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SHARON WAS A CLOWN' WINNER
Sharon Quinn was one of the last to leave the Clontarf Fair last Sunday and she was lucky to be on hand to hear that she had won the magnificent doll's house raffled by the Manning Lions Club. It was also a happy occasion for her father, Michael Quinn (below) because he was a pupil at Clontari 35 years ago.
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"Readers ... See me today for a special "s. Adeal on new k HOLDEN, HONDA, k. DAIMLER, Gerry Logan JAGUAR, A/H 293 3384 ROVER, The Archibishop of Sydney, Cardinal Sir James Freeman, has asked for prayers for the success of next k PEUGEOT, RANGE ROVER, LANDROVET? and MOKE.'' month's national economic summit. Carindal Freeman has for months been urging the need for "essential national unity" to tackle Australia's growing problems.
Cardinal Freeman said: "I support the summit proposal and ask all Australians, no matter what political allegiance or religious affiliation, to pray for its guidance and success. causing so much hard"I do this because ship and distress in all
National unity is needed
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undoubtedly the summit will offer a chance for our leaders to put aside personal and sectional interests to tackle the country's basic ills, like unemployment and poverty, before they worsen. "On the other hand, if the summit fails, it will only deepen present dangerous divisions and perpetuate the evils already
sections of our community. "It is some months since I first advocated something of the nature of what Mr Hawke now proposes. "Since then I have reiterated Australia needs leadership in sound thinking, sound planning and sound action. " Australia must
achieve that essential national unity only generated if governments, trade unions, employers and welfare organisations, with spirited public backing, put Australia first and endeavour, jointly, to set it on the road to recovery. "The success of the summit is worth praying for", the cardinal said. ardinal Freeman nishes his term as Archihishop of Sydney on April 27.
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"If a couple has a large family it lari movement, dedicated to spiritual and societal renewal througte the will generally be because they t eachings of Christ. wanted children, but they may The organisation now embraces now want to check out the ovulas ome three million associates tion method again and understand worldwide. their mutual responsibility for "The gospel is not truly lived,- the pope told the group, "if it does not f ertility. Mrs Newman speaks from long produce in the followers of Christ an overturning of their was of li• ing con- experience since she and her huscretely in society.band Lionel have been active supLauding the new humanity move- porters of the natural family ment members for their work, the planning teaching programmes pontiff said, "I want to tell you that t hat started in Perth some 13 when I am tired, when I feel myself alone, I think of the Focolari and that years ago. She said that a teacher had to livens me up.accept the fact that even though a w oman came for i nformation on natura methods, she might still choose not to fol- ning are likely to be breast 40-hour course laid down Pregnancy Help has low them. feeding or those coming by the Australian Council every reason to thank O PTOMETRISTS the St Francis Xa•ier "Some come to us off contraceptives which f or Natural Family p arish, Armadale, because they feel it is the have proved to be unsatis- Planning. factory' and now wanting a 1 75 Scarborough Beach Road Phone 444 3543 If successful, trained bingo club which has r ight thing to do natural method. teachers will work in a projust made its fourth because of conscience The Centrecare agency gramme partly funded by donation, bringing the or some other reason, is surprised that more t he Commonwealth total so far to S1,050. R F IS W A 0 A Ocuom.,tr , , , hut they still have to women do not come for Government. 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Country goods marked donation A big number of clients f ree on rail to Kewdale Rail Terminal The teacher training for natural family plan- programme will follow the As a result of a Rights on which the coun- heard a report set up under committee study of cil has a committee study- Father Barry Whitely to ing the question. study the new rite of Christhe problem of homeHe said he discussed the tian Initiation of Adults. less youth, the matter with the new Pre- Five recommendations Diocesan Pastoral mier and the minister. were put to the archbishop. He also sent a statement The full day council Council will be send- prepared by the DPC to meeting heard addresses ing a letter to all par- other West Australian on three activities in the ishes seeking help bishops for their con- archdiocese: Catholic sideration. Missions (Father Pat with the accommoHe said the process A hern), Australian dation of country would not be rushed. C Atholic Relief, (Miss youth and also for {here would be a careful M argaret Collopy). and responsible approach Committee for Justice and homeless youth in to the question. Development. (Mrs Jenthe city. T he council meeting nifer Olney). rhis was one of the subjects discussed at the recent quarterly meeting of the DPC at which Mr Kevin Hogan was re-elected chairman for another two We are an International Missionary Institute, working in year term. F ormer executive Africa, America, Asia. Europe and Australia. We are the member Miss Pat Ryna Canossian Daughters of Charity and we need your help. Holland & Venetian Blinds, was elected vice chairman We invite you to enquire about this most rewarding vocation. Canvas & Aluminium Awnings and Mrs Jane Murphy was elected secretary. Other Flyscreens, Tarpaulins All enquiries to: executive members are Provincial Office, Canossa House, Father Owen Ryan CSSR. 341 Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, Old. 4000 Mr Laurie O'Meara and Mr Martin Forsey. A rchibishop Good) 286 ALBANY HWY., VIC. PARK gave the DPC a report on 361 1620 361 1539 developments in the matter of Aboriginal Land 2 The Record, March 24 — 30, 1983
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Organiser of Albany parish welcoming social morning, Lidia Smargiassi with newcomer Doyen Nguyen.
Only a couple of dogs turned out to growl as a big team of Rockingham parishioners spent the last two weekends putting a massive 10,500 leaflets into every letter box in the extensive parish. Already the effort has paid dividends and some 40 previously unknown Catholic families have posted back their application form asking for a visit from a priest and for more information on the parish. Others have handed in replies at Mass bringing the total received in just one week to 120. Some of the volunteers beat the weekend heat by starting their letter-drop at 6.30 a.m. to finish by mid-morning while others were undeterred by the midday sun. Enthusiasm was running so high that when volunteers were called to do one of t he 30 zones that had been by-passed, there were four instant starters. Rockingham parish priest Father Finbarr Walsh said that the letterdrop was a much needed action because only 20% of the local Catholic population is believed to be attending Sunday Mass regularly. "Our action may inspire some of the remaining 80% to re-establish contact and be reconciled with the Church." he said.
Newcomer Hung Tran with Father Stephen Kelly.
ay pies, David Beard and Brendan Carlin, of the Rockingham parish Letterdrop Committee.
Albany greets arrivals
"For the others the letterdrop will be an instrument A lbany parish has stepped up of conversion, and for the its effort to welcome new paripractising Catholics it will shioners and recently a special Mass for newcomers be a realisation of their Sunday w as followed by a social mornunity and of their responsi- ing tea in the hall which bility to preach Christ's attracted over 80 people. gospel." It is intended to keep up the The parish team admitted function every six months they were taking a risk t) because Albany parish believes joining the "junk mail" that it has an above average business of making contact number of families moving in with people but they esti- and out of the area. One of the principal organismated that it was the fas- ers was Lidia Smargiassi who test way to get in touch is a comparative newcomer with the 27,000 people in herself since her husband took the greater Rockingham up a position at the Catholic area that has a big moving school three years ago. population not least A lbany parish already operbecause of the high unem- ates a contact programme dividing the parish ployment being expe- through into 17 regions, each of which rienced in the district. has at least one co-ordinator R ockingham assistant and other helpers to keep tab priest Father Joe Parkin- on the movement of families. son said the idea was The co-ordinators meet with straight out of the Second the parish clergy regularly and Vatican Council which every two months a special stated: "It is the Church's newsletter is delivered to birthright to use any of the every Catholic family in the parish. media which are useful for T he co-ordinators have the formation of Chris- helped organise a roster of tians and for pastoral home Masses during Lent and activity." on into the Easter season.
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Sin continues but so does Grace The early Apostles and preachers of the Good News were not busy little professional people replete with their pocket diaries, desk calendars and campaign schedules. Still less did they sport electronic time-pieces to give them an instant read-out on the ageing process or to measure the limit of human endurance. They were none the poorer say those who think that the advent of the watch has not made listening to sermons any more tolerable. The early preachers and believers were down to earth eschatologists. They lived Jesus' faith on the brink of eternity. If they were not consumed by an imminent Second Coming, the lions and gladiators in the arena would make up for it. The early Church had no time to ponder if there would be a 1933 or a 1983, and they might look quizzical at the suggestion that the Chief Pastor, Kephas, has ordered a command 1950th celebration of the Redemption. The call of Pope John Paul II to "Open the Doors to the Redeemer" has a repetitive, antiphonal urgency about it. He proclaimed this message on the day of his inauguration. He repeats it again this Friday. His first encyclical letter was titled the Redeemer of Man. As he pounds the skyways on a new crusade to the world there is a cry of urgency in his search for answers to the crisis of the modern man. His recurring theme is that we are now in the countdown to the year 2000 to a Third Christian Millennium that will lead the Church in directions undreamed by those tiny apostolic communities of two millennia ago. Pope John Paul is not being original in proclaiming the 1983 Jubilee of Redemption. His predecessor Piux XI felt that a quibble over the precise date of the Crucifixion was secondary to the urgent need in 1933 to confront a new world of secularism with the salvation of Christ. The preceding Holy Year of 1925 had taken on new significance with the proclamation of Christ the King. "Are you a King?" would ask the new tyrants and oppressors who control global forces and whose materialism, capitalism and hunger for power did not need any advice from heavenly directions. A blast on the ram's horn of Old Testament jubilee celebration is not enough. For nearly 700 years the Church has been summoned regularly to a pilgrimage of jubilee, of forgiveness, but there is now a counter-weight, the jubilee of Redemption, of reconciliation and repentance in Christ. The word redemption is almost its own stumbling block. It is a word that has no relevance in a consumer society that spends but never buys back. Catechists spend hours trying to think up intriguing examples to explain redemption: their glazed pupils sit in confusion if Jesus' Redemption has not yet touched them. Good luck and God-speed to those who can manage a trip to Rome in the new penance of jostling crowds at airports. The pope has told the rest of us to ponder the call to suffer with those on this earth who are already suffering too much. The test of the Holy Year is firstly in personal conversion of heart but then in courage to tell the world that it is sinning against God in its battered family life, in its hedonism that shuts out the cries of the poor, in the massacring of tribes and nations. Ask in the Holy Week of 1983 and 1984: "Is this what Jesus suffered for on the cross and paid our price?"
