The enormous expense of the Stella Mans extensions would have been unjustified if they were to be used only by seafarers, says Father Sean O'Shea. Father O'Shea pointed out the first class facilities were now available to any parish or Catholic group looking for a social centre. As Catholic groups used the hall, canteen, restaurant, snack bars or other facilities they would provide the seafarer with a warm environment into which to come and relax. Father O'Shea said "It's people that make the difference to an empty building." Father O'Shea is a compelling salesman when he points out Stella Mans now has facilities no individual parish can afford and which are not a vailable even in the tennis clubs and halls hired by Catholic bodies. Stella Mans not only has g ot a first class bar f acility, but the Licensing Court recommended the new expanded ballroom s hould have a l iquor licence rather than have p eople bringing their drinks in for for cabaret evenings. Father O'Shea says Stella Mans is the place where f amilies can now come a nd take part in the running of the centre. Fathers can help to keep an eye on things, wives can help at the reception d esk, canteen or the restaurant and children have the games and television rooms available to them as well as anything they want to buy from the snack bar. Stella Mans needed the e xpanded facilities to cope with the sudden rush of numbers now occuring. On the other hand the rapid turn-round of ships and biggest ships carrying smaller crews meant few seafarers would be on shore. But the centre had to have the full range of facilities with which to w elcome them when needed. For the rest of the time it will be a way of giving the seafarer a respectable entry into the local community without requiring him to go to the pubs or staying aboard, Father O'Shea said. "People don't understand shipping these days," he said, ''fbecause the port's empty at the weekends when people are driving past. "They also do not seethe vast increase in shipping in the outer harbour such as at the grain terminals or the tanker and alumina berths." Father O'Shea makes up to eight trips a day to bring these visiting seafarers from Kwinana to his Fremantle centre.
A long history The Stella Mans Centre was once the 1890 uncompleted house of the Fremantle pilot Captain William D. Jackson. The present resident Father Sean O'Shea, also parish priest of Rottnest Island, is proud of the fact that Captain Jackson was
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niCaptain Jackson's Fremantle house L—lof 1890 has now been completed to approximately its intended design but last Sunday it flew its flags as it was opened as the final stage of the Stella Mans Centre after it had been blessed by the Episcopalpromoter of the Apostleship o f the Sea, Bishop Healy, pictured addressing the crowd.
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In his new environment, a state house in an ordinary suburban street, Tony began responding to the love and care of his Aboriginal cottage parents and his cottage family. Like him, most of the other children were from unhappy backgrounds. Most stayed about six months while their families were counselled through crises ranging from alcoholism and illness to desertion and problems of abuse. A lthough Toby's family lived more than 500 kms a way, a liaison officer maintained regular contact with his parents, and Toby w as encouraged to spend holidays with them. Within a year he was able to return home permanently. He has never needed to return to the Centrecare cottage.
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Former Bishop of Geraldton dies Bishop James O'Collins who died in retirement at Ballarat this week aged 91 spent 10 years in WA as the third bishop of Geraldton. In 1930 he was 38 years of age and ordained 10 years as a priest when he came from his home city of Melbourne which had been without a bishop for four years white it was administered by Father John Wallace of Perth. Bishop O'Collins warmed to the people of the great pastoral expanse of Geraldton and encouraged expansion out to far off Wiluna and Mount Magnet plus development closer to hand like the St John of God Hospital and Christian Brothers College at Geraldton. A tradesman before be started studying for the priesthood Bishop O'Collins became renowned for the partnership that developed between himself and the renowned architect and builder Father John Hawes.
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Warmed to people "With your architecture and my plumbing, the buildings of this diocese will be first rate" runs a saying attributed to Bishop O'Collins. A t any rate it produced 17 classic buildings designed by Hawes from his personal hermitage through to the triumphant completion in 1938 of the spectacular Cathedral of St Francis Xavier. In 1941 he became bishop of Ballarat until his retirement there in 1971. A t his funeral Mass in Ballarat this week Geraldton diocese was represented by its retiring sixth bishop. Archbishop William Foley.
Along history • From page 1. The building was acquired in 1943 when Oblates were port chaplains such as Father Conway and later Father Breslin. In 1947 the building was renovated when materials became available. In 1968 Father O'Shea organised a large e xtension embodying r esidential quarters, k itchen, lounges and .1983 extension enlarged rrgYed the ballroom, as well as the kitchen opening direct on to the ballroom, given new premises to Stella's Place luncheon shop and extended the religious open to the g ds shop public.
Seamen among the deprived in the world The Stella Mans CentreatFremantle was fulfilling the advice of St Peter the Apostle himself a fisherman, in practising "Hospitality to one another", Bishop Healy said after he blessed the centre extensionsat Fremantle on Sunday.
"This is especially so here, where we are offering to seafarers the rest and companionship they miss so much."
Mons Frayne said this at the opening of the Stella Mans extensions on Sunday. He came from Rome to attend the opening, and a special meeting of seafarer chaplains. Mons Frayne also recalled he had been in Fremantle for the opening of the second stage of the Stella Mans extensions in 1 968. He compared seafarers with other groups fo people the Church cares for such a s refugees, migrants or nomadic peoples. Mons Frayne said they are sometimes deprived of the sacramental life of the Church. But he said: "Seafarers are the most deprived of all because for long periods they are cut off from their wives and famil ies. "Hardly any of the others have that privation.
Airlines Bishop Healy noted a n airline crew had special rest facilities put at their disposal after a flight. But it was not so with the crew of a ship. Ships' crews had to c ome into a strange port and were very much at a loss what to do with their time. "This centre offers such a facility and it is o perating day and night and especially when it is needed.
A s Bishop Healy raised his hand in blessing over the new Stella Mans premises he was watched by retired Bishop Myles McKeon of Bunbury who for many years supervised the Apostleship of the Sea for the Australian Bishops' Conference.
They are also cut off from t he social and cultural development takng placrin a normal community and taken for granted by the people ashore." Monsignor Frayne described seafarers as citizens of their own countries but also of many nations, and as men who serve the world. "They have a right to social and cultural development just as they have a right to the care of the Church." He described the world wide Catholic Apostleship of the Sea network of which the Fremantle Stella Mans Centre is a link.
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For Fremantle port chaplain Father Sean O 'Shea last week was more than Just attendingtotheopening of the $350,000 extensions to Stella Mans. A s national director of the Apostleship of the Sea he is seen above at a three-day conference attended by other A ustralian chaplains to discuss the issues facing the Apostleship of the Sea. Bishop Healy, the Episcopal promoter of the Apostleship. attended as well as the Vatican co-ordinator of the
The extensions to Stella Mans were officially opened by the Minister for Labour and Industrial Relations Mr Des Dans who read a message from the Premier Mr Brian Burke w ho was unable to attend the ceremony. Mr Burke noted Father O'Shea had advanced the starting time of the $350,000 project because of the downturn in the building industry. This gesture had been appreciated by the government. Mr Burke said although it was in the centre's charter to operate and cover its own expenses, this could not be achieved without a great deal of voluntary help. He praised the dedication and voluntary helpers who contributed so much to Stella Mans.
Seafarers are the most deprived of all people on the move in the world said Monsignor Frayne, co-ordinator of the worldwide work of the Apostleship of the Sea in Rome.
' The ministry of Christian hospitalityis a very important part of life.
It is a credit to Father O 'Shea that in a time of recession in shipping he has been able to extend this facility a t Fremantle." Bishop Healy said.
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Looking at problems work, Monsignor Frayne The chaplains found the same goals were emerging each time they conferred: Father Leon de Souza of Darwin said: "There needs to be a better emphasis in a diocese on the work of the Apostleship of the Sea. We need generous Catholics to serve the needs of seafarers. "The seafarers need to be given better catchesis in
being apostles themselves". Father Sharkey of Port Kembla agreed: "We have to communicate the importance of this work and its ranking in the official esteem not only of the Church but also in the c ommunity,eventheinternational community such as at the United Nations. "We must recruit auxiliaries to help this work on land and at sea," he said.
There are 570 chaplains around the world looking after seafarers. There are 105 Stella Mans centres (not as good as Fremantle) and there are 60 more centres where the Catholic Apostleship of the Sea works in the same building alongside other Christian bodies in the same work. M ons Frayne said the e xtensions of the Stella Mans Centre at Fremantle were an expression of the responsibility of the people of Fremantle and Western Australia to provide for the needs of seafarers who came into their ports. "They have a duty to provide social goods, cultural goods and spiritual goods." He said the co-workers of Father O'Shea are an acceptance of this responsibility as members of the Church and as members of the community. "They are giving thegreatest gift anyone can give, themselves.
