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The Engaged Encounter group received S1000 for a program that will further provide engaged and post-marriage support for some of the 300 c ouples attending the program annually. Miss Myers will use her S1600 to attend the first national RCIA conference in Melbourne in August and a further two weeks in Brisbane to study RCIA efforts there so local catechists can be trained

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Launcelot Goody was the background setting for the presentation this week of the insugurs1 Goody Archbishop Award (from left) Archbishop Foley, Mr Fred Gatti committee chairman making presentations to Mr John Last and Miss Laura Myers. to assist people entering the Catholic Church. Mr Gatti pointed out that not all the 55000 available from the fund had been used for the 1985 award and the balance carries over to the next year's award. He said the committee wants to remain flexible on whether it allocates all or part of each year's proceeds to worthy projects. He said the committee spent some 13 hours processing the 16 applications, 12 of whom reached interview stage. The committee had spent another 17 hours on organisational work so far. The committee was delighted at the number of applicants for a first year and expects an avalanche for next year. Unsuccessful applicants are free to apply again, he said. He felt that some applicants were late ideas and not specific or sufficiently prepared.

The full mystery at the core of our Christmas festivities escapes not only the unbelievers and agnostic, but also many who would count themselves followers of the God-man whose birth we

celebrate. There are few who would not acknowledge a sense of joy and goodwill to all at this time. Yet the sentimentality of the manger and the good feelings that flow from it are not an adequate expression of an adult Christian farth. The miracle of the birth of one like us who was at the same time Son of God is never separated in the Gospel 'accounts from the harsh realities of human life that He was to share with mankind. The celestial signs, the angelic praise and recognition by the

by A rchbishop Foley

wise men from the East. stand side-by-side with the injustices and violence of Herod and his ilk, with the greed and selfishness of our world. The Church of Perth that I have sought to serve now for just 12 months as bishop is clearly seeking to accept the mystery of the Christ Child, who became incarnate that We might accept the Love of God. Thankfully the Church as a whole is also accepting the implications of this faith. Implications that effect the relationship of Catholic to Catholic within the Church and of Catholic to the people of the world in which we live. The relevance of the Christian message does not mean that the Church must say

what our world wants to hear, but that it should answer, and be heard to answer, the questions people of our day are asking. The value of the individual in the new technological age and in the economic strategies of government can be found again in the mystery of Christmas. And its discovery may then save for the future the blessings that can he found in progress. It is by coming together at Christmas that the meaning of faith and its relevance in our changing world can he maintained. Throughout the parishes. those who are young and not so young are asking these questions and finding the deep relevance of faih in their modern lives.

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YOUR BUMPER 32-PAGE ISSUE THIS WEEK is pecked with holiday reeding including the Bishops' Christmas messages (see page 3) news stories on Pat Tormey's new role in Catholic Church Insurances (see page 2) and Dr Tannock's appointment to the Catholic Education Commission (see page 3).

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ABOVE: Pat Tormey and the new manager of Catholic Church Insurances and the staff of seven in the Perth o ffice. BELOW: Mr Tormey and his successor, Mr Bob Fragomeni.

At a dinner in Mr Tormey's honour Archbishop Foley thanked Mr Tormey for the thoughtful and helpful role he played in Church affairs for such a long period. "He was hard hut just and he always listened to our problems. "He never failed to remain a friend to all of us no matter how much we plagued him." said the Archbishop. "We welcome the news Mr Tormey will be more directly involved in the company's management as we know Mr Tormey has a real feel for the needs of the Church in the west."

Pallottines reach 2200

ROME: Head of the Pallottines, Father Juritsch says the total number of priests and brothers in the order has reached 2200. The order is the one • which this year moved its Australian -headquarters from the eastern states to Perth. Father Juritsch, says since being elected to his new post last November, he has tried to help his order "realise our apostolic goal and aim in the Chruch of today and tomorrow — to have rather an outlook to the future and not to look back to the past.Father Juritsch said he hoped to "update" Pallottine priests and brothers. "That means to use all of the sources the Second Vatican Council gave to the religious communities and discerning the signs of the times. "For my community, we feel we have a strong obligation. especially in the Church of the future, to put into reality a strong cooperation with lay people in the church," Father Juritsch said. "St Vincent Pallotti gave us this task because he discovered the apostolic calling of all baptised," he said.

St Vincent Pallotti founded the society in 1835 with the objective of reviving faith and charity in all Catholics through prayer and labours.

