issue with The R ecord for printing an article relating to the recent attempted assassination of the pope.
Extract from The Record issue of September 16. (See also this issue lead story — Page 5.)
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From my position and first two "problems" (see Vatican which your correscertainly that of my trade John Baron's book, The pondent has referred to, is, union colleagues, we K BG and Chapman naturally, couched in the applaud The Record for Pincher's, Their Trade Is diplomatic verbage which printing a substantive and Treachery) whilst, as the tells us more by what it has factual account of what world is now aware, the not said; nor did it mention from Mike Fitzgerald, Karratha many people, attuned to Soviet has met its Vietnam that the pope, in common t he realities of world power in Afghanistan. with Queen Elizabeth, Sir, play, have been aware of President Reagan and othThe documentation of the KGB as incredible The tortuand for some time. now wearing the ous methods used by this ers, is the "executor of Soviet foreign polPerhaps the three most shadowy and infamous latest super lightweight, severe setbacks that the body to select and moti- bullet proof vest to guard icy through planted 'diplomats' and Soviets have suffered in vate by remote control, against possible future espionage" and its use of "sabotage recent times was the inaug- people capable of carrying attempts. and assassipation" in run-of-the-mill uration of John Paul II, out their demands are also Those people such as the election of President recorded in a number of your correspondent, who day to day operations, is so volumiReagan and its failure to other publications, and the seek to decry and belittle nous as to make Mr Hartrey's utterquickly conquer Afghanis- Woodward Royal Com- the efforts of the Kremlin ance (The Record, Septembe r 16) tan, in that order. mission into security and to infiltrate and destabilise insignifica f ade into nce. The KGB's departments intelligence mentioned it as the western and third of "wet operations" and more than a possibility of worlds, do this country in The great Soviet leader means neither more nor. "disinformation" must occurring right here in particular and peace- Lenin himself, enunciated less than unlimited power have been alerted to deal, Australia. loving people in general a in 1920: "The scientific resting directly on force, in their own way, with the The statement from the great disservice. concept of dictatorship not limited by anything, nor restrained by any laws or any absolute rules." Tod4 the KGB constitutes that force which Lenin envisioned and it behoves Mr Hartrey to from John Veszely, Nollamara take a very serious look at Sir, the evidence of the case in before putting Mr Tom Hartrey (The Record, September 16) touches on the question pen to paper in defence of attack on "neutral" Cambodia by the USA, but uncharitably the KGB. If in fact The Record is spared no thought to the attack on that unfortunate country by its guilty of reporting a series neighbour, communist Vietnam, under the yoke of which Cam- of "Simon says-so" when reporting the Readers' bodia suffers even today. Digest (August 26) then Bulgarian operatives have Mr Hartrey is certainly Yet he attacks the' That same ally, manipu- tion forces of Germany. R eaders' Digest for l ted the communist par- The friendship started to committed quite a number even more at fault in his ventilating the theory ties all over Europe to blossom only after the Ger- of terrorist acts, in elimi- letter of a series of "Mr of KGB conspiracy, collaborate with Germany. man attack on the USSR. nating political opponents Hartrey says-so" without a nd calls the article a No resistance was to be As for the Agca assassina- in the West. The umbrella any evidence to support his murders were but the spec- claims. Go back and do "vicious and unsub- tried against the occupa- tion link, the KGB and its tacular ones. your homework, Tom.
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Soviet link in murder bid
NEW YORK — The Soviet Union, through its Eastern European satellite, Bulgaria, was linked to the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in May 1981, according to an NBC documentary news report broadcast last week
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The NBC report was used in the assassination Kalb discussed the docu- did not directly hatch the similar to the findings attempt from associates of mentary and its findings in plot, it certainly had to be of author Claire Sterl- an alleged Turkish gun- an interview with the U.S. aware of its existence.runner and smuggler, who C atholic Conference U.S. intelligence sources ing, an expert on interin turn was controlled by Department of Communi- have said Agca got his gun GENEVA — Archbishop Lefebvre national terrorism. or had strong affiliations cation in New York. and passport in Sofia, the She wrote in the Sept- with the Bulgarian secret "What the programme capital of Bulgaria, in does not plan to resign in September, ember Readers' Digest police, who were super- establishes is that Agca 1980. Abuzer Ugurlu, the according to a communique issued that the Soviet Union, vised by the Soviet Union. was not a religious fanatic man accused or gunrun- by the archbishop's headquarters in through Bulgarian ties, According to NBC news but a sane and intelligent ning and smuggling and Switzerland. was connected to the c orrespondent Marvin man whose assistance r unning a ring that came from the alleged proleft-wing terincluded A general chapter of the vicar general is being done a ssassination attempt. Kalb in the documentary, rorist groups," Kalb said viders of Agca's gun and fraternity is being held in with a view towards the The Man Who Shot The A ccording to the then. passport, is now under September, said the com- future . . . However, this is Washington Post, Ameri- Pope: A Study in Terror"The focus is on Agca, arrest in Turkey. munique, and one of the by no means a retirement can intelligence analysts ism, the pope had sent a but substantively the pro- An Italian judicial report matters it will discuss is the for Archbishop Lefebvre." letter to Soviet President have reached similar congramme tells the story of in September, 1981, stated appointment of a vicar Archbishop Lefebvre and clusions although concrete Leonid Brezhnev in terrorist forces controlled that Agca was "only the general to assist the his followers, who make up evidence implicating the August, 1980, declaring the largest and most promby Soviet satellite states visible part of a conspi- archbishop. Soviets to the attack on the the pope's intent, if the within inent group of traditionalthe context of the racy" to kill the pontiff. Soviets attacked Poland, pope is lacking. " Archbishop Lefebvre ist Catholics in the world. t o put aside the throne of Soviet Union's fear of los- NBC quoted Cardinal The NBC report sug- St Peter and return to ing Poland. If the pope Silvio Oddi, prefect of the will remain-the head of the d isagree with many gested that the Soviet Poland to stand alongside could somehow be elimi- V atican's Congregation Society of St Pius X and reforms of the Second VatUnion either was behind his people. nated the threat from for the Clergy, as saying will continue to ordain pri-• ican Council, particularly ests and administer the sacthe attempt to kill Pope The Soviets were so angry Solidarity would be ended. that "we suspect, we think, rament of confirmation," liturgical reforms and conJohn Paul or was aware of prove" that ciliar teachings on ecumentrying to we are "The weight of evidence the plot and that the Soviet at this that they devised or points to the Soviet some government was out the communique said. ism and religious liberty. condoned the plot to kill government was angry at "The appointment of a Pope Paul VI suspended Union." Kalb added. "If it to kill the pope. the pope because of John Pope John Paul, NBC the archbishop from celePaul's strong backing for reported. The network said brating Mass and adminisit could not reveal the the independent Polish tering the sacraments in source of the letter. labour union Solidarity. 1976 after he conducted "NBC News has accumuordinations despite direct Claire Sterling reached lated a great deal of evipapal orders not to do so. the same conclusion. dence, some of it, to be NBC, like her, focuses on sure, circumstantial," Kalb Agca's ties to Bulgaria. said. "A Soviet connection Agca, they report, got his is strongly suggested but it fake passport and the gun cannot be proved."
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CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC) — "Faith does not limit the space and freedom of science," Pope John Paul II told some 400 European Catholic intellectuals in the European conference of the international movement of Catholic intellectuals, Pax Romana. The pope said the various scientific disciplines provide only "partial responses for the man deeply hungering for truth." Faith, on the other hand, "can transcend the partial visions of reality" and help man to find "his own dignity in the fact that his own origins and ultimate destiny are in God," he added. P ope John Paul repeated his frequent call for dialogue about past misunderstandings between faith and science, but said that scientific advances "which annul the inestimable value of the human person must be denounced and cornbatted." "Philosophical - religious currents which destroy human freedom and promise paradise on earth seem like ideologies," he added.
Jewish aid bid A CANADIAN
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VATICAN CITY — Despite fears of direct Nazi reprisals, Pope Pius XII and his aides made numerous, sometimes successful efforts to save MISSION, British Columbia (NC) — thousands of Jews from extermination during Cardinal George Basil Hume of WestWar II, an 11-volume documentary his_ minster, England, last week World A THENS, Greece (NC) — Cardinal dedicated the Westminster Abbey Ugo Poletti, papal vicar for the Dio- tory from the Vatican's archives shows.
Greeks reject vicar's visit
cese of Rome, was refused entry to the theocratic republic of Mount A thos, the Greek Orthodox Church's Holy Mountain, earlier this month.
