The Record Newspaper 31 March 1983

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The Tamils brought from India by the British last century are now denied Sri Lankan and Indian citizenship, and regarded with suspicion.

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Overseas aid programmes worth $ 6 million had been reduced by $500,000 because of devaluation, a ccording to Catholic relief organisers. The devaluation announced March 8 represented a further significant cut in Australia's overseas aid, they said. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, the national director of Australian Catholic Relief. Mr Michael Whiteley and t he executive secretary of the Australian Council of Churches' Division of devaluation may be of World Christian Action. benefit to Australia. Mr Ron O'Grady, called "However, if the recipon the new Australian ients of Australian aid in • government to ensure Third World countries are action would be taken to now to received less compensate for the reduc- because of this action, it tion in the real value of can accurately be said poor A ustralia's aid pro- people in countries much less well-off than Australia gramme. The letter said: "We are being asked to pay for accept that from an eco- the maintenance of our nomic point of view, the standard of living. "This would be unacceptable to any fair minded Australian.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has called on priests to make the 1983 Holy Year "a year of renewal in the priestly vocation." He has reminded them of their special role as "the teachers of God's truth about forgiveness and remission" of sins. In his annual letter to the world's clergy for Holy Thursday, the pope spoke

about the significance of the Holy Year of redemption. "The jubilee year is understood by the Church as a time for spiritual renewal for everyoae," Pope John

Paul said. "If we must be witnesses of this renewal for others, for our brothers and sisters in the Christian vocation, then we must be witnesses to it,

and spokesmen for it, to ourselves: the Holy Year of the redemption as a year of renewal in the priestly vocation." "During the jubilee year, may you succeed in being a special way the teachers of God's truth about forgiveness and remission, as this truth is constantly pra claimed by the Church," he wrote.

Gradual "Because of the gradual devaluation of the Australian dollar in the past 12 months, the value of our aid programmes. in terms of the goods and services provided to recipients. has been reduced by at least 20(7r.• Continued page 3

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A Timorese priest called on the support of Australian Christians in his people's 'search for freedom' at a meeting of protestants and Catholics concerned about the territory held at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Fitzroy. Father Francisco Fernandes. chaplain to Timorese and Portuguese in Perth since 1978, was a keynote speaker at the meeting called by Christians in Solidarity with East Timor, an interdenominational group formed last year in response to calls from the religious and clergy of that territory for support from the international Church. Father Fernandes spoke of the hardship and large death toll suffered by East Timorese since the Indonesian invasion in 1975. He also emphasised the sense of isolation which the Church in East Timor feels and its appeals for international support. "If this were a Church conference on Poland, the Philippines or El Salvador representatives would be here from the respective churches, he told the meeting. "But the Church in East Timor has been isolated, cut off from open and direct contact with its sister Churches l ike Australia." Father Fernandes said he wanted to counter claims that people in East Timor opposed to Indonesia's annexation of the territory are communists. "Over half the people of East Timor are Catholics," he said. He called on Australian Catholics not to "fall into the Indonesian-set trap of calling our people communist when they rise a gainst violence and inhuman treatment." H e also criticised attempts in Australia to undermine the credibility of the leader of the Church in East Timor, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopez. Father Fernandes said Monsignor da Costa Lopez had a history of aiding victims of violence going back over two decades. "In 1959, he protested to Portugal against arbitrary acts of violence against East Timorese by the colonial authorities," he said. "In 1975. he opposed the excesses of Fretilin and now he is speaking against the Indonesians." Another speaker, Mr Jim Dunn, said 1983 would be a vital year in the fortunes of East Timor because this year Indonesia might succeed in having the territory's a nnexation removed from discussion by the United Nations. Mr Dunn is a former Australian Consul General in East Timor and is presently head of the foreign affairs section of the

Parliamentary Library Service in Canberra. Mr Dunn claimed Australia had a responsibility to support East Timor's aspirations to freedom that went back to World War II. "Australia's responsibility began in the war when Australian troops entered the territory to mobilise the East Timorese against Japan," Mr Dunn said. "They helped us despite their neutrality as a possession of Portugal which was neutral in the w ar. "The East Timorese lost 70,000 dead at the hands of the Japanese because our security was at risk. Mr Dunn also claimed Australia had a responsibility to undo what was done in 1975 when the F ederal government "told the Indonesians the solution to East Timor lay in its integration into Indonesia." A fter the two addresses, meeting participants divided into four workshops to consider practical aid to the Church in East Timor, public education on the issue in Australia, political lobbying and human rights in the territory. Christians in Solidarity with East Timor has been established in response to appeals for solidarity made to the international Church by the Catholic Church in East Timor. These appeals cannot be allowed to go un-heeded l ike cries in the wilderness. Set up in Melbourne in November 1982, MET is inter-denominational and aims to promote the formation of similar groups throughout Australia and overseas.

"We really mean it when we say a full education cannot be deemed worthy of the title unless there is a religious content "Archbishop Goody said at recent blessing of additions and renovations to St. Michael's school, Bassendean. "We are so convinced that for the first hundred years or more we entirely built our own schools, even if only an enclosed verandah, in addition to our finer other schools,- he said.

Catholic efforts

Noting that there were seven school openings that either he or Bishop Healy had attended recently, the archbishop said the Catholic community was outlaying $2 million this Catholic education he said year. In the past five years. that the new breed of lay the Catholic community of teachers was exceeding all WA had contributed $20 hope and expectation. He million to education. cited the new principal of St These sums were in addition to the $12 million Michael's, Mr W.P. Mothbeing provided by govern- crway, as an example of ment funds, he said. those who had taken up "We are prepared to bear the educational baton. more than our share of the New buildings at Bassenburden" Archbishop dean provide an adminisGoody said. tration block. New For the flow of govern- classrooms were acquired ment funds over the past when the parish purchased 10 to 15 years the archbi- the former convent buildshop expressed the "deep ing and converted it to progratitude and acknowl- vide a pre-primary and The Newman parish priest, Father Jan Dekker with Sister Joan andSister Mary edgement" of the Catholic three classrooms. community. Rose at a supper after Sunday's Benediction. The cost of the project To the new State Minister was $250,000 of which The former principal of St Michael's school, BassenEducation, Mr Pearce. for $126,000 was funded by dean, Sister Joan Kelleher (left) pictured with the parish Archbishop Goody priest of Newman Father John Dekker MHM and Sister repeated his observation the government. The parish has undertaken a debt Mary Rose Beard. The two sisters, along with Sister made at Highgate two of $97,000 and the school for six months Newman Benign us are renting a house in weeks ago that the State board $27,000. and hope to get a demountable of their own to become a government interest sub- Mr Pearce said his 2 / % had been set government was commitplace where people can join,in their community prayer or sidy of 71 at a time when general ted to the right of choice by be put-up when in need. 1/2%, whereas parents in education, and The first task of the sisters is to get to know Newman's rates were 8 they were nearly double such a choice had to be backnational some 30 coming from 5000 residents that today. underpinned by governgrounds. Sister Rose is concentrating on hospital contact, Thanking the Sisters of ment funds. Benignus Sister families and Sister Joan is working with Mercy and other orders for He said he appreciated is engaged in children's religious education. t heir contribution to the rise in the cost of providing independent schooling. If such a rise continued, the right of choice could become theoretical rather than practical with only the rich able to afford it.

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Flourishing He said an indication of the flourishing independent school sector was that in his few weeks as minister he had been to three school functions, all of them for independent schools. It was refreshing to see the extent to which the parent body was involved in the total education effort such as at St Michael's, he said. Guest of honour at the opening was Sister Joan Kelleher, now at Newman, who was principal until last year. Citing her as the last of a long line of Sister of Mercy principals, the present principal, Mr Motherway, traced the sisters' 70 year history at Bassendean including the 1916 construction of the convent, now converted to a school. and the school rooms made out of converted verandah space of the former church until 1953.

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Julia's Donations reach a shot in the arm record $2 mil More than $2m was donated last year by Australian Catholics in the Project Compassion appeal — the first time since the appeal began in 1964 that donations have t opped the $ 2m mark.

O'seas aid shrinks

E mergency situations, such as developed in Poland and Lebanon, and disasters like the Tonga cyclone accounted for about 13 per cent of ACR funds. Approximately 9 per cent went to support Aboriginal development and a similar amount was provided to assist in activities aimed at creating an awareness in Australia of the nature and extent of world poverty. Less than 6 per cent was used to cover AC R's administrative costs.

• From page 1 Mr O'Grady and Mr Whiteley have requested

the new Government to ensure that both the official aid programme as well as that operated through non-government organisations be enabled to remain at its present level. They pointed out, by way of an example, their organisations had spent approximately S6m. on aid and development projects overseas. T The March 8 devaluation effectively reduced the value of this by $500,000.

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The national director, A ustralian Catholic By far the greatest pro- R elief, Mr Michael portion - - more than 60 Whitely. per cent was used to promote human development activities in Third World countries. Eighteen years' experience in the overseas aid field has led ACR to the conclusion that money alone - - even in large will never of St Thomas Aquinas year eight student, Julia English of Bedford receives her amounts innoculation to become the 1000th in the Public Health Department's rubella itself eliminate poverty. People are not poor immunisation campaign. because of a lack of wealth in their own country. Even in the poorest countries there are people who by any standards are rich — often spectacularly so. various moments of the meal Guildford parish turned out

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grapejuice. The Guildford parish priest Father Bryan Rosling, who is also director of St Charles' Vocational Hostel said the meal was a social event as w ell as a Holy Week preparation. It coincided with the Jewish Passover beginning Tuesday. Decorations included the Star of David and the seven branch candlestick. The Christian catechesis of the evening was achieved by the interspersing of prayer and the showing of a film. Father Rosling explained the

during which Jesus' events at the Last Supper would have occurred. He said the Guildford parishioners had been given an opportunity to see the derivation of the many prayers, hymns and psalms associated with the celebration of Jesus' death and Resurrection. They became more aware His death and rising was a true Passover, he said.

The idea for a seder meal came via one o f the parish f amilies whose children attend St Brigid's College, Lesmurdie where the religious education co-ordinator suggested families attend a seder meal. The parish council decided to make it a parish event.

Reasons For the most part, people are poor either: • because the social, economic or political arrangements in their country are such that they don't get a fair share of their country's wealth, or • because international trading arrangements are s lanted against poor countries. Sometimes both of these conditions apply.