Through his work, the Pallottines soon assumed a secular and religious character. "This is one of the aspects I'm trying to push very much." said Father Juritsch. He said he urges lay volunteerism "so that they- (lay people) understand their peculiar apostolic calling and task." Programs incorporating this philosophy include the Institute of lay Missionaries, in which volunteers spend two or more years living a

mimionary's life with a Pallottine priest. and Pallottine Apostolic Associates, in which young people volunteer to live and work with Pallottine priests for one or two years. Father Juritsch said vocations for the society are increasing in Brazil, India and Poland, and despite decreasing 10-15 years ago, are slowly rising now in the United States. "Personally I think there is a new awakening in young people for the priesthood and religious life — searching for meaning and life and searching also for life in community." he said.

MOSCOW: The Soviety news agency TASS last m onth published an a ttack on a former Roman Catholic chaplain at the US Embassy in Moscow, Father Eugene La Plante. A ccording to TASS, Father La Plante had attempted to set up an illegal Catholic Church in the USSR, and to that end has "persuaded" Muscovite Vladimir Nikoforov, 3 7. - to give up the Orthodox faith and become a Catholic." TASS claims despite the f act he was married, Nikiforov was secretly ordained in 1981 and was granted "canonical rights as vicar-general" in Moscow by the Vatican.

IIP141t!.4 However, states TASS, the real aim behind this was to engage Nikiforov and his "unregistered congregation" in political, anti-Soviet activity. "Criminal proceedings against Nikiforov for conducting unconstitutional activity were dropped after he admitted his guilt and promised to cease his activity," adds TASS. TASS did not explain how Father Nikiforov who was due to stand trial in December 1983 was in f act released by the end of January 1984. — Keston College report

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A call for our care • From page 1 On the other hand, Christmas does lead us to recognise the underprivileged in our socety . those who are in real sense victims of prejudice and injustice. In increasing numbers I have found Catholics, individually and in groups increasingly aware of the implications that God's unconditional Love has for them in their lives. More and more are recognising the Aboriginal people in our ranks have special rights that cannot be ignored. The call to work for peace is increasingly being heard. Jesus Christ who became man in Bethleham calls us in one day to recognise His love for all, and to work for a society that has this equal love as the basis of its social order. This world of ours that offers so much in the way of progress and yet leaves so many wondering as to its future has to look again at itself lAsting progress and enduring optimism can only be based on ultimate truth and selfless love. May the truth and love at the centre of Christmas celebration he recognised by all who pray together this year.

My mail has been bringing me cards from around the globe and it is encouraging to see the Nativity scene so prominent on many of the stamps. These are times when c hanging social values make one wonder about the future of the Christian world, So many of our accepted standards are being rejected that we seem to be fighting a losing battle. At the same time there remains that inclination t o feature the Infant Jesus in so many different w ays. The carols about Him are still sung, there are still many who chose cards with Jesus pictured on them and many Christmas trees have the Infant Jesus placed close by, as well as I have mentioned, as the Nativity being on so many stamps. So all is not without hope and we should be glad to see these remnants of Christian faith being clung to. They express a yearning and a deep rooted respect f or something or someone that often cannot be fully explained. Sometimes it is not J esus that has been rejected but a false presentation of Him. Sometimes it is not

lead us to a way of life in which thoughtfulness f or others, concern for spreading harmony and commitment to removing injustice be our challenge in the year ahead. F or one and all my prayer goes out this Christmas that the new born Infant will bless us and guide us along His paths.

from BISHOP QUINN Christianity that is discarded but an unacceptable version of it. A s we who are believers and followers of the Jesus o f Bethlehem surely k now, we all have to keep polishing up on our commitment and faithfulness to Him. It is a big worry that we have not been able to convey to the world the beauty and the power of His Gospel message.

I am most happy to join my archbishop in greeting the local Church and the local community on the occasion of this feast of Christmas. The message of Christmas is one of peace from God and peace on earth. Peace of course, is not just the absence of war on our planet nor is it a p olitical pact which

by BISHOP HEALY makes it possible for us to live a tranquil life. Naturally such peace is desirable and essential and we must all work and pray for it. The popes of modern times have emphasised this and none more so than Pope John XXIII in his letter on peace. However, the duty of understanding peace is much more extensive than this. In the words of God peace means integrity, completeness.