Students Lent grows ar t backwards Its most common names have been the Great Week and the Holy Week. All of Lent has grown backwards from the conclusion, the Passover festival we call Easter. But these are the nearest days to the feast, the one that came first as the season of Lent was developing, growing longer, with the Church. Gradually over decades more days were added to t he time of fasting and prayer before the all-night vigil at which baptisms would take place. Still, the last days, the Holy Week, r emained the most important. Hut another force was at w ork in shaping Holy Week. This was mainly in the Church of Jerusalem. Quite naturally people there tried to reconstruct the exact chronology of cifixion was that the story the last days of Jesus, and itself became long ago and then meet for prayer at the far away. various places just when We somehow forgot the He would have been there. only point in telling this It seems to have been story was that it says what this Jerusalem influence happened to us: We have that carried the day as the passed over from death to Church spread. At least in life in Jesus. In His death Europe. Holy Week pray- died the power of sin. To ers became fascinated with say "He rose again" is to historical details. say we have been reconIn recent centuries. ciled to God. when Easter lost its original meaning as the day of • Continued page 16 baptism, history shaped our practice of Holy Week: Now Jesus enters Jerusalem. now He is at supper, now arrested, now nailed to the cross, now His last words. Now He rises.
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• There were some good things in this approach. It kept Holy Week visible and real to the Church when other very important seasons, like the Eastertime itself, became insignificant in our everyday lives. Keeping Holy Week with this attention to the details of the story, a kind of "the weekday Jesus died" approach. familiarised us with the gospel stories. We are more likely to know about how Jesus entered Jerusalem on the donkey than we are to know the gospel stories of these last few weeks, such as the story of the woman at the well, or even the stories of the Sundays in Eastertime. But there was a great price to pay. All the attention went to the physical details, especially of the suffering of Jesus. The 27 In St Mary's Cathedral Archbishop Goody is principal celebrant on Palm Sunday (10 a.m.), cross became the crucifix. the Blessing of the Oils (Mar 29 7.30 p.m.), the What for the early Church Mass of the Lord's Supper (Mar 315.30 p.m.) was the great symbol of triumph, the tree of salvation the Lord's Passion (Apr 1 3 p.m.). flowering in glory, became April 2 In St Mary's Cathedral 9 p.m. the Easter Vigil. instead background for the t wisted body of Jesus. Monsignor O'Reilly. And when the Passion 3 In St Mary's Cathedral at 10 a.m. Archbishop was read as it continues Goody will say the solemn Easter Mass. to be on this Palm Sunday • • -- it was with an attention • 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 • to detail which distorted • • Correspondence • greater story, so much The Editor, The Record PO Box 50 • the • so that our Holy Week • Aberdeen Street Perth, 6000 • A dvertising • could become in some • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • • communities an occasion r egistered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (11) • • to kindle hatred of Jews. • Produced in WA • Printed and published weekly by Edward vanHeemst, • And the greatest loss in • • 26 John Street Perth • approaching Holy Week • • • Established 1874 • as merely an anniversary • • • of Jesus' suffering and cru•••••• •• •••••• ••••• OOOOO • • • • • OOOOO • •••• •• • • •
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One person who undoubtedly had the "closest" view of St Peter's Basilica in Rome is the renowned artist, Michelangelo. The poverty-stricken 1 5th century sculptor and painter found himself a continual servant of the pope in Rome as the title was passed on to several men in succession and each wanted Michelangelo to create a masterpiece. One of the popes in the artist's lifetime appointed him architect of St Peter's and the dome Michelangelo created for that church is one of the world's greatest pieces of architecture to date. Channel 9 takes its viewers for a close look at St Peter's Basilica, including a detailed view of the renowned dome and Michelangelo's superb architecture t hroughout, in its Easter special, 'Upon This Rock' on Good Friday at 8.35p.m Sir Ralph Richardson lends the dignity fitting for such a prestigious tour, as that of St Peter's, as narrator of the special and as he takes viewers through the largest church in the world. Sir Ralph intro-
duces some of the famom characters associated with St Peter's history. Such people as Michelangelo, Queen Christina of Sweden and Bonny Prince Charlie have featured in the Basilica's distant and recent past as well as a number of popes over many years. Helping recreate the events of the past by portraying Michelangelo, Queen Christina and Bonny Prince Charlie are Orson Welles. Dame Edith Evans and Dirk Bogard r espectively.
Easter In My Heart, locally produced by Channel 9 with the Christian Television Association goes to air Good Friday at 3 pm. Above, producer Tony Howes gives directions to Tonia Mahar, of Penrhos, and Peter Wilkes, of Guildford Grammar. More than 200 schoolchildren participated in a one-hour musical production for Channel 9 to c elebrate Easter on a direct local level in a television first. A s pad of its growing involvement with the Christian Television Association and an increasing awareness of a demand for the celebrations of religious festivals to be recognised, 9 produced this local special -- the first of its kind in Perth. In association with the CTA, the channel produces a Christmas special each year and expanded its involvement to incorporate an Easter programme. The special 'Easter In My Heart' will be screened (hiring this year's Easter festival on Good Friday at 3.00pm. 'Easter In My Heart' features musical production numbers ranging from 16th century traditional pieces to 20th century rock music. The special highlights the talents of the children,
Nine's local Easter special ranging in age from 10 to 16 years. Segments from the rock opera Godspell and traditional choir anthems and contemporary verse and readings are included. Russell Goodrick introduces the special assisted by two high school students Tonia Mahar from Pen' rhos and Peter Wilkes from Guildford Grammar.
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kish sects active ArchbiDUBLIN, (NC) shop Joseph Cunnane of T uam and five other C atholic bishops in the w est of Ireland have w arned families against cults and sects active in the area. In a joing pastoral letter read at Masses the bishops did not name any of the cults hut said some were non-Christian and others w ere non-Catholic. Y oung people are "not so much converted as taken over,- the bishops said.
Becomes dependent They said that once a person joins a cult he becomes v ery dependent on it. Some of the better-known cults c ould be a great danger to y oung minds, they said. "In their methods of recruitment and in the techniques by which they e xercise power over young minds, they are often manipulating and taking advantage of them," the bishops said. -The end can be a disturbed and disoriented mind.Bishop Flynn of Achonry, s aid that the bishops decided to issue the pastoral letter after hearing from parents worried over sons and daughters who joined cults and then discontinued studies and left home.
Small number "The number who have joined is quite small," Bishop Flynn said. "But it is very traumatic for parents to find sons and daughters alienated and totally separated from them." The Committee on Youth, Culture, Eduation and Sport of the European parliament is conducting an inquiry into cults in member countries of the E uropean Economic Community. The committee is particularly concerned about the activities of the Unification Church of the Rev Sun Myung Moon.