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Paisley rebuffed

W ASHINGTON \C) The State Department has refused a request for a visa to enter the United States by the Rev. Ian Paisley, the militant protestant clergyman who represents a Northern Irish constituency in the British parliament. A spokesman for the ee Project (ompas- department said Mr Paison feature, page 7. ley's request for a visa was refused under a federal law permitting the exclusion of "aliens whose activities would be prejudicial to the public interest of the U.S."

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in force at sunset on Wednesday night for a Jewish Seder supper held at St Charles' Seminary as a catechetical preparation for the celebration of the Lord's Supper on Thursday night. Some 110 parishioners sat in a large table layout in the seminary common room for a banquet that included the traditional Passover elements of bitter herbs, unleavened bread, wine and grape-juice. A feature of the meal was the lamb that had been roasted on a spit during the day and which had come from the Caversham farm of Michael and Bertha Baldwin. Women of the parish prepared the table provisions and the men attended to supplies of wine and

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for today The Lord is Risen. The sounds go out to the corners of the earth and yet there are eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear. The Resurrection is the pinnacle of Christian faith because it is the final question asked not by us but by Jesus Himself: "Whom do men say that I am?" St Paul spoke for the handful of Christians that made up the Church in the early decades when the name 'Christian' did not have any currency as a statistic or a label. If Jesus was not risen from the dead, what was the point of their preaching or believing? If at times they were not sure of the answer, they had to come up with a determined answer as wave after wave of persecution threatened them with the death and degradation that had taken place in the life of their Lord. Why die and suffer for a Lord who was as dead as they would be shortly?

We are the evidence Easter is a true test of faith because before the heart can shout an exultant Allelu, there has to be a bit of soul searching, an agonising Why at the foot of the Cross. Easter is uncomfortable because we would like to have the four days holiday without the tedium of asking: Why, Lord? Christmas is a gentle feast. Who would quarrel with God's presence in a new-born babe? But who would not be scandalised by the sight of Jesus on the cross? The Christian has to stand at the entrance to the tomb on Easter Sunday and profess to the world that Jesus is truly risen. It is a chilly experience if we have to rely on the evidence: a fem. hundred words hurriedly scribbled by first century writers sometime after the event. Perhaps a burial shroud is still with us. The proof of the Resurrection boils down to faith in another person's word. Were those handful of Apostles and disciples deluded? Was Mar. Magdalene having visions? In 1983 it is no different. The proof of the Resurrection is in the utterances of those who believe, in their words and actions. Each Christian becomes a living testimony that Jesus has risen but we may not be over-impressed at times with what we see of ourselves in the mirror.

One time parish priest of tralia in 1966 and did Joondanna Father Nly les teacher training at ClareLynch OSM came back to mont College before comSt Denis' church last week mencing at Servite College for a re-union jubilee that of which he later became included Father ( jam principal. He has also N1ackle OSM, the current served as parish priest of Wanneroo. vicar provincial. Three other Servites who had studied with them at Benburb Priory, Country Ordained Tyrone, Ireland were present at the Mass during Father Myles Lynch was which the jubilarians made ordained in Chicago and a re-commitment of their came to Australia in 1966 priesthood in the presence to teach Latin and library of Archbishop Goody. method at Servite College. Father Mackie, a staff He was in charge of local member of Servite Col- Service trainees for a lege, is the third priest to be period and has been parish ordained from the North- priest at Joondanna and at ern Ireland foundation t he Servite parish of made after the war. Kingsbury in Melbourne Following two years in where he is now chaplain Chicago he came to Aus- to Latrobe University.

Children's Court wants more proof television SAN SALVADOR, (NC) A Salvadoran appeals court ruled that more evidence is needed before the setting of a trial date for five e x -members of the National Guard accused of the murders of four U.S. churchwomen missionaries.

The ruling returned the case to the lower court which had indicted the five men and ordered them last November to stand trial. No trial date was set, however, as defense lawyers appealed the decision. Judge Luis Alfonso Melara, who

issued the appeals court decision, said that enough evidence existed to warrant the murder charge but that the lower court had not presented "important evidence" that c ould lead to other charges, such as rape and robbery.

