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St Gerard's parish Mirrabooka was to the fore this week at the Australian Jaycees Outstanding Young Australians Awards when one of the finalists Margaret Talbot found herself receiving her award from the Premier, Mr Brian Burke, also a St Gerard's parishioner, and a state award winner himself last year. One of the panel judging the 26 entrants submitted was Mrs Sue Burke. Others were Father Brian Morrison, Mr Ross McLean and the chairman Mr Peter Snow. The other four finalists who along with Margaret Talbot go to the national final in Queensland are Judith Jones of Bunbury, cricketer Dennis Lillee, drug rehabilitation worker Graham Nicholls, and pilot Brent Watson. Speaking on behalf of the judges, Father Morrison said the five qualities looked for in the finalists were: influence for good in the community, the capacity to be creative in some new or different area of community endeavour, a quality of initiative, a sense of compassion, a sense of c aring. C ommenting on the high qualities of all 26 entrants, Father Morrison said if theirs was the common lifestyle of all people, there would be no problems in this world. Margaret Talbot is a 26-year-old nursing assistant at the Inglewood Home of Peace. She gives most of her day — working and private -- to the care of the sick and underprivileged. She began her community involvement at the age of 18 as a member of the St Gerards Youth Group moving into the St Vincent De Paul Society during 1979 and from there into the St Vincents night shelter for homeless men in 1981. She always addresses herself to the common person. Always ready to assist in whatever way necessary to relieve hardship or suffering without any thought of personal reward, her work with the St Vincents epitomises her whole outlook on life. It is against this background that makes Margaret's contribution to our society most worthwhile.
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As examples of those suffering from religious persecution in the form of "permanent restriction of personal freedom or social discrimination," Pope John Paul listed "parents who a re refused the possibility of securing for their children an education built on their faith." "The French Church and the pope have strongly criticised a plan by the c ountry's socialist government to nationalise Catholic schools. "Today, to prisons, concentration camps, hard labour, expulsion from one's own country, have been added other forms o f punishment, less remarked upon but more subtle: not a bloody death, but a sort of civil death -- not only segregation in a prison or in a camp, but permanent restriction of personal freedom or social discrimination," Pope John Paul said.
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Questions asked Bunbury council Paper — for — BOIke BRISBANE — Petitions s eeking closure of Townsville's abortion clinic will be presented to the Premier, Mr BjelkePetersen. Mr Gavin Hegerty, president of the Townsville Right to Life Association, and secretary Mrs Christine MacGinley will present the petitions. Mrs MacGinley said more than 6000 signatures had been obtained in Townsville. "We feel that is reasonably significant as a demonstration of public concern about the existence of an abortion clinic in Townsville," she said. The association is planning a giant birthday party to mark Celebrate Life Day on September 11. Mrs MacGinley said the purpose was to "celebrate the birth of each baby born in Townsville this year.
Members of the Bunbury diocesan council meeting at Donnybrook earlier this m onth were confronted with questions about their dreams for the future of the diocese and for an assessment of of the diocese's strengths and weaknesses. T he questions were put to the 60 people present after an address by Miss Pat Dolan, former chairman of the Perth diocesan pastoral council and a member of several other church groups. T aking her lead from the process used by the Movement For A Better W orld, Miss Dolan asked the parish representatives to break into groups of eight to study t wo questions.
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Meeting told of 'dreams' for the future They were •what dreams would have have for your diocese in 1993 if you had unlimited power and money? *what are the strengths and weaknesses of the Bunbury diocese? The MBW technique will be taken to its third step at the next meeting when the answers to the questions will be analysed for practical conclusions.
Distance Distance between parish communities was felt to be one of the main factors in Bunbury diocesan life and the most cornmon "dream" expressed by all groups was the need for better communication and a sense of c ommunity within the diocese. Other dreams included: 'the twinning of parishes within the diocese and
outside even to overseas as a means of developoing a sense of the wider Church. *the obtaining of more priests, married priests and women priests. *increased support and e ncouragement for A borigines. 'the elimination of abortion. *more adult education especially in education and in understanding the role of. deacons who shortly would commence work in the diocese. Weaknesses listed for t he diocese included materialism, the exodus of youth to the cities, the lack of pastoral care for young mothers, lack of encouragement from some parish priests on involvement of the lait in parish affairs, and the lack of clergy in the diocese. The perceived strengths in the diocese included the bishop as a positi c strength, the motor mission sisters' work, the faith of the diocese. schools, rural communities, ethnic groups, the advent of the deacons. and the Carmelite Sisters' prayers.
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BRISBANE — The Australian Jesuits will protest strongly to the Foreign Minister, Mr Hayden, and to the Vietnamese Ambassador about the gaoling of Jesuit priests in Vietnam. They will be supported by the Association of Major Religious Superiors. In another development, Amnesty International has taken up the case of Francis Nguyen Van Thuan. Coadjutor Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), who is being held by Vietnamese authorities. The People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City sent-
Addressing the one day meeting that took place in the multi-purpose room of the Donnybrook school. Bishop Quinn noted that there was a difference between cit and rural communities and that both groups had different ways of expressing their faith. He said that although it was the same faith it would not be good if expression of that faith was restricted to one style. "A ploughman becomes a saint following a different road to that taken by a nurse looking after lepers in Africa," he said. He called on council members to study the ideas that had come from the group discussions.
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Jesuits protest enced 12 religious and diocesan priests to gaol terms ranging from five years to life. The priests, including seven Jesuits and a Dominican, were convicted on charges of carrying out "anti-State activities and antirevolutionary propaganda." The Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Vietnam. Father Nguyen Cong-
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Doan, was sentenced to 12 years im.prisonment. The order's Australian Provincial Superior. Father Paul Duffy, said the protest to Mr Hayden would question the propriety of the proposed resumption of aid to Vietnam in the face of "a clear breach of human rights". Father Duffy said r eports from wellinformed Vietnamese s ources indicated a
former seminary conducted by the Jesuits, and now a study centre, was one reason for the authorities' crackdown. The authorities saw organisations such as sodalities and prayer groups associated with the centre as a possible threat. Father Duffy said the centre taught Christian doctrine only, and stayed clear of social issues.
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the Mass closing the conference for disabled celebratedby the vicar for social welfare, Monsignor Hickey, assisted by Fathers Rodney Williams and Paul Pitzen at his right and left. Also in the picture are Fathers Jim Petry, Gerry Cusack 0.Praem and Bill Uren SJ.
A first state Catholic conference for people with disabilities has come up with a wide range of proposals for parishes and other organisations to provide more positive help for the disabled. The weekend conference at the Cathedral parish centre made maximum provision for the handicapped to take part by the use of ramps, audio induction loops, sign interpreters for the deaf, braille translation for the blind and overhead projections for others. Because of the nature of the conference Monsignor O'Reilly arranged for the parish centre toilet facilities to be modified for the use of wheelchair participants. Discussion groups were limited to eight people. P resentations were given by live speakers and on video and 16mm film. At one time there were six film projectors and four video machines operating at the one time. Some specific recom-
Conference's suggestions for disabled m endations resulting included — • Accessible toilets at St Mary's Cathedral • Courses on ministry to people with disabilities in every seminary. • Church employment of people with disabilities to be encouraged. • Church sponsorship of accommodation for people with disabilities. • Acceptance of disabled people into local parish youth groups. • The Catholic Education commission to commit itself to provide Catholic education for all children with disabilities. • An increase of staff dealing with special education issues at the
Catholic Education Commission. • The Federal government to be approached to increase the allowances to schools for adaptation of school buildings etc. • A chaplain to be appointed for children with physical disabilities specifically at Sir David Brand Centre. • The number of people working in Catholic organisations and chaplaincy services already, be expanded to alleviate the tremendous workload. • An educational programme to help people in parishes to see the needs of disabled people as part of the total mission of the Church. • Cont. page 4
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Anglicans are concerned New approach to department The attempt to introduce a religious studies programme into state secondary schools has not been successful. A new approach is to be made to the Education Department. The original intention was to introduce the subject at the lower secondary grades and then to work progressively up the school. Since the subject has been taken up in very few schools, the organisation committee will make another start at the top of the school and try and introduce the subject for the TAE. It is believed the subject will take on only if it is under the direction of a senior master and is an examinable subject. It could be the end of next year before an acceptable course is ready to be introduced into schools.
Many parents are concerned the schools to which they are obliged by financial constraint to send their children do not either supplement or reinforce but rather negate the values being taught in the home.
This is the view of the Anglican Archbishop of Perth Dr Peter Carnley expressed in conjunction with a proposal by that Church to investigate the establishment of low fee Church schools. Writing in the Anglican Messenger, Archbishop Carnley said: "Nobody wants to create religious ghettos; but neither do many parents wish to see their children sucked into an unthinking secular materialism in an educational system where the teaching of religious and moral values is gi‘ en a secondary place or no place at all.
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"It is interesting that a survey of public opinion in 1980 revealed that 78 per cent of parents in New South Wales were in favour of the teaching of religious education in state schools.
Introduction disappointing The introduction into state schools of the religious studies programme envisaged b) the Nott report may be "disappointingly low — perhaps as low as only 10 per cent of schools" according to the Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Dr Peter Carnle) . Repl)ing in the Anglican Messenger to a teacher who claimed the programme was working well in her school, the archbishop said: "Even in schools where the syllabus is being introduced. individual teachers may opt out of the teaching of it. -There is therefore no guarantee that a child will have any sustained acquaintance with religious studies. "I fear that it ma) be a major delusion to believe that w hat is happened in a particular school is happening es en ss ehre." He said the situation across the board is "certainly not as ros) as the correspondent would have us believe." "Of course, there are many dedicated Christian t eachers in state schools. "However they need to be supported and encouraged both by the Education Department and by the Churches. "Too often they have to struggle against all odds in an unsympathetic environment. "Our hope is more will take up the teaching of religious studies than have done so to date," he said. Archbishop Carnley pointed out that with 445 A nglican teachers currently visiting state schools, there were only half the children receiving religious education of this kind. "In secondary schools SRI is virtually nonexistent," he said. "Clearly, if the introduction of religious studies does not succeed, we ma) have to do more by way of recruiting and training teachers of SRI."
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"Apparently few parents have confidence in pure secularism. "We all have to be open to the possibility that the century old experiment in 'free, compulsory and secular education' may have run its course. "After all, 'free, compulsory and secular education' was in part a n ineteenth century answer to the sectarian-ism of a pre-ecumenical age. "In the age of ecumenism it may be that secularism is replacing sectarianism as the emerging bete noire."
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• A rchbishop Carnley was replying to a correspondent who claimed low fee Anglican schools would become "inwardlooking ghettos" and "isolated citadels" for a "cosy elite". -This melodramatic language hides the assumption that the cultural and religious pluriformity in present society should be reflected in every school in such a way that each school is a microcosm of the whole," the archbishop said. "There is something to be said for comprehensiveness of outlook. "However, educational institutions should not
The Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Dr Peter Carnley. only reflect the values of society at large but be sufficiently independent of mind to be critical of society and thus in a position to evaluate it and participate in its reform. "It seems only fair that parents should have a genuine choice in the education of their children and that, within limits, they should not be hampered through lack of finance from choosing a religious education if that is their desire."