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Maybe that is why we make Christmas such a big feast — it is to r emind us we must look a t Him and ourselves e ach year to see how much He has moved us to be His witnesses and to see how much we have moved to follow Him better. Looking at the Infant we are looking at Our Saviour. Yes, God-with-us. But no demand for comforts, power or fame can be found in Him. His values are obviously different and our call is to accept Him with His v alues as He shows them to us. May this Christ Child

A fter the birth of the Messiah the world could never be the same again. J esus had come to r edeem this world of OW'S. W e clearly see redemption of the human race h as now to be experienced in every generation. That is the work of the Church, with Christ as Head. Because we bear the name Christian, because w e are part of the Church, w e are also expected to be agents of change. It is not enough for us to bemoan the state of

from BISHOP HICKEY the world around us — we must offer ourselves to God to be used in changing the world. A t Christmas especially let us try to be true to the name we bear. Let us be genuine in our love for others, forgiving of past hurts, generous in our practical charity, and steadfast in our commitment to the high standards of personal and social morality to which w e are called. May we wondrous event of Bethlehem renew our spirit of joy.

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So when Jesus healed the sick or forgave the sinner He said: Go in peace. Peace properly understood indicates we live in harmony with the world, with ourselves and aim* all with God. The purpose of the Son of God in coming into the w orld was to bring such a gift of peace and harmony to all of us. It is my prayer and I am sure the prayer of all of us, this spirit of gift of peace brought to us by J esus Christ may be e xpressed in the lives and c elebrations of all of us this Christmas.

Tannock gets chairmanship of CEC The retiring chairman of the Australian Schools Commission, Dr Peter Tannock, will become chairman and chief executive officer of the Catholic Education Commission of WA. Dr Tannock, 43, announced in July that for family reasons he would be giving up the Canberra position he has held since 1980. Monsignor Nestor, founding chairman of the Catholic commission since 1971 and Dr Richard McSweeney chief executive officer and director of research and planning will continue to work with the commission in other positions.

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Mr Last, a Catholic school prinicpal, heard of the award during Sunday Mass at the Cathedral. Married for seven years w ith four children, he j oined the Engaged E ncounter team five y ears ago. T oday there are five senior and five junior couples and six priests p resenting the weekends. Miss Myers saw the advertisement at her Doublevew church where she is already involved in the parish RCIA process. Before coming to Australia from the United States 12 years ago she w as a member of religious education team and f eels this is the work she w ants most to be involved with. She is a lecturer in media studies at the WA CAE.

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ot4-414§( He achieved a Ph.D with highest distinction from John Hopkins University. Baltimore. U.S. In 1969. on his return from America, at the inviation of Monsignor Nestor he was seconded tw the Education Department to conduct the first ever survey of needs of

Mons Nestor Catholic education in WA. That survey was considered by the Commonwealth government to be the best researched and presented of all those done by either government or non-government agencies. As lecturer in the politics of education at UWA. became known nationally for his expertise in Commonwealth-State relations in education. especially the power of the Commonwealth to become involved in the funding of education. This later influenced the founding of the Australian Schools Commission of which he was appointed a