ST. PA t 1., Minn. (NC) — Throwing away or locking up TV sets to keep children from watching objectionable programmes is an unrealistic approach to promoting Christian v alues in television. a ccording to Father Joseph Felker. "That would put television in the category of forbidden fruit and kids will do anything to find out what is there," he said. Father Felker is involved in revising a study guide on Christian values and TV for students, a project of from Mary Urquhart, Dalkeith .441 0,••• the U.S. Catholic Conference implemented by the Every Mass is an Easter. We receive Catholic Communications Christ's body and blood in the sacrifice of the ; Send us a letter and have your say in The Record. ; Campaign. Rather than rejecting all Mass commemorating. His supreme sacri- ; You can write on any subject you want: government; ; decisions and policy, problems in your neighbour-; t elevision programmes fice on the cross on Good Friday. They have yet to bear ; hood, television . . . anything that affects your life. ; which show violence or The world of today wears its so-called Chris- promote materialism, the Easter is a time for sad- Do this in commemora- ; Post your letter to Today's Mail, The Record, PO Box; • Perth Aberdeen Street. 6000. • tian label uncomfortably because it does not study guide encourages ness and a time for tion of Me, He told them. ;50, A friendly, informal, inti- • Preference will be given to short concise letters. ; want to talk about things like dying and rising young people to give TV "a gladness. *****•-•••••••••*dribOOOOOOOO *Is *It again, even if it was just one Man. good critique." said Father It is sad because we re-live mate atmosphere would • the events of that first have prevailed. (How difFelker, reliof director Not knowing where to turn in embarrassment. Good Friday, with all its ferent from today's celethe media will do their tired old trek around the gious education for the physical torment and bration of the Eucharist.) Paularchdiocese St. of churches. Were they full this year? Were the anguish. the likes of which For 1950 years, now, pricrowds down or up'' Has the story finally dried Minneapolis. no other human being has ests have been doing this in Sister Innes said that the up? Are the funny Christians who go to the guide's commemoration of Him. structure enables ever endured. funny buildings finally , losing their nerve? students to make compari- The world's first Mass Imagine how many Masses that must be. Somewhere a solitary churchman will get ten sons such as, "This is what was the Last Supper. seconds on television, maybe Pope John Paul I see on TV, and this is On Holy Thursday Christ It is the Mass that matfrom J Wallace, Victoria Park w hat I hold as a gathered his friends, His ters. Christ could not have blessing those emotional Italians who insist on Sir, more. left us disciples, the around filling St Peter's Square for all sort of odd occa- Christian." A distressing amount of confusion has arisen through She added that parents supper table and showed In its unique simplicity, it too much emphasis on one aspect and not enough sions. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury will on them how to change ordi- is the physical link left for should themselves involve get a few moments of quotations. There will be others in the state aid issue. us between bread into and Christ wine nary when He their children's viewing. The school funding policy of the National Catholic shots of the pilgrims walking Jesus' steps inChildren walked this earth and when should not be His body and blood, Education Commission issued in November 1982 (and He will come again. through Jerusalem. watching TV in isolation. endorsed by the bishops' committee for education) Out in the real world there are the millions she said. states quite clearly ... "All children have a right to share who once knew Christ and have lost touch with "I think that's dangerequitably in the public expenditure on education" (guidHim. There are the hopeless millions who are ous. There needs to he Beginning ing principles B9) ... "The commission maintains that sick of the materialistic treadmill of life and some journeying together while the present financial arrangements between the death without and answer. Like an enormous t hrough this cultural Commonwealth and the individual States (and TerritoEaster is an material." ending and a cloud hovering over Australia are the vast Asian ries) continue, it is the responsibility of both the Combeginning. Family discussions of the masses who have never heard the name of Jesus monwealth and each State (or Territory) to provide a Good Friday marked the good and bad parts of probasic grant for recurrent schooling costs for every Auslet alone that He died and rose for them. grams can help children be from L.M. Lake, Wembley end of Christ's 33 years of tralian child" (general recurrent grants C19) ... The Church is born from the dying side of "more discriminating spirit of Christian human life — 33 remarkaWe Catholics must stand by the principle of an equal Christ because on Easter it gets new heart. His later," said Father Felker. c The onsideration for one's ble years of eating, meeting base grant for every Australian child if we are to retain blood surges in the veins of every Christian over "They learn to ask ques- neighbour is sadly lacking and mixing with ordinary credibility. whom the Easter baptismal waters have ever tions instead of just soak- among the multitude of people like us — teaching Compromise because "it won't affect us" is despicable ing in what they see and amateur incendiarists who and working miracles. flowed. His voice is heard. and most unCHRISTlike. Such hypocrisy can only earn plague suburbia. On Easter Sunday, Christ scorn ... saying, "Well, that's the as well as inviting other repercussions we can It is high time lighting fires rose from the dead, the victorat way things are," he said. in Hallelu-Yahweh. The Son is seated well do without. backyards was banned by ious and glor . Father Felker, Sister law and the law strictly Father's right hand. He became our Redeemer. lnnes and Beaubien agreed enforced. A new beginning for manthe guide alone cannot Directly one opens the • • kind was catalysed. windows viewing • change of the house television to let in 26 John Street. Perth WA 6000 • Christ the man was gone • habits, but they saw it as a the cool late-afternoon air • Correspondence • after a hot day, thwarted but His priceless, princely The Editor The Record. PO Box 50 • start. • • Aberdeen Street Perth 6000 arsonists in the neighbourhood gifts of hope and purpose Said all "We • Beaubien, OPTOMETR ISTS Advertising start that compel the He had left behind. 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at any SANTA ROSA, Calif the rectory hour," the bishop said. priests Chinese (NC) — "By 1951 he was pubdisagree about whether licly denounced as a 's been bet- landowner, the parish it would ha'e ter to set up a Church- site measuring slightl . m-exile after the corn- under two acres. "Then public Mass munist takemer of LANSING, (NC) — ing before a senate corn- participating in the act mittee, Sister Mansour itself or in willingly and China or to remain and was restricted to the Mercy Sister Agnes s aid she personally approvingly providing suffer with the people, feast of the Assumption M ary Mansour's opposes abortion but that assistance for the act to be as many priests did, and Christmas. He continued private Masses a ppointment as she also thinks as long as performed. Bishop Mark J. Hurley in homes. abortion is legal it would "Material co-operation of Santa Rosa said. director of the Michi- be unfair to permit it only consists in providing indi"It was control, then Bishop Hurley visited r estrict and finally desgan Department of for women who can afford rect or remote assistance China recently and had troy," Bishop Hur1c . for the act to be performed Social Services has it. sinterviews with four said. "We can't live in society but with total rejection and Chinese priests, three of "Father Chew had to been confirmed by without tolerating some disapproval of the act whom spent more than attend daily lectures on the Michigan senate. evil," she said. itself. 20 years each in commu- Marxism and was then grave sufficiently some be tolto "For has "There The religious sister nist gaols there, and one ordered to teach Marxhad been told by Arch- erance toward it as we reasons, a person may tolof whom has lived in exile ism in the school and to move toward correcting erate material c o bishop Edmund C. for about 30 years. award a red scarf to operation as long as his it." "Father Aloysius Chew, children who passed the Szoka of Detroit to "I respect the fact the own intention is correct a pseudonym, spent resign because she archbishop does not agree and the assistance he protests. over 20 years in cornh ad not opposed with me, and I also respect vides is indirect, not proxi"The apostolic interBishop gaols." munist nuncio to China, Archgovernment funding that he is acting in accord mate, not essential." the Hurley said, bishop Riberi. before of abortion, handled with his conscience," she addendum added. WASHINGTON (NC) -- New regulations to pre"He said the Catholic into exile, had suggoing Mercy of that Sisters out her The pointing said, her by department. vent hospitals from denying food and medical Church in China was advised priests not to A rchbishop Szoka determ ination not to gested because Sister Mantreatment to handicapped newborn infants will be unprepared for the Red assist at the red scarf cause issued, the Reagan administration has announced. said he had "waited resign is her conscientious sour does not persecution and it ceremony and Father abortion to occur and decision. Hospitals receiving federal funds would have to patiently" since her would have been better Chew followed that "I can only say freedom simply administers funds, post notices in delivery units and pediatric and had the priests fled the advice, appointment in Dec- of conscience is well within she is acting correctly intensive care nurseries stating "discriminatory country and formed a ember for her to Catholic tradition." failure to feed and care for handicapped infants in under Catholic teaching in church-in-exile as the this facility is prohibited by federal law. "declare her active Her statements were the holding the position. About 6,800 hospitals would be affected. English did at Douai. said to MediSzoka opposition first public comments she Archbishop The notices also would encourage use of a new France, during the personal a consince have he the not did had made Confiscation for caid payments viola2 4 -hour, toll-free hotline to report possible times of Henry VIII Sister with argument arose. troversy abortion" but that she tions. and Elizabeth." Mansour. Last April, President Reagan directed the departhad offered no such "Promptly he was Father Chew said too personal no is "There ments of Justice and Health and Human Services declaration even after many priests were lost arrested, the school Compatibility to apply to the newborn the civil rights regulations antagonism between us." t wo meetings with t o prisons and execu- closed, confiscated and protecting the handicapped. In May HHS warned he said. "And, it is not a turned into a Marxist tions. him. hospitals they could lose federal funds if they man-woman issue. assisted in any efforts to "withhold treatment or Born of an old Catho- study centre and exhiHe called "for her resig- "Religion and politics are "It is not a question of my nourishment discriminatorily." lie family. Father Chew bition hall.- Bishop nation from that office distinct but they are trying to flaunt authority. The warning held the hospitals responsible for remained at his parish Hurley said. without delay." shouldn't We compatible. "It is a question of my the conduct of physicians and medical staff. "Denounced as an after the communist The archdiocese had no let the legitimate separa- absolute duty to stand for The regulations followed the death of a six -day running 'imperialist takeover. vote. the on comment State and Church of tion . April the last defend and child protect and old handicapped "Almost immediately dog.' he was confined to At a confirmation hear- be confused with the legiti- doctrine of the Church plainclothes agents took a cell eight by three and mate participation of which has to do with to monitoring all his a half feet in the count ,. Church people within pub- human life. to entering gaol for four -months.sermons, lie life." she added. "That must be under"The priest was taken The Sisters of Mercy are stood." to a larger gaol and backing her and saying brainwashed in an W ASHINGTON (NC) — they did not agree with the to persuade attempt she that view archbishop's The Catholic Church in the him to join the governshould resign. United States had 5,886 ment sponsored Patrio"We believe it is within permanent deacons as of tic Catholic Church of realm archbishop's he t last October. 711 more and repudiate alleauthority and responsibilthan there were in 1981 and UNITED NATIONS (NC) — Amnesty International has reported giance to the pope. ity to respond to situations 1,230 more than in 1980, of pastoral concern in his that it knows of nearly 200 people whom the Soviet government Three years later, after had forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitals for political rea- 65 appearances before according to statistics diocese. since 1975 and that the actual total is probably higher. judges, he was sentcompiled b, the Bishops' "We also agree the sons Amnesty International said it had learned of 193 new cases authority to take further since 1975, when it published a report on Soviet political enced to death. Commitee for the Permanaction rests with the pro- prisoners which described the abuse of psychiatry and urged and But the sentence was ent Diaconate. suspended and, months vincial administrative end to it. of However, the number was commuted to later, were there 1975 and 1969 between that of Sisters noted the report of The team candidates for the diac M ercy province of some 120 known cases, bringing the present reported total to life imprisonment. onate decreased slightly in In 1978, when Chinese more than 300 forced confinements. Detroit," the nuns said. 1982. following a trend Among those confined for months or years, and sometimes communist leader Mao that began in 1980. punished by the use of powerful drugs, were people who were Tse-tung died. Father have 100 or more deacons. diaconate. open to married There were 2,349 candi- Thirty deacons serve as and single men, was themselves seized for calling attention to the same treatment of Chew's sentence was Morality dates in 1982. compared to administrators of parishes granted by Pope Paul VI others, said the worldwide human rights organisation. to eight years These cases, however, were only those which Amnesty Inter- reduced 2,352 in 1981.2.514in 1980 or missions and 12 are for the Roman Rite in and several months ago and 2.261 in 1979, the sta- among the heads of the 134 1967, after the Second Vat- The archdiocese has put national had been able to study in detail. They did not include people confined before 1969, even if they he was released. tistic s showed. training pro- ican Council had called out its statement on the were still in confinement while the reports were being made diaconal A report on the statistical grammes in the United for such ministers to carry situation: information will be pub- States. on the work of the "It is morally wrong for lished in the spring issue of anyone to give formal coChurch. candiaconal 2,349 the publication Diaconal Of the of the per- operation in procuring Restoration didates. 202 came from a manent diaconate in the abortions. Quarterly. Most deacons are aged 41 lay ministry programme, United States was "Traditional Catholic to 60 (almost 70 percent); 45 had once been members approved by the Vatican in moral theology has always married (94 percent) and of a religious institute. 1 12 1 968. made a distinction for the nineteen Capuchin seminarians — white (82 percent, or had been seminarians, and In 1971, the Bishops' between formal and mateminor received had postulants. novices and professed brothers — 4,816), the statistics reveal. six Committee for the Per- rial co-operation in an evil There are 749 Hispanic orders. manent Diaconate issued act," the addendum said. learning about and living in fraternity. deacons (13 percent), 260 Authorisatiori for resto- guidelines for training and "Formal co-operation black deacons (4 percent) ration of the permanent ministry of deacons. consists in deliberately and 62 (1 percent of some o ther racial -ethnic background. Six deacons are age 81 or who are interested in living the Gospel Life older. rather than resort to war," in the spirit of St Francis of Assisi teaching on the spirituality WASHINGTON (NC) — Seventy percent of the Sister Mullay said. "In his of human progress, Sister Pope John Paul II "does not candidates for the diacoto write for information about our fraternity. most recent World Day of Mullay noted that the pope preach 'peace at any price' nate also are aged 41-60. points Message, he Peace warfare, a would be modern not has called because that There are 22 deacons who to the lesson of history whether nuclear or not, true peace," said a Dominihave been ordained for the that, even when dialogue "totally unacceptable as a can nun who is a political Byzantine. Maronite or failed and war broke out, it fr. Darren O'Rourke. ofm.Cap. means of settling differen scientist. was necessary after the Melkite Rites, all Eastern ces between nations." "Peace is worth any price National Vocation Director devastation to seek diaBut she pointed out also if it is true peace, but this Rites. St Francis' Friary logue over the rights that that he has said "peoples peace can never be achievThe Archdiocese of ChiCatherine Street the in 94 contested first were duty a even and right a have or unjust untruthful by ed cago has more deacons, place. to protect their existence Capuchin means," said Dominican Leichhardt, N.S.W. 2040 430, than any other U.S. and freedom by proportionSister Camilla Mullay, diocese or archdiocese. Pope John Paul "desires ate means against an former professor of politiof The Archdioces disarmament, but not unjust agressor." cal science at Ohio DominiTHE CAPUCHIN FRIARS OF AUSTRALIA Newark and Hartfor, t•ive The pope always "pleads unqualifiedly," Sister Mutcan College. 237 and 213. respeL.,, I . lay said. for negotiation for peace Speaking on the pope's and another dozen sees The Record, March 31 — April 6, 1983 5

Regulations on denial of food

Increase in U.S. deacons

Drops in number enrolled

Political prisoners in mental homes

WE ASK YOUR PRAYERS

Seeking 'true peace'

AND WE INVITE YOUNG MEN

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The young Harry Wells was grateful to have f ound employment in the Bunbury draper's shop in 1916, but there were some aspects of the job that had little appeal for him.

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Rosary parish at Nedlands and formerly prominent in the Knights of the Southern Cross, was born in Perth on May 19, 1902. He began his education at the Convent of Mercy at Midland Junction in 1908, and in 1913 transferred to St Joseph's Convent at Bunbury where his father had been sent to take charge of the WAGR locomotive running sheds. He got his first job in 1916 with Bunbury draper and mercer J.A. Boor (father of Rhodes Scholar, Alaric Pindar Boor killed in World War I). His move in the same year to the Bunbury shop of Ezywalkin marked the start of a 29-year

career in footwear retailing during which he managed stores in various parts of the state for Ezywalkin, Cecil Bros and Betts and Betts. From 1945 to 1979 he bought various types of rundown businesses, worked them into a profitable operation and sold them. In 1928 he married Mary Agnes Quelch. Their three living children are Desmond John (manager of Whit fords Shopping Centre); A nnette (wife of John Lazberger); and Michael James (manager of Baileys Sports). Their eldest child Kevin Joseph, a member of the permanent Army, died in 1962 at the age of 33.

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Bunbury shops in those days remained open until 9 o'clock on Saturday nights and that was the deadline for the weekly payments for customers who were paying off goods they were purchasing from the store at which Harry worked. On Sunday the boss would go through the books closely to discover who had defaulted on the weekly payment -- and sometimes the amount were very small indeed.