DUBLIN, (NC) — A maximum wage limit is necessary before workers can be asked seriously to accept wage restraints, said a Jesuit priest working in a low income area of Dublin. "Nobody is worth a salary of 20,000 pounds ( $27,800) a year, nor are they entitled to it while others are hungry, homeless or unemployed," said Jesuit Father Peter McVerry, a member of the Pedro Accupe Community doing pastoral work in a housing development in Ballymun on Dublin's north side. "Nobody is worth as little as 26 pounds ($36) per week, the present unemployment assistance, a totally inadequate income to live on," Father McVerry said at the Simon Community annual conference in Dublin. There are now two Irelands. The land of the comfortable and the land of the struggling, he said. SAN SALVO Italy: "We have to ask He appealed to the judiciary to resist "the ourselves sometimes if technologigrowing and unfair pressure for our courts to cal progress is a friend or an enemy become glorified refuse trucks taking away of man, of workers," said the pope to some 2,000 employees on a St those whom our system rejects. "Until an acceptable upper income limit can Joseph's Day visit to an automobile electronics factory near Italy's Adribe agreed, why should workers accept wage atic coast. restraints?" Father McVerry asked. K eeping up his three year old tradi"Why should those on welfare agree to tion to visit workers on the feast of shoulder some of the burden of our present the Patron of Workers the pope urged a solution to unemployment economic crisis?" c ome from the combined thrust of
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Disproportionate The Jesuit warned that as In contrast, he said, those long as incomes are in the land of the strugdecided by the free play of gling are unemployed or the market and the pres- have low-paying, insecure sures that can be exerted jobs and live in public on the market, appeals for housing projects. restraint by workers in The budget restraints asking for pay increases may require some of them to choose between heat would sound hollow. Such pressures on the and food, he said. market, he added, come from those who use their education, received largely Struggling at taxpayers' expense, to carve out for themselves a totally disproportionate Those in the land of the share of the country's struggling worry about wealth. electricity bills, about payThose who live in the land ing for new clothes for of the comfortable have t heir children, about well-paying, prestigious school tuition, about buyjobs and own homes in ing Christmas presents, exclusive area.s the priest Father McVerry said. said. "Some of them," he added, "even have to worry about where they are going to sleep tonight Harshest or what they are going to eat tomorrow. Following introduction "The recession means of the harshest national more of the same, only budget in the history of the worse." Republic of Ireland, they Father McVerry said he might have to choose would ask the judiciary to between a vacation abroad be the social conscience of and a new car, he added. society as well as its For them, the recession is protector. a mental concept, not a When a person is brought to court accused of a crime personal experience. Their experience of life in apparently linked to povthe other Ireland, he said, erty, unemployment. is limited to TV documen- homelessness, or drug taries, occasional maga- addiction, the judge zine articles, "and possibly should remind society of a brief glimpse from their its responsibility by releascar as they pass swiftly ing the accused to the care through. firmly grasping of the local government, he said. their handbags."
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CHICAGO (NC) — Donors has e gis en $230,000 to the Cardinal Bernardin chant's fund.
Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago established the fund after his appointment to the College of Cardinals was announced in January. Half of the fund is being sent to Pope
John Paul II for his worldwide charities. The other half is being given to charities in the Chicago archdiocese selected by the cardinal. Twelve grants totalling $47,800 were announced immediately to provide emergency aid to the poor, homeless, unemployed and handicapped.
public officials with all social forces. "Those who work in the industrial, social and economic fields, and all citizens," the pope said. Dressed in his white cassock, the pope shook hands with several hundred workers in blue overalls along a long and dusty generator a ssembly line, whi le other
employees chanted such greetings as "long live the worker -pope.Addressing workers in the company's large parking lot, the pope said he felt close to them because of his own days as a labourer in a Polish chemical plant during World War II. The pope participated also in a l abour -management confrontation meeting in which employee issues w ere discussed openly, sometimes heatedly. He then visited a nearby 3,000employee glass factory. There he donned a mask to protect himself from the heat of the furnace, which reaches a temperature of more than 2,000 degrees fahrenheit. T he pontiff had lunch in the company cafeteria with some 300 w orkers who had been chosen by lot t o eat with the pope.
PHOENIX, Ariz. (NC) — Bishop O'Brien of Phoenix has sent an open letter to Catholics i n the diocese who are alienated from the Church by m arriage -related problems, offering the "dedication and the generosity of many people. looking for possible solutions." The letter addressed Catholics involved in separation or in divorce and remarriage outside the Church This excludes them from full participation in the Church. It says they can start a reconciliation with the Church through a special diocesan programme, "sharing a hope for unity." Bishop O'Brien told his intended readers that he did not "hold out to you any prospect of instantaneous solutions to marriage problems. do not hold out to you any miraculous cure for previous marriage honds or serious impediments to marriage." But, he added, "I do hold out to you t he dedication and the generosity of many people who are willing to work with you in a sincere effort of looking for possible solutions."
Sharing hope -Sharing a Hope for Unity," the programme for which the letter is an invitation, was opened by Bishop O'Brien giving an explanation of the Church's concern for alienated Catholics. There is to be a follow-up programme with the participants, including individual visits, communal days of penance and seminars on marriage annulment.
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Served in FtikAP" and the Navy The Navy sub -lieutenant had been diffident about entering the wartime officers' bar at Cairns and his selfconsciousness increased when a quick look round confirmed the fact that he knew not a soul there.
Robert Andrew Hannah journalist, retired State civil servant, wartime lieutenant in the Royal Australian Navy and member of the Holy Family parish at Como — was born at North Perth on 15, 1912. He started his education at the Como State School and completed it at CBC Terrace which he attended from 1924-31. He did his cadetship on The Sunday Times and The Mirror, was later a graded journalist on both and still does some casual work for The Sunday Times. Not long before the outbreak of World War II he left newspapers to become first a State civil servant on a casual basis and later a permanent officer. His initial wartime service from 1941-46 was an aircrew trainee in the RAAF before he switched to the Navy in which he worked his way up from the lower deck to reach the rank of lieutenant.
In one spot a small gathering of R AAF officers was drinking respectfully with the senior among them who held the lofty rank of Group-Captain. The Navy "subbie" had decided to down his drink quickly and move on. when the Air Force "grouper" bore down upon him. "You've got a rotten memory," was the opening challenge from the man with wings on his breast. "I-I beg your pardon, Sir?" was the stammering and uncomprehending response from the very much out-ranked Navy person. "You once told me," the Air Force brass went on, "I was such a lazy so-and-so that I'd never make a good oarsman in a month of Sundays." Recollection and recognition struck Sub-Lieutenant Bob Hannah simultaneously. There was a quick disappearance of the obfuscation born of the elapsed years and the unusual setting of the encounter. "Good Lord - it's Red Green" was the colourful identification signal blurted out by the staggered sub-lieutenant. It was indeed Group-Captain (later Air Commodore) Redmond Green. The incident to which Green referred had occurred in 1932 when Bob, in his first year after having left school, was coaching the second rowing crew of CBC Terrace. His outburst had been a mark of his exasperation at the lack of response to the efforts he had made to draw out the rowing potential he had seen in the young oarsman.
Today's People A weekly feature By BOB BOYLE Redmond Green obviously had potential that was capitalised in other fields. He was among the select few chosen in his year to enter the RAAF Academy at Point Cook in Victoria and he went on to chalk up a distinguished career in the R AAF.
Rowing coach Rowing was one of Bob's strong sports at the Terrace. In those days, before eights were permanently introduced, the crews rowed in fours. The 1931 winning Head of the River crew in which he rowed also won the junior fours title at Bunbury and the fours race in open competition at another regatta. But the Head of the River win was a damn close-run thing, as the Duke of Wellington said in reference to the Battle of Waterloo. The CBC crew was stroked by Roly Brown (later a King's Cup oarsman) and behind him in the boat were Jock McLeod, Bob and Frank Parker.
Immediately after the start one of them (he shall remain nameless, but it wasn't Bob) "caught a crab" a disaster dreaded by oarsmen that sometimes results in the whole crew being tipped into the water. No such fate befell the 1931 crew, but to win as they did, they had to stop, start again, catch and pass the distant field. Bob was also in the CBC swimming team for years with backstroke as his main accomplishment. but he swam in freestyle events too. His first civil service posting on discharge from war service was w ith the State Housing Commission. His appointment as private secretary to a young honorary minister named David Brand in the McLarty-Watts government marked the start of a long and close working relationship with ministers from all political parties either as private secretary, or in his later role as second-in-charge of the Chief Secretary's Department. "They were all good fellows." he says, "I never struck a dud. There is not one of them still living whom I don't count as a personal friend." He has some stories to tell about them, but diplomaticaly requests that their names not always be mentioned in case relatives take offence. There was one minister, for example. who was a very big man. One day he asked Bob if he could get him a set of scales.
The efficient private secretary assured him that the request could be met easily. "You don't seem to understand," the honourable gentleman said. "Ordinary scales measure only up to 20 stone and I go a bit more than that." Again Bob reassured him about his ability to provide scales of the right sort, omitting to mention his assessment that his boss would indeed weigh well in excess of 20 stone. One phone call from Bob to a friend in the scale business produced a weighing machine capable of measuring up to 40 stone, on loan for six months. The private secretary's ability to produce at a moment's notice something that had been virtually unobtainable previously cast him high in the minister's esteem, a position from which he was not to slide. The minister, incidentally, bought the scales at the end of the six-month loan period. The late Charles Perkins was a W A Country Party Minister with whom Bob served and it irritates him to hear the other Charles Perkins, the Aboriginal activist who is also a Federal civil servant, claim that the Aborigines never got anything from the Country Party. "As Minister for Native Welfare," he says, "the WA Charles Perkins initiated a number of improvements that have been of real and lasting benefit to Aborigines. "He had a most balanced view of their difficulties and put into effect a policy of improving their lot step by step.