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The hundreds of thousands of Western Australians, especially Catholics, who do not read the daily edition of The Australian really do not know what they are missing depending on whatever angle from which they view the Catholic Church. There last Monday over a page one story announcing the Code of Canon Law which came into force last Sunday was the headline bold as mortal sin declaring "Adultery no longer a crime for Catholics"! Whose mind, atheist or saint, would not boggle at the thought? Did it mean that the Catholics who had not been committing adultery had avoided something even worse than they imagined? Did it mean that Catholics who should not be contemplating adultery faced something less fearful than they anticipated? Did families discussing this rather unsettling subject at Monday breakfast begin to imagine that formerly t here were certain confessionals in the Catholic Church outside which stood a Swiss Guard to deal with a repentant adulterer? The opening paragraph of the Agence France- Presse report did not end the reader's confusion. In a magnanimous gesture it stated: "Adultery, which is proscribed under one of The Ten Commandments, although still a sin will no longer be considered a crime. . ." There was more to follow: ". . .under a streamlined and far more liberal version of Catholic canon law that took effect at the weekend". Now of all the pressing problems in the Catholic Church that are in need of streamlining and liberalising even the most critical observer would hardly have picked the subject of adultery as requiring such immediate attention. The villain in this reprehensible bit of sub -editing is the far-off Agence France-Presse correspondent who may have learnt Latin but who failed to take the next unit: How to read the Code of Canon Law in Latin. The Church has never been gentle on this most hateful action that can destroy a marriage. The gospels also put adultery low on the scale of life. The Church went even further and took a very serious view of adultery if it involved a person with whom a partner intended to contract a later marriage. The Latin code of canon law did not call this callous offence mere adultery. It gave the matter the technical title of "Crimen". Itwas declared to be an impediment blocking any such contemplated marriage. If the closest English translation to such an insult to marriage has been to call it a "crime" then it is an apt epithet to apply, even though it has nothing to do with Church law enforcement agencies. In the revised Code of Canon Law the Church has not liberalised its attitude to adultery but merely r emoved the technical offence from its list of impediments to marriage, only because nowadays it is impossible to administer law on such a complex matter of personal morality and responsibility. Like all new toys, the code of canon law is being done to death as busy people scan its pages to see if anything is changed, if reducing the number of canons means less rules, if the biggest crisis facing Catholics is whether they will have to eat fish on Friday again. Agence France-Presse will soon be partly relieved. The Vatican has given permission for the code to be translated into modern languages. Lots of Catholics for the first time will be able to sit back and read for themselves how this vast Catholic Church tries to look after the lives, marriages and faith of its people. In fact, the best gift at baptism should now be a copy of the code of canon law so that if ever a Catholic had the suspicion that the Church makes laws in order to turn the faithful into "criminals", it is for our own good, or just a slip of the Latin tongue.
Concern about the government's proposals to change the funding of independent schools and to the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Bill was expressed by Riverton parish councillors at a meeting of parishioners to discuss the Parishes were urged to give two issues. c atechists support by Seventy parishioners were providing evidence of a addressed by Mr George Gear, living community that MHR (Tangney) and Senator would attract people. Peter Durack. T his was the message of A ttention was drawn to a B ishop Healy when he letter distributed to parents by spoke during a Mass for Trinity Col lege headmaster, c atechists he celebrated Brother Kelly, who pointed out w ith 14 priests at the the ill effects the Bills will have R edemptorist church last on Catholic schools in Australia. week. M r George Gear He told the 200 catethose presassured chists their task government ent the was not only to i nstruct young had every intention people but to inof maintaining suptroduce them to a port for Cathol ic parish communischools and that with ty. Antioch new needs policy the g roups had shown that young adopted by the goLONDON - The Queen people were lookvern m en t, more Mother opened the first ing for a sense of f unds would be made phase of a village for the parish communiavailable to less privmentally handicapped, built ty. by the Brothers Hospitallers i leged Cathol ic He quoted Pope John of St John of God. Paul who said the schools.
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parish is still a m ajor point of r eference for the Christian people. "From the parish we get a sense of vision, a sense of purpose and from t he parish we m ust get support" Bishop Healy said. He told the catechists o f al l its other obligationstoprovide for catechists the most important was to provide a Christian community to which the catechists could point.
The Brothers have been providing accommodation for mentally handicapped men and boys at Barvin Park, Potters Bar. Hertfordshire, since 1930. During the years workshops have been added, a church built, and the extensive acreage of land developed to supply farm and garden produce. As attitudes towards provision for the mentally handicapped have changed, Barvin Park has altered its accommodation from dormitories t o cubicles and shared bedrooms, which are less institutionalised.
Senator Durack criticised the SD Bill in that even before the Bill had been introduced into the Senate there were already 53 amendments prepared by the government.
Infringe He expressed concern that the Bill seriously infringed on a person's civil liberties. It could have wide reaching effects on the moral behavioural standards adopted by Catholic schools and institu— tions, he said. In addition to the changes to the funding of independent schools parishioners ex-
Discrimatory says A further point was made parish that a major section of the
pressed their concern that the proposed guidelines for b uilding new Catholic schools gave the government very wide ranging powers to refuse funding. Concern was also expressed t hat the criteria used to determinewhetherindependent schools should continue to receive government funding was discriminatory in that similar criteria was not used to determine theamount of government funding of state schools. Parishioners pointed out the changes were discriminatory in that the 41 schools selected by the government to have their funds reduced and eventually phased out were non-Catholic schools. The additional funds would be used to fund Catholic schools. This was not proper nor in keeping with the-consensus" attitude of the government
Conclusion of Cathedral Novena and reception to the Fatima Pilgrim Virgin statue. A rchbishop Goody. An all night vigil will follow.
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B RISBANE — Catholic priest Father Peter Waters and an A nglican, Mrs Ros Bonighton, both from Victoria, are the joint winners of the Brisbane Liturgical Commission's national m usic for Psalms competition.
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Father Waters teaches in the Department of Religious Education at the Institute of Catholic Education at Oakleigh, Melbourne. Mrs Bonighton. a widow, lives in suburban Ballarat and is a part-time music teacher, and plays the organ at St John's Church, Soldiers Hill, Ballarat.
Their entries had been written in differing styles. Father Peter Waters was for cantor, unison choir and organ - "straightforward. simple melodic and prayerful. really quite lovely". Mrs Bonighton's was for solo tenor, four-part choir, congregation and organ. Much new material, ready for use immediately, and pointers for development of liturgical music have resulted from the unique competition. The judge - who is to remain anonymous by decision of the commission said the competition, for a musical setting for selected Psalms, was "an eye-opener to me". He described it as "overall, a splendid competition" and t he 138 entries as "quite amazing". He split the first prize of $500 between Father Waters and Mrs Bonighton who submitted two very different types of entries. Entries came from all states and territories, as well as Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. The competition was strongly supported by other Christian Churches. It wasachallengeto Australians to compose an original musical setting for Psalms for the liturgical seasons. Its aim was to begin the process of supplementing with original music the overseas liturgical compositions the Australian Church relies on heavily.
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T his would be a total reversal of present judicial proceedings. The Bill recognised de facto relationships were legal thus any disciplinary action taken b y Catholic schools to uphold Catholic moral principles could be deemed to be illegal and against the Bill. Similar circumstances c ould arise in Catholic hospitals and nursing homes where moral attitudes towards abortion could be deemed illegal.
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advisers to the Minister for E ducation were either members of, or supporters of the anti-state aid policies of the Teachers' Federation. The Sex Discrimination Bill was criticised because the onus of proof would rest on the individual accused of committing an offence.
Among the catechists at the special Mass last week were Margaret Titze of Kelmscott, Catherine Tognini of City Beach, Luna Pereira of Morley and Peggy Nice of Wembley. Picture by George Collopy.
Tribunal allows Thornlie appeal A lengthy and costly appeal by the Catholic Church over a n ew proposed church and school site for the parish of Thornlie has been upheld in a tribunal hearing last week. The appeal was against a decision of the Gosnells City T he ABC's Breakthrough proCouncil not to allow the Church gramme at 7.30pm on Wednesday December 7 features the work of Dr t o establish its badly needed and Lyn Billings in the ovulation John p arish complex on property of family planning. method a cquired two years ago on The programme also highlights Ovens Road. c omplementary work done by ProfesThe council kept up its opposor Odeblad, of Switzerland. It includes a segment of interviews sition to the project throughout secondary students on Christian with the course of the proceedings sexuality. both in council and itscomments made to the Press by individual * * • •-****-•-••** councillors. RECORD CLASSIFIEDS The councillorsclaimed it was close noon not a suitable location because W ednesday of other schools nearby. •• • • •-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-• The Cathol ic case was based on a claim other suitable land f or the purpose was no longer available in O PTOMETRISTS area. the Phone 444 3543 1 75 Scarborough Beach Road A new church and school at Thornl ie w ould have to be F \AILLIS W AO centrally located between Lynwood and Gosnells parish centres and that present • Very Fresh premises on Clancy •Very Tasty .Very Economical Way were totally inadequate.