First thing on Monday morning the boss would hand Harry a list, tell him to get on his bike to do the rounds to collect every penny, and if every last due was not forthcoming, all hell would break loose when he got back to the shop. An early taste of the boss's ire frightened the youngster into carrying out his instructions to the letter, and to do this he sometimes had to go to extraordinary lengths. He would knock on the door, for instance, of a house whose occupants owed the boss money and the only response from within would be dead silence. He would sit on the verandah, rising again only to knock on the door at irregular intervals. Those inside the dwelling would tire of the procedure before he did. and ultimately somebody would appear and make grudging payment. This and other aspects of the job depressed him, but one day the messenger boys' bush telegraph tapped out some words of hope. The lad at the Ezywalkin shoe store, it was rumoured. was leaving to join the railways. Ham was round to the footwear shop like a shot — and he got the job. It was a line of retailing he took to from the start, and through whose ranks he was destined to rise rapidly, possibly because of advice he had received from an elderly 4 gent for whom he used to do odd jobs before and after school when he was still at the convent. "If you ever get into the selling game." the sage elder had counselled, "build up customer numbers around yourself, not the store for which you work." Thus from the very beginning, SI Harry applied the maxim that the customer is always right, and it paid dividends through a long merAz chandising career. The first pair of shoes that he sold —a fou in the Bunbury store of Ezywalkin was to the man who had given him the advice, and the gentleman insisted in his later purchases at the shop that only Harry serve him. tht The importance of friendly courPe/ tesy. product knowledge. caring stor attention to each customer's wishes Str and absolute honesty were lessons toe he learnt early and the practice of which, he says, ensured that he was never out of a job even in the worst recr days of the Depression. the From 1921 he worked for Ezywaland kin in Perth before being made exix manager of the Narrogin store in 1924. Similar appointments in Northam and Collie followed until he Art‘c; resigned from Ezywalkin to become manager of the Betts and Betts branch of Cecil Bros in Hay Street, Perth. His next move was to manage the new Cecil Bros branch on the corner of Hay and William Streets in the city, a position he retained until he left footwear retailing in 1945. He quotes an episode that occurred at this store in 1932 to

Today's People A weekly feature By BOB BOYLE illustrate how tough times were during the Depression. He was dressing a window there one day when he noticed a shabbylooking man gating in. Harry went t o lunch and when he returned the man still had his nose pressed to the window. The store manager's curiosity got the better of him and he asked the fellow what had claimed his long attention in the window. "Those shoes," was the reply. "if only I had enough money to buy a pair." Enough money was four shillings and sixpence. Convinced that the man was genuine and not putting on an act. Harry invited him into the shop. He explained that the admired shoes were not of high quality and would wear out before long. He sat the chap down and made t wo discoveries. Cardboard had been inserted to replace the leather on the man's worn footwear - -- and he had no socks. Harry instructed assistant Eric Jowett to fit the fellow with a new pair of good shoes costing eleven shillings and ninepence and sent a boy round to the Walsh store to buy a pair of socks for one shilling and sixpence. The unemployed man was almost speechless with gratitude. "That's all right," said Harry, "all I want you to do is to say every night 'God bless the man who gave me these shoes." and the beneficiary promised that he would. A fter having left the store the fellow was gazing down with such rapt attention at his new shoes that he would have been skittled by a tram if it had not been for the warning yell from Harry and Eric who were watching him from the door of the shop. Shortly afterwards the chap got a job in the North-West. Every time he came to Perth he bought shoes from Harry, and he influenced his mates from the North to do the same. In his time Harry has also been something of an ecclesiastical footwear provider. He presented to Archbishop Prendiville the patent-leather pumps which he wore during the ceremony of his consecration as an archbishop. On the shoes were buckles plated with gold taken from a nugget with which the archbishop had been presented during a visit to Kalgoorlie. Harry provided the Cathedral

in good stead

Australian Catholic Relief has hospitals and health units — 55 of announced a grant of $20,000 t hem Catholic — to have a regular towards the establishment of a supply of essential drugs, along drug distribution centre in the with basic medical and surgical West African country of Ghana. e quipment. The centre will be administered by the Health Department of the Patients are treated in these health National Catholic Secretariat and centres regardless of religious will enable Ghana's 73 Church affil iation.

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health system Harry Wells . . steps up ladder of success were no mean feat.

altar boys with the shoes with wooden pegs in the heels that they wore instead of steel pegs to avoid marking the mosaic floor of the sanctuary. He was the go-between. too, in an unsuccessful attempt to arrange a meeting between Archbishop Prendiville and Dr Steinberg who was attempting to found a Jewish settlement in the Kimberleys. a project that was torpedoed by the outbreak of World War II. The former quality of workmanship in Australian-made shoes is rarely seen now, he believes. Today it is embodied in the footwear produced in Italy, Spain and France -- which are also getting most of Australia's good leathers. He laments, too, the almost-total passing of the old-time shop assistant. "A good salesman then," he says. "would never ask a customer what size shoe he took. "He would look at the customer's feet, go to the rack and bring back pairs of the correct size. "You should always be able to walk out of a shop in a new pair of shoes without having to take them home to break them in gradually. "In all sorts of shops. not only shoe stores, the customer now does not get the attention that he's entitled to.

"Assistants seem to ignore the fact that if it were not for customers, they would not have jobs. "I feel that lack of training in the home in common courtes , good manners and consideration for others is largely to blame. "Another factor is that young people today, who make up a substantial proportion of shop assistants. expect too much out of life too early and their increasing reliance on the Government to provide everything is robbing them of initiative. "We had to go and find jobs, for instance, and not wait for them to be served up to us on a plate. "There are still a few exceptions to these observations of mine, but unfortunately they are all too rare. "Another facet of today's life that worries me is the widespread reluctance to do a full day's work for a full day's pay. This is sheer dishonesty. "If your employer pays you, say. $10 for an hour's work, and you do only half-an-hour you are. in effect, robbing him of $5." Younger people, fortunate now to have jobs. who wish to emulate Harry and other old-timers like him have, as it were, big shoes to fill.

Expulsions from Chile

SANTIAGO (Chile) — "Police visit the parishes, pray for 200 people The government wanted to asking questions that sow arrested in downtown Sanclose a Catholic soup kit- doubts and fears among tiago during an antichen and was reading pol- humble people," said Car- government protest itical motives into church dinal Silva's letter read in march. "We are watched because activities Cardinal Silva all parishes. said the day before three "At the bottom of this, we we give people confidence priests including an Aus- see that the church's acti- they need to organize tralian Columban were vism is misunderstood," it themselves," said the 33year-old Father McGilliordered to leave here. added. cuddy. The government said the "It is thought that feeding The three missionaries priests, who run a soup kit- those who have no job or have been helping people chen in a poor section of organizing those who have organise soup kitchens and Santiago. were engaged in no place to live is done for o-operatives. c activities "contrary to pub- political reasons." Since the government of lic order". One of the deported pri- General Augusto Pinochet It said the missionaries, ests Father McGillicuddy came to power in a bloody "taking refuge in their pri- said the police were upset coup in September 1973. estly investitures. sought with the three missionaries the Catholic Church has to ruin the (political) cli- because last December been highly critical of its mate in the country". they organised a Mass to human rights record

FOR the Kampuchean emergency, a group of mainly European Catholic agencies grouped together into a confederation called CIDSE. A n experienced development worker was sent to K ampuchea to assess, in conjunction with government officials, the immediate and long term needs of the c ountry. In response to a detailed documentation of needs, CIDSE purchased the materials required and shipped them to Kampuchea, where they were used to equip hospitals and schools, to boost food production and to reconstruct essential industries. The proper distribution and use of the materials were supervised b the CIDSE development worker, who is still in Phnom Penh. CIDSE representatives, including personnel from A CR, have visited Kampuchea on several occasions to inspect the projects funded by CIDSE.

Ghana's health system is appallingl!, poor and is chronically short of drugs and equipment. Bishop Owushu, Chairman of the Church's Health Department, said in a letter accompanying the application to ACR "it is hard to get across...what this shortage really means. "People waiting for surgical operations have first to try to procure gauze and cotton wool before they can be operated on." Ancilla Fox, the Health Sister Department's executive secretary, calls it "a frightening situation". "It is very common nowadays," she says. "to be stopped in the street and handed a piece of paper, a prescription. "Relatives are given prescriptions by doctors to find essential drugs for their sick family members. "Some of them travel the length and breadth of Ghana only to be told that there are none of the prescribed drugs available." The total cost of the project will run into several million dollars. The drugs required include aspirin, iron tablets, worm tablets and antimalarial drugs. Ghana's health problems have been increased lately by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers expelled from Nigeria. They were given two weeks to leave Nigeria. and although most of them have now arrived into their home areas in Ghana, it is expected the increase in population will put a hard further strain on Ghana's pressed health system.

Miserable conditions The people who harvest the tea in Sri Lanka, work in miserable conditions and are paid extremely poorly. As well, the multinational tea companies (who buy the tea and sell it to places like Australia) are able to arrange things so that tea prices are kept low. Sri Lanka, as a country, therefore gets a poor return for her tea and there is little money available for essential social and industrial development, which might ease the poverty of the tea workers. The country, like many others, is in a poverty trap from which it is very difficult to escape. Poverty can only be eliminated if these unjust situations changed, and the only people who can change them are those affected by them. That is why sending money to aid the poor will only be effective if it enables them to work towards changing the conditions that are making them poor. And this is what ACR concentrates on. In 1982, for example, this has meant: • supporting an organisation in Sri Lanka which aims to improve living and working conditions in teagrowing areas. • financing a programme in the Philippines to help agricultural workers

understand the economic realities that create poverty in their lives. • assisting the residents' committee in a Hong Kong housing estate to negotiate with government officials for better housing conditions. It would be easier for ACR. and perhaps more satisfying for those who donate the money, to see it spent on programmes that bring immediate relief to the poor. That of course is done in cases of extreme urgency. But poverty that is merely relieved today will have to be relieved again tomorrow, and such a practice, if prolonged, actually perpetuates poverty and makes poor people into beggars, forever dependent on handouts. ACR believes that its supporters' money is best spent on helping poor people to an understanding of the causes of their poverty and then enabling them to change the injustice that creates it.

What does a cup of tea really cost? — Fetching the day's water supply on a Sri Lankan tea estate. Australian Catholic Relief has provided support for activities aimed at helping the racially distinct Tamil people to integrate more closely with the Sinhalese population in the tea growing areas. The Tamils were brought from India by the British in the last century to provide cheap labour on the estates. Their descendants today are permitted neither Sir lankan nor Indian citizenship and are regarded with suspicion by the indigenous Sri Lankarts. The tea workers are still poorly paid. and their living and working conditions are substandard. Yet they produce most of the tea consumed in Australia.