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Watch your Words! The inability of one human being to communicate with another has worried humans long before literacy and articulation became popular grumbles today. The aftermath of the Tower of Babel extends to our own day. Foreign languages will be introduced into our schools say the authorities. Australian departments are short of people with lingual skills, they say. Bridges will be built to other cultures. Imagine an Oz who can actually understand what a foreigner is saying! Catholic enthusiasts may have a few suggestions for the syllabus. What about reviving Latin? The Italians and surely the Greeks want their ancient as well as modern tongues restored. Hebrew and a dash of Aramaic would round out a re-awakened interest in scripture Gloria In Excelsis hum angelic choirs from the loudspeakers even if the angels were not exactly Italian choristers. Ern-menu-El and Allelu-Ya sing cogregations joyfully even if they aren't too sure of the meanings. The Nativity of The Lord sounds more polished than Jesus' Birthday. When a message comes from God, in what terms is it actually delivered? Those who believe that God is at least an Englishman lament that the Word of God has not been retained in the classic Anglo-phrases of the 16th and 17th centuries. Out in the space land of entertainment the Lord and His Word is a Super Star. John the Baptist came announcing the coming of the saviour. The gospel wnter could find no better description for that scruffy bushman from down in the Jordan Valley than to pay him Isaiah's tribute: A voice crying in the wilderness. The language he used did not matter_ It was rough, earthy, and it struck home to his listeners. The communication problem began after the Ascension (Latin again?) Jesus was no longer around to speak for Himself. The disciples now had to tell others what had happened. They were about to reveal a mystery. They were not men who had attended seminanes, institutes or even retreat houses to equip themselves for the task. They would have to use their own words to launch a message that would endure until He comes again. Perhaps not all were accomplished enough to write. Paul probably did it better and has left us his letters. But it was the sensitive pen of John who chose the phrase which tells all this week: The Word Was Made Flesh, he said in his prologue: Incarnation said the stuffy theologians who feel long words make a better impression. The communication gap is never wider than when a would-be prophet steps into the crowded shopping malls and announces that: The Word Was Made Flesh! The urge to abandon St John and talk about peace and good will to all is a strong temptation But goodwill, and especially peace, have themselves become the trendy words whose content can be quickly adapted to the mood of the speaker. Everyone agrees and nobody is going to take offence if that sort of language is thrown around in mid-December when a few parties brighten the scene. The communication gap has nothing to do with education or even words. It is message that has to penetrate hard soil and it has been no different since that first Bethlehem night. There were sceptics then also. The idea of God-Among-Us. Emmanuel, is comforting but it is also a threat. Do we really want God in our streets, our homes, our factories and offices? Should He really have to suffer and hear everything that goes on. The stained glass sanctuary of the church seems a better place for God to dwell. In His house He escapes the dust and noise of everyday life. It widens the communication gap conveniently. There is no need to go to church to discover God because there is no need to find Him. The heretic Anus of 4th century fame sent Constantine's fledging Christian empire into a civil war by saying that God had no place down here on earth. Heaven is God's home. No house is worthy of Him down here. No! thundered the bishops of Nicaea, although their battle was not over yet. God from God, they declared: Light from Light, they hammered out at the later council. Mary is truly the Mother of God, triumphed Ephesus another half century later. Yes. God did become Man said the Church and it knew why. Minus the loving presence of God the earth is just a toy spinning in space, even if He made it. The agonies. and struggles, the loves and hates of the tiny creatures who people His earth are nothing if He knows nothing about it. The Word Was Made Flesh said St John since he could find no better description for God than that hallowed philosophic expression the Word of God. It is not the static qualities of God's magnificent attributes that impress us. Rather that God talks to us, communicates to us, sent us the Son, who is the Word. Christians have to become the words of God not in what they say with their lips but in what they do with their lives. Christianity is body language. Bethlehem and Calvary — are body language. Those who do not know have to be taught how to understand the foreign tongue. But will we confuse them even further if we wish them a holy CHRIST-MASS?

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Christmas for those living on the fringe

Freedom to choose! lifestyle by BETH and BRIAN MO WRY and JENNI YORK

Edna and Robert Bropho know what it is like to be Advent people. Edna is a Catholic and a fringe dweller. She is one of the fringe dwelling Aborigines who seek the right to live permanently on the land they now occupy. She and Robert want the freeom to choose how their community will live as well. Is this too much to ask? The community, ranging from Granny Bropho aged 88 to babes in arms, live in poorly ventilated, prefabricated huts. A lthogh supplied with electricity, there are no inside cooking or washing facilities. In all weather they must cook on open fires and w alk 100 metres to a separate ablution hut. Edna says "I'm a real bush mother who has been struggling in this filth and dirt for years. My job has been trying to k eep the community together." This is why 15 mothers, 21 children and 5 men c amped on Heirisson Island for 40 days and 40 nights. F orty days and 40 nights? The time was found to be "as long as the human body could stand". Edna started to leave three times. "I didn't like to see white men standing over little children shouting obscenities" she said. Robert Bropho, Edna's husband and spokesman for the fringe dwellers said "Why are you contradicting the Ten Commandments? When are you going to assist us in obtaining our land?" when asked how concerned Christians could help them. They wait . . . patiently but with little hope for the legislation which will give them their "promised land". They long for the security which the land will bring. "If land comes, we'll think 'That's Him. He's c ome down and done something special for us.'" Edna told us. As they wait, they cling to their traditional emphasis on the importance of the family. They share what little they have with any in need. Robert says "We want to live as a community. We want a fixed address. Will there remain no room at the inn?

ABOVE: A toilet block . . . not in the Outback or the desert regions . . . but in Perth for some of our fair city's fringe dwellers. BELOW: despite their hardships, Christmas can bring a smile for some Aboriginal fringe families.

A legend came to life

How a carol began

by CLARY MILLER

There is no Christmas hymn or carol which is more universally sung than the one first heard at the Christmas eve Mass of 1818 in the small market town of Oberndoft, a few miles from Salzburg.