Church — not in London but in Mis-
W hen Pope John Catholic Church did would have reacted to any sion, Canada. Paul II agreed recently nothing to save Jews provocation with extreme violence." The Canadian WestThe name Westminstei t o meet with Palesti- from the Holocaust, m instet Abbey was usually iefets to the atea of That fear was borne out nian guerrilla leader the Nazi exterminafounded 42 yea! s ago. Its London that includes the Yasser Arafat, leading tion of an estimated 6 by the Catholic experience chui ch was commenced abbey; the houses of Pat liThe cardinal and some 30 rises to 6,667 feet and has enemy of Israel, an million Jews during in the Netherlands, where ee yea's ago. ament, the goveinment Catholic and Reformed Catholic prelates accom- been inhabited since the unnamed high govern- World War II. Westminstei Abbey in and othei buildings in Church leaders were panying him were turned ninth century by monastic ment official in Israel The Vatican called that warned by German occupi- England was of iginally a Whitehall, and the away by Orthodox monks communities of the Greek made a widely publi- claim "an outrage to the ers not to speak out against Benedictine monastet y Catholic cathedtal, called of the Greek Rule of St Rule of St Basil. claim that the truth" that is contradicted the deportation of Dutch founded by St Dunstan in Westminstei Cathedtal. cised Basil despite having by the public record of Jews, or members of their the 10th centut y. Officially The West mi nste obtained entry permits Vatican activity during churches who were of Jew- known as the Collegiate Catholic Atchdiocese is from the Greek governthat period. ish origin would no longer Chui ch of St Pete' in undet the chatge of Catdiment and a special letter of The record does not be protected. Westminstet , it now nal Hume a foi met abbot r ecommendation from definitively answer, but belongs to the Chutch of of Amplefotth in Yotk, Patriarch Dimitrios I of The Catholic bishops gives strong clues to the England. England. C onstantinople, primate spoke out anyway in 1942 answers to, such questions of the Greek Orthodox LONDON (NC) — According to offiand 1943, and Jews who as: Could Pius XII have Church and honorary Catholics' in Rome were full of Jew- tration camps, seek knowlabortions were saved more Jews by speak- were baptised ish refugees." leader of all Orthodox cial figures, 162,454 edge about the fate of those began to be deported. performed in England and Wales in ing out publicly? In 1972 an American interned or deported, and patriarchs. The monks said they 1981, one per cent more than the Conversely, would any In 1964 Cardinal Egidio Jesuit historian, Father get permission to assist public statement have so Vagnozzi, a long-time Vat- Robert Graham — one of a those imprisoned. feared that the patriarch's enraged Hitler that it ican diplomat who was team of scholars called on Among successful efforts letter, which asked them to year before. The total for women resident in England and Wales would have hampered then apostolic delegate in by Pope Paul VI to study were the protection of e xtend a "warm welcome" to Cardinal Poletti and his was 128,555, representing a slight drop of 0.3 per cent existing efforts on behalf the United States, said that and publish the Vatican t housands of Jews in Italy delegation, would give the from 1980, but still higher than the average during the of the Jews and brought for two years during the archival record of its diplo- and in Hungary. Many harsher persecution down war he always had a matic activity in World o ther Church efforts visit an official nature and 1970s of fewer than 110,000 a year. packed suitcase ready in W ar II — wrote that as failed, as interventions or The largest number of foreign women coming to on the Church as well? thus threaten the religious and civil autonomy of England and Wales for abortions were from Spain, In a 1973 book on the his Vatican apartment early as 1941 the Vatican protests by Vatican diplowhich accounted for 20,454 abortions, or 60 per cent of Vatican during World War because the papal secreta- had evidence supporting a mats were rejected or Mount Athos. Since 1926 Mount Athos those performed on foreign women. II, British historian riat of state had ordered belief that Hitler planned ignored by the Nazis. France was the next highest registered country of Anthony Rhodes quoted Vatican officials to be pre- to occupy the Vatican and But the "failures and lack in northern Greece has been a theocratic republic, origin, accounting for 4,100 abortions. Albrecht von Kessel, coun- pared for deportation to expel the pope. o f success take away The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland fol- sellor to the German Germany at a moment's Father Graham, whose 15 nothing from the merit of a self-governing communnotice. ity given special status lowed, with 3,603 and 1,441 respectively. These totals, ambassador to the Holy years of work on the 11- the good intentions," under the Greek constitut- however, are assumed to be understated because they do See during the war, as say- "The holy father had to volume. Acts and Docu- Father Graham wrote in a not include Irishwomen coming to England for abor- ing: "We knew that a vio- judge according to the cir- ments of the Holy See 1980 article. ion. Called Holy Mountain in tions and giving addresses in England, thus being lent protest by the pope cumstances." Cardinal R egarding World War II, He said that the Vatican Greek, it is ruled by a 20- counted among residents of England and Wales. against the persecution of Vagnozzi said, and if he makes him a leading expert d ocumentation also Other countries from which 500 or more women came the Jews would have cer- spoke out against Hitler's on the question, has out- showed a "high degree of member governing body made up of representatives to England and Wales for abortions in 1981 were Sco- tainly put the pope in great extermination campaign, lined a wide range of inter- coordination and mutual of the republic's 20 largest tland, Italy, West Germany and South Africa. personal danger, and he "was risking the safety ventions by the Holy See understanding" between Although Scotland and Northern Ireland are part of would not have saved the of those Jews who had still and its representatives to the Vatican and Jewish monasteries. It is named after a the United Kingdom, the 1967 abortion law in England life of a single Jew. Like a escaped. At the time all the save Jewish lives, prevent organisations during the p yramid-like peak that and Wales does not apply to them. t rapped beast, Hitler buildings of the Holy See their internment in concen- war in efforts to save Jews.
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Jeanne Jugan the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor who is to be declared Blessed this Sunday was born nearly 200 years ago on October 25 1792 at the height of the French R evolution. At the age of 31 2 / her father 12 old ladies could be housed. joined the many men of Can- With the help of many benefactors calais who are simply listed as she bought a former convent and at the same time she and her helpers "missing at sea."
over and at the age of 60 she was recalled to the order's mother house where she spent the next 27 years of her life in seclusion. Twice, at the age of 18 and later at took the first steps towards becom- While it was a setback in one way it the age of 24 she turned down a ing a religious community. Jeanne ensured that the hundreds of novices proposal of marriage from the same young sailor. She knew where she was headed in life and the following year left to work in the pharmacy at Le Rosais hospital which at the time housed 60 sick civilians, 217 sick sailors and 35 foundlings. Her health could not stand up to the work and she was still determined to pursue the religious life but no order at the time took her fancy. Jugan became the first superior but a who trained at the mother house got So she joined the Third Order of short time after she was asked to step the opportunity to know the founthe Admirable Mother an associa- down for a 23-year-old replacement. dress of the work that had prospered tion founded by St John Eudes. Her work was recognised by the so much. Members took a vow of celibacy and French Academy and homes were Three years after her death in 1879 spent their time in prayer and apos- founded in many parts of France. the congregation numbered 2,400 tolic activity. Ten years after Jeanne Jugan had sisters. She spent some years as companion taken in her first destitute lady there The Little Sisters first came to Austo a Mlle Lecoq and the small legacy were 80 Little Sisters looking after tralia in 1884, making their foundashe received on the latter's death 500 aged people in 17 homes tion in Melbourne. enabled her to get rooms of her own. throughout France. In 1920 they came to Perth and first Her mission became a reality in established themselves in Adelaide, 1839 when at the age of 47 she took The establishment of each house Terrace before moving to Glendain a destitute old lady followed by and the organising of each founda- lough the following year. In 1969 another old crippled lady. She knew tion's collecting was largely her t hey opened their home in Kalgoorlie. where her future lay and by 1841 she work. had rented a larger apartment where Her difficulties in life were not yet It is estimated that the Little Sisters of the Poor have cared for more than 32,000 aged persons, more than 3000 of them at Glendalough. The congregation today numbers 4,400 members, 17 at Glendalough and a further seven at Kalgoorlie. Around the world there are 259 Little Sisters' Homes. Glendalough was originally a trades school conducted by the Oblate Fathers. Today it has been expanded to include a men's hostel with 20 single rooms and a ladies' hostel with 40 single rooms. Eventually the nursing home section will be replaced along with new kitchen, laundry, convent and chapel facilities.
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To the friends and benefactors of the LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR. To join with them in the Eucharist Sacrifice on Thursday 7th October, 1982 in St. Mary's Cathedral at 7.30pm for the occasion in honouring the Beatification of Jeanne Jugan their foundress.
Little Sisters of the Poor, Glendalough
Getting ready Glendalough resident Mr M. Boucher pictured packing his bags last week before leaving to attend in Rome the beatification ceremony of Jeanne Jugan. Sister Rose Mary from Glendalough has also left for Rome. Kalgoorlie representatives at the ceremony are Sister Marie Dorothy and Mr Sturmer.
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"I'm not a very religious person, I'm not a Catholic, but if I go to church I go with my wife," Keith said.
against England in Australia and was included in the Australian second eleven on a tour of New Zealand. Although he had a preference for This is a "mixed marriage" where cricket over football he would still religion has caused no friction and play both if he had his time over Keith's respect for the Catholic again. "It was a lot of fun," Keith Church is apparent in that his two added. Normally two major sports would children have been brought up as be sufficient for the keen athlete but Catholics. His wife, Valma (nee Farrel) has Keith also played baseball for the been secretary at Mary's Mount Midland Club on Sundays. He was a primary school, Kalamunda, for five pitcher, third baseman and outfielder. years. Their son, Scott, was head prefect "We played in the daytime during at Trinity College in 1978, captain of winter and at night during summer, the first eleven cricket team and so I played cricket or football on toured England with the Public Saturdays and baseball on Sundays Schools Association side in 1979. He for years," Keith said. He then is in his second year of law studies at added an understatement, "It got a bit much so I gave away the of his then boss Lloyd Chrystal, always following the ball, it encour- Apart from three years (1964 to the University of W.A. Keith tried to avoid offers of com- ages more hitting behind the play 1966) when he coached Subiaco. Their daughter, Kaye, left St Brig- baseball." id's College, Lesmurdie, last year Keith was ruckman for Swan Dis- mentating on the electronic media. when it is known that the camera Keith has been with the Swan Disand is studying English at the W.A. tricts when they won the football However, in 1968 he began with will not be focused on the incident," tricts Club. premierships in 1961, 1962 and TVW Channel 7 and for the last two Keith said. Institute of Technology. His love of sport and the hours 1963. He now confines his activities years has been with A BW Channel "Football will always be rough because it is a physical contact game devoted to it have brought him great to commentating on the game for 2. E IS a life member of both happiness and he has been fortunate ABW2. but I believe that a player who Asked what it was like to be on the Swan Districts and the Midlandin having a wife who has been one of Asked if barrackers had any impact punches or kicks another player' side of criticising players Guildford Cricket Club. his greatest fans. One of their happi- on his game, Keith admitted they giving rather than receiving it from the should be rubbed out. Born in Midland, Keith was eduest times, when they combined sport did. "In one game against Victoria media, Keith replied, "The media "There has always been more cated at the Midland High School. with their personal lives, was in 1959 when I was captain for WA I didn't gamesmanship in cricket than meets now Governor Stirling. was always kind to me so I bore when they had a six-month honey- get a kick until just before half-time them no animosity. As for critical the eye but even this has deteriomoon in England. and the crowd gave me plenty of ommentators, I believe that a rated. Once a player never talked to On leaving school in 1950 he folc lowed in his father's footsteps and "While playing in a Test match 'bronze cheers' which had the effect sportsman who knows the game is the opposition unless through was apprencticed at the Midland against England in Melbourne, I of making me play harder to the more likely to make constructive innuendos made to one of his own W A Government Railways Workwas approached to play Lancashire extent that I got quite a few kicks observations rather than be super- team. Now players verbally abuse shops. "In those days it was a ritual League Cricket with the Haywood after half-time," laughed Keith. each other. critical. in Midland to leave school and go just work Club," Keith reminisced. "It was Keith first began his media "I have no time for this 'sledging'," straight into the workshops. Most of before our marriage so we decided to with the Sunday Times. He wrote "It's the reporter who has not a Keith. the residents were employed there." spend our honeymoon over there for that paper for 14 years while he deep understanding of the game who added Keith qualified as a car and wagon of players was criticisms year I make laughed. likely to Keith one is cricket," "For playing was playing. builder as did his brother. He ran his His smile grew even wider when he their chief football writer which I which get under their skins," he own smalll sports goods store in added, "It was the only time I was found very hard as I'm not a trained added. EFERRING to the lessening Midland from 1962 to 1965. He later one up on Bob Simpson. He had journalist. But my son Scott helped Keith believes that the TV camera of gamesmanship and increase in managed the sports department of also applied for the position." me for a couple of years," he added. with its playback facilities exposing rough play Keith observed: "When Sandovers when that firm was in breaches of the rules has been professionalism enters sport, much Hay Street, Perth. FTER retiring from football responsible for reducing rough play. of the sportsmanship goes out the Then for 13 years he managed Chrystal and Co., manufacturing when he was 32 at the "suggestion" "However, because the camera 's door. "In my era, we played for the sport. agents specialising in sports goods, Now it's a living for many players textiles and foodstuffs. SWAN DISTRICTS NATIONAL FOOTBALL CLUB (Inc.) and the almighty dollar tends to Since 1978 he has been in partnerdictate. ship in his present sports goods busi1961 remiers, P "However, despite this the game of ness in Great Eastern Highway, football has improved as a specta- Midland. His partners are Kevin cle," Keith added. Gartrell, former state baseballer, He is concerned that the game may state cricketer and league footballer; be spoilt by taking out some of the Bruce Yardley, state and Test crickinherent skills. "For instance, drop eter; and Ray Solomon well known kicking is now missing and there is in greyhound racing circles. even a suggestion that the umpire K eith and his partners own two instead of bouncing the ball in the trotters which are trained by Gracentre will throw it in the air. ham Taylor --- Copper Blaze, which "If this happens one of the came from South Australia and has umpire's skills will go. Although had four wins, and Taragan which there are some umpires who can sel- he recently purchased from Fred dom get a ball to bounce accurately Kersley. whereas others are spot on every The Record interviewed Keith two time." days before the last of the prelimiKeith contends that rather than nary finals and he was backing have umpires throw the ball in the Swans for premiers. He was also air, it would be preferable to have a looking forward to a get-together on September 11 of the Swans premierprofessional ball bouncer. "The field umpire could then stand ship side of 1961-63 with their coach back from the circle getting a better Haydn Bunton. view of the play and any infringeThe get-together and Swans vicments. Nor would he get as tired," tory on the following Saturday must Keith added. have seen a very happy Keith Slater. On the subject of umpires, he consi- Whilst drop kicks were not in evidered that they were foolish to dence Keith must have been pleased become involved in fights between by the great exhibition of skills by players. "They should emulate the Swan Districts players which Litterick, F. Castledine, K. Bagley, E. Gorman, M. Ashworth, J. Turnbull. umpires in soccer and rugby by they used with relentless energy to Back Row: R. Manning, L. Johnston, K. Slater, C. Sangalli. Nesbit, A. A C. Noble, Devitt, B. Page, G. Gray, B. Mitchell, J. Middle Row: G. Gray, standing back and taking numbers give Claremont a lesson on how the Front Row: M. Kelleher. J. Mack, W. Walker, H. Bunton (Captain and Coach), P.J. Bright (President), J. Lawson (Vice-Captain), K. Watt, C. Maynard, D. of the combatants," he said. game should be played. Thompson.