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KNOW Y OUR FAITH

The resurrection

"And if Christ was not raised, your faith is worthless. You are stillin your sins, and those who have fallen asleep in Christ are the deadest of the dead." (I Corinthians 15:18) St. Paul wrote those words to certain ChrisBy FATHER JOHN CASTELOT tians in Corinth who were denying this resurrection of the body. Ena- If the resurrection of the dead, the first fruits of of his resurrection that we have been saved from moured of sophisticated body was an actual fact in those who have fallen sin and made right with Greek philosophy, they Jesus' case, how can asleep." God. that such a anyone say fruits of the first Just as had no difficulty accepting the immortality of the total transformation is the harvest are of the That is why Paul can either impossible or same nature as the rest of soul. say: "And if Christ is not undesirable? harvest and an assuthe But the body? Who raised, your faith is needs it'? It is only a pri- "Tell me, if Christ is rance that the rest will worthless. You are still in son of the soul, from preached as risen from follow, so our resurrec- your sins." Again he puts which death will be an the dead, how is it that tion will be of the same it quite succinctly when some of you say there is nature as that of Jesus. escape. he reters to "the Jesus However, it would be a who was handed over to That may have been no resurrection of the resuris no If there dead? mistake to limit the effect death for our sins and good Greek philosophy but it was bad Christian rection of the dead. of Christ's resurrection raised up for our justifitheology. The Christian Christ himself has not just to our own resurrec- cation". (Romans 4:25) tion from the dead. His hope of resurrection is been raised." not based on a philosoIn fact, the resurrection resurrecton is a dynamic That also is why Paul phical system which of Jesus is the model and power at work in our could pray as follows: "I could go out of style pattern and pledge of our daily lives. wish to know Christ and tomorrow, but on a fact, own total transformaThis life-giving spirit the power flowing from the fact of the resurrec- tion. "But as it is, Christ imparts life to us con- his resurrection." (Philiption of Jesus. is now raised from the stantly. It is by the power pians 3:10)

"Through baptism into his death we were buried with him so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live a new life." (Romans 6:4) It would be difficult to find a more striking expression of what God has done for us in and through Christ Jesus than these words from Ephesians: "But God is rich in mercy. Because of his great love for us he brought us to life with Christ when we were dead in sin . . . Both with and in Christ Jesus he raised us up and gave us a place in the heavens." At Easter we celebrate his resurrection and our own!

Church built on blood of martyrs Jogues were killed in North America by the Iroquois Indians. At the same time dozens of Christian Iroquois were killed by their relatives who understood their conversion to ChrisSeveral centuries later St. Augustine observed: "If Stephen had not prayed the church would not have gained Paul." Stephen's martyrdom prepared the way for P aul's conversion. According to tradition, Paul witnessed Stephen's ordeal. In the early church, the Greek word for martyr simply meant "witness". However, so many early Christians were killed for

pleted and Christianity had become the dominant religion of North America, martyrdom in the traditional sense no longer occurred. This year, however, the word "martyr" was heard again in connection with t he canonisation of Father Maximilian Kolbe. Pope John Paul II called Father Kolbe the "martyr of love of Auschwitz". At Auschwitz, Father Kolbe asked to die in place of another prisoner, the father of a family. The Nazi guard accepted the priest's offer and the 10 men were placed in a bunker and

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The church has returned to the ancient practice of baptising its converts during the Easter vigil. A t Easter we are now given the great gift of seeing people baptised into a new life in Christ.

Tradition of the past

There is an old saying: "The church is built upon the blood of martyrs."

Most people think of Easter week in part of the martyrs as those who suf- church. fered and died for their St. Stephen was a very faith. The martyrs, then, early martyr of the are identified in a special church. He was stoned to way with the suffering, death after preaching in death and resurrection of public about Christ as the Jesus. Messiah. And many centnries Not until the sixth cenago, it is said that a spe- tury were the names of cial feast of all the mar- martyrs first gathered tyrs was kept during together by the church. 8 The Record, March 31 — April 6, 1983

Even then, the veneration of saints was generally informal and spontaneous. Martyrdom was not limited to the first centuries of the church. In the 17th century a number of J esuits, including Fathers Jean de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Gam ier and Isaac

their belief that the word "martyr" came to refer to those put to death for their faith. Soon those put to death because of their faith came to be venerated as "martyrs". Their bones were preserved and respected as sacred relics. During the early days of the church, Mass often was celebrated in secret in the catacombs over the graves of the Christian martyrs of Rome. There the church literally was built on the tombs of the martyrs. A tradition soon developed in which each altar of a new church contained a relic of a martyr. In this way, the martyrs continued to form the foundation of the church. tianity as a traitorous act against the Iroquois nation. Although those deaths must be understood as part of a larger conflict between the English and the French for dominance in the New World, there is no question that the martyrs also were killed for their direct witness to Christ. After the conquest of the New World was corn-

left to starve to death. After two weeks, Father Kolbe was given a lethal injection. He died August 14, 1941. In contrast with the earliest Christian martyrs who died directly because of their preaching about Christ, Father Kolbe died carrying out the words of Christ: "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13) In his remarks at the saint's canonisation, Pope John Paul II asked: "Does not such a death possess a particular and penetrating eloquence for our age? Does not this death constitute a particularly authentic witness of the church in the modern world?" The pope's interpretation of martyrdom as the simple gift of life for another person means that many people today may be living a hidden martyr's vocation. In a society where the word martyr often is used in a negative way, it is inspiring to think that the t raditional Christian vocation to martyrdom continues to function.

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The couple's new baby was baptised during a Mass recently. felt. And when that welcome is expressed at the time of baptism, the N'earing their 40s, the couple were obviously elated over their first Christian community shows something about the kind of church it is: a compassionate community that welcomes people warmly. daughter. Their older children were already teenagers. The couple are well known in their parish where many people Ithink of that at the time of Easter when, in many parishes, had looked forward to the birth of this new baby. Now the parish baptisms of adults, as well as of children, take place. Baptisms was joining the couplefor the baptism, wekoming the childinto the during the Easter Vigil always seem to draw a true sense of welcome Christian community. is a time of celebration — from the community. For the Easter The priest — recognising the significance of the moment for and people seem disposed to express the church's welcome to the teaching — carefully explained the meaning of each step of the newly baptised. baptism rite. One of my own children was baptised during the Easter VigiL My .4 nd when the rite was completed, the congregation applauded. family will never forget the sense of welcome our child was given .4fter Mass, it took a long time before the couple and their children then. And the Easter Vigil will never be quite the same for our could get out of the church. So many people wanted to greet them family; it will always be a special anniversary. and, of course, to see the baby. From almost the beginning of the church, Easter has been a time The couple couldn't help but feel that their new child had truly for baptisms. any people don't think of it that way, especially if been welcomed into a community. "Lie/corned." That's the key word here. The new child was they don't often get to the Easter Vigil. But it is true. .4nd this association with baptism makes Easter a time when the welcomed. Vow, one can't be welcomed in the abstract. A welcome is church as a welcoming community — a hospitable community — something that needs to be expressed in such a way that it can be tends to come into clear focus.

Time to get ready The year 2000 is approaching and Pope John Paul II has been telling people over and over to get ready for it. In fact, he has suggested a way for Christians to get ready — a way some observers might find curious.

