GOODY TO LECTURE ON HISTORY See page 2
GERALDTON HELPING HAND TO ST KILDA NUNS See page 2 NEW PRIEST A PPOINTED TO NED LANDS See page 3
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• will enliven the mission of the Church in Australia and plan for its future. Bishop Bede Heather, liaison officer for the bicentenary, said the Australian Catholic Bicentennial Committee last year asked for people's suggestions for ways the Church could contribute to the 1988 celebrations. "From the suggestions that came from various parts of Australia this proposal was very much favoured," he said. "Many of those suggesting it referred to the recent experience of the Church in England and Wales in Liverpool in 1980. "Our committee has developed the principle to have three overall objectives: "First, the Catholic community should search, in a critical way, for its identity. Great changes have taken place in the Catholic community since the post-war years. We need to discover our identity anew.
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"Second, we should examine the responsibilities the Catholic community has to Australia today. "That would mean seeking for the deepest needs the people of Australia have. "Examples of these responsibilities could be responsibility for Christian unity, and for justice in all parts of our society. "Third, we should search for new ways of making Jesus known in a multi-cultural society such as ours." Bishop Heather said proposals for a national pastoral conference have been made before. "Now the bishops have accepted the principle and begun positive planning," he said. BICENTENARY EVENTS: Several Catholic contributions to the 1988 bicentenary are being discussed. One is a national liturgical conference. It has been suggested the conference could be in Hobart. The bicentenary Authority is planning inter-faith services to commemorate the role of the various religious groups in Australia's history.
Goody to give historical lectures Protest about Russian laws
LONDON -- Twelve prominent British clergymen (including the former Anglican Archbishop, Lord Coggan; Anglican bishops; Catholic bishops and rabbis) have written a letter to THE TIMES, in which they draw attention to the amendment to article 70 of the criminal code of the Russian Republic
Archbishop Goody will give a series of popular lectures on the theme "The Middle Ages, The Melting Pot of our Western Civilisation". The fortnightly lectures from 7.30-9 pm will begin on Wednesday, July 4 in the Nedlands parish centre, corner Tyreel and Elizabeth Streets, Nedlands.
They state they "are deeply concerned lest t he new law should increase the already considerable material hardship endured by some members of the Soviet population," citing in particular families of prisoners of conscience and Jewish "refuseniks".
Intending participants should contact Miss Patricia Ryan, 386 6000 Mr Max Connor 384 4883. "Every nation from west of the Ural Mountains to the Atlantic was formed in its language, culture, social institutions, political shape, religion, arts, crafts and sciences during the 1000 years of gradual development between the chaos of Roman collapse in the West ( c.450AD) and the dawn of the modern world in the 15th century," Archbishop Goody said.
The religious leaders from diverse traditions have joined in endorsing hopes that the change in leadership in the Soviet Union will allow for new hope and initiatives. But they stress the amendment of article 70 makes reapproachment more difficult.
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Archbishop Goody said without a knowledge of the Middle Ages much of the present situation is well nigh unintelligible.
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"Most reasonably well-read people have a fair general idea of the Mediterranean civilisation of Greece and Rome which nurtured the roots of our mixlern Wc.t ern world. "Even more are relatively familiar with the recognisably modern stirringsof the Rennaisance and the Reformation of Religion from the 16th century onwards — the growth of the western nations as we know them: the discovery of printing and of the New World; the development of art, architecture and the physical sciences of that time. But few, it would seem, have more than the vaguest idea of the 1000 year period which separate the former period from the latter, he said.
Geraldton gift to 'red-light' nuns GERALDTON — Seven pensioner residents of Larmenier Hostel, Nazareth House, have banded together to help four Good Shepherd nuns who work in Melbourne's St Kilda red-light district. After reading a feature story, Nuns who walk violent streets (The Record, April 26) the pensioners collected $40. Their cheque was posted to The Record for forwarding to the nuns in St Kilda. The feature story told how the nuns walk the notorious streets of St Kilda, befriending and helping prostitutes, runaways, drug addicts and alcoholics. The nuns, Sisters Anne Dalton, 40, Mary Carroll, 45, Noeline White 39, and Gendrie Klein-Bretler, 28, have made their home in the heart of the district known as Melbourne's Kings Cross.
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For two years, Good Shepherd nuns have driven to St Kilda once a week and walked through the night. Their commitment to the "truly poor, truly lost" led them to live in their midst. Their home is an old, two-storey terrace house in Robe Street, rented from St Kilda parish two months ago. Slowly the sisters are winning the acceptance and trust -- even the of the protection street kids. They are known --- and welcomed -- by the keepers of late night cafes and bars. These places will be their "bolt holes" in case of need — a need that has not yet arisen. The sisters do not feel threatened by the violence and degradation of the neighbourhood. But they are aware of the nightly violence — it happens all around them. A nd they are aware of the drug passers.
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Nuns walking St Kilda's red-light district streets . .. Sister Anne Dalton and Sister Gendrie Klein-Bretler passing a greasy-spoon cafe. "These kids from 14 to 20, although I know one little 10-year-old boy who was on the street — are runaways, from home or from institutions. "They are nearly all on drugs. And they are nearly all prostitutes -boys and girls — to pay for their drugs. "They are caught in a vicious web of violence." The letter accompanying the Geraldton cheque said: "After reading about what the nuns are doing to save our poor children from the streets, and everything that goes with that, we collected what we could . . "We live in an aged people's home. It is built on a rise and a few minutes walk form the sea . . . it's real lovely. "We have a nice room with TV and heaters . . . we are all happy and get looked-after very good . . . Thank God we have a place for old folk . . . "Praying the nuns get plenty more help, Yours sincerely, Kitty Culloton."
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The 1984 production marks the 350th anniversary of the play's first performance and the next presentation is not due until 1990. As an added bonus, the pilgrimage tour takes in Catholic pilgrimage places including France. in Lourdes, and also a visit to
Rome and Florence. Dean Trevor Callaghan of Merredin is the spiritual leader of the tour.
Czechs tighten rules PRAGUE: 11w restrictions imposed in hospitals in Czechoslovathe on kia administration of the sacraments to the dying are becoming increasingly complicated and vigilance is becoming more rigorous.
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Protest March in Paris PARIS (NC) — French police estimated more t han 500,000 people marched in support of Catholic schools in the former royal city of Versailles. The marchers were protesting the proposed reform programme of Education Minister Alain Savary, which would give regional governments control over private school budgets, limit t he number of private school teachers and require private school t eachers to be civil servants
Value of the aged VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II, 63 told a group of senior citizens that being old is no reason to say enough". "According to the divine plan, every single human being is a life in growth, from the first spark of existence to the last breath," the pope told the group of Italian pilgrims. "Nobody has the right to say 'enough'," he said. "You should not stop nor consider yourselves in decline." The pope added contemporary society errs when it does not affirm the value of the elderly. "In this mentality of superfluous consumerism and systematic materialism, you can and must become elements of rebirth," he said. The pope also told the elderly not to succumb to temptations to withdraw nor to feel abandoned hy a modern society. "You still have a mission to accomplish, a contribution to make," he said. Old age is a "privilege, because everybody does not have the luck to reach this goal, and above all because this is the period of concrete possibilities to better reconsider the past.
Ecumenism at parish levels Appointed to Nedlands
SYDNEY. — Anglicans and Catholics will soon have an opportunity to come together at parish level, the Australian Bishops' meeting was told.
A Sydney group chaired by Anglican, Bishop Donald Cameron, and Catholic, Bishop Bede Heather, has prepared a kit for six discussions for people from both churches. "It will he more than just discussion," Bishop Heather said. "It will be set in a context of prayer and fellowship." Bishop Heather said two years ago Canon Richard Stewart of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity visited Australia and spoke to the Australian bishops on the final report of ARCIC (the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission). Anglicans and Catholics have been asked if the final report reflects the beliefs of their churches.
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"We also resolved to make a more detailed response after a consultation with the Catholic community. "We feel this should be done in conjunction with our brothers and sisters of the Anglican community." The study materials are a result of this approach. They include a booklet and tapes — such as a recorded reading of a Eucharistic Prayer to illustrate Catholic belief in the Eucharist and an extract from the Book of
The services for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity are as follows. Friday June 8,1.15 to 1.45 pm: At Wesley Church: Archbishop Foley will be preacher at the service a ttended by heads of churches. Sunday June 10 (Pentecost): Applecross: St Michael's Anglican Church Mount Pleasant, 7.30 pm.
Common Pray to express the Anglican view. The kits should be ready by September. "We hope Anglicans and Catholic parishes will join in the sessions and share their faith," Bishop Heather said.