This Christmas -Silent Night- will be 1 66 years old. In Roman days, Oberndorf, nestled in the foothills of the Alps, was well known for its connection with the salt mines. Today, it possesses a far more romantic and enduring fame — and all because the organ in the ancient church of St Nikolaus had broken down a few weeks before that particular Christmas. The story goes that mice had nibbled away at its innards, until, with a last gasp, the organ breathed its last. And what took its place as a substitute that Christmas Eve, was a guitar. What vision that conjures up what a fascinating link with life as it is played out to the full by the young of today. This guitar, surely the most unexpected of musical instruments, brought inside any church of those days, belonged to a local school teacher, Franz Gruber, who

was also the assistant organist of St Nikolaus. Gruber was a great friend of the church's pastor. Both were as poor as the proverbial church mice, that in a round-about way were destined to do them both such a good service. Gruber was the son of a linen weaver, while the priest, Joseph Mohr, was the godchild of a Salzburg hangman And though Mohr himself spent many faithful years in the service of the church and the community at large, he had nothing to leave behind e xcept the gown of his office, and at the end, his parish had to meet the cost of his burial. The pastor had written a poem which he handed over to his friend, Gruber, not, as one might have expected, several weeks before the day, but in the early hours of Christmas Eve itself, asking urgently if it would be possible to put music to the words, so that it could be sung at midnight by two voices backed by the choir with, as their only accompaniment, in place of the broken-down organ, a solitary guitar. • Cont page 30

Christmas spirit hard to find when you're facing disfigurement or disablement . . Spare a thought this Christmas for those who staff the emergency centres of our city hospitals, and spare a prayer for those they work to save. The joy of Christmas can be hard to find when faced with the stark reality of death and disfigurement. For Sister Jan North, Supervisory Nurse in Emergency at Royal Perth Hospital, it is a time of mixed feelings . . "Accidents are bad at any time but I think it all seems worse at Christmas," she said. In her 10 years as a casualty sister she has been happy to see the cruel carnage gradually diminished by seat belts and police blitzes.

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In the pre-seatbett days it was calamitous, she said. From one car accident could come four or five people with grotesque facial injuries from being flung through windows. These days the result seems to be instant death or less serious injuries . . the incidence of shocking mutiliation is down. For Sister North and most of those who work in casualty, the important thing is getting the job done. "Yes, we see some awful things but most of us wouldn't swap because we like the lack of routine . . it's a job where anything can happen," she said. For those who do work on Christmas Day there is a spirit of togetherness and celebration. "Most of us bring in something nice to eat and there is a lovely camaraderie. We are all in the same boat and it brings us together," she said. It is a bond that draws them especailly close in the face of tragedy. "It was extremely sad one Christmas, we had a young man in his late teens who came in very badly injured and who later died," Sister North said. "Somehow, at such a time, for one so young, it all seemed much worse, although of course every death touches you. "But in this case especially our young staff identified with him and were greatly upset. "It took a lot of talk and cups of tea later to work through their emotions," she said. /„/ •

For Sister Jan North, Supervisory Nurse in Emergency at Royal Perth Hospital, Christmas is a time of mixed feelings . . . "Accidents are bad at any time but I think it all seems worse at Christmas," she says.

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PNOLE, NUMAIM DIM The pace generally slows and speeds throughout Christmas Day with peak admission times during morning, late afternoon and evening when people are on the roads. For Sister North the best part of her job is being able to help those who have made this most unwelcome of visits. 'We realise that the people who come to us haven't chosen to do so and are naturally anxious . . . we can dispel some of that anxiety," she said. The biggest problem is ignorance, she says, both of the condition of the patient and how the hospital functions. " We try to help people understand what is going on," she said.

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-Very often they don't understand the full extent of the injuries and it can take the doctor a while to know as well . . . we can tell them what happens after a blood test, what's involved with a . things like cardiograph that." As much attention as is possible in the circumstances is given to relatives, she says, with the hospital recognising the importance of allowing people to see their loved ones as soon as possible. "Hospital staff used to think it was important to get patients tidied up first but now I think we are aware that we need to have more thought for the family, and anyway, I find that people don't really seem to notice the cuts and bruises," she said. 'We must remember the need of relatives to hold the hand of someone who is dying . . . it's such a special time and we will only send people out if were crowded and can't work "In the old days people would be sent out while a drip was put in or while the patient was washed which seems a bit silly when you consider you are probably dealing with people who have been married for years." There is a relatives room at Royal Perth, somewhere for people to cry, because, says Sister North, Australians are still rather reserved about crying • Cont page 8