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Nuts and coffee are probably what comes most readily to mind when we think of Brazil, that sprawling giant of a country, bigger than Australia and New Zealand combined, which dominates the South American continent. Nuts and coffee are indeed plentiful in Brazil, but most Brazilians today are probably more preoccupied with the c ountry's economic woes.
BRAZIL'S IN DEEP TROUBLE
A farmer in Brazil's 111 i mproverished north-east scans the heavens for
a sign of rain. Thousands like him have had to abandon their homes because of drought and poverty and move to settle in shanty towns on the outskirts of the cities. ACR has used money donated in Project Compassion to support a training scheme in Recife f or the children of such migrant families.
A fter a boom period in the 70s, Brazil is now in deep trouble, with inflation nearing 100°'o, massive unemployment, and the biggest foreign debt in the world. For the ordinary Brazilian, this translates into very hard times indeed, and nowhere more so than in the country's northeast, where thirty million people live, the vast majority of them rural dwellers. Even during the boom times, the northeast was not very prosperous and there was always a trickle of people drifting to the city. The trickle has now become a f lood and the region's most urban c entre, Recife, has become a city of two million people, its population swollen by the dozens of shanty towns that have sprung up on its outskirts.
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"He would not introduce the next step until he was satisfied that the Aborigines had accepted and benefited from the preceding step. "It was a realistic and humane approach by a capable and compassionate minister." In the Chief Secretary's Department, where as administration officer Bob was second-in-charge of the department, he was called on to fill a number of roles. One that was interesting but had some distasteful aspects was his membership of the committee that formulated the Indecent Publications Act. "It was a sordid business in some respects," he recalls, "chiefly because of the disgusting pornography we had to wade through. It was sheer, unmitigated filth in the main, and it made drafting legislation difficult." He was the first secretary of the committee set up to establish the greyhound control legislation which was subjected to a stormy passage, especially in the Legislative Council, before it became law. He was secretary of the 12-man committee appointed to formulate the legislation on which the referendum on daylight saving was conducted. In this role he was asked some questions that displayed amazing ignorance, especially one from a member of parliament who inquired, in all seriousness, how it
was going to be possible to fit an additional hour into the day. A rewarding experience of his days in the Chief Secretary's Department was the opportunity to work with the late Colin Campbell who, as secretary of the department was his boss. Bob says: "He was also director of corrections, a job that was formerly called comptroller of prisons. He was a big man with a big heart — one of the most compassionate human beings it has been my honour to meet. "His keen interest in the welfare of prisoners was shown in measures he introduced such as the work-release system and the substantial contributions he made in his many years on the Parole Board. It was a fitting tribute to name the new remand centre at Canning Vale after him. "Strangely, when I said goodbye to him on my retirement before leaving on a trip to Europe I had a strong premonition that it would be the last time I would see him. Nevertheless I was shocked to receive in Rome a cable announcing his death." The passing of Shakespeare's allotted span of three score years and ten has not dimmed in the sprightly Bob his interest in his fellow human beings and his capacity to draw from memory episodes in the State's history in which he was directly involved.
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In one of the oldest of these, Dos Coelhos, a group of people got together some years ago to do something about conditions in their shanty t own. They selected unemployment as a target and established a job training centre. It aimed to train your people and find work for them, and by selling the articles made at the centre, to pay for the training of more young men and women. But there was a further aim. They called it -cultural development -. Its purpose was to help people to understand the causes of their problems, to see some of the possible solutions and to take the steps necessary to change the things that were making people poor. Armed with this training in addition to their technical skills, a high proportion of the Centre's graduates found jobs. Many were able to undertake positions of responsibility and leadership in their communities as well. The reputation of the Recife centre has now spread throughout Brazil and it has now been entrusted with the task of helping similar centres in other parts of the country to develop similar courses. Australian Catholic Relief, in conjunction with the Canadian Catholic development agency, has agreed to help the Recife Centre to carry out this important educational task for the next three years.
Overseas aid 'gets there' Talk to anyone about overseas aid and inevitably the question will arise, "But how do you know that the money gets to the people who really need it?" For many people, anxious to know what safeguards are taken to ensure that their money is well spent, this is the $64,000 question. So it's worthwhile explaining how ACR knows that the money it channels to poor communities actually gets there and is properly spent. It's important to remember that ACR is an official agency of the Australian Church. As such, it is part of an extensive network composed of similar bodies around the world. These organisations have various names. For simplicity, we'll just call them CDAs — Catholic Development Agencies. Normally, ACR does not act until it receives a request that is endorsed by a CDA. In emergency situations. requests for assistance are relayed around the world to official church organisations, includ-
ing ACR, by a co-ordinating body in Rome called Caritas Internationalis. When such a request is received. ACR can quickly transfer funds from its emergency fund to the stricken area, knowing that there is a responsible organisation - the CDA --- on the spot to ensure that the funds are administered efficiently and for the benefit of those in need. However, only a small proportion of ACR funds (13% in 1982) are used for emergency relief. The remainder is committed to long-term development programmes aimed at helping people to combat poverty. The basic procedure for the allocation of the development funds is similar to that used in emergencies, hut it takes a little longer. The initial request for funds must be fairly detailed and must be approved by the CDA in that country as being a worthwhile project. This applies even if the group submitting the request is not a church body.
The request is then considered by ACR's National Committee. If the request is approved, the money is then transferred overseas. A condition of approval is that the recipient of the grant must furnish regular reports on the progress of the project. Frequently, the project is evaluated by the local CDA. Increasingly in recent years. ACR has sought to establish "partnership" arrangements with Third World countries, whereby a certain sum is provided to the CDA of a country, or to a group of countries, to be allocated according to guidelines mutually agreed with ACR. This enables the country involved to develop its own priorities within the agreed guidelines. Such partnership arrangements exist with most Asian countries. with PNG and with some African countries. A partnership is also in the process of being set up among the countries of the Pacific.
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KNOW YOUR F AITH
PATHWAYS OF THE SPIRIT
Understanding the worldly place in our lives "The world." As I prepared to write this article, I pondered those two words in one of my favourite scripture passages: "God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten
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and teach in religious education programmes. They are music ministers, h ospital chaplains, liturgy coordinators, leaders of prayer groups, parish council members. U II of lay minisThe growth try has been accompanied by some concern, however, that a new form of "elitism" in the Church might result. But in my contacts I have noticed the opposite. The people I meet sccm to have an extraordinary consciousness of being rooted among the ixople. They want to preserve that. These lay ministers find it is their call to live in two worlds, so to speak: the world of family and secular communities, and the world of parish and diocese. They experience the stresses and strengths of the worldly places they live in — and their rninistry reflects this. Another concern is related to the burgeoning lay ministries. It is a queNtion about all the other
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Water rushes over Helmcuen Falls in Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. Just as the spring waters refresh and cleanse the mountainside, the waters in baptism cleanse us and bring the spirit of new life to individuals as they start a new relationship with God.
Israelites exile into Babylon The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the deportation of most Israelites into exile in Babylon in the sixth century BC, must have made it seem that the spirit of the Lordhad deserted His people. T he handful who remained in the former Kingdom of Judah were a sorry lot but those who fled to Egypt were much worse off. Still it was neither in Judah nor in Egypt that the "remnant" s poken of by the prophets was to be found. Y ahweh would prepare for Himself a new people in Babylon. It was here that He would form a new alliance with a nation chastened in the fires of disaster, heartbreak, suffering and repentance. The process naturally would take time and involve many factors. Who took part in the Babylonian captivity' and just what was their situation? "Captivity" has such a sinister ring to it; we are inclined to conjure
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By FATHER JOHN CASTELOT up pictures of concentraThe Israelites' arrival at tion camps and slave t I. ir destination must labour. have seemed almost a Weil, it was no picnic relief. For Babylon was fIr the Israelites, espe- far from unpleasant. cially at first, but we must uated between the great not let our imaginations Tigris and Euphrates run away with us. Rivers and well watered The exiles were, for the by an ingenious system of most part, the upper irrigatiIS canals, it was crust of Judaen society: for the most S. fresn intelligent, clever, sensi- and green and pretty. tive. To reach Babylon Unlike the native land they had to march some of the Israelites, all 1,200 miles under a blis- mountains and hills and tering sun, driven along valleys, Mesopotamia like immense herds of was uniformly flat but cattle. with a beauty all its own. After they had passed And Babylon itself! The along their Ninful way Israelites considered Jermany a skeleton lay usalem a wonder city', gaunt and bleak, mute with its temple and palatestimony to the rigours ces and handsome If the march and to the h omes. Alongside hungry efficiency of the Babylon it paled into ever circling vultures. gnificance. Babylon
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was a city into which the wealth of numerous conquered nations had poured. It was considered one ot the wonders of the world, with its massive walls and buildings of brick adorned with figures in glazed and tinted clay, its hanging gardens, its fountains and pools. The exiles were cultured men and women, with a taste for the finer things in life. They were deeply impressed by Babylon and their impressions were going to colour their lives, affect their attitudes and consequently play an important part in their destiny. Nonetheless the Israelites were captives and were not immediately invited to tea at the best
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housed in camps and put to work on the many projects which would make even more a . IBabylon - -m. 1 it already was. This was, of course, slave labour. However, little by little, the exiles were permitted to melt into the resident population, to find a place of their own in the vast social structure of the empire. Some Israelites started little farms but most apparently were attracted by the many opportunities offered in the city, especially in commercial enterprises. But were the Jews to become Babylonians purely and simply? What was to become of God's plan of salvation in which the Israelites were to play the major role?