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Pictured at a Fremantle gathering this week where clergy honoured Western Australian priests celebrating 25 years of priesthood this year were silver jubilarians ( from left) Father John Tobin, Redemptorist; Father John V. O'Reilly; Pallottine Fathers Eddie Wehrmaker and Joe Butscher. Father Tobin, stationed at North Perth for the past six years comes from Victoria where he was ordained. Father O'Reilly now parish priest of Applecross studied at St Charles' Seminary Guildford and at St Patrick's College Manly. Fathers Wehrmaker and Butscher studied together in their native Germany where they were ordained before coming to Australia. Both have spent much of their lives in the north of Western Australia working among the Aborigines. Father Wehrmaker is currently Geraldton diocesan chaplain to Aborigines and Father Butscher is attached to the Pallottine Centre at Rossmoyne.
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Archbishop Foley in his first address to priests since being named to his new office said earlier in the year he had attended celebrations in Germany for the two Pallottine priests and he praised the spirit that had made many priests from that country come out and work for the Aborigines. Other jubilarian priests who were unable to attend the clergy dinner were Fathers Leslie Baccini of Wilson, Monsignor Barry Hickey of Highgate, Father Bernie Dwyer of Bunbury and Father John Cran ley of Lesmurdie.
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Many aspects of the recent Family Planning Awareness Week were good but important points had been trivialised in a Hay Street Mall theatre presentation that u sed a theatrical condom as one of its features.
This was the reaction of Mr Michael Perrott of Attadale who is president of the Australian Family Association and who has taken a keen interest in family life issues within the Catholic Church and in community organisations. "I consider the Family Planning Awareness Week h ad many good aspects associated with it. Much of the literature and the increase of sexuality awareness itself
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is very pleasing," Mr Perrott said. "However, I am concerned at the lack of respect and responsibility that tends to permeate much of the literature. "This I thought was epitomised with Condo the Clown, which certainly drew attention to contraception, but also trivialised what Iconsider to be an important matter. "A full understanding of sexuality including personal inter-dependence, emotions, and self respect need to he
highlighted in our development of this 'awareness.' "Those of us who believe an aspect of sexuality, viz. sexual intercourse, is a serious act, are dismayed w hen the total focus of sexuality is directed to this one aspect and in such a way as to downgrade its significance. "Adolescentscould beunderstood to see this subject as quite flippant when viewing the presentation of clowns and make up 'sperm' cricket teams."
They start by being average practical Catholics prepared to share whatever expertise they have with the Aboriginal children and adults of the North-West of Australia. They serve the Church, placing themselves at the disposal of the Bishop, "as vicar and legatee of Christ,'" (Vat II, P382), and assist him in a spirit of dedication. They give themselves totally for 2 years, living in groups, co-operating in fraternal love in the spirit of the Gospels, serving on isolated missions and townships. They are not attached to any religious order, fully accepting their Christian duty to evangelise according to their own individual abilities. Under the patronage and guidance of the Bishops they have their own formally constituted Association and elected Council. Lay Missionaries do not accept a salary, only their keep and pocket money. Their fares are paid and a small sum on completion of their service.
THE KIIVIBERLEYS Or the Diocese of Broome is the far North-West part of Australia, roughly 3 times the size of Victoria. A subtropical region, with a 'wet' season through the summer months; of varied terrain with beautiful beaches but a large part taken up by the Great Sandy Desert. Since 1959 many admirable Australians have contributed in no small way to the personal growth and education of the Aboriginal people as lay missionaries. They have formed close and lasting ties. Others are needed to continue and improve existing services. Include Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary, Domestic Science Teachers. D.C. Nurses, Typist, Handyman, Carpenter, responsible young women to care for children and teenagers outside of school hours.
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Pressures on Marcos MANILA — The Catholic Church in the Philippines has increased pressure on President Marcos to introduce democratic government and step down from political office, said Bishop Morelos y Flores of Butua n. Cardinal Jaime Sin, Archbishop of Manila, for long an outspoken critic of the Marcos regime, and moral arbiter of opposition movements, has strengthened his position by the invaluable part he played as a peace negotiator following the assassination of opposition leader Mr Benigno Aquino.
It is said that all the heresies of today are resurrected heresies of the past with new names.
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While the suppression of holy images t oday is not called iconoclasm, it echoes t hat same heresy w hich was condemned by the Seventh Ecumenical Council. Holy images and their proper devotional use have been an integral part of the Church and the Council of Nicea in 787 confirmed this. Most frequently used images (from the catacombs to t he lavish decor of the thirteenth century cathedrals) are of Our Lord and of Our Lady. Indeed a traditional devotion to Mary has been the recognition of the Queenship of Mary through the coronation of Her images. Many popes crowned especially the picture reputed to have been painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist and which is venerated in Saint Mary Major's in Rome. Pope Clement VIII did so at the very height of the Reformation, at the end of the 16th century, when the honouring of Our Lady's images was again being called into question as it had been at the time of the Second Council of Nicaea. And Gregory XVI, surrounded by cardinals and prelates. solemnly crowned the same picture on August 1 5, 1837 and issued an
by BISHOP JOHN VENANCIO Apostolic briet, Caelestis Regina, which has supplied a form for such coronations ever since. Perhaps the most solemn act of the coronation of Our Lady by that same image in St Mary Major's was reserved for ourday. It had two phases: one in Fatima and one in Rome. In 1946, Pope Pius XII sent Cardinal Masella to Fatima to crown the statue at the place where Our Lady had appeared in 1917 with a promise of world peace. As the cardinal was about to leave Rome, the pope said to him: "Be mindful, Eminence, you are going to c rown the Queen of the World."
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It was only eight years later that the world fully underFremantle Hospital Chaplain stood how profoundly the pope meant this. Mr Gerard Smith In 1954 when the samepope Education Officer, Bowra & O'Dea proclaimed a "Marian Year" The seminar will interest not only members in honour of the centenary of of the general public but also nurses and the dogma of the Immaculate those caring for the sick and elderly. Conception, he asked for the erection of shrines and Inquiries welcome to: images of Our Lady in public places. As a result, today statues 328 7299 (office) 341 7142 (a/h) and shrines of Our Lady are to be seen in the gardens of private homes, at turns of the WIIIIIIVAIIIIIIIMAPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPAIAPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII‘ highway, even at the entrance of some major airports of the world. In November 1954, the Holy Father closed that 1 "Marian Year" in a most extraordinary way. Instead of going to St Mar. Major's to crown the image of Our lady. as so many of his predecessors had done, the pope ordered the venerable picture attributed to St Luke be taken from Its place and carried processionally accompanied by tens of thousands of people to St Peter's!
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The following is the three d ay programme for the Pilgrim Virgin statue visit to Perth. Sunday December 11: 10.45 am Arrival Perth Airport with the custodian Mr Louis Kaczmarek. Motorcade to Fremantle. 1 pm St Patrick's Church, Fremantle: Mass in Portu• gese, Italian and English. Benediction and blessing of the sick. 3 pm Gosnells: Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament church. Hymns and enthronement of the statue, Rosary and Benediction, homily and blessing of the sick.
Land tribunal • From page 5 As a result of that hearing, t he Catholic authorities renegotiated a revised 4 ha site with Crestwood developers to provide entry to the site away from the contentious Ovens Road. A new side road is to be constructed. A further council objection was over-ruled last week when the tribunal accepted a submission to allow the proposed Catholic school to
use septic tanks until deep sewerage to a nearby proposed housing development is completed. The Gosnells council sought t o require the proposed school to provide a costly link to another existing sewerage system until the local scheme was concluded. So far the appeal has put the Catholic authorities to a major expense and a further approach is to be made to the tribunal on the allocation of costs.
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5 pm Aquinas college, Manning: Rosary and homily, Benediction and blessing of the sick. 7.30 pm St Mary's Cathederal: Mass followed by candlelight procession, crowning of the statue, consecration of the families to the Immaculate Heart. All night vigil. Message of Fatima by Mr Kaczmarek. Candles for the procession will be sold at the church gates. No candles will be lit inside the cathedral. Mass books and prayer cards will be available at the church entrances. Donations for these may be placed in the second collection. Monday December 12: 6.45 am Mass in the cathedral followed by departure for Hamersley parish.
8 am Mass at Hamersley, rosary with Mr Kaczmarek speaking on the message of Fatima. 7 pm Redemptorist monastery: Rosary and benediction, message of Fatima by Mr Louis Kaczmarek, private devotions till 10 Tuesday December 13: 6.30 am Mass at Redemptorist church, departure for Nedlands. 8.30 am Carmelite chapel, Nedlands Rosary and private devotion. 11 am St Mary's church, Guildford. Rosary and benediction. 1 pm Depart for Perth Airport from where the statue departs at 4 pm for Johannesburg.
Family code • From page 1. The idea drew enthusiastic support from more than 200 bishops assembled for the synod. But they did not have time in the month-long meetingto draw up a refined document themselves. They asked Pope John Paul II to finish development of the document in consultation with experts and bishops' c onferences around the world. "Almost all of these rights are already to be found in o ther documents of the
Church and the international community," says the introduction to the nine-page charter. "The charter attempts to elaborate them further, to define them with greater clarity and to bring them t ogether in an organic, ordered and systematic presentation." Despite the modest disclaimer that the charter is simply listing existing, established rights, it presents sharp challenges to existing laws on policies of probably every country in the world.