—Value of principals— Primary principals of Catholic schools are among the greatest assets of the Catholic education system, the director of religious education Father Gerard Holohan told a meeting last weekend. Addressing the 60 people at the Catholic Primary Schools' Association conference he said it was possible to be optimistic in the face of problems in religious education as long as the leadership
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and dedication of teachers was kept in mind. He praised the principals and their staffs for the part they had played in the development of the teacher's manual for religious educators in the archdiocese of Perth. He also praised the contribution made by parents and teachers. Father Holoham shared with the group the lesson he had learnt from the guideline's exercise.
The lesson says — "If we work together as an Archdiocese and as a State, we will be able to overcome all our difficulties in religious education. No one group in Catholic education has all the answers, but together we can find them. "All of us — bishops, principals, RE teachers, clergy, and parents — have a contribution to offer. "Let us seek to offer
what we have to give with generosity and humility. "Let us strive to avoid the divisions that regrettably exist in other places. "Let us listen to each other, and bear in mind the Pauline admonition, 'Do all that you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit who binds you together.' "May there be no criticism of anyone — be they principals, clergy, RE teachers, or parents," he said.
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"They are parents who are refused the possibility of securing for their children an education built on their faith." Pope John Paul, making his 19th visit outside Italy since his election in October 1978, became the first reigning pope to travel to Lourdes, where Our Lady appeared in 1858. Swimmers in difficulty are recommended wisely not to As did his six papal swim against the current since with a bit of luck they may predecessors, Pope John be carried back to land. It is a safer procedure than Paul had visited Lourdes standing like King Canute at the water's edge, but it also before being elected to offers no guarantee on which beach one will be washed the papacy. up. Although the pope was The search for moral truth and harmonious conduct is visiting France at the an endless tide in which hundreds of generations of invitation of Church offihuman beings in countless cultures have searched for a cials and not as Head of f ormula of living that would give them external stability State, he nevertheless and inner peace of mind. had an hour long meeting Both are being shattered these days as a creeping tide with President Mitterand of moral ambiguity is sweeping us along not only at an at Tarbes airport. accelerating pace but on to a beach for which we are not The topic of Catholic prepared and from which it may not be possible to schools in France was escape. believed to have been a The fierce swirl of the tide seems to be typified in the key theme. aggressive homosexual push for acceptance and moral Asked about his talks respectability, the pressure to introduce drugs that have w ith the pope on never been part of our culture and most recently the Catholic schools, Mitternot -so-subtle hint that sexual permissiveness amongst rand said, "Each in his t eenagers is the direction of the tide. own domain, the affairs Like a frantic swimmer the first temptation is to blot of the State in France are out any belief that all this is actually happening. But the affairs of the State, sooner or later it is likely to be a close friend or relative and each one underwho is involved and moral uprightness is forced to play stands it very well." second to feelings of compassion and sympathy, if not He said he and the pope acceptance, of the new immorality that is dumped upon discussed "international US affairs: peace and freeIt is the point where religion becomes confused dom, the problems which because the community once enjoyed a partnership in have come up since our which law and religion worked side by side — too closely, first meeting in Rome say those who preach their new liberation much more (Feb 27, 1982). those dogmatically than any of the older preachers. w hich have become The new wave of what is called law 'reform' exploits worse and the rare ones the fact that religion is never sure whether it is concerned which have improved." more with the spiritual truths of faith or with the developPope John Paul did not ment of a wholesome moral life in the community. kiss the ground on arrivThe case is no better illustrated than by the patronising ing this time as he did cynical reporting that has accompanied the efforts of a when he visited France in f ew religiously-minded people to say their piece on the 1980 to address UNESCO local barmaids at Manjimup this week. in Paris. It is a protest of disapproval that could be mouthed by Pope John Paul said the any decent citizen if they wished but because some clergy Lourdes trip, postponed are involved it suddenly becomes an issue for the by more than two years -churches- and where the churches gather there is because of the May 13. religion. 1981. attempt on his life, The net result is that religion suddenly finds itself allowed him to "fulfil a fighting a war about see-through blouses; which is all a desire that has been ver) bit remote from the Old or the New Testament and would dear to me for years: a seem to be hardly amongst the real sins that are crying desire that many Chrisout for real religious protest. tians long to fulfil in their It is typical of the confusion that develops when lifetime, and even more religious people can't distinguish faith from morals. Spir- so for a pope." itual fervour becomes the main source of action and any In his first talk on arricriticism of the action reads like a criticism of religious val in France, Pope John f aith. What one thinks of the Manjimup barmaids is Paul called Lourdes "a supposed to be what one thinks of religion. gathering place for all Catholic teaching has tried to keep a balanced link those in the world who between what is a teaching of faith and what actions believe in the Gospel, for ought to follow as a result. Moral theology has had its all those who pray, for all moments of over -legalism and hair-splitting distinctions t hose who suffer, for that have been used tyrranously by clergy and others in those who seek forgiveteaching positions. ness for their sins, for all The churches that followed the path of the Protestant those who yearn to redisReformation one way or another took a dim view of cover in the Church the Catholic moralising and tried to survive on the notion that roots for their communif all was well between God and the individual, moral ion in faith and charity." conduct would look after itself. Pope John Paul's first Yet as the complex issues of abortion, euthanasia, stop after reaching the social justicce and right to democratic freedom and jusMarian shrine was at the tice are battled out it is clear that the faith that governs Grotto of Massabielle, our moral stance on these issues is as important as the where he drank a glass of stance itself. the spring water. Sadly, the churches are not in ready agreement even "Every country has its on these major issues whether it be the sanctity of life, famous shrines in which casinos or the lusty rump that ranges from crudity through the presence of Mary is t o pornography. particularly honoured G oodwill will not disguise the fact that in many areas and invoked," said the we do not share the same faith and this difference of pope, who has visited vision does matter when it comes to what a person marian sites in his native believes about life, about death, about creation, about Poland and in other procreation, about charity, about justice. countries during his The days may be over when it is the vigilant clergyman papal trips. who has to be pursuing the see-through barmaid but the "It seems to me there is a moral onslaught in more critical areas is showing that special Grace here in f aith in God, and in the teaching authority of the Catholic Lourdes," he said. 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Aid problem last c entury from J.S. LONE V. Salter Point In Sydney in June 1879 the Catholic bishops met under Archbishop Vaughan to discuss their opposition to the Public Instruction Bill . In a joint Pastoral Letter they stated "the Church k nows that instruction is not education, and that a system of national training from which Christianity is banished is a system of practical paganism which leads to corruption of morals and the loss of faith." Today, for the first time since it was established in 1974, the private schools have no representative on t he Commonwealth Schools Commission. The commission is the main advisory body for the Federal Government on issues relating to school funding and curricula.
Appointed All those appointed are known for their opposition to private and Catholic schools. The main objective of the Minister for Education ( Senator Susan Ryan) appears to be to absorb all schools — Catholic, protestant, private, community — into a single government controlled system. This is borne out by the Committee of Review on Radford College which proposed no new schools would be built if they had an impact on e xisting government schools. Pressure is already being exerted on independent schools (i.e. Presbyterian Ladies' College) by with holding grants and lessen ing per -capita aid.
Historic argument At present our Catholic schools are classified -poor - and will continue to be aided for the time being. Eventually they will be so dependent on state aid — they will have lost their financial independence As a result, they will be subject to government control in all fields: policy. c urriculum, staffing, enrolment fees In effect, they will be practically indistinguishable from government schools, and have lost the real reason for their existence — the Christian education of the young. Unfortunately the majority of Catholics appear unaware of, or indifferent to, what is taking place, and Catholic reaction has been negligible. The granting of state aid in 1967 by a Liberal Government was not a benevolent gesture but was a response to political pressure. There is need for strong action by the hierarchy, clergy and all sections of the Catholic community to raise the per -capita grant to a realistic amount so parents can exercise the right of freedom of choice and Catholic and independent schools can exist without domination by a minority socialist group.
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Education and the disabled from Mrs MARY BALLANTINE, Manning Sir In the article concerning Catholic Education and the State Catholic Conference for People with Disabilities (The Record, August 4), I was quoted as saying -Parents of handicapped children often feel rejected by some Catholics when it comes to education.While very grateful for the article and the publicity it gives to Emmanuel Centre and the conference. I would not like to think that comment implied any feeling of rejection personally by any individual — especially not by our local Catholic school or our parish. What I meant is that when, as a parent, you approach a Catholic school (and we approached quite a few) with your handicapped child and that child is rejected. you feel that rejection deeply and feel it as a rejection by the Church as an organisation It is a hurt and it is easy to feel God and His Church have let you down
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• From page 2 • A course on healing and disability for parents of disabled people a nd disabled people themselves. • Diocesan guidelines to assist parents and doctors to make decisions on the new born child with severe multiple disabilities. • A genetic counselling service to be established.
• A Church committee to formulate and speak on questions such as contraception, masturbation, and other moral issues relating to the "at risk" person with disabilities. • A Catholic-oriented r elationship course to assist people with disabilities to know how to go about developing relationships.
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That shroud: Is it genuine? Surprisingly little a ttention has been g iven to recent scientific studies of the Shroud of Turin. After reading Verdict on the Shroud, w ritten by K.E. Stevenson and G.R. Habernias (Servant Books, Ann Arbor, 1981), I believe the Shroud is indeed the cloth in which the body of Jesus was wrapped after His Crucifixion. T he authors were members of a group of about 40 experts who brought many crates of sophisticated technical equipment to Turin in 1978 for five days of c omprehensive nondestructive testing of the cloth with infra-red, visible, ultraviolet and X rays. Analysis of the results by many scientists has since taken three years and is continuing. The group also examined all known previous photographs and historical as well as scientific studies of the Shroud. The book by Stevenson and Habermas discusses all the information thus gathered. Not a fake A ccording to these authors, no evidence of fraud or fakery has been found in any competent
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inquiry (contrary to expectations of some of t he 1978 team), and i ntense analysis of the sophisticated data now available has been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation for the formation of the image on the cloth. The Shroud is a long linen cloth similar in material and weave to a costly textile known in the Middle East in the first century AD. The linen threads each consist of one to two hundred very thin fibres and only the top three or four fibres carry the faint y ellow discolouration which forms the image. F or scientists, this extreme superficiality or lack of penetration of the yellowing into the material is one of the Shroud's most inexplicable properties. Photography shows the image is a negative picture. Positive prints give a
picture which is clearer and more detailed than the faint image itself. Another significant puzzle for the scientists is the image contains latent three-dimensional information which only appeared when photographs were examined w ith a computerised image analyser used in astronomical and space photography. Parts of the Shroud were damaged by fire and water in the year 1532 but the image process. whatever it is, was not affected. From results of the 1978 tests and others, the team ruled out conclusively the presence of any paint pigments or dyes, as well as any "directionality" which the image would have to have if applied by brush or other manual process. Chemical tests on small samples of fibres, using acids, bases, organic solvents and bleaching oxidants, failed to extract the yellow discolouration. The only parts of the material which gave positive results to chemical analyses were from sections near wound marks in the feet, wrists and
side where the image showed the appearance of blood flows. Fibres from these areas gave results indicative of haemoglobin, porphyrin, serum, iron and protein, all of which would be present in blood. The man in the image Stevenson and Habermas assert all serious examiners of the Shroud agree the image is of a man who died of crucifixion after being scourged, c rowned with thorns, and speared in the side The man was about 5 feet 11 inches tall, estimated to weigh about 175 pounds, and to be 30 to 35 years of age. His beard, hair and facial features are semitic, not graeco-roman.