Yes, worldly places also are hard places. Yet it is these dive fied, ambiguous places that God so loved and cIntinues to love. And 99 per cent of the people in the Church call these places home most I I the time. The work of Vatican Council II in enabling the Church's laity to appreciate their unique role in these worldly places as well as in the body of Christ should not be underestimated. The council took the phenomenon of the Christian lay person in the life of t he Church and the world as a point of departure. This council was the first to concern itself with lay people as such. It set in motion renewed po bilities for living the Christian vocation. The effect of this new d ynamism? Perhaps IIst drama tic is the I I increasing number of lay people preparing for designated church ministry by studying in diocesan ministry programmes, divinity schools or institutions of higher education. A ministry movement, one might say. Lay people who are part of this movement tend to be theologically educated, spiritually aware and competent. They. are giving themselves with enthusiasm to professional or volunteer ministry. These lay men and w omen are young, middle-aged and older persons; of different educational backgrounds and ethnic origins. They are ministering as pastoral marriage counsellors and even spiritual directors. They direct
lay persons — those not directly engaged nII These are the people whose vocation, as the Second Vatican Council S ut it, is to search for God's kingdom through their efforts to set the world's affairs in order. The question goes something like this: Are we helping workers and students, community leaders and decision makers to believe that they - in their ordinary worldly roles — can be a transforming presence in society? For making Christianity present in the home or the workplace is a genuine role for the laity. Lay people are being helped to understand their unique membership in the Church and in the world through lay movements like Cursillo, the Focolare and the Christian Family Movement. Scripture study groups anI life-sharing groups also support lay people. This is a kind of ministry tI one's peers. Lay people in designated lay ministry and lay people whose energies are primarily in worldly places are not in opposition. On the contrary, they have much to give each other. Alongside em and small-faithlacommunes. the emerging lay ministers can help their fellow laity recognise the Christian significance of their life in the secular arenas. And lay persons committed primarily to their families and professions and political communities can be a reminder to the ministers that the people of IS are the church in the world.
beginning Baptism is a special k ind of beginning. Though the sacrament is received at a definite time on a certain day, t he implications of what baptism asks of people continue to be discovered over the years that follow. One of those implications concerns the life and mission of lay people in the Church and t he world. Dolores Leckey remarks that V atican II was an important force in enabling the Church's laity to appreciate their que place in the body of Christ. S uzanne Elsesser writes about Carlos Pizarro, a lay person who serves on his parish baptism team. K atharine Bird reports what happens when an e cumenical couple bring their child to baptism, thereby initiating a commitment which they must 4.iWIdIt to tI e xpress later. Father John Castelot describes the Babylonian captivity of the Israelites in the sixth century B.C.
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My sister-in-law had a straightforward answer for why she had her baby baptised: "To welcome Jonathan into the family and church community." My brother added it was a way of initiating his son into the traditions of the Church. T he simple and impressive Sunday a fternoon ceremony took place at St Michael's Church in Silver Spring, Md. R aised a Baptist and married to a Catholic, my sister-in-law intends to raise their children as Catholics. Perhaps because of that decision, my sisteraw found the baptismal celebration very educational. The priest haI married the couple three years previously. For my sister-in-law, knowing the priest was a real advantage. It made the whole service seem more personal, she mid. The priest, aware that many guests were not Catholic, went out of his way to make everyone feel at home by carefully explaining what •he was doing at various points durinI: the baptism. For instance, he explained the baby wore white as a sign to the whole community of his new status as a baptised Christian. In the first centuries of the Church. the priest adde5. the newly baptised wore white for several days so the whole community could recognise them and welcome them. The priest also related that the lighted candle represented the light of Christ coming into the world, the light that
aptism and mixed marriage family • • BY KATHERINE BIRD illuminates the Christian way. My sister-in-law was happily surprised at what she found in the Church while making arrangements for the baptism She badly' wanted her sister to be Jonathan's godmother and she had worried that would be imII ssible because the sister is not a Catholic. However, according to Church regulations, a person of anther Christian community can serve as the Christian I I to a baptism as long as a Catholic serves as godparent. In the years to come as Jonathan grows up, I S ther and sister-in-lau intend to make sure Jonathan learns about the faith of the Catholic Church. They want him t o develop Christian values and discover for himself what it means to Ib . a part of a Christian commtinity. For, as many educators have observed, a baptism is only the beginning of a
long and interesting journey in belief. It is a journey where individual couples need to turn with confidence to their parish community to find support and help in transmitting religious values to their children.
And finding that support along the journey's way may be a crucial factor when couples, like my brother and his wife, belong to different religious traditions. Today, in the United States, this is a common phenomenon. Dr Richard Lawless, vicar of education for the
Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., quotes statistics which indicate at least 40 per cent of U.S. Catholic marriages involve two religious traditions. Lawless has a personal interest in the issue since he is married to a strongly committed Episcopalian. In a recent interview, Lawless explained how
he and fus lAtte, Lisette, are both involved in the religious education of their two children. now I 1 and 7. He gave some practical suggestions on how such couples can co-operate in this important task. He thinks the time for couples to begin is before the baptism of the first child.
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The importance of baptism and Lay leadership
"I feel very good w hen I go into s omeone's home because I was very well prepa red " to do this, Carlos Pizarro said as we talked about his participation in a Unique bap P11IFlilli [I IU 11111 tism programmeU1in New York's South Bronx. The programme prepared Pizarro and some Ither lay people from Our Lady of Victory Parish to become part of the parish baptism team. For a year they attended classes that reviewed the
Pete and Peggy Federico share the podium with Father Hugh Dougherty during a Marriage Encounter programme. The Second Vatican Council was highly influentialin encouraging the laity to appreciate their unique place in the Body of Christ. Lay people now are taking on more andmore leadership, roles in professional and volunteer ministries that were unheard of 20 years ago.
1 the face of the warmth I and enthusiasm for learning that students and people came to the centre faculty bring to the frS m their homes. Homes centre. located on city streets "I came here because I that have been compared want to learn," a new just to those of Germany after said as she World War II: desolate. registrant pproached a smiling a r ubble strewn and Sister Muriel Long. the burned out. The centre c entre's programme stands almost alone on coordinator. such a street. People climb the steps Another staff member. to the second floor of an Sister Nora Cunningham old parochial school spoke gently of the building. bringing a new Lord's caring to a circle vitality to the place. The of lay women and men scuffed wooden floors, who were being trained faded paint and un- to take on greater responwashed windows quickly sibility for the life and become unimportant in work of their parish.
By SUZANNE E. ELSESSER history and development of baptism, explained Iresent day regulations and coached them in interviewing techniques. The gxoup also learned about the rite of baptism. Pizarro's sigh when thinking back about the course revealed its rigorousness. The way he adjusted himself in the chair to sit a little taller and the excitement his d ark eyes showed betrayed the pride he felt in having cornpleted it successfully. Once trained, Pizarro and his co-workers took responsibility for the S reparation of parents who want their children baptised in the parish. They visit parents at home before baptisms and conduct three conferences on the significance and importance of S . ptism. After the ceremony, the baptism team follows up with another visit to the home. Asked to explain his involvement in the programme, Pizarro mid: the work lay people are supposed to IS It's very important because yIu have the opportunity tI talk to people you I In't know. People who IS come to the Church often." The course in which Pizarro participated has S een pared down now to 1 1 weeks. It is a regular S . rt of the many courses in Scripture and religious studies offered at the South Bronx Pastoral Centre, a 4-year-old centre for lay leadership formation and training. Helping lay people fulfil their baptismal responsibility- to become active Christians is the task the South Bronx Pastoral Centre has set for itself. I watched one night as
One's baptism, years ago, is more than a happy memory kept alive through old photographs. But what makes it more than a IIemory? When religious educators talk about this sacrament, they sometimes ask students to think back to the days of the early Church andconsider who was being baptised then. Without too much prompting, students recall that, of course, a wanted to be part of this great many &hilts were community of love and baptised then. As a new faith. Their choice community, Christianity implied that they were was baptising new adult making a special beginning in a new way of members. The exercise is not living. intended to denigrate the ,.1 beginning. It is often baptism of infants. But helpful frr students to reflection on the baptism about baMism as a Sf so many adults can think eginning. Otherwise have value. It may startle b they may tend to think of students into a fresh it as an isolated, though appreciation that the sach Sppy, moment in one's rament of baptism deals life. with a dynamic, ongoing wIy of living. The question is: What This then can lead into a kinS of hfe and mission discussion ofjust what it does baptism begin? Put is that baptism implies in another way, the questerms of a way of life. tion is: What does bapEducators may point out tism mean 10, 20 or 40 that adults in the early years after it is received' Church often chose to be hy is a baptism, baptised beCalISe they reflected on years lIIwere attracted by a com5 re than a happy pelling way of life and memory'
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Love and joy is all who ask When an intellectually handicapped child is born there are those who would ask: "Why fight for its life?" For Sister Maureen McCarthy, pastoral care worker with Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped, life has taught her there is a positive answer. With a sister who suffers from Downs Syndrome and a niece, who died last year, with spina bifida, she has learned that the handicapped "enable us to look beyond ourselves, to give more, to understand more and to grow. "It's the need in another that calls forth our own gifts, otherwise we could go through life with all these treasures bottled up inside." She doesn't shut her eyes to reality, she has seen and felt the suffering that accompanies care of the intellectually handicapped, but believes that for all that is lost there is a great deal to be gained. "I know when my little niece died the family was sitting around the bed and the conversation was really just gratitude for what she had done for the family," she said. "There's always the question of what value is the life of a handicapped person but I think part of the answer was there when the doctor asked about doing an autopsy and the family agreed, saying perhaps he could learn something from it. "His reply was that he had learned so much already just by being there that night and listening to them." It's all too easy to turn away from things we don't want to see and that's a common reaction with the handicapped, especially the intellectually handicapped. But a new scheme, introduced two years ago by the Catholic Care For Intellectually Handicapped Persons has gone a little way toward opening the eyes of some people and offering them a r evelation of learning and understanding. A two-week holiday is organised by CCIH for the profoundly intellectually handicapped, which with the help of volunteers, offers the parents of these children and young people at least some respite from the heavy workload of constant care.