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What is the Spirit of Jesus? The ultimate answer is love. The New Testament frequently describes Jesus as led or motivated, by the Spirit. What else is this motivation if not love? When Jesus involved himself Still, Jesus aroused his curiosity. w ith another person, he Nicodemus came to see Jesus under always did so from the vantage the protective cover of night. point of love: to love the other In a process that passed through person; to help that person feel three stages, Jesus drew Nicodemus loved; to awaken the other per- into a conversion to love. Stage one. The mystery of love son's capacity for love.
Notice how this works in his relationship with Nicodemus. This pharisee was an intellectual who kept his religion in his head. Nicodemus was FATHER McBRIDE — who also a politician who would avoid visited WA in October, 1981. the company of someone like Jesus.
Sin tells of transformed career woman By Katharine Bird Philippa Talbot was a successful career woman with a well arranged life. Nonetheless, the 42-year-old widow said goodbye to her astonished associates and her good f riends, closed the door on her lovely London apartment, and took up a radically different life as a contemplative Benedictine nun in a rural monastery.
becomes an intellectual discussion. Nicodemus says, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher come from God." (Gospel of John 3:2) Nicodemus is defensive mentally. He feels empty, dissatisfied and cold. He escapes from that void by engaging in teacher-to-teacher talk. He is so good at it that he turns the search for love into the pursuit of ideas. Jesus notices that Nicodemus intellectualises the mystery of love. Nicodemus wants analysis of ideas when he should be seeking the affection he aches for. Christ's miracles fascinate Nicodemus, but they don't fit with his idea of how an instrument of God acts. Nicodemus acts like a devil's advocate at a canonisation trial. He wants to examine the mystery of a miracle scientifically. Something in him wishes to discredit the miracle worker. He buries his personal religious hunger for love under an abstract conversation. State two. Mystify the intellectual. Unless one is born again, he cannot s ee God, Jesus suggests to Nicodemus.
But Nicodemus then asks how a Stage three. Believe in the law o man can be born again once he is love. old. "Can he return to his mother's "How can such a thing happen?" womb and be born over again?" Nicodemus asks. Then Jesus explains that unless one Jesus replies, in words like this: is born again "of water and Spirit," "Think of the mystery of the wind. he cannot enter the Kingdom of So also is love and God's Spirit." God. (John 3:3-5) Jesus has Jesus studies the good man care- handing mystified the intellectual, him a challenging statement fully. He sees in him the potential for that shakes him loose. conversion to love. Jesus Jesus must begin with teacher talk wind, draws Nicodemus to feel the to look at the sails on the Sea and then move to mystery. So he of Galilee. goes along with Nicodemus and One cannot control the wind. Box engages in a bit of banter about it and it is no longer wind, just dead being born again. air. Box up love and it is no longer Conversion and rebirth rituals were love, just deadening routine or a common in their time. dead relationship. Both knew of the rebirth ritual Sailors do not control the wind. baths at the Dead Sea monastery of They catch it, ride with it. They let it Qumran. They were familiar with carry them forward. the conversion rallies and baptisms So it is with the Spirit. The Spirit is of John the Baptist at the Jordan. love. Catch that love. Ride with it. Others at that time also had born- Let the Spirit move and motivate again ceremonies. you. The Greek colonists at their chapels Jesus is not against the mind, only a of the god Mithras slew a bull on the mind that is not open to the mystery spacious altars. Holes in the altar of love. allowed the bull's blood to seep Jesus opened Nicodemus to the through and "baptise" the convert mystery of love. Nicodemus' converbeneath the altar. sion began that night. Jesus indicates that Nicodemus And on Good Friday night, needs to change in the depth of his Nicodemus brought 100 pounds of heart in a way similar to the converts perfume to anoint the Lord of love, of some other groups. But how? the man who woke him up to the What does Jesus mean? deepest meaning of life.
"Your love for one another"
The story of this woman's cigarettes. t ransformation is told in A highly disciplined woman, she R umer Godden's novel, In This finds it difficult to exercise patience House of Brede. Her story, with the much younger, less expethough fiction, provides illumi- rienced women who enter the monnating gl impses into the insist- astery at the same time she does. ent way the Spirit often enters Part of the novel's interest comes Some people draw attention the lives of human beings; it from the way it clearly demonstrates to the life within them offers clues to how people athat transformation isn't necessarily through their creativity and once in a lifetime affair. It shows come to alter the pattern of God reaching out to people imagination. their lives. It was hoped that the early Chrisrepeatedly.
By David Gibson
A SLOW DECISION
The main character, for instance, passes through several transformations over the 15 years the novel covers. It is as if her first "yes" to the Spirit simply paves the way for later times when she faces her need to change yet again.
Becoming a religious was not on Philippa Talbot's agenda. Trying to explain her reasons to a close friend, she said her decision "wasn't sudden, it was slow, unforgivably slow." Her transformation occurred over A dramatic highlight in the novel a 10-year period, beginning with a comes when a new postulant forces visit to London's Westminster Dame Talbot to confront her deeply Cathedral where, on impulse, she rooted inability to forgive. initiated a conversation with a The postulant is the daughter of a Catholic priest. governess whose neglect was parThrough many talks with the priest tially responsible for the accidental and many visits to the Abbey at death of Dame Talbot's only son 18 Brede, she gradually became aware years earlier. of a change in the way she saw things. "Everything seemed, not holA TIME OF TRIAL low, but, as if suddenly I could see beyond them, into an emptiness; and all the while, there was this strange Initially, Dame Talbot shuns the pull." new postulant; she can't bring herIn This House of Brede follows the self to be in the presence of the young woman's travails as she learns to w oman who reminds her so much of adjust to an austere life. Although that horrible time. she has accepted the Benedictine Though the other Benedictines lifestyle, she does not find it easy to don't openly chide Dame Talbot for give up the luxuries of her previous her behaviour, she slowly is drawn to existence. see that her attitude toward the posSometimes little losses give Dame tulant impedes her task as a ChrisTalbot, as she is known in the mon- tian and a religious. astery, her greatest difficulty. Eventually, Dame Talbot tells the A former chain-smoker, she finds it agonising story of her son's death to agony to go through the day without her religious superior.
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I
ITH REGARD to the sharing of the nonN THIS and following Catholic party in Eucharistic Communion, the norms issues The Record presents issued by the Secretariat for Promoting Christian substantial extracts from the Unity should be followed. 170 -page papal document, Today in many parts of the world marriages between Catholics and non-baptised p ersons are growing in numbers.
Nicodernua,an intellectual and a politician, had a strong curiositrbout Jesus, Father Alfred McBride writes. During the courseof their relationship, Jesus was able to draw Nicodefrubto a conversion to love. This Pieta by Michelangelo in thiCathedral of Florence, Italy, shows the compassion Nicodemus had for Jesus. „
"SPIRIT' AS VARIE MEAND S WHEN USEP IN RIPTURES Ry Fathir.
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In many such marriages the nonbaptised partner professes another religion, and his beliefs are to be treated with respect, in accordance with the principles set out in the Second Vatican Council's Declaration Nostra Aetate on relations with non-Christian religions. But in many other such marriages, particularly in secularised societies, the non-baptised person professes no religion at all. In these marriages there is a need for Episcopal Conferences and for individual Bishops to ensure that there are proper pastoral safeguards for the faith of the Catholic partner and for the free exercise of his faith, above all in regard to his duty to do all in his power to ensure the Catholic baptism and education of the children of the marriage. Likewise the Catholic must be assisted in every possible way to offer within his family a genuine witness to the Catholic faith and to Catholic life. In its solicitude to protect the family in all its dimensions, not only the religious one, the Synod of Bishops did not fail to take into careful consideration certain situations which are irregular in a religious sense and often in the civil sense too. Such situations, as a result of today's rapid cultural changes, are unfortunately becoming widespread also among Catholics, with no little damage to the very institution of the family and to society, of which the family constitutes the basic cell.