The cloth presents a f ront image on one halflength of the cloth and a back image on the other, indicating that the man lay on his back on one half with the other half draped over his head and along the top of his body down to his feet. Positive photographic prints clearly show more t han 100 dumbbel l shaped marks in groups of three or four, identical to marks expected from a m ul ti -thonged whip known to have been used by the Romans. The head shows a n umber of puncture wounds, the knees reveal cuts and bruises, and the f ace is covered with swellings and bruises. An oval wound in the right side measures an inch and three quarters
by seven -sixteenths, which corresponds to the k nown shape of the Roman lance. Both feet have pierced wounds, as does the left wrist. The other wrist is covered by the left hand but a flow of blood from the right is visible. Certain other anatomical details, such as positions of the thumbs (seen o nly in the threedimensional image analyser) and distension of t he abdomen, correspond with what is now known, but only within the last two centuries. about anatomical effects of crucifixion
Mr JACK WILLIAMS, formerly of Applecross and now at East Fremantle has had a long career in technical education and in education a dministration. He has been an adviser to the Catholic Education Commission and other school projects and is a past chairman of the C atholic Care For The Intellectually Handicapped.
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Trouble Briefs: grows in urban Peru
1-1OTTAWA — The Canadian bishops have c ongratulated the US bishops on their war and peace pastoral, calling the document "thoughtful, courageous and prophetic." Archbishop Henri Legare, president of the Canadian C onference of Cathol ic Bishops, said the bishops will encourage their people to read and study "this milestone in mankind's search for peace."
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LIMA, (NC) — A major escalation in urban sabotage by Peruvian guerillas and increasing government repression have put the country's Catholic Church in a difficult position during 1983. The Peruvian Bishops' C onference has made no public statements on the stepped-up violence, but a few of the bishops and many priests. Religious and lay leaders working among the poor are growing more and more concerned over the civilian government's response to the situation. Some of the government's actions, they say seem to be aimed at frustrating social action by the Church to help the poor rather than at countering terrorism. Pastoral workers in Lima's slums say police have picked up catechists and young community leaders in anti-terrorist sweeps in their areas. Last January Peruvian P resident Fernando Belaunde Terry attacked "certain foreign priests who use the pulpit to stir up the masses," and his press office said some priests were aiding the guerillas, an accusation the bishops' conference categorically denied. Although guerilla solutions find little support among Church workers, many believe the nation's most serious problem is the poverty of most of its citizens not terrorism. A few bishops have said the political violence has its roots in the misery in which many Peruvians live.
E pope has called on FIebanon's— the neighbours and other BEIRUT
interested parties to work together to assure the Middle Eastern nation its right to -decide its own destinyHe asked for prayers that Lebanon's leaders "may persevere with multiplied commitment in the search for reconciliation and national accord." The Lebanese people were "discouraged and exhausted by disappointments and sufferings,- he said
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diocese and the Episcopal (Anglican) diocese of Milwaukee was signed at a prayer and worship service in All Saints Episcopal Cathedral. The ecumenical document, co-signed by Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland and Episcopal Bishop Charles T. Gaskell, is intended to promote active cooperation not only between the dioceses, but between individual Catholic and Episcopal parishes. The 300-word covenant calls on Catholics and Episcopalians "to strive for the removal of any existing obstacle to union while supporting and preserving the traditions of each other."
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ATICAN CITY — From a new heart, eace is born is the theme of the 1 984 World Day of Peace. The pope chose the theme to stress his belief that conversion of hearts was " 'the basic path toward the attainment of peace which is being gravely threatened in many parts of the world In spite of this, he said, "the undertakings promoted by governments, institutions and international organisations, as well as the mobilisation of thousands of individuals, groups and Churches in f avour of peace, encourage one to have hope." The annual World Day of Peace observance was started by Pope Paul VI in 1 968.
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ANS SALVADOR — Persecution Salvadoran Government security f orces is the biggest problem in Church associated refugee camps in El Salvador, said Eileen Purcell, who visited some of the camps. Ms Purcell was one of six menbers of a delegation sponsored by the Salvadoran Humanitarian Aid, Research and Education Foundation (SHARE) to investigate conditions at camps administered and supported by the San Salvador archdiocese. 0 0 0
Soviet Christian in an appeal VANCOUVER, (NC) — A group of Soviet Christians h ave appealed to the a ssembly of the World Council of Churches for a "helping hand" against Soviet persecution.
agandistic," said the appeal. "Arguably, some of the Church leaders are genuinely convinced such policies preserve the Church from even greater pressure by hostile forces." WCC officials said the appeal would not be taken up by the assembly, meeting in Vancouver, because only delegates to the meeting could bring issues to the assembly floor. "This is in no way an attempt to minimise the appeal," said Ninan Koshe, head of the WCC International Affairs Commission. "We take it seriously."
The appeal was forwarded to the assembly by England's Keston College, which monitors religious affairs in communist -ruled countries. It came from Valdimir Rusak, a Russian Orthodox deacon, and the Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers' Rights. The appeal criticised the Soviet church delegates at the WCC Of the 850 delegates at the assembly as pawns of the commu- assembly, 143 came from Soviet nist government. bloc countries "The aim of the Soviet authorities They were mostly Russian in using the Church is purely prop-. Orthodox,. Lutherans and Baptists.
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EROME — More than 130 Dominicans ill meet in Rome beginning on August 29 to elect a new leader and to discuss the topic of Marxism. The 134 representatives of the Order's 7200 priests and Brothers plan to review a study paper on Marxism prepared by 10 Dominicans from nine countries who specialise in the subject. Also on the agenda is the election of a successor to Father Vincent de Couesnongle, 66, as Dominican Master General.
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BRUSSELS — While urging new and repeated initiatives in disarmament talks. Belgian bishops have defended Belgium's plan to install 48 cruise missiles if those talks fail. "The Gospel is against violence but also makes it an obligation to defend one's brother. Non-violence cannot exclude legitimate self-defence," said Cardinal Godfried Daneels of MalinesBrussels who presented the message The statement said, -We ask in the coming months, new and repeated initiatives be taken so that the present disarmament talks succeed.It referred to Pope John Paul's 1982 message to the United Nations, in which he said, "If dissuasion based on the balance (of forces) can still be judged morally acceptable, it surely cannot be as an end in itself but as a stage toward gradual disarmament The presence of nuclear weapons, then, is acceptable only if linked to a move for disarmament. the Belgium bishops said. 0 0 0
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The Spanish bishops in attack on abortion law MADRID, Spain (NC) — Spain's Catholic bishops have condemned as "morally u njustifiable - an effort by the nation's Socialist government to legalise abortion in certain cases. A statement by the 72 bishops said that the government has a n "unavoidable duty - to protect the right to life. "No human right, least of all the right to life, can be sacrificed in the name of a supposed common good," the statement said. "The consequences of the legalisation of abortion would corrode the human and ethical foundations of civil life." The latest document w as the second strongly worded criticism of the proposed abortion legislation to be issued by the Spanish bishops. On February 5 the bishops' conference said abortion under a ny circumstances w as murder and
called the legislative p roposal "gravely u njust and total ly unacceptable." The proposed law would allow abortion in cases of rape, malformation of the feotus or danger to the mother's life. The approval of two special ists would be required for abortion in the latter two categories. The Socialist government is relying on its
parliamentary majority to pass the new law. The current abortion law, although r arely enforced, provides long prison terms for those who perform or undergo abortions for any reason. Between 1979 and 1982 a trial of 11 persons charged with illegal abortions was the object of national protests by feminist groups.
V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II called for non-violence and dialogue in Chile the day after a teenage girl was killed and 565 protestors arrested there in demonstrations against the regime of President Augusto Pinochet. The pontiff backed the Chilean bishops' call to Pinochet to open up dialogue with his critics. During his weekly g eneral audience before more than 30,000 people in St Peter's Square, the p ope praised the "equilibrium and wisdom" of a June 24 statement by the Chilean bishops. He said the bishops urged critics of the Government "not to embark on the road to violence, even if with the intention of reaching goals of legitimate aspirations. "At the same time," he added, "they have called for the fulfillment of the requirement, binding on public powers, that effective instances of dialogue be granted. "In order to avoid acts of violence, 'it is
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V ATICAN CITY (NC) — The anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima contains a warning for scientists and for world leaders who make the choices between war and peace, according to Vatican Radio. It made a lengthy commentary to mark the 38th anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima which killed 120,000 people immediately and left thousands of others affected by radiation. "Since then, 38 years have passed, and while the world commemorates the innocent victims of that day, one cannot try to hide the f act that thanks to an ever more exasperating technology addressed to destruction rather than to the good of humanity, thanks to an unrestrained arms race, the current atomic arsenals are capable of destroying not only just one city with all its inhabitants, but the entire earthly globe and all of
Marcos drops detention
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Bomb a warning humanity many times over," Vatican Radio said. The commentary said the anniversary presented two "principal warnings" which "humanity can no longer pretend to ignore." "The first regards the responsibility of modern science and of the technology which is the fruit of such a science; the second, the responsibility of those who make the choices between peace or war," Vatican Radio said. These responsibilities "involve a precise moral choice: an option in favour of the progress of man and his happiness, or else of his destruction," the commentary added. Vatican Radio said it considered it "not only opportune, but indispensable" to recall Pope John Paul II's message at Hiroshima on February 25, 1981. "To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war," the pope said in 1981 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan. "To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace." Vatican radio also reported on ceremonies in Hiroshima marking the anniversary. Before 50,000 people in the city's Peace Park, Hiroshima Mayor Takeshi Araki called on the world's nuclear powers to work out an agreement for a "ban on experimentation, production, and installation of all nuclear arms and for their total abolition."
Balance is needed in Ian move WASHINGTON (NC) — Natural family planning c oordinators should not b ecome preoccupied with the reliability of methods, but should balance an emphasis on married love and responsible parenthood, said C ardinal Terence Cooke of New York, chairman of the Pro-Life Activities C ommittee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, at the f irst national meeting of diocesan coordinators of natural family planning.
Pre occupation with method " Because of the prerogative, nor do they r esponsibilities and risks have the right to take it of childbearing, a nega- on themselves. And the tive attitude has deve- child, who stands as a loped towards parent- t estimony of God's creahood — and often tive love, is also a lasting towards the chld," Cardi- t estimony of the love and nal Cooke said. "God has mutual commitment of c al led them to co- its parents. operate with Him in a "In your educational special way in the work ffort you must emphae of creation. Others who sise this," the cardinal are unmarried do not the 120 participants share this God-given told from 70 dioceses.