"reconciliation". For the pope, the words "redemption" and "reconciliation" are rich, multidimensional terms, so closely related that you By DAVID GIBSON can hardly have one without the other. And, by pondering the season of (the church's) ity — like so many basic need people have for realities — it is difficult to history". The pope wants people living "the ordinary herreconciliation, the pope Isn't redemption the put into words. to prepare for a new mil- itage of the church's life seems to suggest, a fuller The pope offers some understanding of what theme of Lent and Easter lennium by spending . . . in an extraordinary afterward? here, actually. When and the days help way". some time pondering the the word "redemption" Again and again when It seems as if the pope has he speaks about the holy means might unfold. meaning of the redempttaken Easter's theme and year, he tends to link its Pope John Paul II talks ion. asked people to focus on t heme of redemption Recently. Pope John or writes about the holy The redemption? Does Paul II said: "Reconciliayear, he takes the oppor- it with special intensity with another theme that that mean he thinks the means a lot to him: tion is simply the during the year ahead. tunity to look ahead to world is going to end by redemption that the the year 2000 and people Easter is a time for reflecting on the diverse Father has offered to had better be ready? ways people find God in their own experience. Candles burn at the prison cell of St. Maximilian Kolbe in the former Nazi every human being in the of line No. But it is pretty clear long of a Maximilian is one Man) find God in their own experience of concentration camp in Auschwitz. St. death and resurrection of from a number of his ! Christian martyrs who died for their faith. In the 1982 canonisation of the his Son." death and life. writings that he takes this , saint, Pope John Paul /I asked, -Does not this death constitute a particularly "Easter tells a human story ...In little ways The kind of reconciliaw hole matter very it tells itself in each human life,- says a workauthentic witness of the church in the modern world?" tion the pope has in mind seriously. .;.book titled "Celebrating Liturgy -, published includes the sacrament of A good time for people 114,..iturgv Training Publications in the Archreconciliation pent o ponder the redemption diOese ot Chicago. ance. But it also includes be right now, the would taster is linked with all kinds of stories the reconciling action of pope thinks. So, not long about slasers and delis erance, about life and Christians who promote ago, the pope surprised death. Its sy mbolism has roots in the Old justice, work for peace nearly everyone by Testament and the Passover, which remember and try to unify divided announcing plans for a and mars el at the escape of the Israelites from people. special Holy Year of the their long captivity in Egypt. Like redemption, reconRedemption. Passover in turn has roots in the springtime Easter is a festival locatedprecisely at the cenciliation reaches into the From March 25. 1983 festis als of farmers and shepherds. "Celebrattre of church life. And at the centre of church lives of Christian people until Easter 1984, Pope ing Liturgs- reminds us. For the ancient life is the celebration of the Eucharist, recalled and these people change; says he John Paul II Hebrews dose!), identified with nature. They in a special way in the days around Easter. Just the change ought to hopes that "a great work understood that the end of winter led to the as in bread the many grains from the harvest become a force for the of catechesis on the promise of new life. And that the loving hand become one loaf, so with the church. The many good of the world. redemption" will be carof God can be found at work in these people of the church are one, unified; they care For the pope, this kind ried out. happenings. for each other, bear responsibility for each of thinking does not just The pope thinks of this other, support each other. r epresent a casual holy year as a time for thought that he decided to pass along to the whole world. It is more like a philosophy, or a theolgoy. to him; the kind of thinking around which much other thinking revolves. "Personal conversion to God is at the same time the best path to a lasting renewal of society," he writes. "For in every act of true reconciliation w ith God through To symbolise their belief that this new life of repentance there is intrinple were quartering chickens for a dinner for the the risen Christ was available to all who believed sically present the social poor. I went to them, explained the situation By in him, they baptised new converts during the offered to serve as her sponsors as she dimension, side by side and they FATHER DAVID K. O'ROURKE Easter liturgy. with the personal one." investigated becoming a Catholic. Today the church has returned to the ancient Redemption and reconThe six of us then went into the church and, practice of baptising its converts during the ciliation. Those are the eternal life." using the new rite, enrolled her as a catechumen. Easter Vigil. To illustrate the great power that Easter realities the pope I'm sure my jaw dropped, but whenIregained Then we all went back to the kitchen and cooked this promise of new life can have I want to tell hopes people will focus up a marvellous lunch to celebrate. my composure I asked her to come inside. you a true story. It is about the first person I on during this holy year. Firmly instructed in the need to be a worshipHer story, which sounds sadly familiar today, baptised according to the renewed rite, a young The holy year, he says, is ping member of a Catholic community Joan spoke of family turmoil and great personal pain. woman I shall call Joan. an opportunity in "this went back to her tent in the redwoods. She But she was getting on top of things now. She One Saturday through the window Inoticed a returned faithfully for each of the public stages last part of the second had read of Christ in the New Testament and young woman walking slowly in front of the millennium . . . to give in the Rite of Initiation. believed what she read. presbytery; she turned to look at the door and I baptised her during the Easter Vigil, her ourselves ever more fully Then she produced several well-worn pamthen walked on, out of my view. parish sponsors beaming at her side. She stayed to the church, to give phlets on the Catholic Church, which said that A moment later she reappeared, walking for the Easter morning Masses and then said she fresh courage to priests, in the church she could take part in sacraments slowly in the other direction, again looking at was going back north. I never saw her again. to encourage the faithful that would lea lead.,to eternal life. She wanted that. the door. She was young and frail, wearing a The early church, so we are told, was comOur parish had been studying the church's and, like Jesus at the long granny dress and wrapped in a knitted posed of many people like Joan. They were life's renewed Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, beginning of his ministry, shawl. victims for whom the promise of eternal life was but I realised that our preparations had stable 'to preach good news to Her dress, though not ironed, was freshly a hope lighting up the dark. At Easter we are middle-class Americans in mind. the poor . . . to proclaim washed. She was neat and her hair well-combed. now given the great gift of seeing people, some How was I to respond to this special young release to captives and Although she looked poor, she was obviously like Joan and some like our neighbours, being woman. whose faith and hope had somehow recovery of sight to the dressed up. baptised into a new life in Christ. surmounted her fear? She belonged nowhere blind, to set at liberty I went out to her. "Are you looking for someIt is a great gift indeed. For now we. like the and fitted into no system. those who are oppressed, thing?" She seemed flustered at first, looked first Christians, can be living witnesses as other We talked for the rest of the morning. At that to proclaim the acceptadown, and then looked right at me with a somemen and women begin to share in the life of the same time. in the parish kitchen, our council ble year of the Lord." what fearful smile on her face. "I'm looking for risen Christ. president and his wife along with another cou(Luke 4) the year 2000. He will say: A "new millennium o f redemption" is approaching — a "new

But how can that be done? The word "redemption" refers to a reality so basic to Christian-

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The first Christians were believers in a risen Christ above all else. The conviction that their friend Jesus, the Lord and Messiah, had been raised from the dead was the heart of their faith.

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Bright colourful touch Perth's blind There's a sign on Ray Hall's desk which says: "God, there is nothing that wi l l happen today that You and I can't handle together." T he words have been prophetic, she says, in all of her 16 years at the Braille Nursing Home, V ictoria Park. S he has been matron for the past seven years and has had a bal l, she grins, making the place f eel like home for the residents. R ay Hall's touch has brought lots of bright colours and pictures on the walls. "If it's a bright environment, then people feel bright," she said. "And only 10 per cent of them are totally blind — the others can see something." She knows her way off by heart around the large complex which is run by the Association For The Blind and she knows the names of most of the people she passes, stall and residents alike. There's a friendly word and a cheery smile, a touch on the shoulder and a kind enquiry for those who face the difficulties of old age with the added handicap of blindness. Her aim has been to make it as home-like as possible there's a bird, a cat and a dog. The latter is a retired guide dog, who goes by the name of Lerma and pretty well has the run of the place. There's a delightful sun-room which overlooks the garden and is equipped with a bar which has become a social hub. There are rooms where basketwork, beadwork and a lot of talking is done, a pottery room and woodwork centre. The association also provides a physiotherapist five mornings a week, a podiatrist two days a week, and hairdresser three days a week. "Anything a blind person needs, we can organise," Ray said. The nursing home caters for legally blind people and their sighted partners and services the needs of around 2,800 people in the community who had a severe sight disability.

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the Braille Nursing Home was established primarily for aged care, holiday relief and postoperative care. There are 84 residents in the nursing home and 80 in lodge and hostel accommodation. "We also have a day centre where people come in from the community," Ray said. "We get around 2,000 attendances a month." It's important, she says, to remember that the people are normal just without sight. "We're a very happy lot and we've got a tremendous staff. We try to make it a family and we encourage relatives to be part of the caring plan. "We do have 'floaters' and crisiscare but most come in and in a very short time they've made it their home. One person came her in 1953 and is still here." she said.

Liturgy They give it pet names; they are no longer two, but three; then the miscarriage..." The fact that Jesus was surrounded by, and was popular with women at a time when men did not have women as friends, has found many explanations. His friendship with women, as well as with men, has been seen as an illustration of His kindness to the downtrodden, and the magnetic "something" in His personality.

Only a woman knows what it is like to be a woman . .. only a person who has been through childbirth knows what it is like ... only a person who has suffered miscarriage can help another.

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The inference has been that women sought Him out (he did not seek them out and did not need them) and that their relationship with Him was that of a faceless group following Him and the important people, the male Disciples. One notion that needs to be fully explored is that Jesus was friendly with women because He needed their friendship — not so He would have cooks and cleaners close at hand, as often has been suggested — because in women He saw a suffering akin to His own. He needed the empathy of women. Jesus suffered because He was Jesus. It was the will of his Father that He was born of a woman, lived an obscure life, for 30 years, lived three years of fame and infamy, suffered crucifixion, died and rose again. A woman suffers because she is a woman. A female is born with the possibility of her own personal crucifixion and resurrection in her pelvis. The Jews believed that women suffered because they had been cursed by God: the most famous curse in Scripture: I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing: in pain shall you bring forth children. (Genesis 3: 16) And yet what is the realtiy of this curse? Through the nuisance pain of menstruation and childbirth, we are gifted and blessed a thousand times over the result of the "curse" ... our children.

for I he home has grown like lopsy' since it was first established in 1923. The first to walk through the door were six elderly gentlemen. Extensions were carried out in 1956, 1960 and 1973 to improve the nursing home wing and the hostel facilities were constructed in the 1960's and 1975. Ray Hall feels very strongly about her work. She sees the nursing home as a very important facility. "A blind person in a sighted nursing home is often seen by some staff as different," she said. "Here, blindness is incidental and we can manage them without making handicap a major thing."

Over the years Ray Hall has derived immense pleasure and satisfaction from her work. She knew as a child she wanted to he a nurse. . . it was either that or a station hand, but nursing took the lead when she became entranced by the big. white veils worn by the sisters at the hospital near her school. When she did get to wear one, she found it so uncomfortable she wore it only a few times. But she was still well on the way to a lifetime of nursing. Born in Carnarvon, she was the daughter of a station manager. It was a family tradition, for her grandfather also ran a station. A fourth generation Western Australian and the eldest of two girls, she went to the Convent Presentation Nuns at Carnarvon as a hoarder for 10 years. It was a marvellous place to grow up, she says. Die small town with a population around 2,000 was the central port for the numerous stations and banana plantations in the sur-

rounding countryside. When she left school at 17 she worked on her father's property for six months as a jillaroo. "I loved it. I used to clean the troughs and muster, help fix windmills. . . it was what I always did in the holidays," she said.

But nursing won the day and she hung-up her jodphurs to catch the Centaur down to Perth to begin training. It was 1942 and she trained at the Government School of Nursing before working in Geraldton and

Kalgoorlie. She married in 1948 and had four children, two boys and two girls. She spent 12 years at home, but always with the idea at the back of her mind that one day she would go back to work. "One night I was sitting in the lounge and a sister I'd trained with came in and said: St John of God are desperate. they need a 'special' for one to one care.' "So I went and did some parttime work, but 1 believed someone should be home with kids." she said. The answer was night-shift. a gruelling regime that she managed for five years. She was working 1 Opm to 7am, getting home in time

to send the kids off to school and then sleeping until they got back. It was a heavy workload so she decided to look for something more regular. "I picked up the phone book, and looked for anything in my area.

"I found this place. "1 think the Good Lord was looking after me, I love it here," she said. In 1974 she lost her husband after 26 years and was lucky. she says, to have a job she could throw herself into.