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The science of counting people in a religious context can be dismissed quickly and easily by saying that numbers do not matter and it is the quality and not the quantity that counts. The argument would be more attractive if the scriptural writers had left the matter alone but the lonely couple of Adam and Eve contrast with their numerous descendants, Abraham's children come to be numbered in their tribes, Bethlehem becomes famous because of Roman curiosity about numbers. The Pentecost miracle of a Church bursting forth could have been painted in magnificent prose but instead St Luke decided to be very practical and list the number of converts at about three thousand. The Apocalypse has the 144,000 in places of honour a t judgement day but fortunately for the rest of us St J ohn saw a multitude that no one could number standing before God's throne. With computers chattering on every side it is inevitable that the statistics of religion have to be part of a world enquiring about itself. When the results are discomforting some would prefer not to know. The results of surveys on religion pop up unexpectedly and usually occupy lazy little pockets of newspapers that sub -editors are desperate to fill. It seems to be always England or the moon where some survey has a sked the ever-present Cross -Section what it thinks of God, but more often the standards of sexual morality that are attributed to Him. Like the television surveys which have us glued to the sets this week it is impossible ever to find someone who actually was ever asked one of these discerning questions about what people really believe and think when no-one is watching. A ustralia is unique amongst many countries because its national census dares ask real questions about religion, if not about faith. The right to be so downright personal is called into question from time to time now that religion is supposed to be so unfashionable. C atholics who have been holding their breath as numbers seem to shrink at Sunday Mass especially amongst the young, are slightly consoled by the fact that the 24.7% in WA held its own between 1976 and 1 981 . Depending on the mood of one's ecumenism during a Church Unity week the Anglican drop of two per cent to 29% over the same period is good or bad n ews. The remainder of some eighteen categories listed in the census are remarkable because not one other group rises above the approximately 7% that would now constitute the Uniting Church. The percentages of the rest may be minimal but the presence of many small religious groups in the community is i ncontrovertible. But the believer who decides to turn from the depressing disunity of the churches finds fascination in that elusive 25% of the population who are no longer on the religious side of the ledger, especially the half of the group who said they had no religion as opposed to the half who ducked the question. Who are they? Are the neighbours next door the secret defectors in the census? Who around us has slipped through the pickets and upset the comfortable impression that Australia is supposed to be a 'Christian' country? Others take a more cynical view and say that judging by the neighbours up and down the street it is remarkable that 75% are supposed to adhere to a religious faith. There is such a universal rush for the door when religion is mentioned that one wonders if zealots are tampering with the computers. The statistics of course are skirting the question that no-one wants asked, that no-one dares ask and that no-one can ask. Religion indeed they may or may not have, but do they believe? Do they have faith? Sociologist Hans Mol of Canberra who likes to explore the religious sector of life recently claimed that only one or two per cent of Australians are true atheists. He did not attribute this to a surging underground river of faith but simply because in this country atheists are made to feel uncomfortable and do not like to admit their belief. So much for the bold as brass ocker Australian who doesn't mind what he thinks or who knows about it. At least it is a preferable alternative to living in the countries of persecution where those who do believe in God are made to feel uncomfortable. The pious have always seen the atheist as the elusive enemy but he can rarely be cornered because there is no agreed definition of the atheist just as there is no agreed definition of inhuman. What happened at Easter and the subsequent Pentecost was not a census exercise on religion but a dramatic census of faith. Those who believed in the Risen Lord stood up and were counted, first the women at the tomb then the trembling apostles and finally the disciples coming out from behind locked doors. This is the energy of the Church that cannot be contained in figures but which must now be primed to spill over into a world just as uncertain as today when they saw the Lord disappearing from their sight but waiting in anticipation of what was to come.
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ALBANY, NY ( NC ) — The Church must develop a comprehensive programme to prevent teenage pregnancies and at the same time assist teenage girls who are pregnant, said a task force report sponsored by the Catholic bishops of New York State. Of recent social trends, "none is more alarming that the growing number of teenage pregnancies," said the Task Force of Teenage Pregnancy of the New York State Catholic Conference, following a nearly two-year study of the issue. In New York State, it said, "at least 12 per cent of all 15-to 19-year-old females become pregnant; teenagers account for nearly 40 per cent of all out-ofwedlock births; 24 per cent of all legal abortions are performed on teenagers."
Active Teenage pregnancy covers all social, economic, religious and cultural strata across the state, it said, and it is now estimated that nearly half the girls aged 15-19 in New York are sexually active, up 60 per cent from estimates of a decade ago In a foreword to the report, the state's bishops praised the "great personal courage and commendable commitment to life" that an unmarried teenage mother shows when she rejects abortion as a solution. "She and her child deserve the best health care and supportive services that society can provide," they said. •
Combat To combat the conditions that contribute to teenage sexual activity, the task force urged efforts at the state, diocesan and parish level to increase responsible education in sexuality and counselling and other support services for teenagers and their families. It urged Church officials to integrate their efforts with other resources available, co-operating actively with government and voluntary agencies to promote counselling and social services, to the extent that these do not conflict with the Church's moral values in such areas as sexual responsibility, contraception and abortion. The task force acknowledged that Church personnel confront "special difficulties" when dealing with sexually active teenagers who reject Church values, particularly in the area of contraception.
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Sales of last year's Social Justice Statement were excellent, Australian Catholic bishops were told at their annual conference. The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace says this in its annual report, released during the bishops' meeting. -The first printing of the Social Justice State (65,000 copies) was sold out before Social Justice Sunday," it says. Second and third printings of 3,000 and 10,000 copies were necessary. The first printing of the student edition was increased this year from 11,000 copies to 15,000 copies and was fully sold out by the middle of September. "A second printing of 5,000 copies was also exhausted and a third printing was called for.
Students "Combining sales of the statement itself and the student edition (there was no student edition in 1979), this year's productions have out-sold the 1979 'Beyond Unemployment' statement, previously the Commission's biggest seller." A simplified version of the statement was financed by a special grant from the bishops. "This version, called an Easy Guide to Changing Australia was printed in tabloid form and has proved very popular," the report says. "About 40,000 copies of the English version have been distributed. "Copies of versions in community languages are available from the commission's office. "For the first time the statement is also available in Braille."
Bishop Bede Heather hopes more Catholics will become supporting members of the Bible Society in Australia. "In many countries the Catholic Church is a member of the society," he said. "In some places Catholic bishops are among its officials. "In the Australian setting our relations with the Bible Society used to be distant. "But they have been developing in recent years. "The Bible Society is supplying the Scriptures in great quantities in predominently Catholic countries like Poland and the Philippines. 'They would appreciate more support. "I would encourage Catholics to become members. "All you have to do is get in touch with the nearest office of the Bible Society in Australia."
Some private hospitals will find it difficult to survive, the bishops have been told.
Bishop Eric Perkins said this in a report on the Australian Catholic Health Care Association which has helped Catholic hospitals in several states to have their original c ategorisation and renewed upgraded. 'Private hospitals on the third level must find it difficult to survive. "The reimbursement on the basic table, $80, added to the Government subsidy of $20, is insufficient to meet hospital costs. "It leaves too great a gap to be paid by the patients. "Fortunately the majority of our Catholic private hospitals are in category one and most of the others are in category two." Bishop Perkins said the association will produce a directory of Catholic health services soon. \
national Catholic health care conference is being planned in Melbourne for April 28 to 30 next year.
Conference briefs Australia's two natural family planning groups are now represented on one national body. The two are the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning and the Billings Ovulation Method Natural Family Planning Centre. Each has two representatives on the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission's Natural Family Plannning sub-committee. 0 D
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Bishop Douglas Warren is new chairman of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. He replaces Bishop William Murray. Vice presidents are bishops William Brennan and Bede Heather.
Father Anthony Patrick Loth will become director of the St Peter Centre for Clergy Education, Canberra. He will assist the present director, Father John Ryan, next year and take up a three-year term as director in 1986.
Father Loth is parish priest of Berrigan, NSW. He has licentiates in theology and philospophy and has studied spirituality at the Gregorian University in Rome. St Peter's Centre was set up by the Australian Bishops to provide courses for priests.
Three will be a joint meeting of four bishops' conferences in Sydney in May next year. The conferences are those of Papua New Guinea and the Solomons. of New Zealand, of the Pacific and of Australia. Joint meetings of the conferences are held at about four-year intervals.
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AFRICA: one in three face death A frica is facing the worst famine in modern history. "Many African countries have been virtually without rain for 15 years," Bishop John Gerry, chairman of Australian Catholic Relief told the conference. "In Australia, no one dies from drought. In Africa, millions may die" "The Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates 150 million people are threatened by death from starvation," he said. ' That means one in every three Africans. "Drought and famine is strangling the entire continent. "Many who do not die will suffer from the longterm effects of hunger brain damage, disease and retardation. "The Secretary General of the United Nations spoke earlier this year of the economic crisis confronting A frica. "He said the average income in Africa is less than it was 15 years ago. Only one in four Africans has access to clean water. Fifty per cent of African workers are unemployed. Fifty per cent of the urban population lives in slums. "The official aid given to Africa has declined since 1980
Frightening figures These statistics are frightening. "But when you try to interpret them in human terms they are unbelievably appalling." Bishop Gerry said Christians around the world have been responding to these enormous needs. The Australian bishops are backing the Combined Churches Drought in Africa Appeal. "Australian Catholic Relief has already been in touch with ACR diocesan directors," Bishop Gerry said. "We are asking them to bring the appeal before people in every parish in the country. "ACR is in constant touch with Church agencies in Africa agencies that are close to the people suffering in the drought. "One of our lenten visitors, Father Stephanus Tedla of Ethiopia, initiated support programmes during his time in Australia.
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ROTTERDAM — In the Netherlands the deaths of the four Russian Christians has led to a parliamentary inquiry. The Dutch Foreign Minister was requested to call upon the Soviet Embassy in The Hague for an official explanation. Kestork College report.
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The Australian bishops have criticised some ugly trends in social legislation and have asked Catholics to respond eagerly to the challenge. They say there is a growing incidence in Australia of legislation compromising accepted Christian morality and this was a matter of grave concern. "We bishops see it happening at Federal and State levels." they said. "It frequently relates to issues of human life and death. "It frequently relates to questions of human sexuality about which our modern society would seem to be increasingly confused," they said. Minority pressure groups and partisan sections of the MASS media largely stifled the Christian voice. Nonetheless the bishops s aid they would not he deterred from proclaiming the truth Christ entrusted to us. "Above all, however, we would remind our Catholic people it is their privilege and duty to live according to the law of the Gospel which is at the Very heart of the Church's teaching," they said. "It is a privilege that nobody can take from them.