Trial marriages
A FIRST example of an irregular
situation is provided by what are called my disciples: your love for one another," Jesus says. "trial marriages", which many people It must have been thought among today would like to justify by attributing ) one(nOttBho came T eslit!inl "The spirit of the Lord01d no iekl)o , fanjd the early Christians that love, put u dhgeejsu.dged Israel," we a certain value to them. into practice by people actually takread in Chapter 3 of the But human reason leads one to see ing care of each other's needs, would tians would make their presence be powerfully In Chapter 6, we read, "The spirit that a charon differs from what is were anything but godlike. Some that they are unacceptable, by showing attractive — a sign known by actions of love, John's that the of the Lord enveloped Gideon; he usually unOrstood by grace. were downright scoundrels! But the unconvincing nature of carrying out Spirit of Jesus was alive Gospel tells. blew the horn that summoned Grace is a ft of God which confers these people had talents which within them. an "experiment" with human beings, "This is how all will know you for Abiezer to join him." h oliness a Person, making him or could be used in the service of the A problem for Christians, then and "godliit," a child of God in a people. They became instruments whose dignity demands that they should Just what was the spirit of the Lord her now too, is in thinking of Jesus only encountered so often in the lives of very specialwaYand a member of his for God's purposes. be always and solely the term of a selfin terms of the past. The accent here However, she begins to forgive and biblical men and women? family. is on the word "only." giving love without limitations of time ' Scripture in passage sobering to find solace only after a lengthy The word translated "spirit" refers As Paul I o te to the Galatians, One Gospel of Matthew, Chapter or of any other circumstance. In that case, Jesus might be seen the illness during which the young posto a movement of air, wind, breath. "The prooltlat You are sons is the is in only as a role model — someone who There Jesus addresses people who The Church, for her part, cannot tulant serves as her nurse. As the "breath of the Lord," the fact that Go( has sent forth into our 7. provided a good example and whose exercised extraordinary gifts in the admit such a kind of union, for further In fact, the postulant apparently the earts s !:)iril pirit of his son which c ommunity. But these people let animates, energises, h story needs to be told over and over becomes the means by which the empowers. c ries out a ba," (Father). You are t hemselves be deluded into thinking and original reasons which derive from so that his example is not forgotten. Spirit leads Dame Talbot to come to Over the centuries, the word no longer slave but a son!" Perhaps he is even seen as the savtheir gifts guaranteed their sal- faith. terms with her feelings about her iour, but salvation is thought of "spirit" became a way of expressing This grace ils an abiding relation- that only For, in the first place, the gift of the vation, regardless of their relation00d son's death and about the former as something "way 05t God's mysterious but dynamic ship to only when a person ship with God. back then." in the sexual relationship is a real body governess. power in the life of his people. deliberately Ners the relationship. In Matthew's account, Jesus says: Of course, Jesus is a role model. But this novel will tell of yet of the giving of the whole persymbol There are which different ways in And the death and resurrection did "None of those who cry out, 'Lord, another instance of the Spirit's occur at a time in the word "spirit" is used in Scripture. a giving, moreover, in the such son: history. His story, God kingdom of Lord,' will enter the action. It could almost be called the t oo, needs to be But let's look for a moment at what told over and over. the will of present state of things cannot take place does who one the only but ripple effect. is meant when the "spirit of YahBut there is more. For Christians, My Father in heaven. When that day with full truth without the concourse of For Dame Talbot is to become the Jesus is more weh" is mentioned. than a figure of the c omes, many will plead with me, the love of charity, given by Christ. means by which a young woman past worth As Jesuit Father John L. McKenzie remembering. 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied from her former office and the womIn the second place, marriage between puts it in his Dictionary of the Bible, But a c 0 is a gift of God which Jesus is alive now. And he is makyour name? Have we not exorin an's husband come to see the abor- ing his presence "The spirit of Yahweh (Lord) . . . is a neither con'ers nor presupposes cised demons by its power? Did we two baptised persons is a real symbol of known. tion of their first child in a different force which has a unique effect upon holiness. Love is among the signs of the life not do many miracles in your name the union of Christ and the Church, light. With fewbeit e 'ePtions, it is a temporman." within Christians a sign of the as well?' which is not a temporary or "trial" A fter Dame Talbot's gentle ques- presence of the owed not for the perThe spirit of Yahweh "is conceived ary gift, life of Jesus. esus continues: "Then I will union but one which is eternally faithful. J tioning and the prayers of the Beneas a divine dynamic entity by which son's oWn b41.1efit but for the good of declare to them solemnly, 'I never Love, expressed in hundreds of commuoity, dictines for the recovery of Penny ways, draws attention to Therefore, between two baptised perYahweh accomplishes his ends; it t he the fact that you. Out of my sight, you Fpi rasut Stevens' from complications follow- Jesus, who died, Leextptreerssesto i.ttheclecarolyrintIhniatnhse, eknew sons there can exist only an indissoluble saves, it is a creative and charismatic is alive. vildoers!" ing an abortion, the couple experienOften love works quietly, over power," Father McKenzie adds. A charism, then, does not necessar- marriage. ces a moment of transformation. time. The charismatic aspect of this Chapter line liflues, "To each per- ily sanctify. But people gifted with Such a situation cannot usually be They come to regret the abortion of te esotatri,timoonnofgo But through love, Jesus makes his power is especially evident in the son the matirwe thoedSpirit is c harisms, with God's spirit, have vercome unless the human person, their child. o presence known even when it is least case of people given positions of played very important roles in the gim vearinyfor f tile rLeqPients of the But they also see that they can seek expected. leadership. The word "charism" spirit unfolding of God's plan for from childhood, with the help of forgiveness and begin again. of God thOgn(lut salvation Love is the manner of Christians. Christ's grace and without fear, has been means gift. It is important to note history salvation.
GIFT cHARISM
trained to dominate concupiscence from the beginning and to establish relationships of genuine love with other people. This cannot be secured without a true education in genuine love and in the right use of sexuality, such as to introduce the human person in every aspect,
and therefore the bodily aspect too, into the fullness of the mystery of Christ. It will be very useful to investigate the causes of this phenomenon, including its psychological and sociological aspect, in order to find the proper remedy.
T
HIS MEANS unions without any publicly recognised institutional bond, either civil or religious. This phenomenon, which is becoming ever more frequent, cannot fail to concern pastors of souls, also because it may be based on widely varying factors, the consequences of which may perhaps be containable by suitable action. Some people consider themselves almost forced into a free union by difficult economic, cultural or religious situations, on the grounds that, if they contracted a regular marriage, they would be exposed to some form of harm, would lose economic advantages, would be discriminated against, etc. In other cases, however, one encounters people who scorn, rebel against or reject society, the institution of the family and the social and political order, or who are solely seeking pleasure. Then there are those who are driven to such situations by extreme ignorance or poverty, sometimes by a conditioning due to situations of real injustice, or by a certain psychological immaturity that makes them uncertain or afraid to enter into a stable and definitive union. In some countries, traditional customs presume that the true and proper marriage will take place only after a period of cohabitation and the birth of the first child. Each of these elements presents the Church with arduous pastoral problems, by reason of the serious consequences deriving from them, both religious and moral (the loss of the religious sense of marriage seen in the light of the Covenant of God with his people; deprivation of the grace of the sacrament; grave scandal), and also social c onsequences (the destruction of the concept of the family; the weakening of the sense of fidelity, also towards society; possible psychological damage to the children; the strengthening of
The Family in the Modern World. selfishness). The pastors and the ecclesial community should take care to become acquainted with such situations and their actual causes, case by case. They should make tactful and respectful contact with the couples concerned, and enlighten them patiently, correct them charitably and show them the witness of Christian family life, in such a way as to smooth the path for them to regularise their situation. But above all there must be a campaign of prevention, by fostering the sense of fidelity in the whole moral and religious training of the young, instructing them concerning the conditions and structures that favour such fidelity, without which there is no true freedom; they must be helped to reach spiritual maturity and enabled to understand the rich human and supernatural reality of marriage as a sacrament. The People of God should also make approaches to the public authorities, in order that the latter may resist these tendencies which divide society and are harmful to the dignity, security and welfare of the citizens as individuals, and they must try to ensure that public opinion is not led to undervalue the institutional importance of marriage and the family. And since in many regions young people are unable to get married properly because of extreme poverty deriving from unjust or inadequate social and economic structures, society and the public authorities should favour legitimate marriage by means of a series of social and political actions which will guarantee a family wage, by issuing directives ensuring housing fitting for family life and by creating opportunities for work and life. There are increasing cases of Catholics who, for ideological or practical reasons, prefer to contract a merely civil marriage, and who reject or at least defer religious marriage. Their situation cannot of course be likened to that of people simply living together without any bond at all, because in the present case there is at least a certain commitment to a properly-defined and probably stable state of life, even though the possibility of a future divorce is often present in the minds of those entering a civil marriage. By seeking public recognition of their bond on the part of the State, such couples show that they are ready to accept not only its advantages but also its obligations. Nevertheless, not even this situation is acceptable to the Church. The aim of pastoral action will be to make these people understand the need for consistency between their choice of life and the faith that they profess, and to try to do everything possible to induce them to regularise their situation in the light of Christian principles. While treating them with great charity and bringing them into the life of the respective communities, the pastors of the Church will regrettably not be able to admit them to the sacraments.
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9
EEK
It's your chance to see all the tricks of the trade
Channel 7 brings the television special The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to viewers on Saturday, October 9 at 7.35pm. "The thing to keep in mind about this film is that it is only a movie ... it takes all the licence of an exotic shown on how the amazing stunts and special effects entertainment that aims to thrill and scare and strike were performed. Spielberg opted for using real creatures in the movie one with a sense of wonder." The speaker is Steven Spielberg, one of the most — working with 50 live tarantulas which were put on the acclaimed young film directors of our generation. Men- chests and backs of Ford and actor Alfred Molina for a tion The Sugarland Express, Duel, Jaws and Close temple scene. Locations for the Raiders of the Lost Ark should Encounters of the Third Kind, and their success points appear familiar to regular movie goers. to his talent. The submarine from 1941 is used on one sequence, as His latest epic is called Raiders of the Lost Ark which clearly shows that the lead actor, Harrison Ford, is is the submarine shelter from The Spy Who Loved Me. There will also be interviews with Harrison Ford and clearly being marketed to be the next Bogart. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, two of Holly- other cast members, together with interviews with direcwood's top directors, have banded together for this flick tor, producer, set designers etc in this behind the scenes look at the making of one of the most successful advenand have used every trick in the book. A full explanation and visual demonstration are ture movies ever.
A thriller for lunch in* Channel Nine's Wednesday mid-afternoon movie, at 1.35pm, is the screen adaptation of John Le Carre's classic spy novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner, the movie is a potent story of hypocrisy betrayal in the world of espionage. Burton is excellent as an embittered British agent based in Berlin. At the end of his career, the disillusioned man finds he has one last assignment. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, an archaeologist and adventurer sent to find the lost Ark, in a scene from the spectacular Raiders of the Lost Ark. Channel Seven presents a special covering the production of this extravaganza — The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark, screening on Saturday, October 9 at 7.35pm.