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PHILADELPHIA (NC) — More than 300 delegates to the Catholic ar %veterans national com ention unanimously voted "acceptance- of the US bishops' pastoral letter on w ar and peace pastoral. But they did so with strong reservations, and in separate actions The .eterans also supported the t hey backed positions opposed by cruise missile programme and the the pastoral. peacetime draft registration, issues The Catholic veterans opposed an on hich the pastoral took no direct immediate nuclear free7e and stance. backed development of the neutron \% illiam J Ciii. C‘N V executive bomb, issues on which the US administrator, said that the delebishops took the opposite stance. gates were really opposed to the
bishops' pastoral and their resolution was "ambiguous.But the group -didn't want to openly come out and defy the bishops.- he said. "%% e didn't want to stir up conflict within our Church.The actual "resolved- portion of the resolution declared the CNN % 's "intentions toward the comprehension and acceptance of this pastoral letter,"
\LA necessary to seek positive responses to the situations and to the conditions of violence," said Pope John Paul, quoting f rom the bishops' statement.
The curfew led to fewer street demonstrations than on two earlier days of protest, May 11 and June 14, in which at least five people were killed and thousands arrested.
The pope said he w anted to "make mine" the Chilean bishops' statement and asked the people at the audience to "pray with insistence and hope . . . that the commitment to truth, to respect for man, to love of justice and peace, may become the object and action of all, for the true temporal and spiritual well-being of the Chilean people."
Despite the curfew, unofficial tallies the next day counted 565 arrests and one death f rom the July 12 protests.
The bishops issued their statement on the second day of a national protest and illegal strike supported by a coalitin of labour unions and political leaders. While supporting the worker's need to have the right to strike, the bishops urged them to solve problems through negotiations.
The four-day strike in June and the public protest demonstrations have marked the strongest challenge to Pinochet's power since he took over in a military coup in 1973.
A location map showing the newly troubled Chile adjacent to a lready troubled A rgentina. On July 12, Pinochet's 1 0 -year military government tried to quash the third series of protests in as many months by imposing a curfew from 8pm to midnight.
P ope John Paul made no mention in his statement of the r ecent arrests of Gabriel Valdez, president of the Christian Democratic Party in Chile; Rodolfo Seguel, p resident of the C opper Workers' Union; Jorge Lavandero, a former senator; and Jose De G regorio, secretary general of the Christian Democrats.
Civilians killed S AN SALVADOR: More than 2,500 Salvadoran civilians were killed in the first six months of 1983 by security forces and death squads allied with the military, according to figures gathered by Tutela Legal, the human rights monitoring agency of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, El Salvador.
to security forces and their allies is 2,527. "Only corpses and shellshocked survivors will be left in El Salvador," said Father Delgado.
Zimbabwe violence
H ARARE, Zimbabwe ( NC) — Zimbabwe's Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace has called for an end to renewed violence in the T he figures were southwestern province announced by Father of Matabeleland. It chiefly condemned Jesus Delgado during a Sunday homily at the arch- rebel activities but also diocesan cathedral. The urged the government priest is an aide to Archbi- "to show restraint in its shop Arturo Rivera justified efforts to bring t he situation under Damas of San Salvador. control. The statement of the commission, the human rights arm of the ZimS tatistics babwe Catholic Bishops Conference, was notably Father Delgado said it less critical of the was more difficult to government than a stateobtain statistics on atroci- ment last March by the ties by guerrillas but that bishops of Zimbabwe. a rchdiocesan figures The difference in tone showed they had killed 43 apparently reflecting civilians. government efforts since The exact figure for Janu- then to restrain army ary through June 1983 for personnel in the procivilian deaths attributed vince.
He said natural family planning directors must not take a technological approach, but should emphasise the dignity of the person and human sexuality.
Contemporary "In the contemporary world, especially in developed countries, sexuality is often trivialised, as is evidenced by the growing tide of pornography. in the promotion of sexuality permissiveness, in t he increase of out -of wedlock pregnancy, in t he efforts to legitimise homosexual and lesbian unions and place them on a par with the marriage union," the cardinal said. "In addition, the promotion of contraception — i ncluding sterilisation and abortion — drives t he wedge between the t wo purposes of conjugal l ove — that is, a deepening of conjugal intimacy and an openness to procreation. In effect, many people become victims of the contraceptive mentality and seek only the t echnological ly most efficient and effective m ethod of avoiding procreation." Natural family planning i s "not simply another method of birth control," Cardinal Cooke said.
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ADDIS ABBABA. --- US Catholic Relief Services has increased its assistance to the famine stricken people of northern Ethiopia, said Press co-ordinator Beth Griffin. The emergency programme, now valued at $2.3 million, provides f ood, medicine, seeds and b lankets for about 70,000 people in the T igray province of Ethiopia. A ssistance has more than doubled from Si million in aid for May and June. CRS is centring its emergency assistance in Mekele, a town whose population has tripled to 100.000 with the influx of people fleeing drought c onditions in the countryside. The continued lack of rain has prevented many f armers from planting seeds for the autumn harvest. Instead, they have eaten the seeds to prevent starvation. CRS has initiated a supplemental seeding programme, using food donated by the US Government and the E uropean Economic Community.
Veterans contest orders ruling PHILADELPHIA (NC). -- US Catholic war veterans have taken exception to interpretations of the bishop's pastoral letter by Archbishop John R Quinn of San Francisco and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit as to whether a Catholic soldier can disobey an order to participate in launching a nuclear weapon in wartime. Spokesman Gill said the CVVV is concerned about who is going to teach the bishops pastoral to Catholics. "Are they going to turn it over to some nuns and schoolteachers?" he asked. He said he was concerned people who taught the pastoral would not have the right credentials, such as a theology degree, to teach it properly.
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KNOW YOUR FAITH • A good self-image. • An attitude of "You are great.! am great and together we are the greatest.• Honest communication that doesn't duck problem areas. Those are some key ingredients of good marriage, explained four members of a Separated and Divorced Support and Growth group in Manitow oc. Wis. In an interview for the Compass, the Green Bay diocesan newspaper, the four members, John Cotter, Fay LeCoque, Sharon McConnell and Jim R owntree, discussed problem areas in marriage and offered some practical suggestions from their own experience. All are self-supporting single parents; one is a college student. All agreed on the importance of premarriage preparation in which the realities of marriage are discussed, w hether through Engaged Encounters or through premarital inventories. Here are some of their suggestions for couples. By Marcie Baer
Quiet moments alone are especially important once children arrive and life becomes e ven busier.
I. Communicate honestly. Mrs McConnell warned against k eeping everything "sugary and spicyhile dating. There may he a lot of things that are irritating to one or both persons. She recommends getting these on the table before walking down the aisle. Air the irritating molehills before they become mountains. Ms Le(oque agreed. For problems have to be dealt w ith sooner or later. Some people don't want to say any-thing about problems for fear of hurting the other's feelings or for fear the) might lose the partner. But if it's real love, that won't happen, Cotter said. Sometimes people keep silent about a problem because they want to keep the peace or don't want to rock the boat. They close their eyes, in effect, and figure if they don't talk about the situation, the problem will go away . But problems don't so easily go a way, the four agreed. 2. Be sure what the motivation for marriage is. The four members of the group think that it is in the home, as children, that people first learn how to corn-
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municate their love. Sometimes, if love is not communicated well at home, young persons will rush into a marriage hoping to find a replacement for the love they missed as a child. 3. Discuss goals. Mrs McConnell considers this an important part of the premarriage preparation, and includes such goals as careers, raising a family and finances. She also thinks a couple needs to have a fair number of things they like to do in common. 4. Continue to work at a relationship after the wedding day. One problem pointed to by Cotter is the tendency. to become complacent. In his words, people figure: "%% ell, we're married now. %N e can sit back, t ake it easy and relax and everything w ill be hunkey dorey .- But that's not true. A couple has to keep working at being married, he cautioned, "to w atch for the little chinks in the armour.5. Couples should become friends. This means taking the time to get to know and respect each other. And t ake a careful look at the home situation, the four suggested. Some kids has e problems with relationships w hile they are grow ing up. said Cotter. ".And many times these problems carry over into adult life and can affect their relationship with other people." Take a look at how the other person relates, not only to his or her family and friends, but also to acquaintances and strangers, he suggested. Another troublesome area can be pinpointed when a relationship becomes too exclusive. A healthy relationship allows room for friends, the four suggest. .And each partner should be helped by a marriage to continue growing. For each partner has his or her own identity, even though there is one marriage. finally the four observed that marriage is a serious commitment in which, there must be friendship, love, trust. faith. The key, they suggested. is honest communication before and after the wedding.
Once upon a time B Y BOB DYLAK
Once upon a time most people were married in the bride's church on Saturday morning. Family and friends of the bride sat on one side of the church; the groom's on the other.Inever knew why. Grooms wore dark suits. If the wedding was formal he wore a white tuxedo in the summer, a black one in other seasons. Grooms usually looked nervous. B rides wore long white growns with w hite veils and carried f lowers. They threw t he flowers away s hortly after the c eremony. Brides looked beautiful — and nervous. Both bride and groom were confident they would "live happily ever after." During that time you could have gone to a wedding in Cleveland on one weekend and t ravelled the next w eekend to a wedding in San Francisco or New York. The ceremonies would have r emained the same. O ne reason I 'm 8
happy to have been married for about 22 years is that our wedding took place in the "old days". We didn't have to worry too m uch about the ceremony. We set the date, met with the pastor a few times, talked a little bit about music and the fact that a lot of non-Catholics would be at the Mass. It was easy. W hen my fiancee walked up the aisle, I k new she'd follow the white carpet and I'd take her hand and walk to the altar. Mass would be celebrated, vows exchanged and rings given as signs of our pledge. The whole procedure was as predictable as our parents a nd grandparents' w eddings, and as beautiful. A fter the middle
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1960s things changed. Organs often were replaced by guitars, s ometimes of the electric variety. Grooms sported tuxedos of all styles and hues. At times the groom didn't bother with coat and tie. Brides didn't think t hey had to wear white; some didn't even wear a veil, opting for a little hat or a garland of flowers. There were some nice surprises. A t one ceremony, the bride and her sister composed verses for traditional music that brought a mist to my eyes. Some of the r esponses were sung by three young ladies and accompanied by a classical guitar. A nother wedding f eatured tambourines, bells, flutes, horns and a piano. A t one wedding the bride and groom were devotees of classical music. We took our seats in the little church while a string quartet played light classical pieces in front of a side altar. Throughout the next decade, many people in society at large used
a wedding to express more than their faith and committed love for each other. People married while parachuting out of planes or swimming under water. They married in parks, on beaches and fields. During this era I attended a ceremony in a wooded grove along an Iowa river. T wo young people declared themselves husband and wife in front of an Indian teepee. A minister dressed in buckskin performed the ceremony and the only music was the beat of a drum as twilight slipped into darkness. The couple brought sincerity and seriousness to the ceremony that gave it dignity. But things seemed to mellow out after the mid-1970s. In church weddings, c ouples learned to work with priests and ministers and vice versa in planning liturgical celebrations. C ouples wanted a ceremony meaningful t o themselves but became more aware of the communal nature of weddings.