"When my little niece died we sat around the bed and the conversation was about our gratitude for what she had done for us ...
week off work; the nurse who came down from the country for four days to help; and the young girls who took time out of the school holidays to lend a hand. "The wonder of Santa Maria was the depth of giving by the nonhandicapped," Sister Maureen said. "One young student cared for a 12 year old girl who couldn't walk and was still in nappies the kids were marvellous. "It's not just what the holiday is doing for the handicapped or their families but how much it helps those who volunteer their aid to grow. It has proved an outstanding success "It gets to the stage where you just in all ways, says Sister Maureen who don't see the handicap. organises the annual scheme. "The people you are working with are On both occasions, Sister Maureen so appreciative, you give all of yourself. says she was overwhelmed by the giving -They are so spontaneous in emotion and the depth of friendship that deve- that you can be the same, they really free loped between the handicapped and the you. volunteers who cared for them. "There is a terrific spirit of commun"Many people came to help because ity among the helpers. they don't have the problem themselves "We try to have a one-to-one rela-- they give a cry of thanks that their tionship between the helper and the children are normal," she said. handicapped so there is a chance for A phenomenal pooling of resources friendship to develop and we hope that paves the way for the annual holiday. friendship may continue when the holiSanta Maria School makes its board- day has ended. ing house facilities available; various "In very many cases helpers continue schools provide buses; financial aid to visit the people they have cared for." came last year from the Department of Few people understand the extent of Youth Sport and Recreation and the the difficulties in caring for the handiWearne Trust Fund - who gave S1200 capped . . . the regular administering of and $400 respectively. medicine: the eating habits which are It's a programme that takes three often repetitive and create trauma if not months to get off the ground in the adhered to; the physical difficulty of search for volunteers and donations. feeding a person with no muscle conBut the greatest gift of all is from trol; medical problems; bowel probI those who just want to help -- like the lems; incontinence; fits . . . the list goes woman who gave up two weeks of her on. annual leave; the young man who took a Some suffer from only a couple of problems — others have them all and most continue with them for their entire lives. For many parents, the care they give their child as a month-old baby is the care they must continue to give as a mature man or woman, and often with little respite. . There are day centres and occupational therapy for some. But, says Sister Maureen, even for these people, the school holidays can become a horror. And for those whose children need total care, there is even less time for rest, except perhaps for the two weeks of the Santa Maria programme. "Unfortunately some parents reach the stage of feeling: 'No-one can take care of my child as Ido.' They don't take advantage of the opportunity for a rest," Sister Maureen said. "It is very difficult for them. "The handicapped person becomes the focus of the family whether they want it or not. "Many families break up under the strain and brothers and sisters often react badly to the amount of attention the handicapped sibling is receiving. "Some do reach the stage of putting the child into care but that is not an eas‘ decision because their whole life has centred on the needs of one person. "Often if the handicapped person dies, they feel there is nothing left." Sister Maureen joined CCIH in 1980 on a part-time basis and is now working full-time out of a new office at what was Our Lady of Victories school at Mrs Betty Owens, of Scarborough at the centre with her son, Wembley. Graeme and Mrs Pat Doherty and daughter Julie, also of Scarborough. She works with Nancy Page, a fulltime family care worker, and their role blossomed in July with a 510,000 grant
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from the Mercy Sisters for a family care service. Her involvement began following a mothers' meeting where a need was expressed for a pastoral care person. "I'm here," she said, realising there was a need and she was one person who could meet it. "I'd taught in the country for many years and had just spent about four months in Sydney on a renewal course," she said. "It's our calling as Sisters of Mercy to respond to needs in the Church. The needs were there, and nothing specific had been done by the Church." The degree of Church involvement in this problem area is something which parents feel strongly about, says Sister Maureen. The CCIH, she says, was originally set up to help parents who wanted their children to be full members in the Church community, and to aid in their spiritual development but its role has extended far wider than that. "There is a general feeling among many parents that with calls of 'antiabortion' and 'right to life' must also come support. "If all children, no matter what their handicap, have the right to life, then the Church must do something about helping those who must care for and live with these children," she said. Her own family experiences have taught her of the complex emotions and feelings that surround the family of the handicapped.
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, Mrs Pat Mathews, of Subiaco, at the centre with her son, Kim "I know too, thinking of my own mother dying, there is often an anger in oneself that may be below the consciousness, although my sister contributed a great deal to all of us as a family. "Often, no matter how deep you think your faith is you still have to come to the realisation that each person's life is to be lived. "We want to lead a perfect life without suffering and when we do suffer we tend to feel very sorry for ourselves. "For many of the parents, it is the inability to do anything more than just care for their children. "In my experience Anne, my sister, was a very unifying factor. We always had someone to think of other than ourselves. "It can help greatly to give of one's self." While the majority of families grow from the experience, says Sister Maureen, some fall by the way, but all need as much help as they can get. The lead comes from the parents, if they are accepting of the situation the results can be positive. "The problems become even more intense as the parents get older and in many situations decisions have to be made which will be in the best interests of the handicapped and all other members of the family. "There is one family who only last year began placing their two teenage, handicapped children in the David Brand Centre at weekends so they could go out.
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Catholic Care goes as far as it can to help and is looking to extend that role in the future. There are at present around 300 families on Sister Maureen's list. Because the group is small an effort is made at each level. The Santa Maria holiday is an annual aid scheme for the profoundly handicapped; in May a week's holiday is held for school-age children who are only
moderately handicapped. In August, day activities are held within specific regions. "We did several day trips where we left from a designated spot so the people in that area could make use of it," Sister Maureen said. "The idea was to give parents a chance to take their other children out. It's vital for any parent with a handicapped child to examine their own needs and those of their spouse and other children." The CCIH also holds a bi-monthly mothers' meeting in the Institute at St John of God Hospital, Subiaco. "It's probably the most vital thing we do," Sister Maureen said. "We have a Mass, then a meeting and everyone brings something for lunch — in winter there's usually a big pot of soup." Another goal for Catholic Care is to make the community aware of the needs and encourage a response. It's an important factor given that the organisation will be looking for other benefactors come July when current funds run out. "Last year we had awareness programmes in four parishes," Sister Maureen said. "We looked at the dignity of the person, the needs of the family and the role the community could take." Catholic Care is looking at a new role for itself with a plan to establish a system of residential care. "It's a difficult area for many parents," Sister Maureen said. "It's hard for them to stand back and control their fear as they let their children find their own way as much as they can," she said. "For many parents moves toward independent living for the handicapped are filled with fears, doubts and questions. "They want the best for their children but often become over-protective. "In many families one member or another will rush to help and therefore often retard development of the handicapped child. "I know Idid that with Anne and now I think if we hadn't she would probably have been more able than she is." The fear of parents is very natural,
says Sister Maureen and this is why Catholic Care is moving very slowly into the area of residential care. A Federal Government grant of $104,000 has been made available and CC1H now has to raise $21,000 to get the project underway. "We're beginning with the easiest group, the moderately handicapped," she said. "The initial plan would be to accommodate five or six with the aim of training them and helping them to develop skills so they can be as independent as possible. "We're planning to use the 'core' and cluster model of housing where a certain stage can be reached at the 'core' house and then those who are able can move into the 'cluster' development. "The important thing is that no-one will be made to move if they don't want to or are not up to it," she said. The core and cluster model consists of a network of 'cluster' houses which are administratively linked to one 'core' house. Its major objective is to develop services in typical community settings which can meet the needs of individual handicapped people as these change over time. The cluster homes can be 'any home in any street' because the village concept of accommodation is no longer favoured. The model is based on two assumptions: • individuals can learn to be more independent, regardless of the severity of their handicap; • a service can be designed to meet individual rather than group needs. The essential function of the proposed residence will be to help members to develop to their fullest potential in all respects, including spiritual growth, social skills, work and daily living skills and maximum degree of independence and self confidence. Responsibility for all home duties will be left with the residents, as far as possible, with support and training as necessary from the voluntary and professional staff. Residents will be expected to be engaged in some form of active employment or training outside the home. Active friendly interaction between the residents and members of the supporting parish is regarded as essential.