"ACR is assisting in the allocation to the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariate of 3400 tonnes of the shipment of grain provided by the Australian Government and will provide funds towards the internal transport of the grain to people in need in Ethiopia."
"Human legislators are not authorised to reshape morality or modify the laws of God.
The combined appeal is sending a journalist, the R everend James Murray, religious columnist with The Australian, and cameraman, Mr Chris Hooke, to Africa to prepare publicity material for the appeal.
"Along with other Christians, Catholics are called upon to witness the truth in the way they live their lives,
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Aboriginal to represent Australia The Reverend Boniface Perdjert will represent Australia at a world Scripture conference in August. He is an Aboriginal permanent deacon of the Darwin diocese and Coordinator of the Biblical Apostolate to Aboriginal People at Port Keats. The meeting will be an assembly of the World Catholic Federation for the Biblical Apostolate to be held in Bangalore. Bishop Bede Heather, the bishops' representatives for the Biblical A postolate, said the b ishops chose Deacon Perdjert because of his bible work among Aborigines. "We felt it would be good for him to broaden that experience - and to share it with others," Bishop Heather said.
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NAIROBI: The 43rd International Eucharistic Congress will be held here from Sunday, August 11 to Sunday, August 18 1985. It is the first one in Africa and Pope John Paul II wished it to be in Nairobi. Pope John Paul II also chose theme of the congress which is "The Eucharist and the Christian Family." Eucharist means giving thanks and praise to Almighty God. In a world torn by strife and uncertainty, where violence is common and where suffering is the lot of so many, one asks "Thanksgiving for what?" It is for the blessings of the family. The family is one of God's choicest gifts to mankind, something to be treasured, its riches to be utilised in bringing peace, love and unity to the world. Although the congress is international, the African context and flavour will be stressed. The African setting will be Nairobi with indigenous music, song, dance, dress and mingling of languages together with international cultures showing forth the unity in diversity of the Christian Church. The congress will be in the form of renewal; the eight days of major and minor liturgical celebrations ending with the "Statio Orbis", the Station of the World, which the pope hopes to attend and where up to a million people are expected. There are 6400 first class hotel rooms in Nairobi which are being reserved for pilgrims, who are urged to make tx)okings urgently. All possible alternative accommodation in centres like schools, college hostels, nursing homes, hospitals. Hindu and Sikh temples, youth hostels, and so on is rapidly filling up. It is anticipated at least 20.000 beds will be available. Beside the arrangements already made to cater for the visitors, appeals are being directed to private individual families of all religious persuasions willing to help in hosting guests. Special forms are being circulated by the different .religious bodies so their members can give details of what help they can offer. A special women's committee has been formed to look into accommodation in private houses in and around Nairobi. Individual visits will grade the accommodation available because it is anticipated a token amount will have to paid for the different grades
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Forty-third Congress for Kenya in 19135 of accommodation available. Families in Nairobi will be asked for hospitality of a more personalised nature. It is hoped families from Nairobi will invite families from outside Kenya to their homes when visitors will interact and learn more about family life in the Kenyan capital, in keeping with the theme of the Euch-
aristic Congress which is 'The Eucharist and the Christian Family.' The secretariat offices are at Waumini House, the national headquarters of the Kenya Episcopal Conference located in the Westlands Shopping Centre complex. The postal address are Box 34950 and 14576, Nairobi,
Kenya. The telex number is 25021. Telegrams to IECON, Nairobi. The Church in Kenya is not yet on its feet financially. Donations, no matter how small, will he appreciated. These should be sent to the Secretary General, 43rd International Eucharistic Congress, PO Box 34950, Nairobi, Kenya.
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shop of Nairobi are Reverend Paul Cunningham Secretary General of the 43rd International Eucharist Congress on the right, Mons Brian Walsh (on the left) from Melbourne, who was the Executive Director of the 1973 Melbourne International Eucharistic Congress and who was in Nairobi to help with the preparations of the 43rd International Eucharistic Congress and Mr Eric Cecil, Chairman of the Executive Congress of the Nairobi West Sports Stadium which will serve as one of the venues for activities at the congress to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from August 11 to 181985.
The 43rd Eucharistic Congress Prayer
GOD OUR FATHER You are so good in giving us the Eucharist and the Christian Family Grant us Your Spirit to help us realise that this Sacrement of Your Son's death and resurrection is the source of love and life in the Family Through Christ Our Lord AMEN
i----Bright memories of refugees Passionist Father Jeff Foale, chairman of the Monastery Refugee Project, is not alarmed by the decision to close the project next month. It was announced last week that the project which began in April 1980, would close on June 10. Father Foale said a number of factors had influenced the decision to end the project. "It is a matter of regret to all that Australia's Kampuchean refugee intake has
from HELEN ASTBURY in Adelaide declined to about 1400 this financial year," he said. "At the same time we welcome the arrival of the Lao and Vietnamese refugees formerly detained in closed camps. "We also welcome the growth in family reunions among Kampuchean refugees even though most of the sponsors are in Sydney and Melbourne and expect their relatives to go to those cities rather than to Adelaide."
The regional Director of the department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs advised Father Foale earlier this month that open Kampuchean refugee intakes for Adelaide over the next two or three months are likely to be very small. He also said the long-term situation does not look any brighter. Father Foale said it seems a natural decision to wind up the operations of what has been one of Australia's most successful
refugee resettlement projects. More than 1100 people have passed through the project so far. There are 24 in residence at the former retreat house at the Passionist monastery at Glen Osmond. Reflecting on more that four years of operation, Father Foale said credit must be given to the generosity of the community in keeping the project going. "We had a splended start through the hard work of Diocesan Pastoral Council volunteers and from Peter Dight," he said. .0••••••
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Youth peer group work BILLINGS, Mont (NC) — Asking the youth of the parish to set up chairs in the gymnasium is not a call to ministry, said Brian Reynolds, cofounder of the Northeast Centre for Youth Ministry, at a peer ministry workshop in Billings. "Peer ministry is not involving the youth group ... in doing those activities no one else wants to do," Reynolds said at the National Peer Ministry Training Programme regional workshop. The recent programme was sponsored by the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings for adults involved in ministering to young people. "Encouraging the youth in our churches to serve each other is one approach to enable ment, which is ministry in itself," he said. Adults working with and for youth need to "establish relationships of trust and challenge" that will lead young people to "growth, self-confidence and service to others."
Participation To help young people bring each other into responsible participation in the work of the church community, Reynolds said their skills need to be recognised and developed, opportunities must be offered for them to use their talents and a support system should be provided. The final stage of this Is the transmission of tradition, Reynolds said. "They will know themselves as called and sent forth as witnesses for the kingdom." The workshop included some teenagers who came with their adult advisers. Caine Jenkins of Great Falls, Mont said "being a teenager is a hard time" and she came in hopes of finding new ways of "bringing God into the lives of my friends," while continuing to develop her own faith life. The National Peer Ministry Training Programme was developed by Reynolds, Rosemary Cingari and John Roberto as a project of the Northeast Centre for Youth Ministry. From 1979 to 1981 the centre, which has its headquarters in Paterson, NJ conducted a series of programmes to test the model.
DATELINE . • . overseas news roundup
Briefs: BELFAST: Irish Cardinal 0 Fiaich has
Epaid tribute to an Irish nurse held hostage by Ethiopian guerrillas for seven weeks last year. Miss Terina Kelly, he said, had shown -tremendous confidence and hope in God" and had never lost her courage. The Cardinal was launching a book written by Miss kelly about her ordeal at the hands of the Tigray Liberation Front, who told her they had taken her and others hostage to get the message across to the world that their people needed help. Miss Kelly describes her 1800km journey across Ethiopia. She and other European and Ethiopian volunteers were finally freed in Sudan.
BANGKOK Pope John Paul has urged
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Vietnam be guaranteed freedom to practise their religion and has pledged international Catholic support in helping to rebuild war -torn Vietnam "I pray that you will always have practical opportunities for professing and living your faith," the Pope told Vietnamese Catholics in a 650-word message (See page 111
CAPE TOWN A Vatican official has criticised the "racist ideology" of the South African Government and has praised local Church efforts to proclaim the Gospel "without artificially and unjustly imposed separations" Bishop Jan Schotte, vice president of the Vatican Justice and Peace Commission, criticised the white -minority South A frican Government in a lengthy article marking the 15th anniversary of the Vatican's signing of a United Nations convention on racial discrimination The article was published in the Vatican n ewspaper, L'Osservatore Romano 0 0 0
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MANILA: President Ferdinand Marcos is "losing the support of the people," said Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila. Philippines, commenting on the strong showing of opposition candidates in the May 14 parliamentary elections. Marcos "might be thinking the writing is on the wall," said Cardinal Sin. "At least, the results are a lesson." Before the elections, Cardinal Sin had decried "unsavoury practices" which he said marked the campaign. These practices included excessive spending and monopolisation of the media by the ruling party, said Cardinal sin.
During a meeting with r epresentatives of the Christian churches in Zambia, Prime Minister Nalumino Mundia expressed regret for the decision.