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'Peace' possible
Mistakes in a mission ROME (NC) — The Society of Jesus plans to maintain the "promotion of justice" as a key part of Jesuit work, but the religious order has seen "mistakes made in the pursuit of this mission," according to the final report of the society's 33rd general congregation. Some mistakes gave rise to the danger of engaging in "a merely secular activism," said the report. The document calledfor a greater sense of obedience to the pope, closer collaboration with local bishops and efforts to stem a decline in vocations. A summary of the document was released two days after the Jesuits ended their congregation. The document was prepared by the more than 200 delegates attending the congregation, which sets policyfiir the 26,000-member society, the largest religious order in the Catholic Church. The 52-page document, Companions of Jesus Sent Into the World of Today, discussed reforms made during the order :s two previous congregations, in 1965 and 1974, the summary said. In 1974, the Jesuits identified the "service of faith and the promotion of justice" as the centralfocusfor Jesuit apostolic work. Since then, the summary said, "there have been certain mistakes 'mule in the pursuit of the mission. "At times an exaggeratedpreoccupation with one or another of its dimensions seemed to distort the true meaning of an integralevangelisation, with the danger of collapsing into a false supernaturalism or, on the other hand, of being caught up in a merely secular activism." it said. While approving the orientation of the previous congregations and calling the experience since 1974 "a time of grace," the document cited the need to respect the "roles proper to priests and religious and those more suitable for lay people." Catholic teachings relegate partisan political activities to the laity and say the role of bishops andpriests shouldbe limited to providing the moralguidelines for political action.
R eappraisal of 1 521 Bull R OME — The pope has called for a reappraisal of Martin Luther, the German priest and professorwhofractured Christianity and might now be one of the keys to r e-uniting it. It is the first time since the papal Bullof Excommunication of 1521 that a pope has written a public document on Luther, the German Augustinian
Pope's call on Luther monk whoset the Protestant Reformation in motion when his 95 "Theses" were nailed to the doors of the church in Worms in 1517. Pope John Paul publicly recognised "the profound
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B ERLIN — Cathol ics in southern Germany have been warned Tra nscendental Meditation — the movement centred o n the Maharishi Mehesh Yogi — is incompatible with the Christian faith. The diocese of Rottenburg Stuttgart has issued t his warning following renewed activities by adherents of the movement in Wurttemberg. T he diocese noted representatives of the movement claimed it was religiously neutral and was merely a natural, simple and scientifically based technique. They said anyone using it need not be disloyal to Christianity. But, the diocese pointed out, the movement was based on eastern practices of Hindu origin. It made a universal offer of salvation and had a well-developed awareness of its own mission.
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UNITED NATIONS (NC) — Disarmament, with effective international controls, is crucial in restoring to the world "the sense and conviction that peace is possible, that the arms race can effectively be halted," said Sister Marjorie Keenan, a member of the Holy See's observer mission to the United Nations. Keenan, a Sister member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of spoke during Mary, debate by the UN General Assembly's Political Committee. She said that the goal of general and complete disappears armament "extremely difficult to attain.". It is evident that the life and well-being of nations depend on factors outside their immediate control, especially in economic,
religious spirit" of the German reformer and stated "the breaking of Church unity"had "much deeper roots" than "lack of understanding on the part of the authorities of the Catholic Church, or the lack of knowledge of true Catholicism on the part of Luther, even if both elements played a role. The pope acknowledged that both sides bear responsibility: "Where there were faults, these should be recognised on whichever side they are found". The pope will preach at the Lutheran church in Via Toscana, near Rome's main railway station, on December 11, the third Sunday in Advent. The pastor, the Reverend Christopher Meyer, his wife Hildegard and their children, will greet the pope at the church door. Reverend Meyer said though the visit "does not signify either for Catholics or Lutherans a recognition of the others' supremacy, it is an ecumenical gesture of friendship which Lutherans appreciate very much. "The pope will preach an evangelical sermon and 1 will take the service. "Afterwards, we will go to my house to meet other people," he said.
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PATIliVAYS OF THE SPI IT
A dvent is the season for awaiting peace. In the US bishops' recent pastoral on war and peace, they wrote that the time of waiting for peace is not a time for passivity. The time of longing for peace is the time to make peace — to create it. As the words of the popular hymn remind us, "Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me."
How do single adults celebrate during Advent?
How do single adults celebrate Advent and Christmas? T here's no getting around the fact that the story of Christmas is essentially about a family and that holiday celebrations centre around family activities. These seasons are not without difficulties for single people. But this is a time of anticipation and celebration for everyone. The single people! spoke with find much richness in their lives to celebrate duringAdventandChristmas. Joan, a divorced woman in her 30s who lives alone, says that being single forces her to use a "lot of imagination" during Advent and Christmas. "Even though planning my holiday is work, it allows me to figure out my own form of celebration," Joan said, 'It lets me explore what is meaningful to me."
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One part of her celebration is to buy herself a playful Christmas gift. Last year she treated heself to a new sled. Last year Joan spent Christmas Day cooking a festive meal with other volunteers for residents of an inner-city shelter for the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio. But all the imagination in the world can't fill the need to be with people who share one's faith, Joan observes. What made last Christmas Eve special for her was being invited by a family to share in its Christmas gift opening after Midnight Mass. Another neighbour sent over a complete dinner on Christmas Day, she added, making theholidays"reallywonderful" for her. It would be helpful, Joan thinks, if families remembered that single people really enjoy being included in holiday cele-
Laying up our treasures
Jesus recognised and acknowledged that prudent planning is a necessary ingredient of intelligent living. In Luke's Gospel we read: "If one of you decides to build a tower, willhe not first sit down andcalculate the outlay to see if he has enough money to complete theproject"(14:28). However, there are right and wrong ways to approachplanning. 0necan become so absorbed in it as toforget the old adage: "Alan proposes. God disposes." To think we are in complete control of our lives anddestinies is an illusion. There are so many contingencies beyond our control; illness, accident, financial recessions and depressions. Plan we must, but always with the realisation that we need God's help to plan or to achieve, help to cope with failure and disappointment. "That is why! warn you, do not be concerned for your life, what you are to eat, or for your body, what you are to wear. Life is more important than Christiansfeelthisinstinc- food and the body more than clothing. Consider By David Gibson tively. Nearly every card sent the ravens; they do not through the mail in the sow, they do not reap, tions essential for true and with one another." weeks before Christmas they have neither cellar or peace in ourselves and in says peace, The sign of the word "peace" barn — yet God feeds bears the world." the bishops, is an "expressomewhere in its message. them. How much more commitment our of sion The Curch's urgent plea important you are than to work for peace as a Our popular images of the birds." for peace is nowhere more peaceful Christmas are evident in the liturgy than Christian community." images. in the Communion Rite, Christians approach the Yet, the bishops suggest By Father John J. the bishops add. Even Lord'stableforCommun- in their pastoral letter, the "only out, C astelot point they ion, before the sign of peace, after having dedicated message of peace is urgent the priest says: "Lord ourselves as a Christian now. The threat of war — Jesus Christ, You said to and the kind of war it Those are words from community to peace and Your apostles: 'I leave — 12 of Luke's be the could mean Chapter econciliation." you peace, My peace I r responsibilities of peace- Gospel where we find also bishops give you.' Look not on Thus, the makers have grown. Jesus's very picturesque our sins, but on the faith recommend "that there It is time, they suggest, way of saying that our of Your Church, and always be a petition for to come to terms with planning must be done prayer grant us the peace and peace" during the how peace is made; with with complete trust in unity of Your kingdom." of the faithful at every the unjust conditions that God's love and concern. Mass. Because the Communcreate the risk of war; We must not be "anxion Rite is a time when Peace. In at least some with the longings that ious." We are to "stop attention is focused on sense it is a theme of the unite the human family. It worrying." Don't worry; peace,thebishopsencourliturgy during every is time to think through work. If we "seek out his season and on every what it means "to live us kingship" as a top prioriage people "to make the sign of peace at Mass an Sunday. Yet it is associat- to the call of Jesus to be ty, the rest will fall into authentic sign of our ed in a special way with peacemakers in our own place, maybe not exactly reconciliation with God Advent and Christmas. time and situation." as we planned, but eventually for our best interests. " We know that God makes all things work together for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His decree" (Romans 8:28). This takes Am3,,a writer in hermid- faith, deep trust, but after By Pamela Montagno 20s, made a conscious all, it is as people of faith that we make our way in decision to construct her this world. God does not brations. Often families ing during the holidays, own Advent traditions as "promise us a rose don't realise how hard the especially on Christmas a single person living with holidays can be for single Eve, John feels that he's two young single women garden," but He does persons. "I don't particu- giving of himself as well rather than waiting until promise to care for us. "Do not live infear, little larly look forward to as receiving in the spirit of she was married. She says it was a way of makingthe flock ... Wherever your Christmas. It's a hard Christmas. treasure lies, there your time," she says. At home during Advent, statement that "my life heart will be" (Luke counts now." John, a 30-year -old John lights the candleson 12:32,34). If one's heart is single man, ties his Advent his Advent wreath and T he first Christmas set on the accumulation celebrations to his work prays the scripture readseason away from her of wealth and the amassin a Cincinnati children's ings of the day. On Christfamily, Amy was fearful of possessions, one is hospital where he is head mas Eve he attends of celebrating the holidays ing to disillusiondoomed nurse in a unit for critical- Midnight Mass with alone. But she and her ment. There is cold comly ill children. Many of his other single friends, who room-mates found they fort in cold cash. "You patients have leukemia or go out to brunch aftercelebrated thebestChristcannot give yourself to s ome other form of ward. mas ever, combining the God and money" (Luke cancer. During some holiday best of their childhood 1 6:13), and only Godcan Since every moment of seasons, John joins his adult traditions with their assurepeace, security and life is precious to the family in another Ohio preferences. deep-down happines.. youngsters, John values city. However, he says, To plan without any During Advent the three making the holidays his "Christmas needs are women lit the candles on regard for fellow human special for his patients. met in the hospital," their Advent wreath beings is not the way to ThechildrenmakeChrist- where he finds a sense of every Thursday evening "grow rich in the sight of mas stockings and John community and of meanand prayed together. God." Ultimately that's plays Santa Claus on ing during this season of Then they ate dinner. what really counts. Christmas Eve. By work- hope.