Brilliant Black in strange tale of terror
After one of his contacts is shot dead at the Berlin Wall, he is called to London and given the job of locating the East German Communist responsible for many of the British counter-espionage failures.
'chard Burton portrays a British spy caught in the middle of a deadly espionage plot in Channel Nine's four star mid-afternoon movie The Spy Who Came In From The Cold on Wednesday at 1.35pm.
R efreshing comedy
Jack Lemmon and the beautiful Catherine Deneuve have star billing in the refreshing comedy, The April Fools, Channel Nine's Sunday movie at 8.35pm.
A bored housewife inadvertantly invites disaster when she Lemmon is Howard Bru- of a bored French woman, The scene is set for rom- Gunther's wife. He is stagassumes a new idenbaker, a Wall Street broker C atherine (Catherine ance between the two, one gered, but undeterred, and tity, in The Strange who is just tolerated by his Deneuve), and the next tired of being an ornamen- the two make plans to fly Possession of Mrs wife Phyllis (Sally Keller- thing he knows he has left tal wife and the other t o Paris together. O l iver, Channel man), bullied by his child on a nightclub tour with bored by an uninterested N ine's Thursday Stanley (Gary Dubin), and her. What he doesn't know wife. After an interlude in However, at the last minmovie, at 8.35 pm. barked at by his own dog. is that she is Gunther's the greenhouse, Catherine ute, both Gunther and and Howard decide to Phyllis suddenly realise wife! Karen Black stars as a On dropping by a cocktail From one nightclub, leave their prospective that Howard and Catherich, but bored housewife rine's prior threats are party at the apartment of Howard calls his wife to partners. married to a man whose Gunther serious and they rush to the Ted stuns boss, promotion, Howard his of tycoon her tell his main interests in life are But Gunther (Peter Lawford), but she is too preoccupied by suddenly resigning from airport to stop them. making money and becomGeorge Hamilton stars in Channel Nine's Thursday been to listen. From another his job and then, on arriv- true love triumphs and as has he learns Howard ing a father. George the movie The Strange Possession of Mrs Oliver at promoted to fourth vice club Catherine calls her ing at Catherine's apart- the plane cruises down Hamilton takes on this 8.35pm. and Howard both president of the firm. He husband, but he hasn't ment building, makes the runway role. discovery that she is Catherine are aboard. also attracts the attention even missed her. The woman has irresisti- the house for a reason a fatal fire. ble urges to wear brazen unknown to herself. But clothes, much to her hus- gradually she begins to feel Her life as the vivacious band's horror, and when she is suffering from a blonde reaches a head she spots a red sweater and split-personality, one of when her nightmare comes a blonde wig in a shop win- which isn't hers. Her fears true, but what happens to dow, she cannot resist buy- increase when she suffers a her original character of ing them. recurring nightmare about the dowdy brunette? On taking them home she decides to assume a new identity as a seductive blonde. To complete the image she takes a new Channel 7 presents Anne of the Thousand Days, a name, just for the fun of it, and gives in to another spectacular costume drama on Saturday, October 9 at inexplicable urge to visit 8.35pm. It stars Richard Burton who gives afineperformance as Henry VIII and French-Canadian Genevieve Crystal Beach. Oddly, all the men in the Bujold as Anne. f Henry VIII was described as "that lonely being, a I local bar there seem to know her and a friendly giant in scale, a creature ofpowerful intellect and insane old dog takes to her as if pride, of cruelty, vengeance andappalling rages, ofregal she were its mistress. She generosity and breadth of understanding," then Anne decides to follow the dog Boleyn was a creature of wit and spirit with, as one and it leads her to a house ambassador reported, "the courage of a lion." Like her which is strangely familiar famous daughter Elizabeth, she had the panache to to her although she has dance in the shadow of death. Lately returnedfrom the French Court, Anne is danc- J' never been to the beach OleY ing at a royal ball in Greenwich Palace. Henry, bored Richard Burton as King Henry VIII feasts with the woman who promises him a male heir, Ann-p B before. October 9 at with first his wife, the of pious Katherine Aragon, sees Saturday, the of Anne Thousand Seven's Days, Over her husband's pro(Genevieve Bujold) in a scene from Channel 8.35pm tests, she decides to rent A nne and wants what he sees.
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Youth Forum
Who are Solidarity a bond tor us all Coffee time! Kevin Yuen, immediate past president of the Perth Young Christian Workers wrote to me from Wollongong, this week. He tells me that he has made contact with YCW members i n Sydney and together they recently attended a rally held for two international guests from the Polish Solidarity movement. Kevin writes: "At a crowded meeting in the Sydney Town Hall a resolution was passed that Lech Walesa and other Solidarity union leaders must befreed and that the oppressive martial law must be lifted in Poland. "Magda Wojcik (past personal secretary to Lech Walesa) and Jersy Milewski spoke from experience about the triumph and tragedy of Solidarity and their mere presence has an inspiring effect on all the people present. "Jersy outlined the current temporary organisational commission set up in Brussels. Magda Wojcik described the present harsh conditions for political prisoners and the oppressive effects of 7 martial law on the Pol-
ish people. "In spite of the very difficult times Magda Wojcik said the Polish people were confident of a victory for justice and democracy in Poland." The victory will only come with their continued heroic efforts and our response to this urgent crisis. I recently attended the same rally here in Perth.I came away with a small action to perform. It is simply that of sending a postcard to Lech Walesa. Magda said that Walesa may not receive it; his wife may not even receive it; but several people will
see it before destroyed. Magda pointed out that the Solidarity movement was not fighting anyone. They were simply fighting for basic human and worker rights. A s Kevin has found, one of the benefits of belonging to the YCW is a sense of solidarity with fellow christian workers in other parts of Australia, the world and with other worker movements like Solidarity. Jesus prayed that we may all be one. Sometimes it takes lay movements like YCW and CPY to make it happen among young people. '
,L.
Leanne Barron a member of the TYCS team preparing coffee during a break at one of the movement's recent meetings.
YOUTH OFFICE
FATHER JEGOROW
328 9878
Cry 328 8136 YCW 328 9667 WS 328 4071
.In this centenary year of Cardinal Cardijn's Pictured with Magda Wojcik (centre) are Perth YCW members — left to right: birth "Youth Forum" • has featured several Leanne Galipo, Steve Barton, Tom O'Regan (Perth full-timer) and Liz Chidlow. (Perth treasurer). Photographs of yesteryear. For many it has \NNO brought back a **************44-4-41-4-444*********************444 flood of memories. This week we feature three young ladies. If you know them please write to Youth Forum P.O. Box 50 Aberdeen St Perth 6000 or ring Father Jegorow on 328 9878.
Y OUTH CALENDAR
Friday, October 1 to Sunday, October 3: CPY Christian Living Camp — Details 328 8136. M onday, October 4 : Meeting of the C athol ic Youth Council, 3032 Claverton Street, North Perth. 7.30pm. Saturday, October 2 3: CPY Gala Ball. Friday, October 8 to 10: TYCS Social Justice Camp at R ickley. Enquiries 10 Leonie on 328 4071. S aturday, Oct-
ober 16: TYCS are holding a Wine and Cheese Night at St. Thomas More College. Cost $2.50. All Welcome. Enquiries to Leonie on 3 28 4071. Friday, November 19: YCW Centenary Cabaret, Pagoda Ballroom at 7.30 pm. Tickets $16 (single) ($30 double) available YCW Office or by phoning 328 9667. S upper provided a nd dress semi f ormal.
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The Australian YCW is holding *Cardijn's contribution to a Cardijn Centenary Seminar in youth ministry; M elbourne, beginning Friday, *Cardijn's influence on the world and the church, especially O ctober 29 to Tuesday, in Australia. November 2. Win a seven-day free trip to the Who can enter? M elbourne seminar. Only youth no longer at seconTo win this outstanding prize dary school. How to enter. write an essay of not more than 3000 words and not less than Answer the essay question; 1000 words on the topic: The observe the usual scholastic genius of Cardijn. r equirements for essay topics .... Points that should be covered margins, double spacing, biblioin the essay include: graphy, etc. Send your essay, *a historical survey of his life n ame, address, telephone number and 25 words about and times; *the method of JOC — YCW yourself before October 15 to a postolate to youth; the "CARDIJN ESSAY" c/- Fr. *the spirituality that he saw in JEGOROW, Cardijn Centre, P.O. CARDINAL CARDIJN work; Box 194, North Perth, 6006. ***************************************************************************************** The Record, September 30 — October 7, 1982 11
LOTS OF IRISH OR KI EEP ER ONI E T'S HARD to miss Mauretta Loney. With her father's flaming red hair and her mother's Irish grit she's made her presence felt in the parish of Manning as choir mistress at St Pius X for the last 22 years.
An attractive, approachable and involved woman she's also a welcome fixture at Leeming Primary School where she has worked as a library aid for seven years. On Fridays you're more likely to spot the top of her titian head through the crowds in Central Court ... she has worked as a voluntary court welfare officer one day a week since she first heard a radio appeal for helpers some eight years ago. She's been busy for as long as she can remember and although only one of her five grown-up children is still living at the family's Salter Point home she's not about to slow the pace as she strides into her sixties. Born in Geraldton in 1921 she was the eldest of the four children of Michael and Margaret Rodan. The two were Donegal born and bred and met and married in their home county while Michael was home on leave after serving in France with the AIF during World War I. He had already spent some time in Western Australia, having worked on an uncle's sheep station before the outbreak of war. Y oung Margaret Rodan joined her husband in the far north in 1920. After the green fields of Ireland the harshness of the Australian outback was almost more than she could bear ... but bear it she did with true Irish grit and the Rodans moved to Yalgoo as licensees of the hotel there.
Hotelier
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ICHAEL Rodan had been driving an ox team from Greenough to Day Dawn but as the babies began arriving — three girls and one boy in all — life as a hotelier seemed more secure. The family eventually moved to Mount Magnet and ran the hotel there for 10 years. In those early days the town had a population of 1000 and it's economy was supported, often flimsily, by gold mining and sheep farming. Mauretta has vivid memories of the years in Mount Magnet with her mother running a top class hostelry. "It was a fairly big hotel and a lot of people stayed there because there was nowhere else to live," she said. "My mother did a wonderful job considering the problems. The trains came up three times a week bringing the fish and other food packed in ice.
First house had no back door and no running water laid on "They were very poor and my mother would help out as much as she could," she said. "It used to be my job to carry over their hot dinners wrapped in white serviettes."