Pope called reactionary P RAGUE: Cardinal Tomasek has criticised a communist weekly for calling Pope John Paul II one of the most reactionary anti-communist popes of the century.
"Your atheism does not give you the right to calumniate and offend people with other ideological views," Cardinal Tomasek, 84, said in a letter to Tribuna.
SAN SALVADOR — Policies which seek only to fight communism in Central America cannot address the real cause of the region's unrest, said Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador. The current turmoil is the result of years of injustice and "selfishness" on the part of the rich. Communist infiltration is real, speakers at the symposium said, but addressing it as the only problem will prevent long lasting solutions. "Communist infiltration in Central America is not a ghost, but a dangerous reality," the archbishop said. "But if the flag of anti-communism is raised to protect the security of countries like the United States, we risk that the real root of the problem will be left unsolved."
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"The government was not able to manipulate the votes and commit abuses." said the cardinal. Cardinal Sin, who frequently challenges the Marcos regime. says it is his responsibility to do so. "As Archbishop of Manila, I have a dual responsibility. that of prophet of denunciation and minister of reconciliation," he said . "I am helping the president by conveying to him the feelings of the people," he added. About 84 per cent of the 49.5 million population is Catholic. "I am the only one who can speak." the cardinal said. "If any other man or w2man did this, he or she would he in gaol." Cardinal Sin said despite his criticism of the Marcos regime. he had remained on friendly terms with the president and his wife, Imelda Mrs Marcos visited the pope during Holy Week.
Protest on refusal BELGRADE. — Bishop Pernek, of Dubrovnik, has protested against the refusal of the local authorities to permit the holding of an openair service to mark the day of the citys patron saint. The authorities justified their refusal by the law
concerning mass meetings. In his protest, the bishop pointed out mass meetings were subject to prohibition only when there was reason to fear violations of the law or street disorders. — Keston College Report
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BELGRADE — The Bishops' Commission of the Mostar diocese has advocated caution in assessing the reported appearances of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje. The commission speaks appreciatively of gatherings fo r prayer in Medjugorje, but criticises organised pilgrimages and the appearance of "seers" before the Church has ruled on the authenticity of the visions. A decision of the Archbishop of Zagreb on January 14 1984 is described as "insignificant". In this pronouncement, Cardinal Kuharic forbids any activity of the "seers" in churches of the Zagreb
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KNOW YOUR FAITH
"When God's people began their journey to Israel they were led by one man, Moses. Moses was the builder of a community, a community that has become as numerous as the sands of the sea." (Archbishop William Borders of Baltimore, Md 1982.)
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What is so special about a Christian community? Why does God want Christians to be in faith communities? This week Dominican Father David K O'Rourke talks about a friend whose religious community chooses to live among the poorest people of the city. Father O'Rourke explains that the members of the religious community and the city's poor residents have put together a fellowship that tells us something about our surprising God. Katharine Bird tells of a true-life incident involving the Christian community after a family was struck by tragedy. In an interview, Father Stephen Hartdegen, a biblical scholar, explains why it was hard — but also important — to respond to the family's grief and pain. Father John Castelot observes that most people cherish their independence — up to a point. But left strictly to ourselves, we might wither, he suggests. People need each other desperately, the writer states.
"Community ministry is always composed of persons ... Community ministry is always mutual. Christ was a minister, but the Gospels tell us that women ministered to him also." (Archbishop William Borders of Md Baltimore, 1982). "We can learn to trust in the integrity of those with whom we throw in our lot, our friends and acquaintances, the participants in our extended families, our workmates and all those others who make the community possible. - (Holy Father Cross Edward Malloy in the March 1984 issue of Pastoral Life magazine.) -We read the Bible because we believe it is the word of God. Guided by the tradition of the Christian community, we search the Bible for manifestations of God's revelation. (Father Eugene Hensellin the April 1984 issue of Marriage and Family Living magazine.) "The Parish Help Book," by Father Herbert Weber. This is a guide to social ministry in the parish. This practical book spells out the kinds of community needs confrontedby a parish and its people — homelessness, hunger, loneliness, pain, unemployment. Andit offers help for the people of a parish in serving social needs. "The work of social ministry is not really anything new for men and women of good will. Yet, it may be very new in the sense that the times and circumstances of the 1980s are unique," writes Father Weber. In his view, social ministry is integrated with the spiritual journey, linked to the community's development and to a lifestyle of detachment. The author is associate director of Catholic Social Services of Toledo, Ohio. (Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. $3.95 paperback). 8
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We do need! People tend to prize their individuality, to c herish their independence. That is good, up to apoint.
A child's stuffed animal//es amid the rubble as a house 0 burns in the background after a commercial jet crashed : : ..._ttragedy leftIII into a residential neighbourhood Suc,l. a 7-year -old girl without a home and with both parents Pt dead
The young couple had everything to live for, friends said later. In their 30s, the husband and wife had developed a satisfying lifestyle in the metropolitan area. Both had careers: she as a teacher, he with the government. They had one child, a 7-year-old daughter. Because they wanted to spend as much time together as possible, the couple made it a point to work close to home. Each day it was their custom to have lunch together at home. Then, one day, off course on a foggy. nasty day, an airplane crashed into their home, setting it on fire. In that tragic instant, the young daughter was left without parents, without her familiar home. Her life was irrevocably altered. Shortly after the tragedy, the young girl was taken by friends to stay with her aunt, the director of a nearby retreat centre. Her stunned relatives ioined her there. The family stayed at the retreat centre for 10 days. There they began the arduous task of picking up the pieces of their lives.
By Katharine Bird The chaplain of the retreat house during those days several years ago was Franciscan Father Stephen Hartdegen. What did the retreat house staff and friends do to console the sorrowing family? "It was hard," Father Hartdegen admitted, since the family members were in various stages of shock and grief. It involved much
Things happen in communities. Wherever two or three are gathered, events are bound to occur. Those events become the stuff of memories. One man, asked if he had a special memory about the Church and its people, reached far back to his teen-age years for a story that still means a lot to him. It was a time when his father was suffering and dying of cancer. It was not an easy time. It happened that the 16-year-old boy met a monk, who was in his 30s. And the monk, who must have understood well the pressures placed on the boy by his father's illness, befriended the boy — managed to make himself and his monastic community sources of ongoing moral support to the boy. The boy, now a man in his 40s, remembers it well. He realises that
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Retreating to be comforted sympathetic listening, he indicated. But in the process of feeding and housing and listening, "we became a family," Father Hartdegen commented. For him the Bible offers guidance for "comforting the afflicted and burying the dead." The biblical scholar explained that he always finds the prophet Tobit's example encouraging in such difficult situations. The Book of Tobit portrays the
prophet burying his compatriots even "at the risk of his own life," the priest said. He explained that the conquering Assyrians had forbidden any burying of the Jewish dead, but Tobit persisted am-way "out of his own faith and love of God." Father Hartdegen faced the formidable task of presiding at the couple's funeral. He chose his main biblical text carefully, settling finally on John 12:24. The passage reminds people that a grain of wheat
the monk's positive action on his behalf made a real and lasting difference in his life and in his outlook. It changed him for good. This man has a memory he holds on to, a memory of a friend. But, says the man, for him this is also a memory about the Church — about how much it can mean when members of the Christian community take action on each other's behalf. Memories of the Church and its community come in all sizes and shapes. The memories serve as reminders of what a Christian community is. • There is the memory of children's faces in the crowd of hungry people who line up whenever the parish serves dinner at the Catholic Charities soup kitchen. Perhaps it is a reminder that the community's service is urgently needed. • There is the memory of period
has to fall to the ground and die to bring forth fruit. It offers hope, the priest indicated. And that day people commented that the service helped "to temper their grief and made it easier to accept the great loss they had sustained." The experience Father Hartdegen recounted is an example of the Christian community in actjon, in difficult circumstances. It shows how much the community is called on to care about people.
Father Enda N1cDonagh is a theologian who has pointed out that the of the celebration sacraments calls individual Christians and the Christian community to be "signs of God's presence" to others. Often we do this by "gathering our resources together to respond to others' needs," he said during a lecture. Father McDonagh said that in the Christian tradition sacraments are occasions when "God breaks through into human history," leading individuals and the Christian community as a whole to be "taken over by God." The Christian community's willingness to serve is a sign of its transformation, he said. It is "the Church's way of entering into the death and resurrection of Christ .'•
when a divided community began to feel whole again, even though some differences among its members remained. Perhaps it is a reminder that powerful forces of reconciliation are present in the community. • There is the memory of a time you discovered how generous members of the community can be; there is the memory of time you discovered that, though you hadn't realised it, this community really matters to one of your friends. Many people have a memory stored up somewhere about the Church and its community. The memory helps to remind them of what the Christian community is. Do you hold on to a special memory of something that happened among the Church's people? What is the stuff of your memories?