Expectations of peace and what it means at Christmas
Peace. The word "peace" for peace is not a time for is heard so frequently in passivity. The time of churches during Advent longing for peace is the and Christmas that one time to make peace — to risks not really hearing it. create it. Or one may begin to Courage is a quality wonder whether peace is of those who demanded really possible, having the bishops heard it proclaimed over await peace, wrote. "Let us have the and over for so many courage to believe in the years. God Advent is the season for bright future and in for us — not awaiting peace. Early on who wills it but a in this season, the Sunday a perfect world, better one. The perfect Eucharist reminds us that w orld, we Christians the time we await is one is beyond the believe, in which "every valley shall be filled and every horizon in an endless will mountain and hillshall be eternity where God better a But all. in all be levelled. The windings world is here for human shall be made straight and and hearts and hands the rough ways smooth." make." to minds The images drawn by Luke from Isaiah even The bishops suggest sound peaceful. They some practical ways to induce a sense of longing. work toward the develop' Recently, however, ment of personal attitudes when the bishops of the that favour peace during United States published celebration of the Euchatheir national pastoral rist. The Mass in particuletter on war and peace, lar, they state, "is aunique they reminded people means of seeking God's that the time of waiting help to create the condi-
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Who wouldn't like to foresee the future.? To know the future in advance would be a fine way to gain control over one's history. Then a person could lay solid plans for developments to occur at each point in life. Moreover, if the future were foreseen, answers could be had now to any questions about where life is going. That might simplify daily living in some ways and reduce anxieties for many people. But then the word "future" would refer to something much different from what is understood by it now. Instead of the unknown, it wouldbe predictable. The surprises along life's way wouldn't be surprising anymore. Of course, the future of life's courses in this world isn't foreseen fully by members of the human family. But is there anything that we can foresee? People can foresee that life's course will virtually never flow in a straight line. It will windandbend. At certain points it may turn back on itself, only to resume a forward course again. We can foresee periods when much patience is required while the outcome of uncertain events is awaited. These times may be painful. We can foresee that we willhave to work hard, think hard, hope hard andpray hard to achieve some of our most desired goals. What's more, we can foresee that many of the best outcomes in life will result from common endeavours undertaken with others. Life tends to be a joint pr oject. Other citizens, parishioners, friends, family members and coworkers inject much value into life.
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Drawn into God's energy By Father James Young, CSP A friend of mine, Harry Fagan, tells of a woman who called him looking for help when he was chairman of the Catholic C ommission on Community action in Cleveland. The woman's problem: Some fairly dangerous, stray dogs on her block. "Why don't you people come over a nd do something about these does?" she asked Harry on the phone.
"We are in the helping business," Harry said, "but we'd prefer that you take care of the dogs yourself. I'd be happy to come over and meet with you and some of your neighbours and help you develop a plan for dealing with the dogs." The lady didn't like Harry's offer at all, and hung up. He was all talk and no action, she said. Several days later she called back. A dog had bitten an eight-year-old girl on her way home from school. "OK, I'm ready to get the neighbours together for your meeting!" she explained to my friend. The penniless young man accepts a job feeding the Harry met several times with the neighbourhood hogs when a young woman familiar with the business group and helped them reminds him the economic indicators are down. develop a plan of action. They soon pressed the Furthermore, Wanda says, this is "your chance to city for help with such learn the hog business from the bottom up." persistence that the city — which previously was The young man becomes unresponsive — decided Wanda's friend. But after By Katherine Bird to take action and cleared a while, he remembers the comfortable life on his up the stray dog problem. wealthy father's farm. He Since that modest begindecides to return home, ning at community actaking Wanda with him. tion, the woman has His father orders a become a neighbourhood scrumptious meal, hires a leader and helped her country rock band and neighbours deal with invites all his friends to some much more complicelebrate the return of his cated problems. long lost son. That woman once was A discordant note powerless in hercommunsounds when the young ity. Now she is full of man's brother, returning plans for the betterment from his usual long day's of her neighbourhood. labour, finds a party in She has acquired the Most pe ople experience events in their lives that snap them to attention and force them to clarify full swing and confronts experience and skills to priorities. For Dan Morris, an accident that nearly took the life of his son pushed all other matters his father indignantly: make a difference. aside. It made him ponder why we focus so much on what children might become rather than what they are — incredible gifts and responsibilities to be loved, enjoyed and nurtured now. "Hey, dad, remember Harry could have been me? I'm the one who's taken and guy" a "nice been here all along, work- care of the stray dogs ing for you faithfully. himself, leaving the woman alone and ineffective. By challenging her to take responsibility for her own and her neighbours problem, he helped phone call from my wife her discover gifts she Three recent events t hat our Michael had Morris Dan By didn't know she had strongly altered my been hit by a car, the gifts for action and leadview of the future: be taken very literally. small victories against the critical staff meetingIwas ership. — A good friend, a But I've also been tempted power of this disease were running suddenly lost President John F real eye-openers. His meaning. Office concerns, recovering alcohol- to test Jesus on it. Ilistened to that moder- K ennedy used to say: "OK, Lord," I mumble final victory, be it for car loans, pressing proic, fell off the wagon nised version of The "Here on earth God's to myself, "I'll give up however long, was an jects did not even come to Prodigal Son on a recent work must be truly our with a vengeance; mind. Our son's life was public radio broadcast of own." He recognised that — I saw a film about worrying about the bills inspiration. It took an awesome the total focus. pay You month. his t The Prairie Home Com- God calls us to take our manage h ow to them."This is particularly amount of courage and W hy do we keep so panion. And, once again, own lives and the lives of one's time; attractive when a month's strength. Yet it was clear wondering on what our ocused f Ifound myself others into our hands — And, our son was bills arrive, greeted by that he did not have a children might become how the story ended. and give them shape and hit and nearly killed only two weeks' salary. future until he controlled rather than on what they Wanda, skilled in man- meaning. by a car. Interestingly enough, the alcohol overpowering are — incredible gifts and busiher agement from Many of us have seen I've long been intrigued I've noticed over the years his life. In the deepest of responsibilities to be ness experience, sizes up the humorous sign which by a passage in Matthew's that staring at the ceiling spiritual journeys, he had loved and enjoyed and She quickly. situation the says: "The future lies Gospel which seems to in the middle of the night to become convinced he nurtured now? senses the older brother is ahead." The problem distill Jesus's attitude didn'thelpmuchinmatch- was important enough to I've begun to wonder: filled with resentment at with the sign, as I recall, t owards planning the ing available resources to save; that he could, with Do people invest too has friend her way the is that the final two God's help, overcome future: current demands. much time and energy on comeback. She decides to words run off the end of "I am telling you not to The time-management alcoholism. for that nicercar planning play peacemaker. it — obviously suggesting His priority would have worry about your life and film I saw centred on some day and next year's She guesses that the that the sign maker didn't what you are to eat; nor s etting priorities. It to be each hour as it came vacation? Can we become b rothers are at cross plan ahead. about your body and how delivered a simple mes- along. If he lost his grip so focused on the future purposes. Far different in The future is certainly you are to clothe it ... sage: Define what is most on today, he risked losing that when we reach what has each ersonality, will but us, of p before all Look at the birds in the important and concen- tomorrow. we've planned, we don't pursued a plan of action it include a significant sky. They do not sow or trate on those things. He had to come to the enjoy it? really aimed at reaching certain place for us? That dereap or gather into barns; For a Christian, know- bedrock realisation that the Lord's mesSurely goals their But oals. g pends on us. yet your heavenly Father ing what is important is his life was worthwhile, sage in Matthew shouldn't were dramatically differnot you Are them. its feeds all with was, it as just God, Love serve basic: that believe Christians be twisted into a philoent. Neither understands God values each person. worth much more than neighbour. limitation, unmet goals sophy against all planthe of view of the point they are? Can any of you, However, knowingwhat half-articulated dreams, God has given each one ning. Even the birds build other. Wanda speculates of us dignity and value for all his worrying, add is right and doing what is wrinkles, bumps, scars nests and the flowers that part of the conflict beyond our dreaming. one single cubit to his right can be birds of a and bruises. produce seeds for another brothers b etween the This is where our son's day. span of life?" different feather. That's G od the creator has comes from this lack of made us most like HimMost in. comes from is accident The passage where my friend's conYet a proper perspective understanding. Matthew's Chapter6. I've frontation with alcoho- people experience events self in that He has given the future does not on to them life in snap that by it handle to tended in. draws comes lism Wanda us a real role in shaping Gently, seem possible for the them force convincing myself it is The up-close weeks we attention and each brother into conver- our future. He is always Concern with the present and concern for the future often Christian until he or she The priorities. to clarify as dramatic friend of case our a with simply to each shared asking us, respectwith gently, sation, are like a tug of war pulling our lives in two different comes to accept the gift biblical style which the he battled and lost, battled accident did that for us. e xplain what is most fully nudging and urging directions. If we pay too much attention to one and ignore the and potential of today. received When I to won intend and not did battled author tied, and him. on. to us important can out lives our become of balance. the other
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Psychologist interest in "Talkaboutprayer," said Dan Coughlin, "did I s ay we'd do that?" Asclinicalpsychologist at Centrecare, Dan, has in the past c onducted prayer days. His interest in the subject is profound, a nd he feels too many people assume prayer is 'just words' . "It's much, much more than that," he said. "The hard part is explaining what it i s because we al l i nterpret prayer in different ways at different times."