She also travelled, and in 1981 went to Lourdes as a 'helper' with the Faith and Light Group. "I'd say that was the most meaningful trip of all," she said. "I really enjoyed it, I thought I was useful and I liked the people I was with." The next big step for Ray Hall will be retirement. That comes in July of next year. when she reaches the magical age of 60. She's optimistic though that something will crop up to keep her busy and has a keen interest in hospice care. "Next year. when I leave. I'd like to think there's another exciting career in store. "I'm not ready for the scrapheap yet." she said.

should provide for 'grieving' One in seven pregnancies ends in miscarriage. In this sensitive articles, KATE EDMONDSON says that our pro-life Church fails to adequately respond to couples grieving over the loss of a child through miscarriage. She suggests one way of easing their suffering would be to provide for them in the Liturgy. Such is the kindness of our God that not even His curse can bring about anything but deep joy and a potential for ever increasing loving in the child given. Jesus Himself became cursed. Christ has delivered us from the power of the law's curse by Himself becoming a curse for us, as it is written: 'Accursed is anyone who is hanged on a tree.' This has happened so that through Christ Jesus the blessing bestowed on Abraham might descend on the Gentiles in Christ Jesus thereby making it possible for us to receive the promised spirit through faith. (Gal 3:13, 14). The result of this curse was the potential for an ever increasing joy and loving in the salvation given. Even though the women did not know the outcome of the suffering any more than the male Disci-

ples, they recognised in Jesus a familiar vulnerability and helplessness. Those who were often confronted by the suffering of their "curse" were not frightened by the distress of Jesus, and perhaps because of their acquaintance with a suffering so innate that it is impossible to resist, they did not run away in fear as did the male Disciples. It is only recently that women have confronted their sexuality and have looked for a feminine expression of that sexuality. Before this, feminine sexuality was interpreted as a comparison with the "norm"; that is masculinity, and femininity was its deviation. In the Church, the nature of female sexuality has been expressed by male celibates; men who left their homes while still adolescent. The view of femininity emanating from those in authority in the Church alternates between worship of the virgin (another celibate whom sexual expression is supposed to be the same as the male celibate and therefore praiseworthy) and the woman who is mother, capable of coping with any number of pregnancies and births, as well as the child-rearing she shares with her husband. This latter view of femininity allows, male celibates to distance themselves comfortably in worship and to continue to believe that women live above their suffering. Remaining at this point, they can sigh over the good looks of pregnant women, marvel at the miracle of childbirth, the patience and generosity of par-

ents; and continue to elucidate on the awe-inspiring sign of God's creative power in women. All these crucial parts of a woman's sexuality are said to be sacred, and yet the truth of this attitude is that they are seen as .terribly unclean. When Jesus suffered death and rose again He erased the old stigma on women because they had a bloody discharge. For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to Himself all things whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross. (Col 1:19-20). As Christian women we have every reason to rejoice in our sexuality. Every time we menstruate and have intercourse we are reminded that we live in the creative love of God. No other human condition resembles the death and Resurrection of Jesus as does pregnancy and childbirth. For the pregnant woman, 'This is my body given up for you, has a special significance. Jesus' response to His Father's will was a feminine response. He was not aggressively resistant, but filled with surrender. He knew He must suffer just as a woman knows she must suffer in childbirth. A labouring woman is full of the knowledge that there is no escape from the task at hand. With today's medical knowledge about the mechanics of birth and the availability of drugs, it is possible to have a pain-free birth. However, more drugs mean more stress for the baby and the woman will invariably choose pain for herself so the baby will have less stress. The emphasis today on relaxation during birth reflects the attitude Jesus gave us to the will of His Father: "Dont fight it. Accept. Surrender." It is only then, as in all the moments God gives us. that we can be brought to our own resurrection.

'The problem is not with priests but women themselves will not come forward with their suffering . . . they need to be liberated with a conviction of the holiness of, t heir femininity, because of its analogy with Jesus' sufferings .. .*

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Family Focus The popular Focus On The Family film series will be shown in the St Norbert College Library on Monday evenings at 8 p.m. c ommencing April 11 and through to June 20: April 1 1: The Strong willed child. April 18: Shaping the Will. April 25: Christian Fathering. May 2: Preparing for Adolescence. Further information from Father Gerry Cusack 458 2729.

The fourth annual pil- A conducted tour of the grimage in honour of the M enora Synagogue. Virgin of the Revelation. Freedman Road, Mount Will be held at Bullsbrook Lawley will take place on Shrine on Sunday April 10 Monday April 1 1 combeginning with Mass at mencing at 8.00pm. Sister Elizabeth Curran will lead I lam. There will be a Rosary the group and the tour will procession after a break be conducted by Rabbi for lunch (bring a picnic Shalom Coleman. Gentlemen should bring a lunch). head cover. A collection Buses leave for Bullsbrook at 9.45am from will be taken up for the Boans, Wellington Street, Rabbi's education fund. Perth and Smith Street, Visitors will be shown the Highgate, the return jour- scrolls in the Ark of the ney to Perth leaves at 4pm. Covenant and be given an For reservation for the bus explanation of the services from Boans phone Paul conducted in the Syn349 7135 for the Highgate agogue as well as features bus phone Lionel 328 of its architecture and layout. 4631. All are invited.

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'Indeed He is Risen!' In the world there are two camps

those who believe in the r esurrection of Jesus and those who don't.

Some think that scientific and medical enlightenment gives weight to disbelief. Yet this disbelief is feet. Their joy was so nothing new. It hap- great that they still pened to the soldiers couldnot believe it and hours after He rose. t hey stood there St. Luke, himself a dumbfounded; so He medical practitioner said to them, 'Have tells us in his Gospel you anything here to t hat the Apostles eat?' And they offered themselves at first hesi- Him a piece of grilled tated but then over- fish, which fie took whelmingly believed. and ate before their After the disciples of eyes. . . . He then Emmaus had told their opened their minds to story, "They were still understand the scrtptalking about all this tures and He said to when He himselfstood them 'So you see how among them and said it is written that the to them, 'Peace be with Christ vvould suffer you!- In a state of and on the third day alarm and fright they risefrom the dead, and thought they were see- that, in His name. ing a ghost. But He repentancefor theforsaid. 'Why are .you so giveness of sins would agitated and why are he preached to all the those doubts rising in nations, beginning your hearts? Look at from Jerusalem. You 171.1 hands andfeet;_yes, are witnesses to this'." it isIindeed. Touch me The Apostles and and see for yourselves thousands of early a ghost has no flesh Christians after them and hones as you can preferred to suffer see Ihave'. And as He imprisonment, torture said this He showed or being torn apart by the: his hands and lions rather than deny

the central truth that the Body that lay for three days in the tomb rose again. It was no mere visionary experience or some other internal experience which assured the Apostles that Jesus was with them in spiritual power. The oldest accounts of the resurrection are those of the Christian persecutor, Saint Paul, who went out of his way to prove the bodily resurrection of Christ from the dead as a historical fact.

Paul probably never met Christ during His ministry in Palestine, but he too was overwhelmed by the resurrection. That the Lord Jesus after His death and burial rose again on the third day is a fundamental tenet of C hristian belief, clearly asserted in the N ew Testament, creeds and the Council through the ages. Those who seek to be "modern" will say that the Church's traditional belief and teach-

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ing on Christ's resurrection can no longer be sustained on medical and scientific grounds. Objections are as old as Christianity. To such "modern" objections I would say that the burden of proof lies with science and medicine to actually prove that Christ did not rise from the dead. I prefer to adhere to the New Testament accounts and leave the materialists to accommodate themselves to the unshakeable and mind-filling truth of the Gospel rather than the other way around. Materialism changes its ideas each day. The New Testament has not. Millions have suffered and died for the truth of the gospels. Jesus did and I praise Him. Allelu Yahweh. "Christ is Risen -- Indeed He is Risen", is the Polish Easter morning greeting.

My name is Tracy Tierney andIam a new member of the Youth Encounter Team. Other new members are Gerrard Hart, Sheilagh Hall and Mary O 'Loughlin.

Youth Encounter is a very tions for unity and for breaking of the bread and special group of young what is promising to be a to feel Him among you and people whose apostolate is very bright new year for be able to say to Him "Yes, Lord, I want You" is to reach out to others and Youth Encounter. give them an opportunity The highlight of the week- an experience that is veito experience faith in a end was not the sauna I sacred. I know that at each meaningful and lasting had on Saturday, or the Mass we receive Jesus, but fact that I drove my pas- at this particular occasion I way. safely to our camp- could really feel Him movsengers We have three kinds of despite a ing amongst us. destination site camps, Stranger Camps, few hideous rumours con- I am afraid it is very diffiSearcher Camps and Advance Camps. All are basically spiritual renewal weekends and introduce participants to fellow Christians with whom they celebrate, discuss, share, unload, pray, feel, practise cerning my driving capa- cult for me to describe but a nd BE their faith bilities: nor the singing and it is moments such as this together. entertainment on Saturday when I can fully appreciate night or even the mouth- how great it is to be a watering menu supplied by Christian. despite the A cquainted t wo superb cooks — but m any challenges it the celebration of the represents. Left to right front row — Ned Byrne, Marcus Boehn, Janet Cavil!, Natalie I'll leave you there, saying Eucharist. McConnell, Theresa Martell'', Tracy Tierney, Pat Coward. Back row — Phil I am writing this letter to I could feel Jesus' pres- that! hope that one day we Moffatt, Judy Pickering, Father Reg Ahern CSSR, Gerrard Hart, Father Tom share with you my expe- ence the entire weekend — will meet at a Youth Ryan CSSR, Paul Newton, Brother Peter Hayes at the Youth Encounter Team Camp. rience at our recent in the participants, in the Encounter camp, on the 'Breaker Camp' at Eagles scenery, but to actually street. in the partaking of Nest. It was, as the name have Him there in the this meal. suggests, a 'Break the Ice" Camp -- an opportunity for new members to better acquainted become the evenings. "Getting to film "Know Thyself II". the old. By MARY ANNE TOWNSEND know you" games were An inspiring film about with held on the first night in two young first years and There are 20 members on at the discus- order to 'break the ice' how they became familiar the Team. Friday night and talks involved Universit he T counsel- gently. There was a folk with university life. career by informasharing sions spent was C atholic Society the Guild counsellors dance and an impromptu A good time was had by tion about our pasts and O rientation camp lors,an afternoon of health t alent night, which all due to a lot of work lives led outside the moveand was held at Point and fitness. brought out many excel- done by a lot of people. ment. Despite the fact that Peron this year. without whom the camp I didn't know the majority Older members of the lent performers. for all Antiochians in W.A. It catered for Murdoch U niversity Catholic And not to be forgotten would not have been such a of the members on anv and the University of Society talked about and was the epic remake of the great success. close basis, I felt trusted Mums, Dads, Adult leaders and Spiritual directors. Swinging Granddads and Grandmas most welcomed. and welcomed. Western Australia. and d iscussed tertiary life. more than 130 people They also introduced the 7.30pm to 11.00pm. TIME: Much of our time on the attended -- 85 of these Catholic Society and Ter4th April, Easter Monday. DATE: weekend was spent in seswere first years, eager to tiary Young Christian StuPLACE: Star of the Sea, 2 McNeil Street, communconcerning sions guidance find out about tertiary life. dents under the Cottesloe. relationships, ication, A ccommodation was of Father Strong from Catholic Parish Youth friends, renew one's faith apostollay each. t, $1.00 COST: commitmen to belonging of sense and particimovement invite PitFather and comforU.W.A. made much more ate: our aims and inspiraBoys — bottle of soft drirk. table by the Sisters of St. man from Murdoch pants to attend a Diocesan God, family and friends. tions, as a team and how Christian Living Camp to Girls — plate. .Joseph who generously let chaplaincy. should interested we could achieve these Anyone of held weekend be the on discusand Safety Besides talks campers use their DRESS: Casual-- or costume as the ring Barbara Willcox on goals: the importance of sions, there was also free Friday, April 16. Spirit moves. Bay Convent. developing firm foundaThe three day programme time, and fun and games in It's a chance to make new 328 8136.