But some other things changed too. P astors and parents c ame to appreciate that marriages involved a lot more than a ceremony. Many dioceses adopted policies aimed at helping couples become more aware of some of the fuller dimensions of a sacramental marriage. We all learned that, in accordance with Church teaching and tradition, the couple is key to the sacrament. We've learned there are important aspects of the marriage that e ndure over the decades. Faith. The man and woman come to pledge their faith in each other and in God. They announce their love and respect for each other through their Church and to the community. They ask the blessings of their Church and the prayers of their community. T hat faith hasn't changed. Neither has important aspect of weddings — one that couples have shared since the first wedding. Everyone joins in the hope that the newlyweds will live happily ever after.
D ivorce has become so rampant that it's no wonder many young adults seem to shy away from marriage today. But my marriage hasn't meant terrible things for me. Manage for me has meant that I have truly been blessed. For I am married to a saint, a real one.
And one of her greatest virtues is the way she has put up with me for more than 25 years. During a morning Mass recently. something a priest said in a homily brought to my mind what a goodperson my wife, Mary, really is. For a moment Ifelt like leaving the Mass to go home and embrace her and tell her how much Iloved her. Sometimes I think too many husbands and wives don't tell each other enough how much they love one another. During that same morning Mass I reflected on the experiences Mary andIhave had together in more than 27 years. . . Working together in Denver at the old Register System of Catholic .Vewspapers where we _first met. . . Helping to organise unions in different places, with the troubles and difficulties that can create. . . Discovering she had tuberculosis when she became pregnant the .first time, and the effort size went through to hide that .from her sick mother. A dopting an .4 merican Indian baby boy and then a black baby girl. . . and the hassle that brought . . . A close relative saying he would never talk to us again as long as he lived (he since has changed). . . Some friends declining to
By James Fiedler act as sponsors at the' baptisms of those two infants.. . Our work with a Catholic interracial council in New Mexico years ago. .. The demonstrations, the protests and the hitter attacks those can cause. .. Working with migrant farm workers. . . My having to travel hundreds of miles, often taking my wife and children along . . . Then her illness which began wills a loss of hearing. .. The discovery that she had a brain tumour.. . . Months spent in a hospital. I shall always remember her doctor phoning me one evening and telling me she had only a .few hours to live... Her slow recovery. A neurosurgeon told me:" Perhaps it was a miracle. We doctors don't know everything." Mary is still paralysed slightly on the right side. Her hand doesn't work as it once did. (Size used to enjoy playing the piano.) She has to walk very cautious/v. But she takes care of the house. the .four kids, the cooking, the shopping. the laundry — and me. And she does that so well that we all too often taken her efforts .for granted.
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I remember her sensitivity and understanding and courage whenIgot myself into a job Idisliked. "Let's go hack to Denver." she said simply. So we packed up our belongings, ourfour kids and went back to Denver without a job. And there is her tremendous innate sense of Christian justice, ofsocialjustice. She's generally what some people call shy. Mars- is not as garrulous as Iam. But Ican tell when someone at a party or meeting or a get-together has .said something to offend her sense of justice or decency. She gets a small red rash near the bottom of her neck. There is also her great talent finbeing able — at least eventually -- to get me to laugh at myself: to not take myself too seriously. Too often I'm the type that gets up on a ladder, realises he has forgotten the screwdriver and then tries to blame everyone else for that. Those are a few of the experiences that have given my marriage so much meaning.for me. Perhaps, if I try harder, rny wife's gentleness, her goodness. her being another Christ to those around her, will help me — and our children — to become saints also. Iknow there are many other beautifitl wives and mothers in this world. But Mary has been really special.for me. And I don't tell her that often enough.
For a marriage to be successful couples must take time out not just to talk to each other, but to listen to each other.
The couple said to the priest, "We would like to give a gift to the Church. Is there something you can suggest?" The priest answered, "You are the best gift of all." That may not be a standard answer. But it strikes at the heart of the sacrament of marriage in a Christian community. It is marvellous to witness the courage of men and women as they stand before the community and publicly exchange promises of enduring love and fidelity. In a society which places much emphasis on making and renewing contracts, people might wonder what the terms of a Christian contact of marriage are. The marriage in Christian terms is more than just a contract between two people. It is a community festival which celebrates gifts from God and the human response to those gifts. A wedding festival is as much for family, friends and members of the church as for bride and groom. A marriage links man to woman; it joins one family to another; it is a bond which strengthens the Church at large. Marriage celebrates a commitment. The contract is not just between two people but between two people and a community. So it is celebrated publicly and planned carefully. A parish may have many weddings every year. But each is special because each couple is unique. Usually the planning is done by the couple, a priest or deacon and at least one music minister. Here I offer some reflections on celebrating a wedding as a community event. I hope they prove helpful. A gathering of the community is something special. So it is heartwarming when people are welcomed at the church entrance, especially when the bride and groom are there to express the greetings. Oh. I know it is considered bad luck f or the bride to be seen at this point. But could this hospitable gesture come to be seen as a sign of good luck? It is an opportunity for the couple to say, "We are so glad that you are here to celebrate with us.- (The music at this point is festive, serving to get people into the mood for the celebration.)
For many couples the wedding celebrations represent the end of months of planning and organisation, but in reality it is only the beginning, the beginning of a life together. It is this aspect of a marriage that is very rarely planned for. Hours of e ffort are put into the church, the dress, the guest list . . . the music, but how many couples are prepared to put as much time and effort into the planning the spiritual and emotional side of marriage?
By Father Richard Stephen Vosko Then, I wonder: Are wedding processions really marches for women only? Where are the men? Tradition. Right? But maybe everybody in the wedding party could come in together. Whose wedding is it anyway? (The minister for the wedding is often part of the procession.) A nd why is the bride given away to the groom if everyone is created equally? Maybe both sets of parents or representatives from each family could exchange greetings at the end of the procession and gesture to the bride and groom to go ahead together. E veryone sits for the readings from Scripture. Yet many churches still use kneelers for the bride and groom. Why do they have to kneel when everyone sits? The gown. You cannot wrinkle the gown. But at this time of the wedding festival, it makes little sense to kneel, even in terms of adoration. When family and friends sit together with the bride and groom, the community nature of the event is seen more clearly. Now is a time to listen to Scripture. There are other times during the wedding rite for contemporary readings or poetry. All this takes practice, but can be quite pleasing in the context of the community at prayer. After the homily, the invitation is made to the bride and groom to stand and share their consent with each other publicly. Signs of the contract are exchanged: a ring, a kiss, a hug. Joyful music is played and everyone breaks into song. The couple is embraced by family and friends before they pause to pray. They pray together not for themselves but for the community and its needs. The Liturgy of the Word is completed now and gifts are brought to the altar table if the Eucharist is to be celebrated. Bread baked by human hands and the luscious fruit of the vine are brought forward, perhaps by f amily and friends, to be offered to the Creator. Music and song can accompany this procession and preparation of the altar (perhaps also done by family and friends). The wedding party and all other rr ests are now ready for the Eucharistic I think care should be taken so that the location of the wedding party does not exclude anyone from the notion of gathering around the table of the Lord. Sharing in the Eucharist is a sign of being in union with God and others. It is a bit like eating and drinking a good meal with family and friends.
It takes time to plan well Several years ago, a girl friend came to m y daughter for sympathy and comfort. She felt that she and her fiance were running into "ridiculous interference" from the Church in their plans to marry. Their parish priest was even s uggesting they postpone their wedding for at least six months, she said. In response to my daughter's questioning. the 18-year-old girl said the priest was concerned because she and her fiance had only known each other for a few months and also because of her age. He wanted them to take the time for e xtensive premarital counselling, she said. Highly indignant, the young woman added that she and her fiance were thinking about getting married outside the Church. After all, she stormed. "We know we love each other. What more do we need?" What that young couple encountered in the priest w ho advised them was the Church's intensified e fforts to provide engaged couples with a more realistic kind of premarriage education.
By Katharine Bird Today, in line with the renewal in the Church fol-1 owing the Second Vatican Council, many dioceses in the United States have adopted policies which specify a period of preparation lasting anywhere from t wo to six or more m onths. A similar emphasis also is found in the emphasis on preparation for first penance. first Communion and confirmation. The policy of the Diocese of Fall River. Massachusetts, calls for a six-month period of preparation which "will not be reduced unless grave reasons exist." The guidelines, issued in 1982, call for a period of personal contact between the priest who will perform the wedding and the couple, supplemented by marriage preparation programme conducted by the diocesan Office ot Family Ministry. The Fall River guidelines emphatically discourage marriage w hen one person is a teenager
and state that special counselling services are necessary in such circumstances. In common with many other dioceses, the diocese does not consider pregnancy a sufficient reason for marriage. The Diocese of Pittsburg also implemented a new marriage preparation policy in 1982. Father John Price. director of the diocesan Family Life Office, said a six-month period will give the couple and the priest who will witness the marriage an adequate amount of time to plan the liturgy properly. And what happened to my daughter's young friend? Unhappily, future events proved the value of the priest's concerns. Though married in a Church wedding. that young couple encountered big difficulties in trying to live together. Today the young woman is the divorced mother of three small children and is struggling to earn a living.
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An Australian Sister of Mercy tra veiling overseas met an Irish Sister, a member of a small religious congregation. A sked by the latter to what order she belonged, the Australian replied that she was a Sister of Mercy. The amusing reply was: "A Sister of Mercy! Sure the Sisters of Mercy are using up all the air in Ireland! This was surely a quaint, goodhumoured, although slightly backhanded compliment to the numerical strength of the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland. Perhaps too it could be seen as an unconventional way of alluding to a wider phenomenon that many have seen as one of the miracles of the modern Church, namely, the extraordinary and rapid growth of t his religious congregation founded in Dublin on December 12, 1831, by Catherine McAuley. In 1981 when the Sisters of Mercy celebrated the 150th anniversary of their foundation, their members numbered 25,000 and constituted the largest congregation of religious women in the English-speaking world, and the second largest in the world. Their communities are to be found in Ireland, England, Scotland, the United States, Central and South A merica, South Africa, East A frica, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Guam, Papua New Guinea and India
The first foundation of the Sisters of Mercy was made by Mother Ursula Frayne in Perth in January, 1846. The chapter in the book, Leaves From the Annals Of The Sisters of Mercy (published in New York in 1883) which tells the story of this f oundation is entitled. In Australian Wilds, 1845. The author gives an unprepossessing picture of the distant land: "Australia was not then the land of the golden fleece, but a terrible plague spot, sparsely settled with convicts, ticket -of -leave men, liberated prisoners, runaways, and the cannibal aborigines, not one of whom had been reclaimed. When the spiritual destitution of this unsavoury region was made known in Baggot Street, volunteers rose up from whom Mother M . Cecilia Marmion selected Mother M. Ursula Frayne, Sister M. Catherine Gogarty and four others, and introduced them to Archbishop Murray as the first Australian missioners." When the Sisters arrived in the Swan River Colony, they found a daunting situation. Literally, no provision had been made for them, and, after their reception in the rough, shingle roofed church, they stepped out to the street, homeless. At length, lodging was found with a Protestant lady, and then, after a few weeks the Sisters moved to a cramped rented cottage, the first Convent of Mercy in Australia, called, appropriately, the Convent of the Holy Cross.