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WASHINGTON (NC) — Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee says the first draft of a US Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on the economy could reflect a bit more optimism — but not so much that it encourages people to forget the real, serious plight of the poor It does give a kind of negative impression' and needs to add a more uplifting note as well, Archbishop Weakland, chairman of the committee drafting the pastoral letter, tolo reporters "But it's important at this moment of history to make sure people don't forget the poor," he added "We've got to get back to the idea that poor people" face major problems, he said Archbishop Weakland said closing the gap between the rich and poor is not "something one does by legislation" but by actions on various levels "We have to study what forces are necessary to begin to close the gap," he said 'It is presupposed the aim of an economic system is to provide abundant goods and services for the whole community " But "the test of any economic system," he said, is "how it takes care of the poor and their basic needs."

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SAN SALVADOR: The Church gets more disturbed about Marxism than other non-Christian forms of thought because of marxism's power to "put the Church on the spot," according to Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino, a liberation theologian teaching at the Jesuit University in San Salvador, El Salvador. "Marxism is telling the Church, you are oppressing," he said. "If that is true, it is serious for the Church." But Father Sobrino said the Vatican's "essential truth" of the Gospel. He said this "essential recent letter on libertruth" was not found in basic ation theology pro- theological works before vided evidence of the rise of liberation theolliberation theology's °KY Liberation theology has validity. He called attention to the document's opening statement that liberation is an •

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NEW YORK (NC) — The tiny parish of Jasper have rallied around the family of William J. Schroeder, the world's second artificial heart recipient. "The response from the community has been overwhelming," said Father Joseph Kirsch, associate pastor at St Joseph's church in Jasper, where the family are members.

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rent head of the archdiocese. Archbishop Arturo Rivera Darnas, said the Church had credibility in El Salvador because of the love shown to the poor for their own sake, without the concern for political gain "The Church has done two things." he said. "First, it has been saying it is the will of God — not of Karl Marx or anybody like that but the will of God — that the poor people of El Salvador he liberated. Then. the Church has tried to help a little hit." Father Sobrino said the Church helped the poor simply by telling the truth in a country where truth was a "scarce commodity." The Church serves by telling about the number of people being killed and the need for others to get organised in defence of their rights.

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made "many mistakes." Father Sobrino acknowledged. But he insisted it had nonetheless made people aware of God's will for liberation in a way they previousty had not been. He aLso said while among the "millions" of people involved in the movement for liberation theology some "might exagget•ate" and at times give the Mass a political orientation, as the Vatican instruction charges, such deviations did not occur with liberation theology advocates alone. Father Sobrino, often citing the assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador and less often the cur-

V ATICAN CITY (NC) — The Vatican has rejected a 1980 decision of the US Bishops to adopt eucharistic prayers revised to end w hat they regarded as the exclusively male tone of the original language. With once exception, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship told the bishops it wanted any revision of the prayers to be made at one time for the Church w orldwide, not "piecemeal." said Benedictine Father Cuthbert Johnson, who represents the congregation to English-speaking c ountries. The congregation also said the concern o ver exclusively male references was not Church-wide, he said. The Vatican, however, approved a change in the words of the consecration in which a reference to "all men" became simply "all." "The present texts of the eucharistic prayers are being revised in toto," Father Johnson said. "The congregation felt it would be better to wait so all revisions could be made at one time." He said the worship congregation wanted all countries speaking one language "to use the same translation."

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On the night Schroeder received his heart 500 neighbours and friends attended a prayer vigil. jasper is a rural community of about 5,000 people with a strong German-Catholic heritage. The townspeople reacted to Schroeder's historic operation with "Christian, German pride," Father Kirsch said Schroeder. 52, is the father of six, ranging in age from 19 to 31, and the grandfather of five, and is known in the community for his work •

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Women obstacle to unity

He said the congregation's 1983 decision was in tune with cultural developments. "Personally," he added, "I object to individual groups or movements claiming the right to change the meaning of words, such as man and mankind. "Mankind is a common noun which refers to men and women," he said. "Brethren means men women. "My concern is feminist groups are themselves creating an abuse," the Vatican official said. "In America all you have to do is accuse someone of discrimination, and he is frightened. It's a weapon." Father Johnson said another reason for requesting further study of the changes was a concern for the literary quality of the prayers.