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that thought we live and grow and reproduce and share across our cellular walls, and even though we think we're smart and run our own affairs quite well, there dwells f ar off a t the limits of our universe a Mind that governs all And did you know that though we love and feel a tiny pulse, a Spirit moves to make of these but one gigantic throb? One purpose of prayer, says Dan Coughlin, is to h elp us tune into the universe and to life "God sure doesn't need us to pray," he said, "but we can learn much about Him." And for this he wrote
H e believes that very often, our childhood image of God influences the way we pray and sometimes, how effectively we pray. "We grow up with the idea of God as someone up in the sky who looks after us," he said.
, "' .4"40Pil "That's not a good God to pray to because if I'm here and God's up there and I ask for help then I've opted out of the problem and I get depressed and or a ngry when my prayer doesn't get answered. It's God's fault." We need, he says, to take an active role in our prayer and thus ensure the quality of it. He is talking about what he calls, 'mental prayer,' as opposed to reciting wellknown words by rote. "Mental prayer is a very
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unique thing," he says. "My concept of God is changing profoundly, day by day, so therefore the p rocess prayer of changes." He has written, what he calls 'not very good poetry' to illustrate his point. "If you think of a human cell praying, what would it be doing?" he said. "It would start to think about the world about . opening up to the love that is all around. "If the cell thought that the source of life was 'out there' somewhere, he'd b e missing the whole thing.
The cell is much more intimately involved with the source of life than that. "A good Christian prayer would be celebrating what all creation is like. Not because we have the first seats in a heavenly amphitheatre, but we would see Jesus revealing what we . His children. are "It's like someone sitting in the sun and enjoying t he l ight and warmth around and wondering where the heat is coming from." And so he wrote The word Did you know my epidermal friend
THE KINGDOM The kingdom of heaven is like a radar, powered by cosmic energy, its scope is the universe. Well tuned, it can pick up cries of distress, well charged, it can heal them. The kingdom of heaven is within you. Praying in church, he says, serves an important, if different purpose. It is a group of people sharing a vision and celebrating that vision. But mental prayer is a way of knowing oneself, of finding the truth. M any of us have not developed a social conscience, says Dan. "If the Kingdom came tomorrow in Perth, what would it be like? If I never thought or
has profound prayer days prayed about it, how do I k now what it could, or more importantly, should be. I have to use my imagination in prayer. "When I was young imagination was presented as a danger to prayer. "Fantasy was the devil's workshop, and it was by way of the imagination t hat sexy thoughts and distractions entered the mind. "It was through therapy I discovered the power of imagination in helping us to learn to love ourselves, to literally put ourselves in a good light and also to heal the old traumatic wounds of childhood.
in helping a person to be more prayerful. And it's important, he says, to separate the spiritual from the religious. "We are spiritual beings because we do spiritual things like knowing and loving," he said. "We choose to be religious but we are spiritual
"If there's a confl ict between what I believe as a psychologist and what I h ave learned from my spiritual heritage then either my psychology is wrong or my theology is wrong. '" H e sees dreams as a useful source of prayer material.
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"I see little difference between this approach to therapy and what prayer people call the 'healing of memories "One nice thing about prayer is you don't have to be an expert or a wise man to pray. "As a matter of fact you must become as a child. The genius of Jesus is He did not present us with a complicated philosophy of life but He presented us with Himself. THE GENIUS OF JESUS No essence and existence No yin and no yang No search after wisdom, Just come follow Me. I am the way, and the truth and the life. His interest in the mechanics of prayer has been greatly stimulated through his awareness of psychology and psychic function.
it says about you, can be a n invaluable form of prayer that brings you to greater knowledgeof yourself and gives you greater wisdom about life. For Dan himself, prayer is often a quiet time, a time to tune into the inner self. "I'd like to think that the more I become aware of living in God, the more that influences all I do. But whether I'm aware of it or not, I am who I am."
whether we are religious or not. It is sad that those w ho lose faith in the Church often neglect their spiritual life at the same time." In the past, says Dan Coughlin, there -has been a battle between religion and psychology For him, there is no such clash. He sees the psychological and spiritual at easy peace in the person.
" The substance of dreams gives us the symbols for prayer," he said. "If you accept that your dreams are a dramatic way of presenting conflicts in you, then it's a nice way of praying for yourself, to resolve these conflicts.Spending time the next day thinking about your dream and how you can make its negative message a positive one, or just trying to understand what
He believes that Western cultures find it harder to discover the meaning of Jesus's words when He said: "The Kingdom of God is within." We have a lot to learn, he says, from Eastern cultures which have developed modes of meditation and prayer which encourage such deep insight into self. "I 'm no authority on prayer," says Dan, but he b el ieves strongly that there is a wondrous world within all of us, that lies alone in its beauty, untapped in many who have not found the key of prayer. We need to learn the skills, but first we must decide to seek. "I'm good at bringing people to the top of the mountain," says Dan,but the God that they meet will be theirs."
Extra -sensory-perception certainly exists in some people and represents an untapped power in us all.
"That is how I feel a spiritual being operates, we are not confined to our body," he said. "If I have a sister in M ontreal, my loving thoughts can affect her in a positive way. -Our mental and spiritual faculties exert an influence on the world. They can e xert an ever greater influence for good if we learn how to use them. "I know my Lord Your power in me, but what is t he force that locks my jaw, when I try to say, 'Arise and walk.' "Why don't we do it? It's faith that is needed and it's lack of faith that stops us.
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Youth Forum —Study paintsgrim future for youth C ANBERRA: Youth unemployment is likely to remain at a higher level than before the 1974-75 recession, says a paper prepared by several Commonweathdepartments. The paper has been prepared as a background for a team from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development visiting Australia to review its youth policies. It says that the teenage unemployment rate since 1973 has rocketed from five per cent to 23 per cent, while the rate for young adults has risen from two per cent to 15 per cent. "There seems to be a r eal possibility that youth employment rates may not recover, even in the longer term," it says. The Department of Education and Youth A ffairs prepared the paper with assistance from the Departments of Social Security and Employmentand Industrial Relations and the
Office of the Status of Women. It says that the success of the Government's k ey job -creation scheme, the Community E mployment Programme could be hampered by its conflicting objectives to relieve unemployment caused by short-term and longterm economic problems. The paper canvasses a range of radical reforms and initiatives in youth policy, such as payment of a single youth allowance to all those aged between 15 and 24, some form of "youth guarantee," whereby the Federal Government provides alternative opportunities in education, training and employment for a paricular group such as schoolleavers who otherwise face unemployment, and offering an allowance to students in senior secondary school and tertiary education s o generous that it deters premature and undertrained entry into the labour force.
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My father asked me to go t o an Antioch meeting, and my first impressions were of a bunch of freaks with nothing better to do but sing, dance, pray and go on for hours with nothing but boring lectures about the role of Christ in t oday's young community. W hen I first arrived at the weekend I was greeted by a rather enthusiastic young lady who pranced up to me, took my luggage, and escorted me to the enrolling desk.