For the first three weeks the school, which started on February 2, 1846, had only five children. The number grew to 50 within three months, largely because many Protestant parents sought to enrol their children with the Sisters. At that time the Catholic community was barely 300, and these were scattered widely among the struggling 4,600 people who made up the entire population of this, the poorest of colonies. In those days, much of the work of t he Sisters revolved around instruction of adults, immediate relief of the poor and the care of orphans.
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The Mercy Order In a rapidly changing world the Mercy Order is still running to get ahead, with the thrust of Vatican II behind them. For Sister Elizabeth there is still ground to be made up and the ideal place to be made up and the ideal place to be is just a little in front, where change can be instigated, and not just coped with. "We must be the people of hope," she says, "it's part of our mission."
Mother Ursula Frayne, the superior of the first band of Mercy Sisters to come to WA in 1846.
Picture of the Mercy Sisters in the Australian 'wilds' So great were the hardships of the early Sisters that Sister M. Vincent Whitty sent money for them to return to Ireland. They resolved, however, to resist t his tempting invitation and devoted their money to the building fund. The Mercy Congregation did indeed prosper. The school grew through the years and has become Mercedes College in present days while several other foundations were established from the Victoria Square base.
There was a further foundation from Ireland at Victoria Park and the Adelaide Sisters of Mercy established a community on the goldfields of Coolgardie which had several off -shoots in the hey-day of the mining developments. Bishop Gibney, who succeeded to the See of Perth in 1887, did not favour a system of branch houses dependent on a central mother house, and, under his influence, the various foundations from Victoria Square became independent. They developed on their own lines until, under a new policy, initiated by Archbishop Clune, there was a general amalgamation of the individual groups in the 1930's. West Perth, however, chose to retain its independent status and became a member of the Australian Federation of Sisters of Mercy in 1956. By 1981 there were 3,000 Sisters, Australia-wide, ready to enter a new phase of history in a united Australian Institute. In a booklet produced for the 150th anniversary by Sister Marie Anselm Gaudry RSM it was said: "The challenge facing the new Institute is the perennial one of
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every Sister of Mercy: how to respond with the compassion and merciful love of Christ to the poor, the needy, the wounded, the dispossessed. "But the challenge to translate Catherine McAuley's passionate desire to serve the suffering poor is being faced in a national and world environment vastly different from that experienced either by our pioneer Sisters, or by their successors in the period of growth and the cosolidation which dominated the first half of the century. "Today's Australia -- sophisticated, urbanised and strongly secularised; an affluent nation on the border of Third World misery; a country with growing political and social cleavages; a society with many marginalised victims (Aborigines, the aged, the sick, poor, single parents, migrant women,
unemployed youth) — holds out many daunting challenges to the Sisters of Mercy to find new ways to meet new needs. "In one sense, however, this is what Sisters of Mercy have always done: they have responded with practical resourcefulness and compassion to need whenever and wherever it presented itself. "They will do so now, relying on that same 'marked Providential guidance' which has accompanied them through the first 150 years of their history. "To inspire them in a singlehearted dedication to their work as ministers of God's merciful love, they have the utterly simple, yet profoundly spiritual, words of Catherine McAuley, on her deathbed: "If the Order be my work, the sooner it falls to the ground the better. If it is God's work, it needs no one "
In a rapidly changing world the Mercy Order is still running to get ahead, with the thrust of Vatican ll behind them. For Sister Elizabeth there is still ground to be made up and the ideal place to be is just a little in front, where change can be instigated, and not just coped with. "We must be the people of hope," she says, "it's part of our mission." "There's a call to promote the dignity of the human being. If that is not reflected it's a visionless society. "We are called to reflect that by getting out and doing our job, by becoming part of the market place but still retaining our contemplative aspect." Where once you would have f ound the Mercy Sisters in schools, hospitals and welfare institutions, now they are spreading wider and moving into the areas of pastoral care, counselling and religious coordination. There's a move to help the 'new poor', the elderly, single parents, youth, Aborigines, handicapped and to forge new missions in industrial chaplaincy and counselling in mining towns. "There is a greater emphasis on personal gifts," Sister Elizabeth said. "We try to find a job that suits the talents of the person, provided it is within the mission of the Church, in the spirit of the Order, and of course, that there is a need for it." When Sister Elizabeth addressed the Bishop's Conference, she was speaking on behalf of all religious. Much of her message had been formulated from a previous conference of Major Superiors. "They asked me to put forward the ideal of a new and broader understanding of the ministry," she said.
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UIDSILYN UCSS "There is a feeling that the only ministry really recognised by the Church is that of the ordained but there is a wider role which includes the laity and women religious and we wish to be recognised." The question of women's roles in society is much broader than the Church, she says, but at the same time the Church needs to be more aware of the complementary role that women have. "The laity and women are often seen as secondary to the mission of the Church," she said. "I don't believe it is Church policy a s such, it is just something that has evolved through cultural and social pressures. "Women are looking for equality in all areas but I'm not saying we have to have women ordained as priests. What I want is a greater understanding of the wider range of ministry. "There are plenty of jobs to be done and we don't have to do them the same way." Many of the questions were first asked when Vatican II called the religious to renewal, and the changes soon followed. Since then we have had gradual but steady development, Sister Elizabeth said. While fewer are joining the Order, the enquiries are coming from older women in their mid-20's to 30's and the rate of enquiry is increasing. In years past, young girls would join the Order straight from school, but Sister Elizabeth would no longer accept such applicants. "I just wouldn't take a girl out of school," she said. "I feel it is important to have experience of life, even more so now than before. In fact many of the women who left the Order in the Seventies had joined from school."
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Sister Perpetua of Nanson Street community.
Society, says Sister Elizabeth, doesn't seem to have caught up with the 'new nun'. "People still see us in terms of 30 to 40 years ago," she said. Apart from obvious changes, such as less formal habit, Mercy Sisters have forged a new place for themselves. Perhaps, says Sister Elizabeth, we are at fault for having failed to communicate the new identity of religious women today. B ecause the clothing has changed, the Sisters are less recognisable, but they dress more in the spirit of their foundation: "When Catherine McAuley founded the Order the Sisters wore the dress of the day." she said
just ahead of the thrust of Vatican II
'We must be people of hope...'
The last thing she is worried about is numbers. Filled with optimism f or the future, she says, perhaps there will be fewer Sisters, but the commitment will be greater and the dedication stronger. She believes that people are f rightened of commitment in the modern world. "We can see it in their attitude to jobs and marriage, - she said. "I'd like to meet this half way and encourage young women to join the Order for a couple of years." This, she says, would perhaps open the doors to many who are wary about making long-term commitments. She believes women have unique qualities that make them suited to change and as such are better able to cope with the modern world. Women religious especially are freeing themselves to meet the challenges head-on. Discussing the theme of apostolic spirituality at the May meeting of Superiors General in Rome, many of those present felt that the Orders founded for apostolic work had been limited in the past by the monastic structures which had been erected around them. Called the 'walking nuns' when they were first founded, the Mercy Sisters were later to become separated from the world following pressure from Church leaders. It was a pressure that was not applied so decisively to male Orders. C onsequently, breaking the bonds of the past has proved to be a joyful and exciting process.
There's an infectious enthusiasm a s the Sisters answer the call to be more involved and set out to become co -creators of the world, fashioning and moving as they work as contemplatives in action. It's a much freer life, says Sister Elizabeth. The door to the Convent of Mercy in Mosman Park is always open. Visitors come and go, many stay f or a friendly meal and some stay on as guests. "It's a very exciting time and I'm glad to be alive," smiles Sister Elizabeth. "I'm glad too that I have been able to experience the old and the new.
eN160.*/ 4 "I totally believe in the religious way of life and feel there is a great need for such people. We have a freedom to move through various groups that is invaluable. We are free to devote our time to others. There's a great trust in us and I feel that deeply," she said. The call, she says, is to be a very human, joyful person — full of hope in a material world, ever -ready to meet new needs. In the spirit that brought the small band of Mercy Sisters from Ireland to Perth in the 1840's, so the Sisters of today have answered a cry for help. Three Mercy Sisters moved to Mount Newman earlier this year in a bid to bring a listening ear and c omforting shoulder to the families
that live there. With the men spending much of their time in pubs and clubs, young women are left alone with small children . . . day in and day out. There are no aunts, no uncles, mothers or grandmothers, only hundreds of other women like themselves. It's a new and valuable mission for the Sisters, but it's not the only one. "Another way we are responding is to set up task forces which move into a parish for about six years and establish the parish community and a local school," Sister Elizabeth said. " At the end of that time the Sisters leave and the work is continued by trained lay people." They successfully completed such an exercise at Greenwood and are now into a fifth year at Lynwood. "It's a good way to utilise a few resources," Sister Elizabeth said. "Once we would have moved into a community for 70 or 80 years but we don't have the numbers anymore and anyway, the needs are different." With the emphasis on quality, not quantity and the full development of individual skills, the Mercy Sisters are moving into the 1980's with a new strength. Combining both mission and profession they are proving that having shaken off the restraints, the role for women religious is challenging, exciting and limitless. Catherine McAuley's 'walking nuns' are on the move again and this time they won't be stopped.
Sister Elizabeth Devine is Congregational Superior of the Perth Mercy Group, one of two groups in Western Australia. As such she is responsible for about 200 Sisters involved in education, welfare and healthcare. Her group is the third largest Mercy community in Australia. Sister Elizabeth was born in Ireland and entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy in Perth, in 1948. She trained as a secondary school teacher and has taught throughout WA; in New Guinea for 12 months and then on to complete a spirituality course in St Louis University, Missouri in the United States and an MA in religious education at Fordham University, New York. She was elected Provincial of Sisters of Mercy (Perth Province) in 1978 and is in the sixth and final year of her appointment. She attended the International Meeting of Superiors General in Rome in May and later that month presented a paper to the Bishops Conference of Australia on Ministry and Chnging Context in Australian Society. Here she talks about the new role for religious in a constantly changing world; and a modern direction for the Mercy Sisters. If you asked Sister Elizabeth, Where have all the Sisters gone?' she would no doubt reply: "Out into the world where they belong — and can do the most good."