LONDON: knglican Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcic said in his "reluctant judgment" the church of England's General Synod would be "unwise" to call for the legislation for the ordination of women at this time. The vote for womcn's ordination was short of the twothirds which will ultimately be needed for final approval by the synod, which divided into bishops. priests. and laity houses. "We have a duty not to be seen as acting in abrasive and unfraternal disregard of L very large Catholic bodies with whom we share the very fundamentals of the faith." he said. Opponents say ordination of, women would be an obstacle to efforts to restore links with the Catholic and VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope Orthodox churches. John Paul II has named an Archbishop Runcie said the Irish native, Monsignor Berfact some Anglican churches nard Patrick Devlin, as ordain women and others bishop of Gibraltar Bishop-designate Devlin, do not reflects "a tentative63, has been diocesan ness about so radical a administrator of Gibraltar change which makes it since March. Before that he much easier to defend. was the diocese's vicar explain and commend to general Orthodox. and Catholics."

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WASHINGTON (NC) The Vatican has given approval to US bishops for the distribution of communion under forms of both bread and wine in the United States on Sundays and holy days. In 1978 the bishops granted permission at the discretion of the local bishop but the Vatican said the bishops' conference was not authonsed to grant the permission. In the new US permission communion may not be distributed under both kinds. • at outdoor Masses with a large number o communicants, such as a Mass in a stadium • at Masses where there are so many communicants that the Eucharist could not be distributed in an orderly way, such as in a civic arena.

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HONG KONG- Church media here have discovered an anniversary. The recent Hong Kong treaty between Britain and China was initialled 30 years to the day after Belgain Father Ernest Strasson was expelled from Red China He was only one of 14,000 missionaries expelled in the 1950s. It all looks so tragic now. Father Strasson's expulsion after only a year came a few days after a British Labour Party delegation had ended an 18-day factfinding tour of China. It seems the guides salted the facts somewhere. Clement Attlee, the leader of the group, told journalists in Hong Kong the opposition to the Church was more Nationalist than Communist. The delegates knew nothing of the 300 Chinese Catholic priests who were in prison at the time for refusing to renounce their faith and their loyalty to the pope

FIWASHINGTON The US Department of Justice has granted legal status to Cuban refugees from the 1980 Manel boat lift The US authorities are being asked about Haitians who arrived in the country under circumstances similar to the Cubans

MLONDON Among all the rumours of the British Butterfly ConserI—Jwar vation Society is launching a nation-wide campaign in London to preserve parts of churchyards as butterfly habitats PartIcularly they look to those attached to redundant churches The members have scolded Christians who do not pay due regard to the-ecosystem

LONDON: A short piece from The Universe, the British Catholic weekly, should not get lost among the old newspapers. A feature of seminary corridors are the photographs of ordination classes of each year. All Hallows, Dublin, has one gap in the picture story — the "Class of 1929". There was an ordination that year, but the class had their feelings hurt. Traditionally, the men used to travel into Dublin to have that group photo taken, but in 1929 this was not allowed. The photographer came to the college i nstead. Pigheadedly the young priests withheld their picture from the hallowed walls. Fifty-five years is long enough to make a point Cardinal Bernard Egan, of the Cardiff archdiocese, was one of the villains This year on his 80th birthday, he declared the college forgiven and he resolved to send the class photograph to its proper place

ROME Cardinal de Furstenberg, a familiar name in Australia, has turned

80 This debars him from being one of the cardinals to elect a pope in the future There are currently 95 cardinals who can elect a pope, should such a duty devolve on them unexpectedly Pope Paul established a maximum number of 120 in 1973 Naming of new cardinals would be at a consistory to which all the cardinals would be summoned R ecently the pope presided at the funeral of the last Roman Cardinal. Paola Marella At one time Apostolic Delegate to Australia. Cardinal Marella died in his native crty at the age of 89 "

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John Paul beatifies three V ATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul recently beatified three people. T he three are: • Spanish Father Jose Manyanet y Vives, w ho founded two religious orders, the Sons of the Holy Family and the Institute of Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. He was born January 7, 1983, and died December 17, 1901. • French Holy Ghost Father Daniel Brattier, who was a missionary in the A frican country of Senegal for eight years, and when forced to leave because of ill health, began working with orphans in France. He was born September 7, 1876, and died February 18. 1936. • French Carmelite Sister Elizabeth of the Holy Trinity, who was regarded by her contemporaries as having developed a high degree of spiritual communion with God. She was born Elizabeth Catez on July 18, 1880 and joined the Carmelites in 1901, taking the name Elizabeth of the Holy Trinity. She died November 9. 1906.