By Father John Castelot
When Jesus came as a saviour of humanity, an essential part of his mission was the formation of a community, not isolated followers but a group of disciples. And he promised to be with them:
But rugged individualists who profess to need no one but themselves are thing in a dream world. If they didn't "Again I tell you, if two of interact with others, people you join your voices on earth would not even become to pray for anything whaaware of their own identity. tever, it shall be granted you How many people really by my Father in heaven. would like to be left comsecond chapter of Genesis, Where two or three are pletely — totally — alone in with God declaring: "It is gathered in my name, there the world? For a prisoner. •rnailr am I in their midst ... And not good for the man to be Along many an urban freeway are blocks of poor and dreary bungalows, the dilapidated remnants of small solitary confinement is a fate alone. I will make a suitable know that I am with you towns that have grown into big cities. Their lawns are dead and littered, their windows cracked One resident almost worse than death. always, until the end of the partner for him" of one such neighbourhood is there as a symbol of hope. He is dedicated to be a sign of God's presence The loneliness that eveworld" ( Matthew 18:19-20: After the fall. when God among the poorest and the hopeless. ryone experiences in vary28:20). promises eventual victory ing degrees is a sharp The notion of community deluded creatures. it his for reminder that we do need is to the woman's offspring was vital in the thinking of each other — desperately. the great St Paul. Indeed, it — to humanity — that the In his wisdom, God created has been said that communis made. promise people as social beings. Fie ity is the overriding concern calls people into a communin his letters. For instance, ity: within that community when he talks about how they learn to know and love Christians are "baptized into him. Would anyone even he Christ," he means the whole aware of what Jesus has Christ: head and members. meant for humanity apart Christian community. In the course of time, God the from the community which As Paul goes on to say. to that humanity guided proclaims and celebrates his "There does not exist victory by forming a people. love? among yrni Jew or Greek, will take Cities have come to symbolise the good life that It has been that way from a community. "I slave or freeman, male or and people. own as my you people want. For many people, those cities create the beginning. In the first female. All are one (person) your as have me shall you images of leisure and trees, freeways and cars, and a chapter of Genesis God is i n Christ Jesus" (Galatians which image the youth. This is 6:7). golden (Exodus lifestyle of pictured creating not a man, God" 3:27-28). comes across on many a television programme. Envisioning the ultimate but humanity. "God created But it is very one-sided. Along many an urban A person's individuality is his image-, in the outcome of this, Ezekiel puts in man poor and dreary blocks of freeway there are not obliterated in communlips: God's words on these him; he created image divine bungalows, the dilapidated remnants of small towns male and female he created "My dwelling will be with ity. We remain unique. with that have grown into big cities. Their lawns are dead them.I will be their God and personal responsbility. But them." and littered, their windows cracked. we are individuals in comIn them live some of our refugees from Southeast The same idea is expressed they shall be my people" munity. Asia and people who hope to live here only for a little ( 3-7:27). more picturesquely in the
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while, until they become better established. In them also live people who have no more hope. For these people, the broken-down shells are the bottom of the barrel. Recently I was visited by a young man who lives in just such a place. But he is not there as one of the hopeless. On the contrary, he is there as a symbol of hope. This friend is a member of a religious community dedicated to being a sign of God's presence among the poorest and the hopeless. My friend and his brethren don't just live in these urban slums. What they do goes beyond their mere physical presence. Together with the people there, this religious order has formed a real community. I think of all this and I find myself wondering. What kind of God is it who oversees these pockets of misery in the midst of such prosperity, and then sends in more people to share it? Why not just get rid of the misery in the first place? This God certainly does not do things the way an efficiency expert might. What can we say about such a God? Why would he build a church community out of such unlikely combinations of the hopeless and the hopeful, winners and losers, those who cope so well and those who no longer even try? I suppose that there are many answers to that question. But the one that says the most to me is a gospel story. It is found in the very beginning of the
By Father David O'Rourke
Gospel, when Jesus was tempted to turn stones into bread, to cast himself from the pinnacle of the temple and to take control of the world. In effect, Satan asked Jesus to show his control over hunger, the laws of nature and political powers; to show that he could, by his will, do away with the three greatest ills that faced humankind — famine, disease and tyranny. But Jesus said -no- to the temptation. For reasons that are unfathomable to us he chose instead to submit himself to the human condition, to its hunger and pain and indignities. Jesus would not reconcile humankind with God by the magical snap of a finger but in the toil of his own human life. We are not given a reason why. What we are given is the fact. This is what happened. We also are told that what happened was c onsistent with the will of his Father. And it would seem that it is in this same submission to the Father's will that we find the basis of our own community life. There are many good human reasons why our Christian communities do what they do. But the e xplanation for the action of my friend, who went to live among poor and hopeless people as a symbol of hope is found first and foremost in the life of Christ.
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Victims get an ACR grant Australian Catholic Relief, has made an emergency grant of $20,000 to help the civilian victims of the current fighting on the Thailand-Kampuchea border. The grant was made in response to an international appeal by the Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees in Thailand, which is responsible for several refugee camps in the border area. In announcing the grant, ACR's National Director, Michael Whiteley, said hsi organisation deplored the suffering inflicted on the 100,000 innocent civilians caught in the midst of the fighting between the Vietnamese army and the !Omer Rouge rebels of Pol Pot. "These people are being used in a callous way to act as a buffer between the combatants," he said. "They are innocent pawns in the struggle by the Khmer Rouge forces to overthrow the present government in Kampuchea. Mr Whiteley added reports reaching ACR from its representatives in Kampuchea indicated the Khmer Rouge in the past few months had made scroes of attacks on villages and larger [(AVM, in several provinces throughout Kampuchea. These attacks had caused injuries to many civilians
Celibacy and misunderstandings When I entered Religious life at the age of 17, directly after finishing high school in a Catholic boarding school run by the Order I then joined. Vocation campaigns and advertising underlined the heroism of Religious life and often — to my horror now in 1984 presented it as a higher state of life than any other.
'Not neuters' says Sister Evelyn
In the rosy glow of all of that I became a novice, accepting celibacy as part of the package deal, with little or no other thoughts about it then except that it was a form of abnegation that made the sacrifice all the more heroic. Looking back now I can see that I was naive in almost every way. I had little understanding of my own sexuality except for the basic biological details. Relationships at any depth were unknown and now became almost unnecessary, since the teaching on celibacy at that time emphasised the negative — no closeness or intimacy, no touch, no particular friends, no marriage. In fact, although nobody said so, I deduced from this that a good Religious prob- namely the growth in ably had no real sexual intimacy. f eelings, anyway. After some years in ReliSomehow they wer- gious life I was sent to the University of New England en't necessary! Plunged into study where I lived on the campus with the other students, and hard work and the outside the usual convent demands of adapting structures, exposed vicarto a toally new way of iously to the pattern of life, I believe I post- development that I myself poned the usual deve- had until them avoided. It was expected of me as lopemental task of an older postgraduate stuyoung adulthood, dent that I would join faculty Is•Wooft....Ww.lasy
'Celibacy is not a thing. . . It is a way of being in relationship . . . a process of learning to love and be loved.'
Josephite SISTER EVELYN WOOD WARD RSJ discusses what celibacy means for her as part o f a wide ranging series published in Brisbane's Catholic Leader on celibacy in the lives of priests and Religious . . . its place, r elevance and call for change . . . and reprinted here as part of The Record's series on the vocations. Sister Evelyn, a psychologist, is director of Cara . . . Gaelic for friend . . . a counselling centre at Newcastle NSW for priests and Religious facing problems in relationships, vocations and ministry. She studied for a doctorate of education at New England University, Armidale NSW. discussions and social gatherings, befriend those who gravitated in my direction and occasionally explain to colleagues on campus why I had chosen the way of life, symbolised for them by the then -very -visible Religious garb I wore. Some of them asked questions about celibacy and pushed me to reflect on my own vocation. This was an important milestone on the journey for me. I began for the first time to make a real choice. Experiencing the pull of affection and closeness, gauche and awkward though I may have been, I started to develop an awareness that intimacy in the sense of close bondedness and shared vulnerability was not only compatible with Religious life, but necessary for living out my r esponse to a call to be
deeply and universally loving. When at the end of my studies at the same university one of my professors tentatively approached me with the offer of employment on his faculty. I explained to him I had to return to the diocese and the Congregation.
Q.etft ntfrm At that moment I made a much clearer choice of Religious life, including celibacy, than I had done on the day of my final vows. I had by this time learned for myself a long-taught psychological truth — that for a person actively engaged in the process of her own becoming, the absence of genital expression is in no way destructive, but that affec-
Ecumenism at the parish level
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From that day on, the word "ecumenical" made its way into the vocabularly of Catholics. And the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began to be celebrated by Catholics with new fervour and renewed devotion. On the same day, 25 years later, the Week of Prayer for the unity of Christians concluded with the celebration of Vespers in the same Basilica of St Paul, presided over by Pope John Paul "Twenty-five years is almost a generation, and the Week of Prayer of this year marks a generation of Catholic commitment
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from ARCHBISHOP PIERRE DUPREY secretary of the Vatican secretariat for the promotion of Christain unity to the cause of ecumenism. This 25th year is the year in which Catholics celebrate in an extraordinary way the most ordinary and the most profound reality of the Church's life: Redemption accomplished by her Lord, once for all. This is a mystery to which the Church must always he more open,
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and to which she must always turn more effectively in ever deeper steps of conversion. Celebrating in an extraordinary way the reconciliation of man with God through Christ, the source of all genuine reconciliation between people and the foundation of Christian brotherhood, the Church wishes to commit herself with
ever greater determination to the search for reconciliation between divided Christians. This expression is in itself a contradiction. Christians is the name for those persons who are reconciled with their one common Father, by their one common Lord, who sheds upon them the same Spirit that gathers them together into one Body. To be resigned to the fact of divided Christians is to forget the very meaning of the word "Christians".