Shroud: Is it genuine? • From page 5 Scorching The scientific team considered several theories to account for the yellowing of the cellulose in the linen fibres, including painting or dyeing, application of chemicals, action of body vapours, and scorching by heat or
Sister Dolores, one of the Mercy Sisters working with A borigines at Bililuna.
light. All except scorching were definitely eliminated. The technical results reported in the book led the authors and other scientists in the group to conclude the cellulose was dehydrated and thus y el lowed, in varying degrees, by some kind of scorching process. But none of them was able to suggest how a corpse in rigor mortis could provide the heat or light needed to produce any kind of scorch, in particular one which pro-
duced such a faithful image of the corpse and which contained latent t hree-dimensional information. The Shroud in history The history of the Shroud is reliably known since 1357 when it was publicly exhibited by the widow of a French soldier, Geoffrey de Charny, in a village near Paris. Later the widow bequeathed the Shroud to the Italian Savoy family, through which it passed to ex -king Umberto, the p resent owner, who placed it in care of the Archbishop of Turin. N othing definite is known of the Shroud before 1357 But a cloth image of the h ead of Christ, the Edessa image or Mandylion, is well documented from 525 to 1204 AD, when it disappeared in
known to have used a particularly venerated There is no evidence to object in their initiation cover the gap between ceremony — perhaps the the Mandylion in 1204 to Shroud folded only to show the head. the Shroud in 1357. Similarly a plausible stoBut a reputable history, again based on some rian, according to Stevhistorical facts, links the enson and Habermas, has Mandylion found hidden put up a plausible link in Edessa in 525 AD with supported by some fact he evangelisation of tual historical data. • Edessa in the first cenA leader of the sup- tury AD. pressed Knights TernThere is a legend the plars, Geoffrey de king of Edessa at that Charnay, was executed time was cured of leprosy in Paris only 50 years on sighting a cloth image before the death of de of Christ brought to him Charny and it is quite by Jude Thaddeus and possible the two sur- that he became a Chrisnames are spelling var- tian along with his iants of related persons' subjects. names. In later persecutions the The Knights Templars cloth was concealed to were present at the sack protect it. Three centuries later, it of Constantinople and t heir fortresses were is suggested, this is the commonly used for safe- cloth found well hidden keeping of valuables and in the wall of the city and which became known as relics. Also, the Knights were the Mandylion the sack of Constantinople.
Is the Shroud genuine? No scientist and no historian can prove the Shroud in Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus or the image on it is a negative picture of His body. The historical record before 1357 is quite weak. However, the cloth certainly presents an image of a man who died of cruficixion after being f logged, crowned with a spiked ring and speared in the right side. And the cloth is probably of first century origin in the Middle East. The image is certainly not the product of any known artistic process. My copy of Verdict on the Shroud came from Fremantle Public Library. I recommend this book to those who wish to make up their own minds on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin
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Need to speak plainly The need to speak plainly to ordinary people was among the important issues faced at the first Pontifical Council for the Family according to Dr Ron and Mavis Pirola, after their first meeting in Rome, earlier this year. Pope John Paul II called care of the family, and the ings, such as family "clus- them the truth, of which the meeting after writing apostolate of the family as ters". Family clustering is a she is neither author nor "Familiaris Consortio" an evangelising force in movement which encour- master." ages groups of families, "We believe this first and wishing to be further society. advised about the pastoral both adults and children, assembly of the council issues of family life. to come together for dis- was a good beginning," the cussion, leisure activities Pirolas remarked. "We The council is made up of Tragically have come back to Austranot just married people, and prayer. but "married couples". Initiatives from Austra- lia keen to consider every This is a most striking lia. such as the Study means to spread the vision comment according to the The first president of the Resource Kit of the of Familiaris Consortio as Pirolas. Twenty countries council was West Austral- Catholic Social Welfare widely as possible. were represented by mar- ian Cardinal James Knox. Commission, were shown ried couples at the council. Tragically, he suffered a at the meeting. Announcement of the sudden stroke just prior to A highlight of the assemSupportive new council was made in the meeting. He was too ill bly was a meeting with 1981, but its formation was to see the fruits of many Pope John Paul II. He delayed by the attempted months of preparation, stressed the powerful influ- "We are especially interassassination of the pope. and he died shortly after ence of family life, remind- ested to hear about any The role of the Pontifical the meeting. ing them that "the future of initiatives that succeed in The council saw the humanity passes by way of bringing our families A ustralian Antioch initiators Dr Ron and Mavis Pirola recently met Pope Council for the Family is to promote the pastoral need for supportive group- the family." John Paul II in Rome. together in a supportive He urged the couples to and learning framework." that are so ordinary and sexist about menial stay totally faithful to the Two years ago the Pirolas "Mothers cope best with teachings of the Church, w ere instrumental in repetitive. household tasks. tedious tasks", so says I asked a mother why I wonder if young peo- since "the very first service launching the Antioch proYouth Appeal director, she stuck at these many ple hope that the never that the Church must per- gramme, which has spread Pauline Stewart. boring jobs. ceasing waves of technol- form for people is to tell to several WA parishes. A mong the numerous There's no prize for ogy will eventual& elimibut boring tasks in runguessing the answer. It is nate every boring task' ning the recent appeal simply because of the Perhaps in my old age. it was the counting and stalove and care that moth- will be just "so boring" pling of some 80.000 ers have for their fami- pressing buttons on the receipts into separate lies. The tedious tasks are household computer. books for each collector. acts of love. With or without more Young people found the Thousands of times a technologyIhope young t ask difficult for mother can say "I love people learn the lesson an extended time while Jegorow, you." without uttering a from Jesus, that every Dear Father mothers quiet& plodded This is from someone word. task, no matter how away morning, noon and The same mother told small if done in His name, 'en much a grandmother. night. W hen ou asked some me that she considered it can be a share in His life Fm not surprised. It's w eeks "What is love?" back important to let her and love. our mothers who have I thought. "that's easy." children share in her I have found it helpful spent years washing, Love is what Christ tasks. (Not always thril- to pray for the person ironing, cleaning, dustt aught us and keeps on ling for the children.) In who will benefit from the ing. sweeping. cooking, doing so; Love is caring. her case the boys and particular thing that drying, shopping. . . and Write to P.O. Box girls took turns at dishes, requires my "boring" sharing, forgiving and forno sooner is the day's or bearing and above all else 194, North Perth. 6006 bathroom and lounge a attention. week's job done, it starts I wonder if mothers total absolute trust in God. It might be a worthwhile week about. all over again. dishes. Five shirts a week With both partners pray for their children, Complete faith is the hard- the readers do also. If a mother washed 10 equals over five thousand exercise for the mathemest to learn. dishes per day for twenty in the same time; no atical wizards to produce working.Iwas toldit was spouses, friends, as they Young people sometimes We are all born to be years, that makes a grand wonder the "drip dries" the statistics of all the important to prepare cook, iron. wash . . .Jesus saints and among the most thing that the whole world other household tasks young people not to be did total of some 73,000 are so popular.' special was my own has heard of the acronyms mother, and people in the like CPY, YCW, YCS. parish like Dianne Grantis T YCS and you have and her mum, Mrs Anto- pointed out that these letnia Van Vugt. and Father ters must be explained. George O'Leary and so often. Catholic Parish Youth very many others. (CPY) is our Movement If you do find time Father, will you tell me very own Archdiocesan please just what the initials y outh organisation Well Youth Appeal '83 is over . . . not with a bang but a whimper. CPY, YCW, YCS and _founded August 20, 1979. TYCS stand for. Also a The members aim to bring appeals which can only together for a good cause; much younger sister's son together the separate parThe money is still being deny however, that wha- they say. counted but when the final tever sum we receive, no Perhaps now is the time make us more successful we gained a modicum of has been receiving mail ish groups for regional and tally is reached it will be far matter how small, will be to be counting other gains. next year; we gained the humility perhaps, in recog- about "Antioch". Is that diocesan .functions, of a We gained experience in warmth and satisfaction of nising our inexperience another less than all of us had much appreciated. new movement spiritual and social nature. hoped for. No-one can Better than nothing as t he running of such many people working and inefficiencies and we starting in Subiaco Parish? Young Christian Workers gained a greater under- Yes, we know its the name Movement (YCW), estabstanding of just how of a city in the Middle East, lished in Perth in 1945 or important it is for all of us but that's all we do know. 46. aims to reach out to to work together, for the Since commencing this Young workers and enable common good. answer I realised it would them to understand their We have only just begun. take too long to answer w ork and their responsibilNow its time to form a your question; so I looked ity to workmates. parents, c ommittee for Youth again at the article, found _family and the world. Appeal '84. Young Christian Stua telephone number, The foundations for the dialled that and received in dents Movement, (YCS) appeal have been well laid think wasfounded in Perth reply a recorded voice. by this year's efforts. I thought, "That puts you in the mid-fifties and has We have learnt how hard back in your box Sheila," similar aims to the YCW, it is to get media coverage although it was well past except that it is a moveof a good news story. We business hours, you were ment for students at high have realised that youth still busy as are all priests school. organisations can canvass Tertiary Young Christian nowadays. the public purse. (TYCS) was _first Students We have realised that I've since been reading established in Perth in the the printed replies from many people are willing to young people. One or two late 70's and since January help voluntary agencies are puzzled, others really 1982 has had a full-time that care for the youth of worker, first Leonie Petappear to know. our city. God bless you and eve- terson and now Anne HarSome young people have ryone in your work for ris: the members are based learnt what it means to be youth. That is what is most main1y at the universities in the public eye and tell needed. and teacher training coltheir message to the world. leges and institutes. SHEILA WRIGHT. Workers from different A ntioch will be explained Dear Mrs Wright, organisations have made in these pages in coming You are so right in saying weeks. Please keep praying the first steps towards Meeting workers from other churches was one of the positive benefits of Youth Appeal '83. Pictured learning about each other that God's blessing is what for us all. Mrs Wright. is most needed, not only May God bless and keep left to right, Joe Tuffilli, (YCW) Todd Earnshaw (Uniting Church) Mark O'Sullivan (YCW) Jenny Binks and communicating. Let's keep on working, for youth work, but all you in the palm of His (Uniting Church) Justin Bianchini (YCW) Heather Rankine (Uniting Church) Rosamund MacFarlane learning and growing things. Ienjoyed your let- hand. (CPY) and Christina House (Ned/ands parish) all finding out about the YCW bi-monthly publication, ter very much andIhope together. Father Jegorow. Young Worker in Action.
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The story of Jonah
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Once upon a time the Jewish prophet Jonah heard the Lord talking to him. "Jonah," the Lord said, "go to the great city of Nineveh. Preach there. Tell the people their evil ways are known to Me."