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I was greeted warmly and five minutes later I was ready to pack up and write to the Sunday Times to issue a warning about Antioch for poisoning the minds of the young Christians in our community. But until I actually went to the Antioch weekend I couldn't even say that I A group of parents, friends and Antiochans enjoying the concert. myself was a dedicated Christian. could hear about Antioch On Friday night I thought it would help, because it would be a dead loss, but young people these days after joining a discussion really have no-one to turn group and talking to some to. / of the kids, I soon learned / that others were interested Kids my age, with family / in what was taking place, problems, or feeling peer / and when you're interested group pressure, after joina better / well it just seems to click. ing Antioch had understanding of the basic meaning of life and the meaning of Christianity. I A ttention think it is invaluable for the young community. On Saturday things really I would recommend did click together, and I anyone in my age group to I saw, just in the events that take part. were taking place, that Before I went I wasn't kids were starting to pay much of a dedicated Chrisattention, and the image tian, but after three days they put on in the street of Antioch it really hit me was little more than a just how much Christianity mask. can help. They were doing that to Some kids, I think, have impress themselves and the lost the meaning of love. people around them. They acted in a totally different They don't know they're way and began to express putting on a mask to face themselves as to how they the world. The Watt boys, Paul and Peter with Sue Wallwork and Gabrielle Gimbazi. felt on the weekend. That's It has opened my eyes so what really shocked me, much towards the meaning they just let themselves go, of Christianity, the fact my relations and family Ifelt I was going downhill, what the true meaning of which was a totally differ- t hat kids my age are and that was about it, but but now it's all 'go', because Christianity is. ent experience for me. human. The only real now I've got friends by the the weekend has helped me GREG PURCELL, to just realise who lam and WOODLANDS. Ithink that if more people friends I had before were dozen.
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S ometimes I dream that bundles of money wouldsolve many problems on the youth scene. It would certainly pay all the bills. Iwonder how it would feelnever to stop before buying and checking that there is enough money.
It's hard to explain what Antioch's about. For me it was a unique experience, I think I can just sum this up by saying that in three days I opened my eyes more than in my first 16 years of life.
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Those with endless funds are rare; most have to budget andplan what is spent. Youth groups and movements are no exception. R ecently the youth apostolate received $4,566 from the pro-
More than money ceeds of Youth Appeal W3. R eceiving the final cheques marked the end of Appeal '83, the end of all the meetings; it was something of an anti-climax when the funds arrived. The money had already been spent or earmarked before it was received. Those involved in youth work know that making money is not where all the real action is; but it does cause problems from time to time. For instance an unwelcome intruder to the youth offices earlier this year helped himself to $700 of international phone calls. His repay-
ments are still only a trickle and the telephone account that shocked the student movements is causing anxiety for some. Oh for a "sugar daddy"! Office expenses and the ever increasing overheads are found by members of the movements throughpersonal subscriptions and fund raising. Monies received from grants from the archdiocese, the government, and substantial donations are spent on the w ages of full time workers. This is by far the largest single expense. Full time workers in the youth apostolate
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Last week the distribution of seven cheques to receive a stipend which participating voluntary youth organisations marked falls considerably short the end of Youth Appeal '83. of the wage of their The sum of $4,566.50 was received by each of the contemporaries. following:- Anglican Youth, Catholic Youth, Uniting The youth movements Youth, Youth Hostels Assoc., Y.W.C.A ., Scripture themselves make the Union and The Perth Inner-City Youth Service. decision as to how much The Catholic share willbe dividedfour ways between a fulltimer receives. I Redemptorist Youth, Catholic Parish Youth, Young wonder about the sys- Christian Workers and the Youth Formation Centre. tem of stipends, especially should the I am interested in supporting Eagle's Nest individualyouth worker Youth Formation Centre. Please find enclosed find money a problem cheque made payable to Catholic Charities of and gradually become $ disenchanted with initial ideals. Thank God this is rare. NAME For good work in the ADDRESS youth apostolate two TEL. NO. other important things Camp Site Secretary, are needed together P.O. Box 194, with sufficient funds: North Perth, 6006 Plenty of prayers and dedicatedpeople. Jesus HPlease tick if receipt required said as much. The Record, December 2 — 8, 1983
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Activists are into anarchy COMMON PROBLEM From P.M. MONEY, Midland The correspondent Trevor Boardman (Record November 4) correctly identifies a common problem with many Catholics today in regard to misconceptions over the meaning of faith. When people speak of "faith"' they can be referring to one of two distinct things. First "faith" can mean that gift which God bestows on us which, if we accept, enables us to accept as true dogmas or doctrines such as the Incarnation, the Real Presence in the Eucharist, etc, truths which we could not come to know through natural human reasoning. Secondly, when people speak of faith they can also mean the body of dogmas and doctrines. This sort of faith not only can be taught but must be taught if our faith is to be passed on from generation to generation It is also important to note that our acceptance of the gift of faith does not constitute the gift of faith itself, as Sister H. Murphy stated. from CLEM CASAROL, Willetton Sir, J.S. Loney (Record November 18) has the best of intentions like Santa ma r ia before him but we should question where he is leading us. J.S. Loney deplores the drop in numbers of Catholics in politics and pleads for the consideration of Christian values in decision making. He tells us Orwell's 1984, with Big Brother, is not far away. The motivation he offers is fear of evil, the evil of Big Brother. Many older people like myself will be reminded of 1 954 and beyond when fear of the evil of Communism was presented to Catholics by the Church s upported Santamaria M ovement which produced the DLP. Loney
From FRANCIS HRUBOS, Glen Forrest John Cahill ought to realise that there is an unaccountable variety of activists. The majority of activists, with the way they are pushing their ideas, can be put into the pigeon hole with the anarchists. Another important mark of activists is their disregard for the democratic decision by the majority. Because they cannot overrule the majority, they stir up all hell to force their minority ideas through.
A waste Besides J Cahill's last paragraph, the rest of the letter is a waste of a valuable newspaper column For the benefit of those who could be misled by the last paragraph on Changing Australia, I will quote theologician Karl Rahner, SJ. 'Within the Church there is to be found an exclusive commitment to temporal realities which is not a legitimate choice but
Best of ideas offers us the fear motive a gain. The demise of the fear inspired DLP, first called the Anti-Communist Labour Party, is a historical fact. It's main effect was to get Catholics out of the main stream of politics which Loney deplores. S urely we should learn from our own Australian C atholic history.
apostacy and total loss of faith." Our Lord warned His disciples: 'Without Me you can do nothing ... If you dwell in Me and My words dwell in you, ask what you will and you shall have it." I add peace, prosperity, social justice, etc.
Our Lord asked also if He will find faith when He returns at the end of the world. Judging according to the faith of far too many claiming to be believers and religious, I am hoping that the end is near.
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East Timor points unchallenged
C OMMUNIST FRETILIN
From J.F. HARDING, Diane/la Your correspondent Jenni York (Record 11-17 Nov) made no attempt to answer the general thrust of my letter of your previous edition on East Timor, but contented herself with suggesting that I was opposed to a "genuine" act of self-determination by the people of East Timor under "International Guide-lines" and intimated that I am an uncritical supporter of Mr Whitlam.
If Jenni York's and the CCJP's vision of a "genuine act of self-determination" by the people of East Timor is one sponsored by the proMarxist organisation Fretilin, which happens to be the only armed and organised force in that country, then I firmly believe that the East Timorese and their immediate neighbours are infinitely better off with the prevailing circumstances. The recent intra-parliamentary delegation, led by senior
Federal ALP parliamentarian Bill Morrison, appeared to have similar views. Any person who has been domiciled in Australia beyond the previous decade understands quite clearly that the writer was one of Mr Whitlam's most trenchant critics while he was Prime Minister and publicly criticised the ALP Governments' decision to grant de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union.
Changes in the conflict from SISTER VERONICA BRADY, Nedlands Sir,
Mr John C Veszely asks (The Record Oct 20) why I am not involved in current protests against events in Vietnam.
The reason is because there does not seem to me a parallel between the conflict of north and south, two parts of what was once a unified state before the advent of the French in the 19th century, and American intervention from outside in this conflict. Whether or not the whole country is to be seen i n the bondage of atheisticcommunism
isa matter of interpretation and debate. Like Mr Veszely I dislike Communist totalitarianism. However, in my view the best way to prevent its spread is to remove its causes — poverty and injustice at the international level. Like many others I am concerned with the n uclear arms race and with the proliferation of armaments in general. The money squandered in this way might prevent many Vietnams.
from P BERTOLA, Bremer Bay. Sir, Mr John Cahill's swing at your report of Archbishop Goody's warning on a US activist seems a bit low — at least to an older non-progressive. A lot of the stuck -in-the -mud oldies would say that our Church leaders are far too kind with their c omments on the contemporary scene. I suppose we must have and tolerate diversity in all fields. It would seem Mr Cahill does not want to have the document "Changing Australia" criticised. "Changing Australia" is all about equality. Mr Cahill has a very flexible mind.