The Second Vatican Council was a lengthy meditation by the Church on her nature and mission, seeking to deepen its fidelity. It could not but embark upon a clearer and more decisive commitment to the service of Christian unity. All prayer puts us in touch with the divine plan of salvation. It renews and deepens our willingness to respond actively to all the requirements of that plan. All prayer for unity, every Week of Prayer for Unity renews the commitment of the Council to ecumenical effort within every member of the faithful.
tive expression is absolutely vital. Now, in 1984, as I look back from the age of 48 on all the twistings and turnings in the pathway of my life, I can say a little more clearly what celibacy does mean for me. For me, celibacy is not a thing, something I eventually come to possess. Rather, it is a way of being in relationship. It is a process of becoming, of learning to love and be loved It is a deeply human process, graced indeed as are other ways of life, but human to the core. Right now I cannot say I have finished the journey, but only that I'm still on the way. I'm becoming celibate, stuggling day by day with choices to be publicly for the Kingdom and to witness to the love which animates it. I read a statement recently f rom Jerome Murphy O'Connor. The real danger for celibates is not the build up of a sexual tension that can be controlled, but the suppression or deflection of the affective powers. They are stifled if the celibate avoids the stress and tensions of deep inter-personal relations. (What Is Religious Life? A Critical Reappraisal.)
I think he is underlining here the value of living life dangerously. Relationships are risky things. A chance encounter becomes a powerful attraction, or makes enormous demands, or generates conflicts and hostility. As we grapple with each of these we're like Jacob wrestling with his angel (Gen. 32). A new identity emerges from the struggle.
Were different because our lives have intersected. "I" has become "we". One of my friends puts this magnificently. He says "if I hold my life open to you long enough and deeply enough we will drink each other's spirit and then it becomes true to say that my spirit lives in you and yours in me, and we cannot then be separated." This is how I want to live If my celibacy is to be for the sake of the Kingdom its basic purpose is to make visible the love of God for humanity. A celibate who is unloving, cool, remote, detached and non-relating, who does not risk the kind of involvement my friend described is a contradiction. For me, the greatest sin against celibacy is not sexual indiscretion, but a decision not to love Experience has taught me that a good theology of celibacy, a lived understanding that I am unmarriageable for the sake of the Kingdom, a lively prayer life and the support of a loving community do not anaesthetise a person from the ordinary human attractions.
chtft e tOnid"' Somehow my 'hormones have never quite got the message that I'm celibate! Some years ago I met the person I might have married. For a while I lived my life on two levels. At a fairly "heady" level of belief I kept reaffirming my "Yes" to the call to celibacy as a way of loving. At a deep emotional level I felt myself drowning in the loneliness of having made a that excluded choice another attractive choice. Up to this time I had often quoted a statement that I found poetic and beautiful: Your vow to remain unmarried for the sake of God's Kingdom will draw you into the loneliness of the Cross of Jesus andreveal the basic loneliness of every person (Rule for a New Brother, Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 1973.) I still find it beautiful, but its poetry has a cutting edge. As I look around me I see two kinds of people living out their celibacy and I want to
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belong to one group rather than the other. They are the "proclaimers" and the "grumpies." Celibacy is a renunciation and I don't see much sense in being a Pollyanna about it. But renuntiare means to proclaim again. If I do without the genital expression of love it is in order to proclaim something. As vital celibate I want to proclaim the good news of Gospel values, especially to those whose lives feel valueless, who are deprived of love, or who have little hope. I want to be a symbol of hope, one who can love enough to enter their life situation and touch their poverty, not as a condescending helper with goodies to hand out, but as one who lives life vulnerably and knows that we are both made of the same clay.
'NUOPW'' Then, maybe, they might begin to recognise in all the turmoil and doubt of their struggle to survive, the face of Him in whose image they are made. I want to proclaim the Word at them, but I want the sensitivity not to spout religious language at them as a cheap substitute for human compassion and involvement Because I am a women I want my celibate proclama-
tion to be channelled through this It is important to me to be, and to be seen to be, feminine, using the gifts of this to make contacts, to understand and reach other woman and to fight against the injustices sometimes dealt to them
I shudder at the kind of witness that comes from someone who is a kind of Religious "neuter" or who simpers and flutters with a childish and undernourished sense of what it means to be feminine. With the receptivity that Jung sees as a feminine trait of personality I want to stand ready to be broken in upon by the beauty, love, excitement, pain and possibility of another and then to give whatever I have to give — compassion, presence, listening, encouragement, service, energy, time and material goods. I do not want to be a grump. It would be seeing life t hrough rose-coloured glasses to deny that they are occasionally to be found in pulpits, classrooms, convents and monasteries. Perhaps they are individuals who so deeply internalised the learnings of earlier years about the impersonality of celibacy that they have become emotionally sour,
'As a vital celibate, I want to proclaim the good news of Gospel values . . . I want to be a symbol of hope
"consecrated lemons- who live in a desert of punctilious observance and duty. I do not want to lose hope in them. As the old slogan says, "Be patient with me, God ain't finished with me yet!" But I don't want to join them! And they certainly don't do much to attract idealistic young people to a life of consecrated celibacy. If, on the other hand, young people see Religious and priests about them who have embraced celibacy not out of fear of marriage,
disquiet about sexuality or reluctance to relate, but who are fired with a deep and happy need to witness to love and create it, then Religious life and priesthood may take on new attraction. They may recognise also that in a world that habitually sees love and sex as synonymous, Religious celibacy is a challenge and a counter -cultural proclamation, sustained by a life of prayer, mutual communal support and apostolic involvement in work.
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Father Stenhouse would be to dishonour our name of Catholic." The meeting agreed that Archbishop Clancy and Sydney's regional bishops should be approached for their support and the support of their priests. for the rally, which would prmide a unique opportunity for Catholics interested in human rights to come out and demonstrate for their fellow Catholics. As all Catholics should be concerned for fellow-
members ul the same Body of Christ. the chaplains expressed the hope that a wide spectrum of Catholic support for this talk would result. Without some visible sign of support for Vietnam's abandoned faithful, the communist government will simply continue its oppressive policy, and the result will be many lives lost and Catholics separated from the universal Church by yet another bamboo curtain.
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Youth Forum
The Catholic Youth Council is making preparations for International Youth Year in 1985. Julia Pickering and Danny Toohey have drawn up guidelines and plans to involve Catholic youth in both church and c ommunity activities. Pictured left at a recent seminar are: Graham Mabury, chairman of Western Australia IYY Committee, Danny Toohey, C atholic Youth Council, John Graham, Director of Department Youth Sport and Recreation, and Erica Gray Sports Consultant.
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New start for kids NEW YORK (NC) — them, I'll provide the serviOlder people who find ces.'" it difficult to get out Today, he said, 48 florists and decorate family participate and about 100 graves for Easter can youngsters are in his ninehave it done by those month programme at any one involved in a business time. that Father James Har- The agency is affiliated with vey of the Brooklyn Catholic Charities and Father Diocese has started to Harvey says the Brooklyn give employment to Diocese has given strong youngsters in trouble support. with the law. Bishop Francis Mugavero of The young people take tel- Brooklyn has bought flowers ephone orders, place decora- from it and so have many tions they have made on the parishes. Flowers With Care graves and send photographs was given the job of providing of the results. floral decoration for the Shea Stadium service during Pope Called CitiWorks, the business is an offshoot of Flowers John Paul II's 1979 trip.
living at Aquinas will put me in touch with the student world, both primary and secondary.
I have gone back to school and I am writing from Aquinas College. As the boarders packed their bags for the May holidays I was packing my bags, leaving a family at Nedlands, where 2 / years. It was sad I have lived for the past 51 parish. the Nedlands leaving It was sadder still, because of the shortage of priests, to have to close the door on the Sunday mass for the senior citizens of Sunset Hospital. I have taken up residence at Aquinas as parttime employee of Brother Tony Daly, the brothers' superior and Brother Terry Hann, the headmaster of the college. As chaplain, I hope to serve the servants of the young men at the college. I remain as Archdiocesan youth chaplain and continue my work from the Cardijn Youth Centre in North Perth.
With Care, which Father Har- Father Harvey deals mostly with "throwaway kids" from vey started in 1975. New York City. "There is a lot After ordination in 1971 of malnutrition. A lot of them Father Harvey worked two have been into street prostiyears in a parish and then tution. became a chaplain at a prison in the borough of Queens. To deal with these problems, There he found inmates as as well as to provide educayoung as 16 whose future, he tion and job training, Father concluded, hung in the bal- Harvey is assisted by eight other staff members. ance. Associate director DominiDeciding the key was jobs can Sister Patricia Bryant, wealth of talent in song, and training, he talked to former school principal in the dance, instrumental and Robert Palliser, a flower shop parish where Father Harvey comedy items owner in the parish where he worked, said education often had worked, and got his agreeIt made me realize how little must start at basic levels and ment to allow the operation we see of the artistic and focus on knowledge needed of Flowers With Care from his theatrical capabilities of our for the job. quarters. youth. "They have to learn to spell Father Harvey persuaded the names of the flowers so The Quest was reasonably judges to turn some first they can write down orders. simple to organise and the offenders over to him, started We do phone techniques, whole school was able to persuading parishes and other delivery techniques and map participate in a critical way by institutions to buy flowers reading. Kids from Brooklyn voting for acts according to from Flowers With Care and and Queens may not know their merit. Palliser taught the youngsters how to find their way around Votes were cast by placing the flower business. in Manhattan." coins in a collector's box (1 cent a vote). This also raised Still serving as a prison cha- Instruction is often individDear Father John, funds for a worthy cause. I am plain, Father Harvey decided ual tutoring and never with in 1978 that he needed to groups of more than five, I have just read your column sure similar occasions can be work full time on his business Sister Bryant said. An 18-year- in the Record about youth and provided where there is a large group of youth with and find a way to secure jobs old who reads on a first-grade live theatre. for more youngsters. "I level will be so embarrassed We at Corpus Christi College someone willing to start the decided to franchise," he said. in front of others, she said, that decided to finish the term ball rolling. "I got together 12 florists and he will pretend not to care, with a talent quest, rather Thanks for sharing your said, 'I have some kids, good but individually he will hastily put together. ideas. kids, who have been in trou- acknowledge his need and The end result was very Dennis Dwyer. gratifying as it revealed a Kalamunda. ble. If you will hire and train desire to learn.