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Jonah did not like what the Lord told him. "Nineveh is an evil city," he thought. "The c itizens of Nineveh are enemies of the Jews. Why should God care about such bad people?" Jonah decided to go in the opposite direction. He found a boat about to sai l to Tarshish. He paid his fare and got on board. The Lord saw what Jonah was doing. Once the ship got out into the deep, a storm came What's the difference What sort of noise does a over the sea. The winds and waves crashed between sitting on a wasp h orse make going against the boat. backwards? and a cowpuncher'? The sailors began to throw cargo overboard One stings the rear, the Cloppity clip, cloppity clip. to make the ship lighter. They discovered other rings the steer. What did the French What's the difference Jonah sleeping in the ship's hold. "What are you doing here?" the captain think of the English bow- between a square peg in a shouted. "Get up and pray to your God to save men at the Battle of round hole, and three pounds of lard? Agincourt? us!" Mat they were an arrow- One's afat lot ofgood, the The captain and sailors began to think the minded lot (a narrow- other's a good lot of fat. storm had something to do with Jonah. They minded lot). What monkey is like a t hought God was angry with Jonah. What happened when the flower'? Jonah began to feel guilty. He knew he was t wo cannibal tribes fought A chimp -pansy (chimpanzee). r unning away from the Lord. one another? "Throw me into the sea," Jonah told the The side that won made What did the caterpillar rnince-meat of the other. say to his young girl friend? captain. "Then the storm will end." The sailors aid not want to do that but the How do Eskimos stop LuverIv grub. Why are tattooists schemstorm continued to get worse. So they said a t heir mouths from ing people? freezing'? prayer and threw Jonah into the stormy seas. They grit Because they have design, their teeth. The Lord sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah. What does an ant become on others. For three days and three nights Jonah was in when it's angry? the belly of the fish. He prayed. A milit-ant. "I thank you, Lord, for saving me from the CUSTOMER (phoning): May I have a table for stormy seas.Congratulations to this The huge fish swam to the shore not far from dinner tonight? puzzle winner, week's Nineveh and spat Jonah out onto the shore. WITTY WAITER: A Natalie Thornton, of Girratable? Yes sir . . . How Then Jonah heard the Lord's voice again: "Go would you like it —roast, wheen. A book, courtesy of to Nineveh. Preach My word to its people." William Collins, has been boiled or fried? This time Jonah went straight to Nineveh JUDGE (After sentenc- sent out to Natalie. and walked through the great city shouting: "In ing prisoner): Have you 40 days Nineveh will be destroyed unless you anything to say? turn from your evil ways." PRISONER: Yes, your The people of Nineveh, from the king down honour. Since I'm being Welcome to our new to the lowest citizen, put on rough cloth and clapped in gaol may I ask members — Michael Terry, began a fast. They begged God to forgive them. when the applause will of Margaret River, and God saw their sorrow and forgave them. Their begin? What's the difference Emma Leahy, of Mount city was not destroyed. betwen someone rushing Lawley. But Jonah was not happy. In fact Jonah was to the railway station and angry with God for forgiving these people. an athlete preparing for a BIRTHDAYS "I knew You would do that," Jonah com- race? plained to God. "I knew that You are kind and One races for the train. Happy birthday to Fiona f orgiving and slow to anger. That's why I tried The other trains for the Broadhurst, Lesmurdie; Katherine Dias, Girrato escape. I knew You would forgive these race. When is an envelope like wheen; Natasha Dillon, awful people. Dianella; Lorna de Prazer, Jonah left Nineveh and built a hut outside a snooty person? Morley; Belinda Daily, the city. He sat in the shade of a large gourd When it's stuck up. What sort of meat did Medina; Nigel de Silva, plant. Jonah thanked God for the plant which Dracula particularly hate? Willetton; Yolande Gomez, protected him from the hot sun. But a worm Steak (stake). East Girrawheen; Justine came and ate the plant. What did the trampoline Harvey, Greenwood; Rick The hot sun beat down on Jonah's head until performer say? Jefferys, Braemar; Daniella he almost fainted. He cried out to God in anger. Life has its ups and Jones, Merredin: Alison "You are angry with Me, Jonah?" the Lord downs, but I always King, Woodlands; Gemma Migro, Samson; Nicholas a sked. "And just because a worm ate your bounce back. plant. You seem more concerned about a plant DOCTOR: From what and Jeremy McLernon, dying than about the people of Nineveh. Don't you tell me, you seem to Mundaring; Seven Peczka. have vertigo. Trayning; Paul Sanders, you think I should be more concerned with PATIENT: Not really, M anjimup; Bernard 1 20,000 people than with your plant? doctor. I only live in the Wyndham, Kalamunda; "My love and forgiveness go out to everyone, next street from here. Michelle Waters, Queens Jonah," the Lord said, "even people you do not What does a taxi driver Park; Natasha Kora, Morl ike.do? ley; Catherine Searle,
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OUR AS HABI-1 returned BUCKSHOT BANDIT to racing in fine style when looks as though he could he powered home from pick up a race in town after Ilth on the corner to finish he recorded another a close third to Cine Scene impressive victory at Bevin the Phar Lap Quality erley on Thursday. This S takes. Carrying top galloper should be hard to weight of 57 kg. Our beat in a graduation in the A shabit was very impres- city. sive and will be hard to THORONDOR showed beat in the future 3 yo he could be in fora successful campaign when he flew events. home to finish fourth BRAVO MENTO looked behind Beau Lyric in the very unlucky when held up Glad Foil Welter at Belfor a run and a fast finish- mont on Saturday. This ing third to consistent horse was unsuited by the Hanging In, in the Rosella 1300m of this race and he Lipton Stakes. At his next should be followed as the start he will be extremely distances of his races hard to beat. increase.
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Today (Sunday) is the 1983 annual general meeting of the Catholic Tennis Association a nd it will be included in an afternoon of tennis at the St Marks courts commencing at 1.30pm.
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four players, two male and two female, so start organising your teams now. As mentioned last meal and drinks, and week, the Queen dancing to a live band, Quest Dinner Dance It promises to be a will be held on Satur- good night so get your day, October 29 at the tickets early please! Celtic Club in West Another date to keep Perth. in mind is the AssociaAll clubs now have t ion championships tickets, which are very for juniors, seniors, reasonably priced at a nd veterans on the $18 a single, which October long weekincludes a four -course end.
Mercedes on top in finals
The Associated Catholic Colleges Netball Grand Finals were held last weekend with Mercedes College taking out the John Harman Shield, and results are as follows: gymnastics
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The Life. Be in it Sports of the Month are and roller skating. The final championships of the State Women's Artistic Gymnastics will be held at the Len Fletcher Pavilion in North Perth on August 27-28. August is the month of the Australian rhythmic gymnastics championships in Canberra starting on the 21st. Life. Be in it anti-hero Norm has taken up roller skating and invites all West Australians to join him for Norm's All-Day Skate on Sunday, August 21. To hemn it just make it to your local rink between 10am to 4pm. During A ugust there will be a range of Life. Be in it activities at roller skating rinks including chances to win a pair of speed skates. Entry forms are at all rinks. For further information on Life. Be in it activities telephone the Norm line on 11629 or Grant Donovan on 387 4400.
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S upport of all members is essential to make the day a success. The St Mark's courts are in Bedford a nd the tennis will be a novelty rules event. Please bring some afternoon tea if you f eel inclined. The next pennant series will commence in November and will R ACE ONE: I. Test Of RACE SIX: I Power be played on WednesGlory; 2. Bold Talent; 3. Play; 2. Rawita; 3. Blue day nights. Image. Teams wil l consist of Glamour Century. RACE SEVEN: I. R ACE TWO: I. Dappl Rose; 2. Paleface Pinto; 3. Hootenanny; 2. Calruin; 3. The Suntanner. Darsal Chief. RACE EIGHT: I . R ACE THREE: 1. AulDynamite Duke; 2. Mr fee; 2. Bethannie; 3. MulleToe Indoor; 3. Up The wa's Idol. Woods. R ACE FOUR: I. Round RACE NINE: I. Dixie Stage; 2. Large Score; 3. Beau; 2. Lucky Irish; 3. Ripper's Pick. Egyptian Prince. R ACE FIVE: I. Black RACE TEN: I. Speedy Cavalier; 2. Busy's Bullet; Delight; 2. Persian King; 3. Detonator Shell. 3. Darville's Pride.
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The association has again been fortunate in securing the Aquinas College courts for the competition. More details in the weeks to come.
The visual aspects of the production will also enable viewers to recall the highlights of each of the three preliminary rounds when votes are cast by umpires for the medal. Specially edited highlights from each round will be shown before counting starts for the round. The telecast this year will be hosted by Gary Carvolth with Peter Waltham calling the votes. The $25,000 Channel Seven Sandover Medal will be presented this year by Mr Frank Moss, a director of TVW 7 and the father of champion C laremont and WA ruckman, Graham Moss. The Channel Seven Sandover Medal offers the richest cash prize in Australian Rules Football with S20,000 to the winner, $3,000 to the runner-up and $2,000 to third place-getter.
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The missioners a t St Anthony's parish, Greenmount.
Mission iii in the hills
S t Anthony's Mission at G reenmount has just drawn to a close, and a very successful one it was too. T he first stage of a two weeks warm-up period involving visitations and host -homes with intimate groups meeting t ogether, exchanging their views, verbalising their Faith and getting to know each other in a friendly setting, did a lot to pave the way for the second stage. This last week represented Masses, prayers. sermons, Reconciliation and Benediction. The attendances were great and on the final Friday night a parish gathering in the community room was held, complete with an exhibition by St Anthony's Square Dancing Group.
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The friends of Father Tom Ryan CSSR gave him a rousing farewell last S unday when t hey lined the length of Perth Terminal when he left for the eastern states.' But there was a lot more to it than that. A Mission is a time of renewal, revitalisation of one's Faith, the stirring words by the Redemptorists, telling you what you already know or may have forgotten — but bringing it home in the charged air of a Missionary sermon. The vital story re-told in a different way, the great necessity to consolidate our marriages, our vocations in life, the revamping of our flagging r esolutions, a clearer view of our goals and directions. T he sermon on the V ocation of Marriage was nothing less than tremendous. In a sick and sorry world of disharmony, infidelity and brutality, it re anoints this sacred bond and glorifies, giving it a sanctity a true Christian m arriage so justly deserved.
St Anthony's has also just finished a nine week course on Catechetics. This course covered a wide range of topics which could probably be broadly summarised as C hristian Living and involved a study of Commandments and principles of moral training, The Eucharist - Sacrament of the sacrifice. Fundamental questions about Jesus, Tradition, M arriage, Conscience and Kindred Subjects, and a host of other allied topics. However, it was more than simply a lecture series with the group comprising mothers interested in learning more about t heir Christianity and thus enabling them to instruct their children more easily. Catechists and interested observers. A ll contributed and
What's on N ORTHAM E X -STUDENTS
The annual re-union of e x -students of St Anthony and St Joseph schools Northam will be held on Sunday September, in Perth. Age is no limit as is shown by those who attend. Last year the oldest ex student (87 yrs) present
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was Margaret Hegarty (nee Brennan). It is hoped that more of the younger generation will attend this year. Those interested can contact Eileen Tucker (A/h 2776065) Doreen Bullen (096221722) or Barbara Evans (3427273) for further information.
shared their own ideas, philosophies and values w hich broadened the general viewpoint. The learning and involvement arena was therefore more enjoyable and i nteresting for al l concerned. T he three lecturers, Father Alban from the Midland Parish, Father R ussell from Mundaring and Father Laurence of Greenmount, provided variety of input engaging a wide area of discussion. To finalise the series, a Mass was celebrated by F ather Laurence and three offerings of unleavened bread were made by participants to represent the three parishes and re-enact the realism of the First Communion Christ offered to His Disciples. Story by COLLEEN HOWARD Pictures by HERRAIN
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Father Ryan has transferred to the Redemptorist community which was established at Penrith last year and where he will be engaged in mission work. His departure was preceded by the usual Sunday evening Mass at which he has been celebrant for many y ears and during which the superior, Father Ryan and community members gave him a special parting blessing. Father Ryan had been in WA since 1975 and his significant work among youth began in 1977 when the provincial superior at the time, Father Owen R yan, now superior at North Perth, asked him to build up youth work at the Redemptorist church which already had the Shalomite singing group.
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C ATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE At the quarterly general meeting at League Headquarters on Wednesday August 24 at 1pm the president will give her r eport on the recent national conference held in Darwin. This will be very interesting, so all members
are invited to come along. A t 10.30am on the same day, the social committee will meet to finalise arrangements for all forthcoming functions. Those staying for the afternoon meeting are reminded to bring lunch.
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