Active involvement in local community affairs will be strongly encouraged. Residents will be assisted to develop towards greater self-sufficiency with a view to moving eventually into more independent accommodation, usually in the associated cluster homes to be developed. Residents will be free to choose to leave the home if they so wish and will be consulted on admission of new residents. A Christian atmosphere will be encouraged and integration with local parishes (Catholic and other) will be fostered, but no person will be excluded for religious reasons or required to participate in religious practices. This proposed residence is seen as the first of a number of 'core and cluster' facilities to be developed ultimately to cater for a wide range of degrees of intellectual handicap. The group is keen to get the proposal underway as soon as possible, and, says Sister Maureen a fund-raising committee has already been established and a number of areas for the residential facility have already been looked at. With changes happening all the time. Sister Maureen sees a new role developing for herself.
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"I began by visiting families but now my work has become more organisational," she said. With the move to the new office at Wembley there is much work to be done in painting, carpeting and furnishing the facility. "We really do need Church support for that work," Sister Maureen said, "we don't want to eat into our funds for the handicapped. "This office really gives us a base at last and 1 see it as an important facility for parent meetings, executive meetings, social functions and somewhere that people can come to see me. "There is also a possibility that Sister Joanne Whitehead may be doing some work from here. She is with Catholic Education and is looking to set up individual programmes for the intellectually handicapped. "I see this centre as being very vital." Sister Maureen may be contacted at the Mercy Comunity, 35 Connell \ Street, Wembley. Tel: 381 7426.
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[Youth Forum The Tertiary Young Christian Student Movement held its annual national meeting earlier this year. Representatives from each State met in Melbourne for the week long conference.
Food for thought at TYCS meeting
The theme was "Building student leadership for Justice" and was structured so that first we reviewed the student world, then the poor, then our faith and the Church and on this we began to build plans and a common vision for 1983.
In our analysis of the within the decision making with the oppressed, like receives job satisfaction by our lives enough — chalBY SUZETTE IRVINE. structures of the Institute. today's poor, we saw the seeing the job completed. lenge both to our awares tudent world we began by looking at and the first right we saw ous assessment and those The student guild is a need to challenge our atti- Our next session was on ness of God and of the s tudent identity and w as to a relevant w ho prefer terminal representative body and tude toward the poor at a prayer, conducted by p oor. Although the while vocal on issues con- personal level and as a Father Chris Dureau. Ile Church does have sections education. assessment. c ommunity and cerning students, many movement. talked about three levels of within it that have an f ound that for these Because we spend a lot of Other student rights are students do not under- It is vital to have a greater communication between option for the poor, this studying, importime it is to adequate teaching staff, to grow, one must stand the workings of awareness of the ider God and self and self as should grow to include the make efforts to get to tant that courses are rele- equipment and resource t he guild or the issues powers at work and to society and emphasised the whole Church in a more vant to general lives and material. An important know people on cam- interests as well as our varstand as a force on the side importance of relating per- personal way. right is the right of equal within. pus and join clubs ying abilities. opportunity which does We therefore see a need of those in need using our sonal experience of God to Parishes need to grow to a ssociated with the rhis means that courses not exist at the moment for the guilds to orientate education to serve them. society and vice versa. He become more of a supportive community for the tertiary institutes. should always be up to due to the inadequacies of themselves more towards people within it. As part of It is also important to get date and staff need to be t he TEAS and loans students rather than just the Church we, TYCS, saw to know the decision mak- aware of student interests, schemes which discrimi- issues. We also feel that as a need to become more ing and representative students also need to voca- nate against those without students we do not have adequate representation or involved and to help structures of the Institute. lise this. Courses should money. develop it as a community. Student rights was the continue to cater for both Students also have a basic influence on the decision TYCS is based on Joseph next section we looked at those who prefer continu- right of representation making bodies like the Senate and Council. Cardijn's Review of Life There are strong influences which is a method of analcoming from government sis that gives clarity to life and business as to what We saw two films during then led us through differ- situation. courses are run. the conference, one expos- ent prayer methods to help It is a way of life and a This helps orient courses ing the role of the 'multi- deepen our experience of way to include Christ in your life. This year we away from student inter- national company in God. oppression' and another Next we analysed the hope to grow in awareness ests. Neither do teaching staff on Ernst Schumacher's Church. Our main expe- of our faith and prayer to have adequate representa- theory of 'simple technol- rience of the Church is continue to be involved tion. It is important that ogy'. The latter is labour through the parish and, at with the poor and to be a they do because they are intensive and less energy school. We felt that the Christian representative the people who are linked expensive and the worker parish did not challenge for students on campus. closest with students. Christ promoted the ideal of people being in control of their own lives and this conflicts with the lack of student representation experienced. Another conflict between Christian values and the values operating in the student world is that of competition. We find it first in the The world is filled TAE, the great race to with the 'talkers' and enter tertiary education. It the 'doers' — at least, Clare Holberton, who worked for national YCS last year, being fare welled by also exists in quota sys- so some would say. • 1 .f the other two 1982 team members, Sister Liz Compton and Father Gerry tems which are used some- Mark Georke. a young times. but is largely created Gallagher. by the fight for jobs. This man who called at the works against 'students youth office last week is helping students' situation. probably a rare person ‘919 During the conference we he does both. visited Women's Refuges, I first met Mark on a RoilED TO Pregnancy Help centres, Choice weekend proDrop-In centres for Alco- gramme four years ago. With holics and Youth and an A contented accountant Offenders' Rehabilitation A in those days, he has since Fr. John Jegorow Centre. After visiting these discovered that for him agencies and talking to the there is more to life than administrators, it seemed pouring over ledgers and that many of these people accounts. heart, enthusiasm and a refuge. had been pushed to the W hile the centre is sense of responsibility and outer of society and ther- Mark embarked on a staffed- with permanent compassion. course in social work and people, it cannot operate There are no quick eby deemed powerless. Young people you are asked to be Our discussions revealed became involved in a without the dedicated sup- rewards in this work says part of a vision. To be part of that there were a variety of voluntary capacity with port of volunteers. Mark and anyone looking society's solutions not part of its contributing factors in the Catholic Care for Intel- Mark came to the Youth for personal gratification problems. Young people are asked lectually Handicapped office to talk to me and the should look elsewhere. It society. to give one day of their lives, by: *economic — in that group. Today he is near to full timers about the need will mean giving up a night many had no jobs and little the end of his studies, and for volunteers at the of television viewing or while he dreams of further- centre. money. going out on the town. It • cultural — those who ing his involvement with The sort of person Mark means arriving at the cenhave never experienced the intellectually handi- is looking for is someone tre at about 5 pm and stayalcoholism or an unwant- capped he has his feet on about 18 years and older ing over until the morning ed pregnancy, and there- the ground. They are with no special qualifica- shift arrives at 7 am. It's to the building of a new venture, fore do not understand planted at the Aniwim tions other than a generous not an all night vigil and OUR YOUTH CAMP such situations. are per- Centre. The centre has accommodation is providhaps unsympathetic recently seen a time of reed. Start the day with a prayer, go organisation. The small toward them. Youth groups can spend a band of without a meal and send one fifth of committed helpers • political -- while the lot of time talking about your pay packet — a day's wage to poor are a minority they dwindled and it seemed to what should be done to will not be a major concern be the old story of too few R egional Teams make this a better world. trying to do too much. C amp — Friday Mark is offering an for politicians. Please find enclosed cheque value being my contribution Not until the wider After a short time of re- March 25-27. opportunity for some indisociety becomes aware and thinking and planning the Details ring CPY viduals to discover how to the Day's Pay Appeal SEND DONATIONS TO: concerned will justice centre is once again in office 328 8136. this can be done. The expecome. operation. It is a home for Diocesan Christian rience promises to be rich Camp Site Secretary • religious -- while the Aboriginal women who Living Camp, Name Friday in rewards that money canChristian church as a have nowhere to go. It's a not buy. It's a chance to April 15-17. P0. Box 194 whole is concerned for the secure and more attractive serve in the fashion that Details Ring CPY Address poor, there should be more alternative to sleeping outJesus taught. North Perth 6006 education and social anal- doors. For some it is a near office 328 8136. Those interested should CPY Calendar Julia ring Mark on 328 7562 or ysis within it permanent home and for Telephone Post Code Because Christ mixed others it's a short stay Pickering. 339 3486.