It will open up new horizons in my life. I will begin the experience at close quarters a prestigious school in operation. Hopefully I will see many young men pass through the halls of 'Aquinas College. Already I have begun to wonder if a young man after — or 8 years of intensive education at a Catholic college needs what the youth movements of our Church can offer. If it was simply a numbers game the answer would seem to be 'no', for out of several thousand young people that leave school each year, only a few actually join the youth movements. Many of those do so because of the constant nagging of mum and dad ( thank God for them).
Vacancy Vacancy for the position as full-time worker with the Catholic Parish Youth Movement. The position is for a term of two years with an option of a third year. The successful applicant will be working with parish youth groups in the northern region of the Perth Metropolitan area. The full-timer works mainly with the leaders team of each group. facilitating leadership training and spiritual formation of the group, supplying resources and co-ordinating communication between groups and between groups and the movement.
The Church is keen that young people exercise their leadership within the various youth movements. The Church is also keen that priests serve within our Catholic schools I wonder which is more important. The work is certainly unlimited in both fields. One answer is that we need more young men to take up the challenge to follow Christ, not only in the office, in the industry and in our tertiary world, but also in our seminaries and eventually to replace the many aging men in the vineyard of the Lord today.
Applications close Jiily 9 and the position starts
Monday, September 3, 1984. Anyone interested in applying should include in their application — 0 a resume of themselves and
state. There are already five Dear Father Jegorow, After reading your article chaplains in government ii)any information "Lack of concern for young schools at this time. Some are with regard to Involvepeople in government Catholic. ment in youth groups or schools" in the Record, I felt The lack of awareness within similar organisations. very strongly I should write to the Catholic community (and Your letter should be you to inform you what has the whole community) is been happening in Govern- putting this work to great marked Confidential ment schools since 1980. disadvantage. In order for this and addressed to: — CPY Ever since the 'Nott' report work to grow into its fullest Review Team, PO Box on religious studies in Govern- potential, it needs the support 194, North Perth, WA Any queries ment schools (1980) there of all Christians in the com- 6006. should be directed to the has been a tremendous munity at large. amount of work been done As you work with young Catholic Parish Youth which has brought religious people, I felt a need to share Office, phone: 328 8136. studies into the government this information with you. schools. Most of the main line There should be a lot of churches (including the information concerning this Catholic Church) have com- work be given to Catholics, via bined to form the 'Churches the Record. Commission of Education' Those interested may con- Take a fresh look at yourself! tact Mrs Williams at CCE, 317 Book now for a Choice (CCE). They have formed district Bagot Road, Subiaco, 381 weekend in 1984. June 8 - 10 and July 27-29. Contact Marg councils in the suburbs which 6418 for more information. and Terry Fennes,sy 386 6494 are either working towards Eva Valle Chaplain providing a chaplain in the Melville Senior High or Catholic Youth Centre 328 9878. Government school in the School.
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hildren's Story Hour really talking about people, Ezra sat in the shade of a that kind of risk? twisted tree. He was tired. "Iguess I'm attached to my not sheep. For four hours Ezra had sheep," Ezra said to himself. "My sheep know My voice," been leading his small flock "Ilike it when they look up Jesus was telling the group. of sheep over the hot, rocky at me when I call their "I call them by name, and hills. It was so good to sit names. They really know they follow Me anywhere I go. They will not follow a down In a shady spot near me. the walls of the great city "I know that rm the only stranger, because they recof Jerusalem. one that keeps them ognise My voice." Ezra watched his sheep lap together as a flock.Iprotect Ezra smiled proudly. "I up the cool well water. He them.Ifind them water and know exactly what Jesus sipped the refreshing water grass. I'd search all night for means." "I am the good shepherd," from his water bag. one that gets lost." *This has been a tough Just then Ezra noticed a Jesus went on. "I know My day," he thought to himself. group of people come near. sheep and My sheep know "Nobody knows what it's They were walking toward Me. For these sheep I will give My life." the Jerusalem gate. like to be a shepherd." shepherd The people stopped for a Ezra glanced over at his tired The thought of how he had moment not to far from him thirsty sheep. He counted spent an hour searching all and his flock. He was cur- each one and silently said the name of each. over the hills for one of his ious. sheep. It was a sheep that "I am the good shepherd," "But I have other sheep," had wandered away from he heard one man say. The Jesus continued. "They do the flock good shepherd lays down not belong to this flock yet. I must lead them too. They Ezra's body tightened as his life for his sheep." he recalled the wild animal This was obviously a shall hear my voice and that attacked the flock a teacher, a rabbi. In fact, it follow me. Then there will be one flock, one shecouple of hours later. He was Jesus of Nazareth. could still see and hear -What he says Is true," Ezra pherd." what happened as the said to himself. "I risked my Ezra wasn't sure what Jesus meant by that. But he liked animal growled and flashed life today for my sheep." its teeth. Jesus continued. Ezra was the idea of everyone being "I could have been hurt," fascinated with Jesus' united in peace like his he thought. -Why do I take words. He knew Jesus was sheep were.
HOUSE PUZZIE "I am the good shepherd, - Jesus said "I know My sheep and My sheep know Me. For these sheep I will give my life."
WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY Dean Captain Bob, That's all I have to say for I have found 4 pictures that Dear Captain Bob, I copied out of a book. "How are you? I'm well. I've now. My name is Toni. I go to St been in Mandurah the past Q: What do you get if you The little children can write Joseph's school and my week and had a great time. My cross a sheep with a kangaroo? the names of them in the box teacher is Mrs Grey and I parents came with me. We A: A roo bar. for fun. Will write again soon. know some jokes. Q: How do you stop a dog stayed at the SEC cottages Q: What would happen if a Morgan Ross-Walker, from barking in the back seat there. dog was changed into a cat? Dalkeith. We caught a fair few prawns. A: It would chase himself to of the car. A: Have him sit in the front I caught a couple of fish with death. with you. the rod. We didn't see many Clara Bottacin. Q: What animals need to be crabs or garfish (Gardie). On Northam Wednesday night we saw a oiled. A: Mice as they squeak. seal. It came close to the Q: What is round and bad bridge. To Captain Bob, tempered. Sorry I have not written for A: A vicious cu te. so long but the May holidays Toni Grundy. have been so busy. Beckenham.