From P. COYNE, Mt Hawthorn When Portugal pulled out of East Timor, Fretilin tried to take over by force. If they have succeeded, there would be no freedom in East Timor today. By their company you will know them. Communist and left-wing factions throughout the world support Fretilin. People like Jim Harding and Bob Santamaria are well aware of the situation. Father Jim O'Brien and Mons da Gosta Lopes are innocents abroad.
From JOHN C VESZELY, Nollamara
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Sir, One wonders why Mr Cahill (The Record November 11) had only one c omment on my letter about the campaign in Poland to discredit Walesa. He satisfied himself by saying it is important to bear in mind the communists are not the only experts at disinformation.
Comment A very lean comment, on the topic he himself believes important. Ididnot, of course say the communists are the only ones, who make use of such despicable practices. Nor didI say others lack
*Acknowledge that there are a large percentage of Catholics who, for one reason or another, are separated or divorced from their partner. *Acknowledge that many separated or divorced Catholics are also trying to lead "good" Catholic lives. 'Acknowledge that the term "family" does not apply to two-parent families. The old Catholic "norm" of family comprising Mum, Dad and numerous children is rapidly becoming a myth and the Church must recognise and make provision for the different forms of "family". "Acknowledge that most separated and divorced Catholics are trying, to the best of their ability, to instil into their children a balanced sense of Christian principles and ethics and an awareness of commitment to their Church community. Admittedly, the Church must promote an ideal. However, for those of its members who cannot meet that ideal, the Church must not be seen to denigrate the quality of their faith nor their claim to be recognised as "good" Catholics. Nor must the Church hinder their right to be accepted as fully-fledged members of their Church community.
Reds dolt better those essential attributes, to make the truth appear a lie, or black to be perceived as lily-white. But as the communists had the most practice in the past 60 odd years at that sort of thing, I am r easonably sure the others who try their hand at it are only amateurs. Only communist states, with their dedication to world revolution have the machinery and the staff to undertake those lobs to undermine everything else and to advance their cause.
Arrogant and misleading
from PAUL DONNELLY, Claremont Sir, than the numbers of Christians It is arrogant, misleading and incorrect outside parliment who will write, to assume Catholics will be the ring up or interview their parliamain advocates of Christian and mentary representatives on issues moral viewpoints in our parliaof Christian interests. ments; and J.S. Loney (The Record Unfortunately amongst Christians I 18 November) also fails to adumwould rate Catholics rather low in brate one of the well known facts numbers among those who add to of democratic government that their Christian faith the good m embers of parliaments are works of activity in resisting evil influenced and informed by feedlest evil prosper because good men in from the people they represent do nothing to resist it. and who vote for them. In fact, in The Festival of Light we The numbers of Christians and t end to be shunned by many Catholics in parliaments are of less Catholics simply because we are moment in reaching decisions active in resisting evil .
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WHAT'S ON MONDAY MEETINGS The Visually Impaired Group meets every third Monday of the month at Emmanuel Centre (25 Windsor St, East Perth) at 10.30am-12 noon. Transport is available (contact Debbie 3 28 8113). The group has as its aim social and spiritual enrichment. A s most people who could benefit by this meeting would be unable to read this notice, we ask that you spread the word among visually impaired and blind people that you know. Further information 328 8278.
EAST TIMOR RALLY Christians in Solidarity with East Timor (CISET) will hold a silent prayer vigil from 5-8pm in the grounds of St G eorge's Anglican Cathedral on December 7, the eighth anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. F or further information contact Bernadette Kennedy 328 6261 or Jenni York 332 5240.
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HARVEY FESTIVAL Friends of Harvey parish are invited to a parish festival in honour of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception on Sunday December 11 commencing with Mass celebrated at 10.30am by Bishop Quinn, followed by a visitors' picnic lunch and afternoon games. At 5pm there will be Holy Year public p rayer in the church followed at 5.30pm by a procession through the streets of Harvey and concluding with benediction. An open air concert will take place form 8 to lOpm. PARISH PROGRAMMES Father Charles Gallagher, author of the Parish Renewal programme will visit Sydney next week and introduce f urther programmes. Peter and Veronica Dymond of WA will meet him and relay comments that have been received from the parishes of Attadale, Kuhn, Geraldton, Kensington, Bullsbrook, Midland, Cottesloe, Lesmurdie and Nedlands. Other parishes wishing to add their comments should phone the Dymonds on 273 2214 before December 4. PASSION PLAY FILMS In preparation for the 350th Anniversary of the Oberammergau Passion Play the public is invited to afilm p resentation on Monday December 5 a t pm first floor, Elders Building 111 S t Georges Terrace, Perth to see s hort, scenic films on Germany, S witzerland and England.
Many nations represented Modern plural society was noticeably reflected in St AnthonFirst Holy y's Communion Ceremony celebrated for the first time in the Greenmount church. The Mass, concelebrated by parish priest Father Laurence, and Fathers Cormac, Emil and Kazimierz,
was attended by a c ongregation of about 700 people. The 38 children, making their First Holy Communion, represented 11 nationalities, embracing cultures from Vietnam, Australia, Yugoslavia, India. Malaysia, Burma, Holland, Poland, Italy, England
and the Philippines. Epitomising the multicultural society of A ustral ia today, these children united under the common bond of humanity and Christianity as they received Holy Communion for the first time. COLLEEN HOWARD
ALBANY — For the first time in Albany, the Feast of Christ the King was marked by a special openair Mass on the school o val at llam on November 20. After the Mass there was a procession with the B lessed Sacrament around the school oval ending with the Benediction. During the procession the Rosary was recited and hymns sung. One of the main celebrations for the Holy Year, various organisations marched under their banners from district, national groups, schools and other bodies.
Midland Singalong St Anthony's Primary School, Midvale, with eight On the second day grades 4-7 took part giving a other schools in the Swan Shire, has just taken part variety of items which included square dancing by St in a two day "singalong" at the Midland Recreation Anthony's. serio /comedy/musical dramas, musical Centre. and singing entertainment by the various schools and Each day approximately 1,000 people were present finalising the delightful two day "singalong "with I Still - children, teachers and parents. Call Australia Home. To co-ordinate the theme the guitarist compere led with such songs as Bananas in Pyjamas much to the As one principal noted .. "It is one of the few merriment of the children. occasions when schools come together instead of Grades 1-3 performed the first day with action songs competing." and dances, some in school attire and others in national costume. It was a sharing experience with a lot of fun!
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Meet and talk with Vernon Heaton author of "the Oberammergau Passion Play." Further information from Paramount Travel, Allendale Square, 77 St Georges Terrace, Perth, 6000 Western Australia. COLLEGE BALL La Salle's annual college ball is being held on December 10 at the Ascot Racecourse. Dancing is to the Wells Dance Band and the beautiful surroundings and floor of the Silver Shadows Ballroom. The ticket covers entrance to the ball and also includes buffet with drinks included, covering non-alcoholic, beer, house wine and a full range of spirits. The ball is for adults, former La Sallians and friends of the college are invited to this evening which promises to be a marvellous night's entertainment. Tickets are $18.50 each and avai lable f rom the college between 8.30 and 9.30 am daily.
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O'CONNOR returned to racing in fine style with a very easy first up win in the Ragtime Graduation Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. This 3yo colt has now had four starts for three wins and a second and should win more races this campaign. BUNGLING should give prominent trainer Ted Hickling a chance to have another crack at the Australian Derby, which he won last year with Sanatate. At his first start over a staying journey Bungling sprinted quickly from last to take the lead just before the line and indicated he will get the extra 200m of the Derby. MOSS KINGDOM is a horse to back early in the Perth Cup. Moss Kingdom has only 46 kilos in the cup, a far cry from the 57.0 kilos he carried on Saturday when a close up sixth in the Western Mail Classic to Bounty Hawk when he ran on strongly against a field of top class performers. He could start a lot shorter in the cup than the odds being offered at the moment. LORD BALLINA put up a top trial for the Railway Stakes when he flew home to finish a close fourth to outsider Hanging In in the Winterbottom Stakes. This Tommy Smith trained horse is by boom sire Bletchingly (sire of Kingston Town) and should run out the 1600m of the Railway Stakes.
Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster
DOGS' CHANCE... R ACE ONE: 1 Trojan's Girl. 2 Bold Talent. 3 True Ebony. R ACE TWO: I Noble Shane. 2 Lucky Irish. 3 Akkabar. R ACE THREE: I Little Storm. 2 Twilight Town, 3 Black Cannon. R ACE FOUR: 1 Aulfee. 2 Untimely. 3 Supa Trak. R ACE FIVE: 1 Donara Queen. 2 Scootalot. 3 Tegimi's Son, R ACE SIX: 1 Wild Earl. 2 Vacant Site. 3 Nero Wolfe. R ACE SEVEN: 1 Curl. Tale. 2 Softlight. 3 Temswap. R ACE EIGHT: 1 Persian King. 2 Mad Jack. 3 Boundless Gold.
RACE NINE: I Briony's Legend. 2 Jacval Lady. 3 Quatrisanne. R ACE TEN: 1 Sans Reproach. 2 Special Vale. 3 Aara Princess.
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