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WAS a small school, only about 20 or 30 students, but lively youngsters at that who used to get up to all sorts of high jinks. "Not that I can tell you about them," she laughed. Mauretta learned to play the piano at the age of seven and by the time she was 10 was playing the organ at the convent. A year later she was sent away to HERE'S Irish in her hair and her heart and that makes school in Geraldton and spent five Mauretta Loney fairly hard to overlook. She started her maryears with the nuns at Stella Mans. ried life living in one room in the middle of a forest; has raised "Sometimes I hated it, sometimes I liked it," she said. "We only used to get five children and given her time as choir mistress at St Pius X two holidays a year -- one at the end for the last 22 years . . not to mention seven years as a library and one in the middle." aide at Leeming Primary School and close to eight years devotBy the time she left school her paring one day a week to voluntary welfare work at the Central ents were living in Yalgoo once more, running the general store. Court. She's always been busy and still is here Mauretta Following the completion of a busiLoney talks about her childhood in Mt Magnet, her first marness course with the nuns in Geraldried years living in a forest at Carinya and some of the things ton, Mauretta joined a solicitor's that are important to her. office and later went on to work in the remained She Bank. Commonwealth with the bank for seven years. very hard to get people involved was a need to be met. "During the war we worked very though. All of them have to be asked "Basically you listen to court cases hard," she said. "Five of us were doing individually, it's as if they're too shy to and then help the people to find the aid the pay for 44,000 troops. We worked put themselves forward." that they need," she said. "You act as a from nine in the morning until 11 at The choir sings every Sunday and referral service to the various facilities night. In later years I went back and practises once a month for most of the and community aid bodies." saw 14 doing the work that five had year only doing extra time around When she does spend time at home done and without the troops. In 1947 Christmas and Easter. she loves to read, "just about anything she was transferred to Perth and spent The only prerequisite for anyone I'd even read a jam tin," she laughs. 12 months as senior relieving clerk interested in joining the choir is that — She's also a keen cook although her before marrying Jack Loney in Januthey can sing in tune, Mauretta said. first attempts in the kitchen were fairly INCE they moved into the Manary, 1948. They had met about two If she has one musical hobbyhorse years before and Mauretta had known ning parish Mauretta has had two it's a sincere desire to see some recog- half-hearted. "But with so many children we nisable Catholic hymns that people from different parishes can sing when always seemed to be celebrating something," she said. they get together. If the choir is an important part of Two of her sons are married and she her weekend, her weeks are kept busy has two grandchildren so these days Jack's mother, sister and brother well stints on the Manning Parish Council; at the Leeming Primary School there's even more to celebrate. A fter seeing five children through before she fell for his charms. served in num&ous tuckshops (at one library. She puts in 26 hours a fortnight, working 1 lam to 3pm four days Catholic Schools she has strong views At that stage he had been teaching stage she had four on the go) and has noticed at Mingenew, 100 miles south of been a guiding force behind the church a week. Before she moved to Leeming on the system and says she has elder seven years ago she was at North Freher between a marked difference Geraldton but by the time of their choir. "In the early days we practised at mantle and spent a number of years and younger children. marriage had been transferred to Carinya, a forestry settlement, 30 miles the Manning convent and had to shift working at the Catholic Bookshop. "It may be changing back again but She rounds off the week at the Cen- by the time my younger children went all the desks out before we could get south-west of Perth. tral Court on Friday working as a through, the teaching of faith seemed They were married in Geraldton but down to work," she said. The choir has varied over the years, voluntary court welfare officer. The to be very different," she said. it was a day marred by sadness. Mauretta's parents were living in Gerald"I found the last couple didn't even ton by that stage but her father died know the Holy Days of Obligation. suddenly a week before the wedding. Neither did they seem to know the The Loney's began their married life Church rules ... I wanted them to talk living in a one room 'house' set in the about issues but I also wanted them to heart of the forest at Carinya. be told what the Church's stand was "There was no back door and no on those issues. running water," Mauretta said. "We free"There seemed to be so much had to go out the front to throw away guidelines. but no of discussion dom without the tea leaves. It's hard enough being a child I feel you. on having decisions thrust worry children have too much to think MUST say I hated it, there was about. They shouldn't have to nothing much to do although I did have three babies in the six years we sometimes larger, sometimes smaller. hours are from 8.30 am to 3.30 pm - about things like nuclear war. things were there and a number of the other Numbers range between 20 and 30 -- sometimes, if she's lucky, she can be "I also believe that certain that women were really good to me. members are all amateurs, many of away by 1 pm. still have to be learned by rote and imP01-"We had no car in those days and whom do not read music. the old courtesies are vitally meet at had to take the timber truck if we "We've reached the stage though tant. Most of the children I see can you wanted to go into Perth at the week- where we need some new life," MauT'S AN important task, and one she school are pretty nice but things. end. The timber men would be pretty retta said. took on after hearing an appeal on a that they are worrying about their enjoY to allowed radio "Many of us are getting older and programme. She's not the sort to They should be lively by the time we-made the journey feel it's time for some young faces. It's sit at home and do nothing and here childhood." back home.
A weekly feature by We had a cellar for the casks of beer but the bottles had to be kept cool by flapping a wet hessian bag in the air and then laying it on the bottles. This had to be repeated every half an hour. "The electricity was only on from 6-1 1 pm. The hotel was single storey with a brick front and iron back but mum always used to put on marvellous dinners for the clubs and for the big tennis weeks they had in those days. There would be oysters and strawberries and cream ... they'd all come up in bags of ice.
R efreshment "We also ran the refreshment rooms and mum would have to be up at 1 or 2am to see to the train travellers. It was an 18 to 20 hour trip from Perth to Mount Magnet and we would only get down South once a year. "I remember it used to be like heaven for my mother to get near Perth and see the green and smell the sea." Mauretta's first schooldays were spent with the Presentation Sisters at Mount Magnet.
"There wasn't much wireless because the battery wasn't very effective and we used to save it for the serials. It used to take 16 buckets of water just to fill the copper to do the washing. For two years the Loneys and their growing family made the most of the one-room. "Jack and I slept in a lean-to at the front and we kept the baby in the r oom," Mauretta said. The baby, John, had been born in 1948. "The education department later had a kitchen and another verandah built on and also put a shed down the backyard for me to use as a laundry. Before that I did my washing in the copper in the open air. "In many ways it was a beautiful place to live but I can remember thinking it wasn't worth living when I had to get up in the freezing cold and light the hurricane lamp before I could heat the baby's bottle over a kerosene burner." The Loney's second child, Kieran, was born the next year but he lived only a brief time. He died at the age of 1 1 months ... of allergies the doctors said. In 1952 their daughter, Anne Marie was born and two years -later the family moved to Carmel. "That was great," Mauretta said, "it was a big house and we actually had electric lights that could be turned off and on." Another son, Damian was born in 1954 and after three years at Carmel the family moved to their present home at Salter Point. Michael was born in 1956 and Peter in 1961.
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Bye for now Ilove my Nana vet y much Dear Captain Bob, you know. I'm sorry I haven't writ- Tracy. ten for ages. I've been so P.S. I went to St Patricks On the way home from Perth my dad and I played busy because I've just come Cathedral in New York. spotto scores: me 150, dad home from a trip to Eng- Dear Captain Bob, 53. land, Ireland, New York How ale you? I won. and Hong Kong. Today we went to the Elizabeth Pauley, I went to Disney World countryside to get fruit. Dudinin. and the Empire State After that we went to see P.S. Do you like my Building it was fabulous. Pionem Village. poem???? Here are some riddles Here lggie's House, by Judy Blume, $2.95; Planet Earth, $2.95 and are some jokes. that I hope youll enjoy. Why does a golfer weal Ancient Civilizations, $2.95, published by Piccolo. Tracy Cooper, two pails of pants. WITCHES Karrinyup 6018 In case he gets a hole in Did you see those bony 'Winnie felt she Q: What do you call tur- one. legs, belonged at lggie's nips that fall in love? Why did Mickey Mouse Creeping slowly round the house . . .' A: Swede Hearts. go into space? hedge? They need a friend. that time many changes with peoples and civilizaQ : What did the He wanted to find Pluto. Did you see that hat and But then Iggie moved taken place and the tions that seemed to spring have didgeridoo? House Iggie's superb, is a away. It seemed like all What kind of fish is afraid cape A: Went to see if the of dogs? early novel from Judy world is still changing up. flourish and rule the American families always Slipping through the lands around them for a boomerang. moved away at some time Blume which helped estab- today. A cat fish. garden gate. time and then disappear Q: How do you stop Have you lish her writer as a of condiamany of aid the With or another. Iggie had been heard the joke ever — often leaving for moles from digging in your about the troversial straightforand illustrations, and grams wall? Crushing all the flowers Winnie's best friend too. ward stories dealing with little behind to show that garden? we how shows book this Left by herself I can't get over it. in Grove up, they had ever existed. A : Hide the spade. Have you heard the joke Poking in her magic cup. Street where she had the everyday issues that think the Earth was face children from all made is what and it formed always lived, there was noabout the cow? Lizzards gizzards nasty A JOKE one to play with and two r acial differences to up of today. How the con- But from the few clues It's ptetty cowish. smells, There was a man walking Carlo puberty. tinents have arrived at that we have, archaeoloda Costa, Stirring into magic spells. w hole weeks of the down the street with a pie Munster. 