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A look at books Life as journey
The house unveiled
The way of St Francis, by Father Murray Bodo, OFM„ Doubleday (Garden City, NY 1984) $12.95. Reviewed Sydney Opera House, by Michael Pomeroy by Father Jay C Haskin. Smith, published by Collins $8.95. Father Bocio's latest book introduces St Francis (born The construction of the Smith has clarified, too, the Giovanni Bernardone) by Sydney Opera House took geometric theory that lies means of an overview of his both designers and builders behind Utzon's design. life. The remainder of the beyond the known limits of This is a book that will work highlights various technology. Michael Pomeroy fascinate adults. It is also a aspects of his spirituality, Smith, an architect himself, book that children interested relating to a few episodes in tells the story of its construc- in the world around them, will his life mentioned in the tion in a style that highlights find absorbing. sparse introductory bio- its essential points, (for oth- Michael Pomeroy Smith is a erwise it would take at least practising architect, running graphy. his own consultancy. Francis' life is not so much nine volumes). a discovery of life as a journey He enables the reader to His interest in the Opera outward, or of earthly sup- understand how the thmatres House commenced when the ports, as "inward toward the and halls came to be located State Government employed core of the heart." This jour- where they are, and how they him to conduct a feasibility ney must embrace the unre- are used as they are. Then in study of turning the Opera deemed soil within the per- both words and drawings he House into a international son. Francis insists that the goes on to describe how the conference centre. He had to transcendent meaning of our main parts of the structure go back to the original drawlists is not a future moment were put together, step by ings and follow them through but the present moment of step. Michael Smith's drawings arc surrending life to Christ. Father Bodo also brings out done with precision and clarthe Franciscan insight into ity, and together with the text mortification AS "the process he presents a fascinating and The Working Mother's Handbook, by Marianne Latham, published by Dove of saying good-bye to what is absorbing picture, not just of $7.95. ommunications, C not of God, to what is prevent- the construction but of the of the Opera mechanics demands of being a busy birth of her daughter. Marianne Latham's MOrk- support services working ing us from experiencing true television new; reporter Chloe. At eight months ing Mother's Handbook is mothers can utilise to peace and joy ... and implies House's functions — how the and the care of her daughpregnant she was still that we die to those things we scenery is changed, how the a general advice book to make their positions easmake working women ier. ter. chasing around the law mistakenly thought were life- revolving stage works and Trying to satisfy both of courts trying to catch recalaware of the services that Ms Latham's book is giving and choose what before how it cannot when a full citrants on film. based on her own expeare available to them. these needs, she became we thought was death but orchestra is in the orchestra She feels women either riences and the many A few months after the aware that there was no now realise is truly life." pit. birth she took on a public Acceptance of this process lie describes how the probdo not know about these letters she received durAustralian guide for workwhich relations campaign for a mothers ing services or they are too ing her research on the slows us down and leads us lems of the Opera House arose Intimidated to approach book. As a working offered sound practical friend and tried copy writto the quiet centre within and what means were taken. them. Her book, there- mother of a four year-old advice on the subject. ing from home for print where the Lord speaks to the successfully or unsuccessfully, Marianne to resolve them. Nowhere could she find fore, includes a compre- daughter Chloe, she has advertising. individual. Latham had to cope with the ads-ice on how to choose hensive national guide to a creche, how to plan for The Spiritual Nature emergencies such as of Man, by Alister illness, how to cope with Hardy, published by household tasks, how to O xford University get men to share in these. P ress, $15.65. Her book addresses Reviewed by Roslyn these questions. Often the Ross. questions themselves and many of the solutions This fascinating volume. came from the letters she subtitled 'A study of contemreceived from working porary religious expemothers. rience,' is based on the first of beauty in nature, his sense Universe, Life with a capital She found that guilt is eight years' work of the of curiosity, or his love of one major area of conExperience and all the beings around Religious % 11 t%eort I kit t adventure. Psychologists me. All delight and power, cern. Even though many Research Unit set up at and biologists may seek to all things living, all time work for financial reaCollege, Manchester Not very happy with this, explain these feelings in fused in a brief sound. sons, women still feel Oxford, in 1969. after 10 months she rational terms, but they "Over the years my colguilty about leaving childSir Alister's purpose in would never refuse to admit leagues and I have collected ren in daycare or neglect- returned to EISN' 7 for two setting up the unit was to afternoons a week. Howtoward such a study more that they existed as importogether over four thousand It often occurs to children, ing household tasks. collect first-hand accounts ever, teething problems tant parts of human behavto atheists and agnostics, than 50 years before comfirst-hand accounts, such as Often they tend to overfrom those who had in some and news deadlines didn't iour. and it usually induced in the mencing it. the ones above, which show compensate. Ms Latham way been made aware of a mix. "In just the same way I comments: person concerned a convicIt had always seemed, he that a large number of peo'benevolent non-physical Receiving a grant from tion that the everyday world said, that man was religious believe we must recognise ple even today possess a power which appears to be "So many of the the Women's Film Fund of by nature, but that modern that a great many people women who have writpartly or wholly beyond, and deep awareness of a benev- is not the whole of reality: the Australian Film Comthat there is another dimenman's craving for a spiritual have what we may call a olent non-physical power far greater than, the individten to me feel they mission, she then spent spiritual side to their life. become frusnature. sion to had philosophy which appears to be partly ual self. have to compensate many months with script trated, making him restless What we have to do is to or wholly beyond, and far Some people feel a perHis research was the result with realty good meals editor, Graham Foreman, present such a weight of and uncertain. sonal devotional relationof his own experiences and greater than, the individual on the table. Guilt adapting the diary of a objective unappeased relievidence in the with the power ship "These after self says: makes he them cook a lot young woman who came form of written records of their experience; some call gious desires could only be Hardy goes on to say that "I have had, especially of cakes and goodies to Australia during the satisfied with a spiritual these subjective spiritual and they work their during my childhood, sev- at certain times in their lives it God, some do not. Some gold rush, into a two-part philosophy which could be feelings and of their effects see it as an aspect of their eral experiences whereIfelt many people have had spebutts off because they drama for commercial on the lives of the people wider self through which seen to be based upon a very strongly that a power cific, deeply felt, transcenfeel they are neglecttelevision. such an experience has systematic study of recorded concerned, that the intellecin which I could be wholly dental experiences which ing their families." At the same time she was come. whilst others see it as experience," he said, "and tual world must come to see Ms Latham has written confident was acting for and have made them all aware that they are in fact as real which was not incompatible part of man's general conaround me, even if at that of the presence of such a The Working Mother's also working as a freewith modern biological theand as influential as are the sciousness. time I was too little to give power. The experience Handbook to give women lance journalist. forces of love." The possibility of investiory." At present with partner when it comes has always a rich source of valuable it a divine explanation. And so begins Hardy's Hardy believes that science gating man's transcendental information and a sense Suzie Cram, she is work"One day as I was walking been quite different from experiences and of building itself can never deal with the research. The volume is along Marylebone Road I any other type of experience of solidarity. She argues ing on a documentary on real essence of religion any presented as an academic up a body of knowledge was suddenly seized with an they have ever had. They do that by planning ahead the changing role of work but still makes easy more than it can with the about them from first-hand and organising, women women in Australia as extraordinary sense of great not necessarily call it a nature of art or the poetry reading. For every reader, accounts has been a life-long joy and exaltation, as though religious feeling, not does it can successfully combine seen through the eyes of those with faith and those of human love the media. This documena marvellous beam of spir- occur only to those who interest which Hardy has a career with mothering. "Nevertheless," he adds, without, it represents a always regarded as part of Marianne Latham was an tary is being produced by itual power had shot belong to an institutional fascinating insight into spirhis biological outlook. He "science does not deny the HSV 7 news reporter until The Film House for comthrough me linking me in a religion or who indulge reality of man's experience ituality. rapture with the world, the in corporate acts of worship. began to collect material two weeks before the mercial television.
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Race Talk with Rod Evans WISE BEAU has returned to racing better than ever with two wins in a row at his favourite track — Toodyay. Wise Beau has always shown above average ability and may be ready this campaign to realise all his potential. Follow him in the near future as he should win again shortly. AR13ASAGA maintained his 100 per cent winning record with a narrow victory at Belmont on Saturday. There has always been big raps on this colt and he now could go on to be a star of the WA turf for leading trainer George Way.
On public view at last Friday's opening ceremony is the bus purchased by the St Francis Xavier Centre to assist needy people with their transport needs especially from outlying centres to the hospital and other local appointments. Pictured centre near the bus are committee member, George Lopez and committee chairman, Loren Roberts.
FREE TO GO finally returned to the race track on Saturday and repaid trainer Fred Casirledine for the hard work he has put into this talented galloper. After winning first up in February 1983 this horse was then a beaten favourite at his next start and has not raced since. Free To Go bolted in on Saturday and if he stays sound should win more races this time in.
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PRINCE LUME resumed racing on Tuesday at Northam and although beaten it shouldn't be long before he Is in the winner's circle. Prince Lume put together a string of wins when last in training and this handsome-looking galloper will win in the city in this campaign.
Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster
rDOGS' CHANCE...
WHAT'S ON
RACE ONE: Alert Success 1, Chinese Chief 2, Shy Point 3.
RACE SIX: Blue Echo I, Countess Kim 2, Flash Encanto 3.
RACE TWO: Erowal Girl 1, Golda's Issue 2, Diamond Speck 3.
RACE SEVEN: Oyster Lady 1, Ballyporeen 2, Pallas Athene 3.
RACE THREE: Remo Princess 1, New Temlock 2, Up the Woods 3.
RACE EIGHT: Mr Toe Indoor, 1 Go-Maxine 2, Reggie's Dream 3.
RACE FOUR: Hot Risk 1, John Michael 2, Sekondi 3.
RACE NINE: Tivessa Spring 1, Noble Shane 2, Akkabar 3.
RACE FIVE: Dixie Revival 1, Repeat Design 2, Little Leah 3.
CURSILLO WEEKEND A Cursillo weekend will be held on June 15-17 at 10 Sholl Avenue (Sisters of Mercy holiday home), North Beach. The weekend will show how the level of your spiritual life can be deepened. It will give a means of applying Christian principles to everyday secular world. For further details and application forms contact Vince Medley, 277 1694.
RACE TEN: Osijek 1, Miss Troublety 2, Direct Lover 3.
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Armadale opens a parish centre Commonwealth A Employment Programme grant of $90,604 has made it possible to employ five staff at the unique Armadale parish venture St Francis Xavier Centre that was blessed and opened last Friday. With a further grant of $10,000 from the Catholic Chancery Office the parish has re -fitted a former house next to the presbytery and secured a van for transporting the ill and the
aged, a trailer for transporting a lawnmower and tools for assisting the needs of elderly people, an electric typewriter, office desks and filing equipment. Former parish priest Father Geoff Beyer traced the history of the house the parish acquired in 1977 for S31,000 and which was a Loreto convent for a short time then a parish centre which was a home. The centre became a home for the Martha
Group and the St Vincent de Paul Society and increased needs of families gave rise to the present project He said it was an example of putting Christianity into practice, of a vision realised and of a new instrument of Christian service making life a little happier for some people. A rchbishop Foley said when visiting a pansh, the first thing he looked for was the church where the people worshipped. "But when you find a c ommunity alive to its responsibility to the wider community it gives great satisfaction that God's work is being shared. He blessed crucifixes to be placed in the rooms and which showed "we are inspired by the love of Christ Himself." He said the principle of welfare work was respect for other human beings'. whom God loves, no matter who, of what colour, disability or creed." The workers who are employed by the one year grant include a clerical worker also responsible for training helpers, a handyman driver, an organiser of voluntary home help in zones and a child care attendant.
Sales of The Record at Holy Name church CARLISLE show what happens when active promotion takes place such as that shown by Billy Kane who attends Mazenod College and Michael Wolf who attends Holy Name school pictured at work outside the church last Sunday. WHITFOR DS parish have undertaken a sales drive of The Record and have doubled their order so that everyone will have a chance to see the paper.