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The winners Helen Luberda, of Esperance.

Well we received lots of lovely entries for our Easter Contest, you have all been working very hard. First prize of a superb world atlas goes to Helen Luberda, aged 10, of Esperance. Well done Helen. Special awards have also been given to Christopher McKenna, aged 5 of Girra-

wheen; Siobhan Vivian, aged 10, of Peppermint G rove; Kathleen McLaughlin, of Boulder; Suzanne Longbottom, aged S. of Karrinyup and Susan Waters, aged 9, of Esperance. All have been sent books courtesy of William Collins publishers.

BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Jason Bouwhuis, of Innaloo; Eliza Donatti, of Scarborough; Desmond Dias. of Girrawheen; Kathy Field. of Craigie; Patrick Fitzgerald, of Craigie; Lillian Gasper, of Fremantle; Claire Lincoln, of Nedlands; Natasha Maley, of Moora; Rodney McCracken, of Duncraig; Stephanie Schurmann. of Burrendah; Justine Sykes, of Maylands; Annick Pascal, of Koondoola.

MEMBERS Welcome to our new members: Emrys Jones. of Greenwood; Clancy Jones, of Greenwood; Mathew McKenna. of Girrawheen; Christopher McKenna, of Girrawheen; Susan Waters, of Esperance; Kevin Donovan. of Viveash; Paul Nevin, of Esperance; Danuta Crees, of Esperance; Rhys Nevin, of Esperance; Melissa Parsons, of Esperance; Germaine Cole, of Esperance; Zachary, of Esperance; T revor Phillip. of Esperance.

Winners Congratulations to our puzzle winner. Justine Jones, of Esperance. Justine has been sent a book courtesy of William Collins Publishers.

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TENNIS with Greg Pearce The Catholic Tennis Association is going through a quiet period with regard to competition and social activities, hence the lack of a tennis column over 44 the last couple of weeks.

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The March meeting of the associationw as very poorly attended and decisions meant to be made at that meeting have been postponed until next month. Please note that the April meeting will be held on the second Tuesday, (April 12) for the next month only, because of the Easter , break. The venue is the Hackett residence, 125 Ardross St Applecross. The meeting will start at 7.45pm. Any apologies, phone 364 2925. It's pleasing to see the

re-emergence of the Warwick Tennis Club after a recess of several years. The club is in the All Saints Parish, Warwick and club activities are currently centred at the Sorrento Recreation Centre. With the construction of tennis courts at Liwara Primary School, it shouldn't be too long before the club has a more permanent home base. Best of luck to Warwick, hopefully participation in association activities will follow.

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Liturgy should provide for 'grieving'

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However, there are times when a pregnant woman does not find her resurrection. One in seven pregnancies ends in miscarriage. There are a number of medical reasons for miscarriage, but it is not the clinical bluntness of medical reasoning in which we, as Christian believers, are interested. What ways have been developed by our pro-life Church to give solace to a woman and her husband who are grieving over the death of their child? Consider the reaction of a woman who, after being united with her husband in God's gift of their sexual relationship, finds that she is pregnant, her body is a temple for another human. She believes it has been put there by the activity of the creative God. Together the couple discuss the child; it is a real person to them. Sometimes couples give the child pet names, signs of endearment and love for their child yet unborn. There is an understanding that they are no longer t wo, but three. Then the woman, to her horror, sees that she is

• From page 11. bleeding and they become anxious about the health of the child. With the onset of pain, miscarriage (natural abortion) is inevitable. The child is dead. Add to this disappointment — the word is used, but is hopelessly inadequate -- the experience of young women (especially if they are not a nurse or a doctor) who, at three months' pregnant, suffer a miscarriage which is really a birth. Usually this happens in hospital and there they are instantly expected to throw away their modesty, submit to medical examinations (everyone knows they need to be done; that makes them a fraction easier) and are told to bear down when they don't have a clue what bear down means.

This Lent,help tenant farmers stand up for their rights. Most tenant farmers throughout the world pay high rents to absentee landlords for the fields where they grow their crops. They're desperately poor and have to pay high prices for the fertilisers and insecticides they need. And yet these farmers and agricultural workers have no control over the prices they are paid for their produce. With the help of Project Compassion, these hard working people are learning about their legal rights for the first time. In the future, they can hope for a fairer deal, but there's still work to be done. And to complete that work more funds are needed. That's why this Lent, we hope you'll give generously to Project Compasssion, not just for the farmers, but for the many people around the world who may never get the chance to live the way we do. Special envelopes for the six weeks of Lent are available at your local Parish Church, along with Project Compassion money boxes. And if you'd like to know more about the work of Project Compassion, and how it's AI.. if qb.z. 11111 IIM Ell EMI IN NM IIIII making the world a better place, Yes, I'd like to know more about Project please send us the coupon. Compassion programmes.

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All this trauma to see not a live healthy baby, but a dead foetus lying in a kidney dish. Often the woman is later haunted by the realisation that she does not know, and never will know, what happened to the body of her baby. If the analogy between the suffering of Jesus and the suffering of women is so strong and so distinct, how is it that women have been ignored by the Church at its very centre, its external face to the world, which reflects the inner faith and suffering of all believers — the Liturgy? It would seem obvious that a Church which has been so consistently against induced termination of pregnancy should at the same time be making a huge effort to help those who bear the cross of a natural termination. Regrettably, this is not the case. It would be most extreme and untrue to say that our male celibates are women haters. It is just that when they begin to speak and teach on matters of female sexuality they are speaking on a subject about which they have no knowledge. Only a woman knows what it is to be a woman...only a person who has been through childbirth and pregnancy knows what it is like...and only a person HIROSHIMA, Japan (NC) — A who has suffered miscarriage can help another in the A 64-year-old survivor of same situation. the atomic bomb that hit The most effective priests are those men who, Hiroshima unveiled a memorial monument on the because of their surety that celibacy is the will of God second anniversary of Pope for them, do not presume to have the ability to John Paul II's appeal for interpret the needs of women in the area of pregworld peace in this city. nancy, childbirth and miscarriage. The three metre sculpture Too much aggressive anti-abortion talk by male shows two stylised hands celibates has served to reinforce the guilt felt by the joined in prayer for healing woman who has miscarried. above a mass of wreckage. Over and over in her mind she turns the events It was unveiled by Yoshi Fujida, a woman who was 26 at the that led to the termination of her pregnancy. time of the world's first Deep in her mind is the belief that she did someatomic bomb attack on thing wrong, that somehow she is responsible for the August 6, 1945. death of her baby. During the ceremony Archbishop Pio Gaspari, papal pronuncio to Japan, read an English-language message from Pope John Paul praisIs it any wonder that she will not approach the ing the initiative. person who is so angry at the wickedness of women "Your voice must never be silent," the pope said. who procure an induced abortion? In her mind she equates herself with these, and therefore remains "You must speak openly to all the future generations and isolated. c onstantly remind the The tragedy is that the problem is not with our world of the absolute madpriests, but with the fact that women themselves will ness of war." not come forward with their suffering. "I sincerely pray that the sufThey have become ingrained with the male-given fering of so many victims, to which your monument is attitude that the suffering of pregnancy and childw itness, may illuminate birth and miscarriage is not Godly. our minds and make us Catholic women lack confidence in themselves. understand the value of believing that because they are not celibate the peace and the terrible evil must somehow deal with the problems of their full of war," he added. developed sexuality alone. "With the help of God may the They need to be liberated by a deep conviction of reminder of the past prethe holiness of their femininity on the grounds of its pare all humanity for a future of peace." analogy with the suffering and resurrection of Jesus. The great blessings of this holy sexuality are The papal message was also translated for the crowd obvious: the children who are the hope and future of into Japanese by Bishop our Church. Yoshimatsu Noguchi of One way that would bring women forward would Hiroshima. be to find a place for a testimony to the suffering of The monument stands at the miscarriage, within the Liturgy of the Church. entrance to the Peace Our liturgy and ritual have the respect of believing Museum of Hiroshima inside the city's Peace Catholics. Park. Their tradition and beauty runs through our veins and often at a time of crisis in faith, it is the Liturgy It is inscribed with some of the pope's words at Hiroshima which is our connection with the institutional on February 25, 1981. Church. "War is death," the pope said For many women, miscarriage is a great test of on that occasion. faith. It can be their very first confrontation with "To remember Hiroshima is to their ephemerality and powerlessness. abhor nuclear war. It is a time when they need the help of the spiritu- "To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace." ally mature so they can be brought through the stage of "blaming God" into the deeper knowledge of their The sculpture, which was the work of Itto Kuetani, was own weakness and the weakness of all things in this financed by a committee of world. Japanese "hibakusha", survivors who were contaminated by radioactive waste after the Hiroshima blast, which killed an estimated 200,000 people. If suffering women and their husbands found a place within a ritual for their grieving, they would grow in confidence that they were totally accepted Can I help you offset rising costs? and did not have to remain isolated. If so call They would be made welcome by the open arms of the authority of the Liturgy we love so deeply. If miscarriage were made part of our liturgical tradition, eventually it would be taken for granted that Catholics grieve deeply over the death of a foetus, as it is taken for granted they grieve over the needless death of countless unborn. Because we treat our own so badly, the Church's John LAMBE stand on abortion smacks of sterile authoritarianism. Independent As a powerful anti-abortion statement, and as a Insurance Specialist means of embracing those who suffer, there should be less talk about abortion and more talk about the for suffering of a believing Christian couple who an t yoobuhrgna xotnre frn ee ewqaulootef miscarry. next Ideally, there should be freedom within parishes for women to form miscarriage support groups household ("only the wounded healer can heal"), and for cou• motor vehicle ples to believe that their priests are liturgically * business needs approachable. * boat or travel The form taken by a ritual statement on miscaralso for personal and riage will need a great deal of discussion, perhaps a confidential advice on personal para-Liturgy of prayer and Scripture; perhaps a Mass with its own Eucharistic Prayer for SUPERANNUATION those who miscarry. Perhaps our male celibate hierarchy, which seems OP so convinced of the need for a pro-life philosoph . Investment Counselling should ask those who suffer to produce the life Phone 325 6012 married women. A H 341 2828 Kate Edmondson, 28, Brisbane, is married with two children (boys, 16 months and three years). She 4 Bennett St, East Perth is a high school teacher.