'I hate the idea that you their present position and gists have been able to summer holiday left. on his ear and another man piece together a great deal Warty nose and pointy Then the Garber family should always protect the different forces that of information about these walked past and said: Dear Captain Bob, mounshaped the c hildren,' have says Judy moved into lggie's house. toes, "Why have you got a pie How ale you. early peoples. This book Terror Terror! There she The Garbers were black Blume. They live in the tains, valleys, deserts, riv- recreates on your ear"? I am fine. the stories of the and the rest of Grove same world as we do. They ers and oceans. goes. The man replied: -1 just got home fiona see things and hear things. It shows what's happen- greatest of these ancient Street were white and had Riding on her wooden I Well It's poineers' day isn't Perth and guess what, I saw always been. The Garbers The worst is when there are ing below the Earth's sur- civilizations of Mesopotabroom, i, it"? my Nana. mia and Egypt, through 1 Zooming right up to the had two boys, Glenn and secrets, because what they face and in the atmos- the Palaces of ancient Herbie, and Tina, their lit- imagine, and have to deal phere, and shows how our moon. tle sister. Winnie, a wel- with alone, is usually scar- planet supports and pro- Crete and Mycenae. the warfaring Hittites and come committee of one, set ier than the truth.' vides for the abundant To Nurse Kerry, Assyrians, the Phoenician out to make a Blume good Judy America's is plant, animal and human My name is Lisa Dias. I impression and to be a number one children's life that has spread across merchant princes, and the have a joke for you. g od-like emperors of Q. Why should a singer good neighbour. But that author, a household name. the Earth's surface. China, to the nomad warwas when the trouble She born has was and lived stand on a ladder? Ancient Civilizations — riors of the steppes and the A. So he can reach the stated, because Glenn, most of her life in New Jer- The relatively short span great ages of Greece and Herbie and Tina don't sey, where she sets most of high notes. of human history is filled Rome. need 'good neighbours'. her books. Dear Captain Bob, spell After living New a in My name is Desmond Mexico, she now lives in Dias. My sister Kathy is New York. writing this letter for me and she helped me draw NATURAL HISTORY Her books deal with the my dog on the back of TEACHER: Can anyone onset of puberty (Are You You have got to be in the club Please print clearly and don't this paper. I hope you are tell me what sort of insect There God? It's Me Mar- if you want to enter our forget your date of birth and a garet), dealing with competitions and win some of stamp so we can send your all very well, I am. a slug is? naughty younger siblings the super prizes. membership form to you. Desmond Dias, BOY: Yes, sir . . . it's a (Tales of a Fourth Grade To join simply send the Membership will allow you to Girrawheen. snail with a housing Nothing), parents divorccompleted coupon hereto The enter all our competitions. Dear Captain Bob, problem. ing (It's Not the End of the Record Kid's Club, PO Box Well, what are you waiting Can I join your club? What happened to the World), moving house 50, Aberdeen Street, Perth, for? My name is Sarah Martin grog when it died? (Then Again, Maybe I 6000. and I am six. / /us! croaked. Won't), school problems I go to St Mary's school. (This School is Driving Me I like to write stories and Crazy), summer holidays draw. My favourite things Otherwise Known As ( do are skipping with my to hoop and going to hockey Welcome to our new Shelia the Great), bullying Name with my Dad. members: Cindy Sta- (Blubber) and the arrival I an sending you the pic- phorst, of Girrawheen; of a new baby in the family Address ture of Percy Pig. I hope Angela Bendotti, of Pem- (Superfudge). berton; David Van Vugt, you like it. Planet Earth — Scientists P /code Sarah Martin, of Padbury; Christopher tell us that our planet was Bunbury. Depiazzi, of Dardanup; first formed about 4600 Age Birthdate Dear Captain Bob, Janell Staphorst, of Girra- million years ago, but since Thank you for the prize wheen; Natasha Clark, of. 14. that I won. Geraldton; Jonathon Our holidays were good, Decelis, of Bayswater; too bad I have to go back Sarah Martin, of Bunbury; to school. Fiona Walsh, of Gosnells I have sent some more and Francis Walling, of competition. I have to go Kelmscott. now. Michelle Daly, BIRTHDAY By Desmond Dias, of Girrawheen. Victoria Park. PERTI4 Happy birthday to: NEWCASTLE David Bergin, of Coolv40--kvitc. 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Bowra & O'Dea Days of prayer at the 7507. WANTED Funeral Directors 328 Franciscan Retreat House PROPERTY improve7299. for the month of October ments Service all types of Interesting, casual will be Tuesday, October w indows and doors temporary employment 5, and Thursday, October THANKS installed; walls and ceilings sought by retired male. 21. removed; wooden pergo- Good appearance, has car, HOOPER (Pat): Ernie, T he invitation is las; general repairs. Phone phone, integrity. City — Richard, Robyn and fam- extended to all to come 341 2946. Country. Anything consi- ily sincerely THANK all and spend some time in dered from November relatives, friends, clergy prayer. Commences at Backyards cleaned, rub- o nwards. Please write and parishioners of Star of 9.30pm, includes Mass, bish removed, trees details to Advertiser, 23 the Sea, Cottesloe, for and concludes by 3.30pm. lopped, gardening, odd Hampden St South Perth. their kind expressions of For further information, jobs, garages cleaned out sympathy, floral tributes, tel. 361 3459. 277 8780 _4 BUILDING TRADES letters, cards and attendA PPELBEE'S Electrical MAC'S Building & Main- ance at the Rosary, Service, 33 Avery Avenue. tenance Service, Renova- Requiem Mass and funeral Di4nella. Phone.. 276 2344. tions, alterations, special- of teir dearly loved wife Repairs and ist in all forms of and mother. Our special A lthough it is 800 years since iety of Church sponsored postulant. M aintenance. maintenance, carpentry, thanks to Fr Marlow and orientated works in There are four fraternities the plumbing, painting, brick- Fr Dynon, S.J. birth of St Francis of Assisi, and parishes and dioceses of Secular Franciscans P AINTING quality work work, schools special May perpetual light shine located in the metropolihis spirit still lives on in the throughout the world. a t the right price. Johr rates. No job to small, upon her. tan area and one in Their prayer life is Freakley. Phone 361 434c ' phone 367 4065. hearts of thousands of Chris- enhanced by the fact that Geraldton. they join in saying the Anybody interested in 1111111111111111111011111111111111111111111111tii1111111111111:1111!1!1111111111111111011111A CCOMMODATION tians all over the world. Prayer of the church every becoming a Secular FranThe Franciscan family is ried or single people could day. ciscan can find out more Lovely holiday all can one of the largest in the follow whilst still remain- Every Secular Franciscan by contacting any of the afford. Amazing low (half Christian world today ing "in the world". a ttends the regular following: previous) rates:. 2 adults because to be a Franciscan Today's OPTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS Secular Francis- monthly meeting where BA LCATTA: Franciscan $ 15 a day each; 4 adults in a means to imitate Christ. cans are not recognisable prayers, Gospel study, disCapuchins, (349 2837) or 6 room house $10 each; This is what Christianity is by the clothes Contact LENS CONSULTANTS they wear, cussion and building of Jerry Donovan (349 2604). groups 5 to 7 in a 7 room all about. nor the homes they live in. fraternity, are of major home $8 a day each; childMIDLAND: Franciscan A Franciscan does not They are recognised by importance. 321 81 51 PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE ren up to 14 $5 each or Friary, (274 1159) or have to be a Religious, 5304 their active To be a involvement Secular Francis321 in PERTH 154 WILLIAM STREET Poli (299 6435). what can be afforded; St Francis realised that Christian living. can is a life-long commit-. 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Widow genuinely offers to share her fully air c onditioned country Mass to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the home with another birth of St Francis will be lonely widow in return Free public lectures will be given Pregnancy Help is seek- celebrated in St Mary's to be companion help; ing 40 sponsors prepared Cathedral at 10am on at the University of WA to mark the free rent and board plus to donate $20 for a young Sunday, October 3, and eighth centenary of the birth of St mother with three children at St Brigid's church, Francis small wage. of Assisi. under the age of four, who Midland, at 7.15pm Please write to Catholic is expecting another baby. Monday, October on The lectures commence Vincent Moleta, The 4. Widow, PO Box 473 The pregnancy is a diffi- Supper will be served in at Ipm, Monday to Fri- Painted Life of St Franday, October 4-8. Except cis in Assisi and Narrogin 6312, Enclos- cult one, and she con- the hall afterwards. for Wednesday's musical Florence. stantly experiences ing references. p rogramme in the ill-health. She is finding it
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Department of Music extremely difficult to cope auditorium, all lectures with her pregnancy, her take place in the Alexchildren and her home. ander Lecture Theatre in Someone is willing to 6 Glenten Way FERNDALE the Arts Building: help the young mother Monday October 4, with the housework on a 451 2827 voluntary basis but there is In conjunction with Ges- Professor John Scott, St no money to transport this tetner there will be a work- Francis and Dante. lady to the home, and the shop for parish bulletin Tuesday, October 5, Member Master Plumbers' Assoc. No 140 Sister Elizabeth Curran, bus service is completely producers on Thursday Professor Max Jones, For all your plumbing requirements FMM offers an Introduc- inadequate. evening November 4 from The Franciscans and Free Quotes 24 Hour Service tion to the Bible and the A taxi would cost 7 to lOpm in the Gestetner Early European Drama. rally at The 26th Rosary commence Book of Genesis (At two approximately $4 per day showrooms W ednesday, will October 6, 4 Southport Maryland centres). or $20 for 5 days (on wee- Street, Leederville. The The Laudario of Cor- at 1 lam with Mass celeCRAIGIE at Whitford kends her husband is workshop will deal with tona: Franciscan Songs brated by Bishop Quinn. Catholic Primary School, home). stencil preparation, dupli- o f the Thirteenth Following a picnic lunch and 256 Camberwarra Drive, As the mother is only in cator operation and main- Century. the rosary, procession2pni at Craigie, starting Tuesday, the early stages of her preg- tenance and the use and T hursday, October 7, benediction startafternoon October 5 at 4.00pm (2 ses- nancy the home help is potential of electronic Dr (ESTABLISHED 1888) Conal Condren, concluding with required for quite a long stencil scanners. sions) Aspects of the Poverty tea at 3.30pm. THORNLIE at Sacred time, because assistance The course is being con- C 68 STIRLING STREET, PERTH ontroversy. Heart School, Tonbridge would also be needed for ducted by MediaCom an Friday, October 8, Dr 1307 ALBANY HWY., CANNINGTON Way or Clancy Way (for several weeks after the ecumenical religious comparking) starting Wednes- birth of the baby. 502 WANNER00 ROAD, BALGA munications agency. MAN 3 22 1408 day, October 6 at 4.00pm Pregnancy Help does not Attendance is open to wOMAN have the funds to pay for members of all denomina(3 sessions) DISCUSSION GROUP this, and neither does the tions. on the Sunday Readings family. Send $10 registration fee every Thursday at 10.30am To help, contact Corry to MediaCom, 6 Sheffield HAIR MODA 328 7299 in Catholic Pastoral Insti- Schoenmakers, Pregnancy St Malvern S.A. 5061. PERTH Ruislip Street, tute, 52 Help Co-ordinator, 7 Numbers are limited and 349 0100 BALGA BEAUTY CONNECTION Everybody Leederville. Howard Street, Perth, early registration is recom458 5017 CANNINGTON Shop 2, 36 Milligan St, Perth welcome! 6000. mended. -******-4-4-***--*-4-4-4-44-4-44-4.44-44- 4-4-4-••
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Channel Nine presents one of the top horse races on the European circuit with its telecast of the Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe on Tuesday at 10.50pm.
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One of the most comprehensive sporting d ocumentaries yet made for Australian t elevision comes to Channel Nine on Saturday, at 8.40pm. Australian Sporting Heroes is not just another sports show. T he programme is wide-ranging enough to appeal to all the family and not just hardened sports fanatics. A film crew, headed by Ian Chappell, travelled more than 25,000 miles to record interviews with sports stars, t heir families, and former adversaries. The programme traces the careers of 10 of Australia's greatest sportsmen and women chosen by Chappell for a combination of their sporting achievements and of his personal admiration for them.
The 10 profiled are the racehorse Phar Lap, t ennis players Rod Laver and Evonne C awley, swimmer Dawn Fraser, runners Herb Elliott and Betty Cuthbert, cricketers Sir Donald Bradman and Dennis Lillee, and motor racing champs Sir Jack Brabham and Alan Jones.
Greg Chappell Australian Sporting Heroes also features interviews with cricketers Neil Haney, Rod Marsh, former Test stars Harold Larwood and Bill O'Reilly.