Farewell to Clare
Defining a role in the student world
A chance for you to 'do' something ... it's good to be alive
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I go to music lessons Dear Captain Bob, I have not written to you every Thursday. My music teacher is Ruth. for a long time. 1 am in Grade 2 this year One day I hope to sing in and my teacher is Mrs the church choir when I have learnt more music. Lockey. Here is my joke: Knock knock. Who is there? Noni Noni who? "Did you know," said No need to open the Molly, "that Peter pro- door! posed to me on his bended Sarah Martin knees?" Bunbury "How old-fashioned and romantic it must have To Dear Captain Bob, been!" said Polly. My picture represents the "Not really," said Molly. start of Easter because if "His knees were bent Jesus hadn't been able to because I was sitting on his die on the cross we lap at the time." wouldn't be able to go to heaven and He couldn't Teacher: Accidents some- have risen from the dead. times lead to discoveries Do you like my Easter which can change the picture? I tried very hard. shape of things. Sorry I don't go in any Boy: That's what my Dad competitions it's just that I discovered when Mum hit live a long way away and a lamp post with his car by the time it gets there and changed the shape of you've already picked the that. winner, but I still try. I'm going to Melbourne Customer: I would like for Easter. Aren't I lucky? some bits for my dog, I have 4 cats, dogs, 3 2 please. horses and a piano but of Butcher: Certainly, course they're not all mine, madam. What bits are some. I share with the missing? family. Here is a joke I made up, What did the man do hope you like it. when he switched on the Knock knock lamp? Who's there He made light of it. Trees Trees who Why is the drum the most Trees are green. popular part of the band? Bye for now Because it takes a lot of beating. Elizabeth Pa%le , Dudinin. Bert: I come from a broken home. Gert: How did that happen? Bert: Just after Dad looked for a gas leak with a First prize in our Complete These Words weekly Ruth was told she couldgo into the fields andpick up any grains the workers missed. Ruth was very grateful. It was hard work, but she lighted match. puzzle has gone to Gemma hoped to find enough barley grains on the ground so she and Naomi could eat. In the evening Boaz came out from Bethlehem to look Why did Lady Godiva Ivey, of Rossmoyne. Gemover his field. "Who is that girl?" he asked his field supervisor. ride her horse as she did? ma's was the first, neatest, Because she had nothing correct entry received and we've sent her a book coursince morning with hardly "I've heard about you," else on at the time. tesy of William Collins. a moment's rest." Boaz told her. "I know Boaz went over to Ruth. how you have cared for What's the difference "You may stay here with y our mother-in-law, between the outside of a my women servants. Keep Naomi. I know how you juicy beef joint and a Ruth was a good woman. Everyone sensed any grain you find. Drink left your own family and doormat? water from the workers' homeland to stay with her One's the fat that goes Welcome to our new that. She also was very beautiful. Ruth knew jugs. No one will harm and help her. with the meat. The other's members: Joanne L'Aimayou.,, "May the Lord reward the mat that goes with the ble. of Carlisle; Joelle good times and bad times. L'Aimable, of Carlisle; you for what you have feet. Paul Morgan, of Swan done. May the God of She married young. Her go, I will go. Your people out from Bethlehem to View; Catherine Hughes, Israel, in whom you have comic: First I a got husband was a Jew, born will be my people. Your look over his field. "Who is Foreigner come to trust, reward Golden Wedding Anniver- of Greenwood; Debbie in Bethlehem. Ruth was a God will be my God. Only that girl?" he asked his field you." sary card from my wife last Sullivan, of Redcliffe; Moabite. They were happy death will ever separate me supervisor. "She is a for"May Glenda Lobo, of LangI prove worthy of week. together even though they from you." eigner, from Moab. She Ruth fell on her knees your kindness," Ruth ans- Second comic: But you've ford; Tonya Mutter, of did not share the same reli- The two women set out came back with Naomi. before Boaz. "Why should wered. "I would be only been married two Three Springs; David Fergion or nationality. together for Bethlehem. let her keep the grain we I. a foreigner, be so well honoured to be your years, not fifty! gusson, of Lesmurdie and But Ruth's happiness They had no money. miss. She's been working treated by you?" servant." First comic: She said she Colin Fergusson, of came to a sudden end. Her W hen they reached knew that, but it seemed Lesmurdie. husband died. She was left Bethlehem. people recoglike fifty to her. alone and very poor. Tears nised Naomi. This was her BIRTHDAYS filled her life. hometown. But they were Two critics were discussDespite her own pain and saddened to see how poor ing the work of a young Happy birthday to poverty Ruth reached out she was. They felt God was painter. t o her mother-in-law, angry with her. They left J eremy Coghlan, of "I must say," says one, R oleystone; Leanne Naomi. Naomi also was all her alone. "since he has adopted the Biglin, of Kondinin; Claire alone. Her husband had Ruth remained faithful to modern style of painting Baxter, of City Beach; died earlier and now her her friend. She knew his work has improved out Sharon Boys, of Medina; son Ruth's husband — Naomi was a good woman. of all recognition." Simon Rose, of Sorrento. was dead too. After a time, She also knew Noami was 48/111111111. word came that her only older and not as able to other son had died as well. work. So Ruth decided to Naomi loved Ruth. And go out into the fields to Ruth loved Naomi. They search for food. had lost everything else. It was the beginning of 1ou base got to he in the club elease print clearl and don't But they had each other. the harvest around Bethleif ()ti %ant to enter our forget sour date of birth and a hem. A relative of Naomi, competitions and %in some of stamp so e can send ,our 4 . 111111111111. a man named Boaz, owned the super prizes. membership form to a large field of barley, To join simpl:% send the Membership %ill allovk ou to Return ready to be harvested. By completed coupon here to The enter all our competitions. chance Ruth happened to Record Kid's club. PO Box ell. %hat are ou vkaiting 50. Aberdeen Street. Perth. for? "Ruth," Naomi said one go there. The workers said she could go behind them 6000. day. "I need to return to my own people. You ought and pick up any grains they to return to your mother's missed. house. You are young Ruth was very grateful. It enough to find another was hard work, but she husband. I am too old to hoped to find enough barmarry again. All I have to ley grains on the ground so Name offer you is a poor and she and Naomi could eat. lonely life." Ruth received no pay, but A ddress Naomi and Ruth hugged could keep whatever she each other. They cried out found. This was how many P, code loud. widows and poor people Ruth kissed Naomi and found food. Age Birthdate said firmly, "Wherever you In the evening Boaz came . . r —4
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He told the group the Second Vatican Council had called for a bigger role to be played by the laity in the Church and therefore the laity had to be given greater opportunity for formation and development. Bishop Quinn said the opening Mass with Father Evan Penberthy, diocesan Some of their members At the Bunbury diocesan CWL chaplain, and guests served on their Parish C WL conference Bishop were welcomed by the Councils, held weekly Quinn is pictured with Mount Barker branch prayer meetings and orga- Marnie Richardson, p resident Mrs Anne nised religious classes for June Taylor, Georgie Martin. children at State schools. Bruce -Smith (president), In the absence of the pres- One member had written Joan Joyce and Father ident, Mrs Anne Power, the history of her parish. Evan Penberthy. the conference was opened Most branches had taken by the vice president Mrs part in the Women's Georgie Bruce-Smith who World Day of Prayer and subsequently was elected had attended ecumenical Bunbury diocesan presi- functions. branch to support Pregdent. One branch had been nancy Help which now has Mrs Fay Jones and Mrs host for a meeting of the branches in Bunbury and Terry McGinty were A ustralasian Church in Albany where funds are elected secretary and Women's Fellowship. being sought to extend the treasurer respectively. Resolutions passed at the t elephone switching Branch reports included conference called for each equipment. activities that raised funds for the Carmelite Sisters, the Brothers of St Gerard, Pregnancy Help and the South West Family Life Centre. entering the Cistercian A DELAIDE: Bishop Members also ran funcorder at Tarrawarra, in Philip Kennedy, auxiliary tions and visited the V ictoria. bishop of Adelaide. died elderly and needy in their H e subsequently on Wednesday morning homes, helped with hospistudied at St Francis from a brain tumour tal visiting and meals on X avier seminary. c ondition that was wheels services as well as A delaide, and was diagnosed only a few ordained priest in 1962. assisting with the maintemonths ago. He was 52. When made bishop in Bishop Kennedy came nance and cleaning of their 1973 he was given the from a well-known Mount parish churches. title of the ancient Irish G ambier family and They catered for parish diocese of Roscrea now studied law at Adelaide functions, seminars, misthe site of a Cistercian University and was called sions and First Holy Commonastery. t o the Bar before munion breakfasts.
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