The great race!
Channel Nine continues est in the Commonwealth its coverage of the 1982 Games as his wife, Lyn, is Commonwealth Games competing in the 400 metre from Brisbane this week hurdles. Lyn is one of The Australian Racing Drivers Club and Seven Sport have joined together to with at least two hours of Australia's strongest conaction telecast each day. tenders for a gold medal. bring Australia's great race -- The James Hardie 1000 — live Sunday October 3 Some of the world's best Highlights of the Games commencing at 5.55am from the eight kilometre Mount Panorama Circuit, athletes will join the com- will be telecast each day at Bathurst. mentating team which is the following times: co-ordinated by Ian Chap- Sunday: For 91/7 hours, Channel What the 1982 race holds, race. 4.30pm for 90 pell. Adrian Metcalfe, minutes, with Seven will bring motor no-one can predict, but it Brock will be in the Marla 90-minute former British Olympian racing enthusiasts dyna- will be thrilling. . . Seven's boro Holden Dealer update at 10.30pm. and leading British track mic, continuous coverage goal to bring viewers right Team's Commodore, Car and field commentator, is Monday to Friday (i d): of Australia's premier rac- into the action will be con- 5 and Johnson will be in the commentator for track 5.00pm for 60 minutes, ing event. tinued this year when the the Tru Blu Prudential XE update at 60-minute e vents, while Murray with a team will put viewers in the Falcon, Car 17. With pre-race the enterRose, four times Olympic 1 1.10pm. tainment programme driver's seat by looking Peter Brock, five times s wimming champion, is Saturday.: 4.30pm for 90 This year there are seven entrants in the building up to the frenzy of over the shoulders of Peter Bathurst marathon winner the swimming specialist. minutes with a 90-minute queen quest, and over the next three weeks the 60 car start, the famous Brock and Dick Johnson and Johnson, defending Murray now lives in the update at 10.40pm. we'll introduce them to you through the Roulettes Squadron from with the Racecam in-car champion, will describe USA where he works as a A nother international column. the Royal Australian Air camera systems during the their impressions. c ommentator. sporting event televised Force will start the 1982 Perth's Wally Foreman this week is the Prix De They are competing for a day, October 5 at the home James Hardie 1000 with a will cover field events. L'Arc De Triomphe, on first prize of a seven day of Greg and Jenny Pearce, six -minute, excitement Scissors, Saws, Secateurs, Shears, Sharpened and Set Wally is the Network's Tuesday, at 10.50pm. This holiday in Hobart, repres- 38 Waitara Cres. Green- packed routine above the most experienced staff is one of Europe's premier enting the WA association wood at 7.45pm. Mount Panorama crowd. commentator. horse racing events held in at the tennis carnival in a In true tradition, the 1981 Wally has a special inter- Paris, France. bid to win the national James Hardie 1000 ended 4 QUEEN STREET — 321 4390 — LOCKSMITHS title. in the most dramatic finish The first two entrants are in the event's chequered representing Dianella and Locks, Door Closers and Safe Overhauled and Serviced 2 1-year history. St. Benedicts clubs. Greyhounds — with The race was brought to CAR and ALL TYPES OF KEYS CUT Immediate Service Karen Bromley represabrupt end by a multi-car The Record Tipster enting Dianella, is a bank pile-up, at Mc Phillamy officer and is 20 years old. Park Corner, the fastest school primary During her corner on the circuit which years she attended several cars approach at over 160 catholic schools in country k mph. Luckily, no-one centres and in high school, was hurt, but the blocked Esperance s tudied at track forced the organisers OPTOMETRISTS to bring the race to an unscheduled finish. Yolander Ebner
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OPE JOHN PAUL II, after addressing the Italian Bishops Conference held * in Assisi, spoke to the civil authorities in the square outside St Mary of the * * * Angel's Basilica: "From the time that Francis left the comforts of his father's house, the * * * name of Assisi has been closely linked to his, and the city has become one of * the most frequented centres for evoking spiritual renewal, not only for Italy, * *t but for the whole world. i "Crowds come here continually, in every season, from every continent, * * * and they return to every corner of the world carrying in their heart an * * increased fascination for the Poverello and his land. * "The reason for this singular fascination is not only the unmarred beauty of * * * nature, the example of a man who stripped himself of everything to marry us, consistent * * 'Lady Poverty,' but above all it is the model of life that he offers of God, who the Son gloss' 'without everything and * in the effort to imitate in * us. earth for on came * 4E "And this influence is still immense, because it provides a stimulus — as * * * Francis himself wrote in his 'testament' — to live 'according to the form of * * the holy Gospel'." *
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St Francis of Assisi, the anniversary of whose death is celebrated on Monday this week was born 800 years ago. In this article reprinted from The Catholic Leader, Brisbane, former Midland guardian and parish priest FATHER JOACHIM O 'BRIEN OFM answers the question why Sr Francis' response to the gospel remains so fresh today.
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RANCIS, a layman, founded three orders: his brothers in the first order; with St Clare, the Poor Clares, and for lay folk, the Secular Franciscan Order. All, nearly 800 years later, are still flourishing.
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When Christ stepped into his life he was pretty HE GOSPEL is embodied in the person of much of what we would call a "Sunday the Saviour. Jesus Christ is the heart and soul of Catholic." the Gospel. To observe the Gospel means to A s a very wealthy young man, living a colour- make Jesus Christ the centre of one's life. ful worldly life, desiring glory as a knight, he That St Francis accomplished this, even a was certainly not bound down by the religious superficial study of his life will prove. But this traditions of his time. does not express all. Three specific interventions of Christ in his life The peculiar character of the relationship gave the spiritual direction he and his move- between Francis and the God-man lies in this, ment would take. that he was a Knight of Christ, that he devoted The voice that spoke to him when he was on his himself with a truly chivalrous spirit and in a way to seek knighthood: "Return to Assisi and truly chivalrous manner to the service, the you will be told what to do." imitation and the love of his Lord. In the ruined church of San Damiano Christ The genius of Francis was that he restored to himself spoke to him repeating three times: the world the love of the sacred humanity of Father Joachim O'Brien, OFM, pictured at the Kedron Franciscan Friary, "Francis, go and repair my house, which, as you Jesus Christ. where he is guardian. see, is falling into ruin." This was shown in a special way in his love of The third, on the morning of February 24, the Infant Child, as seen in the crib at Greccio, It was then that Jesus impressed the Stigmata 1209, when at Mass in the little church of St where in truly Franciscan way he re-enacted for strength of your love may absorb my soul from Mary of the Angels he heard in the Gospel how the people the birth of the Saviour, a tradition all things that are under heaven, that I may die on St Francis. He has these words, among many others in Christ sent his apostles to preach: "Provide his brothers carried throughout the world; his for love of your love, as you did deign to die for treating with the love of Jesus in the eucharist: yourselves with neither gold nor silver nor love of Jesus Crucified, sealed by Christ himself love of my love." "Let the entire man be seized with fear; let the copper in your belts, no travelling bag, no when he impressed on Francis the marks of his whole world tremble; let heaven exult when change of shirt, no sandals, no walking staff. own wounds in the sacred Stigmata; and in his Christ, the Son of the living God, is on the altar The workman after all is worth his keep." love for the eucharist: "because I see nothing WO YEARS before he died, in contempla- in the hands of the priest. From the time brothers came to join Francis corporally of the most high Son of God Himself tion of Christ crucified on Mt Alverna, he prays: until he wrote his Testament shortly before his except his most holy Body and Blood." "0 sublime humility! that the Lord of the unideath, he insisted that: "The Most High This love of Jesus flows through his prayers "My Lord Jesus Christ, I pray you to grant me verse, God and the Son of God, so humbles t wo graces before I die; the first, that in my Himself that for our salvation He hides Himself revealed to me that I should live according to and writings. the form of the holy Gospel." He seeks the love of his Saviour in these words: lifetime, I may feel in my soul and in my body, under a morsel of bread. Consider, brothers, the The basis of all Franciscan spirituality has "I beseech you, 0 Lord, that the fiery and sweet so far as it is possible, all the pain and grief, humility of God, and 'pour out your hearts which you, 0 sweet Lord, did feel in your most before Him', and be humbled that you may be bitter passion; the second, that I may feel in my exalted by Him. heart, as far as is possible, that excessive love by "Do not therefore keep back anything for which You, the Son of God, were impelled to yourselves, that He may receive you entirel), who gives Himself up entirely to you." sustain so great sufferings for sinners." ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1 8 a • For Francis poverty was not only one, but the -0. • basic condition of evangelical perfection. RANCISCAN spirituality is It is important to see this clearly.
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so genuine today in its love of the Church. The principles given us by the Second Vatican Council find ready expression in the life and interior spirit of Francis.
It was Jesus himself who gave Francis his first clear direction: "Go, Francis, rebuild my Church which you see is falling into ruins." Francis took this literally. But led by the Spirit, he began to see, after the Lord had given him his first companions, that it was the universal Church he was to rebuild. Francis was first in contact with his bishop Guido in Assisi. When the Lord gave him 12 brothers he said to them: "Brothers I see that God in his mercy wishes us to increase in our number. Let us go therefore to our Mother, the Holy Roman Church, and make known to the pope what God has deigned to begin through us, with the approval and the command of the Apostolic See." Where the Church, the pope, the bishops and priests in Francis' day were under constant attack from heretics and others for the worldly life that was certainly present, Francis would have none of this. Because Christ had founded his Church on Peter, because the bishops and priests carried on the work of Jesus, Francis and his brothers maintained a steady reverence and respect for them. This love of the Church is basic to Franciscan spirituality.
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XTREMELY rich in his own right, he made his famous renunciation before his father, the Bishop of Assisi and its citizens, saying, "Henceforth I will say our Father, who art in heaven" as he stripped himself of all his clothes and gave them back to his avaricious father. A s Jesus was poor, so in his following of Christ, he trod the path of total poverty. But Francis, with his genius for going to the heart of Gospel spirituality saw that true poverty of spirit freed a man entirely for love. In his religious life he viewed the three vows under the aspect of poverty: poverty in goods freed a man from the worries of worldly possessions, the vow of chastity led him through love to renounce married life for the sake of the Kingdom, and he said that a man is not truly poor if he has not yet renounced the purse of his own self will. From his freedom of heart and the love of God which burned in him, Francis was always the most joyful of men. He impressed this spirit of joy and love on his three Orders. "Let them take care not to appear exteriorly sad and gloomy like hypocrites, but let them show themselves to be joyful and contented in the Lord, merry and becomingly courteous," he wrote. This led on logically to the love of music, song and poetry. He styled his brothers "Joyous minstrels of the Lord." For him there should be joy in God and his tremendous love of man. But as Jesus gave us his new commandment of love, love should be the outstanding quality of the Franciscan. Francis' peace programme was also based on this love of Jesus for mankind.
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