ROME (NC) — The Vatican wants direct contact with the Chinese Communist government, but has not yet been able to establish a link, despite papal initiatives, said Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state. "We hope to have the possibility to speak with them. Until now we have not had this possibility,." he added at an informal meeting. He did not elaborate on the nature of the contact. The cardinal's remarks came after recent visits to China by Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila and a group of Asian bishops. The Vatican would not necessarily break its diplomatic ties with Taiwan to improve relations with China. Cardinal Casaroli said. "Normally you do not sign a blank check even if there

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riThe eight children of Mar cello

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their mark on the Church in WA. A daughter is Sister Donna at St Joseph's convent, South Perth. Father Justin Bianchini is administrator of Nedlands parish. John this year joined Jim in the acolytate as did Ben's son Vincent. John's son, Father Peter Bianchini, parish priest of Bencubbin,

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becomes director of missions. Jim's son Justin, author of this article, next year enters St Francis Xavier Seminary, Adelaide. John, Jim and Ben followed their father into the building trades. Eugene is an electrician. Mary is the wife of Harry Moffitt a nd Anne the wife of Kym MacCormac.

A t St Vincent's Hospital Guildford, 95 year old Marcell° Bianchini enjoys the peace to be able to pray and think back on a very full life.

See you aII again next year The 95 year old man sits up in a lounge chair as 43 members of his family stand around and sing him "Happy Birthday-. Marcello Bianchini, grand pop to me, is overwhelmed with joy. Just as I wonder if this will be his last birthday, he staggers to his feet and one of his five sons calls for quiet: ."Pop would like to say a few words...The old man speaks from

the depth of a very loving heart 'Thank you everybody, very, very much.. " With a smile and his arms spread wide, every bit like the pope giving a blessing, he says with an air of certainty "I'll see you all again next year" At this, the house in Lesmurdie breaks into noise of cheering and laughter and the groups break up into sessions of story telling about this man and his remarkable life's journey

by JUSTIN BIANCHINI

ciation with Catholic construction began with a job on buildings in New Norcia Six years later he was back in Campo, Northern Italy to marry Rosa who he came to know well as they met over the years in the local tiny church for Sunday Mass They were married on January 11, 1921 but his six years in New Norcia made him restless for Australia so in 1925 he was back in New Norcia making sure he would have a home for his wife and two children who he brought out in april, 1930

Like thousands of other Australians. Marcello's journey began in Campo, Northern Italy where he was born on June 21, 1889 He was one of the eight children of John and Letizia Bianchini — eight boys and one girl His building career started at the age of 13 when he left school to begin an apprenticeship taking him to many places in Northern Italy and nearby Switzerland. However, at the age of 24 he felt the call to put his building talents to the test in Australia On May 7 he arrived at Fremantle and his long asso-

The family grew from four members to 10 and by 1948 it was time to move down to Queens Park because the children had finished school and jobs were scarce in New Norcia Over the years at New Norcia. Grandpop Bianchini had well and truly left his mark on Western Australia The Benedictine monastery chapel, the bridge over the Moore River, the monastery at Kalumburu (1937) were just a few of the pro-

because it is such a beg part of the job. Sister North said greater emphasis was being given to the area of grief and hospital staff attend special sessions on grief counselling run by psychology departments and chaplaincy. 'This is a relatively recent thing," she said. "I should say it is only in the last few years that the need has been addressed. Ten years ago there wasn't much attention given to keeping relatives informed." In such an emotioncharged area of human relations she sees it as a positive step that people and patients are now asking, Why?", and that doctors have become more personable — but with the greater concern for the relatives of the injured, comes also greater involvement for nursing staff. It is they who must take the family member in for identification . . never easy and even more difficult where head injuries are involved. 'There is usually a lot of swelling with head injuries and while I've never heard

anyone express difficulty in recognising a relative, they do find the experience traumatic and usually comment that 'he looks awful!" Sister North said. Nursing staff go out of their way, she says, to ensure that relatives get to see critically ill patients. "If someone is being raced off to theatre we still make sure we get the relative to see them so they can say goodbye in case they die," she said. "It is so tragic if they don't have that opportunity. And when the loved one has died, to the nurse usually comes the question, 'Should I see them?" The answer is always yes. "Even in cases of head injury where they blow up very quickly and the eyes are blackened, I would still say go and see them,- Sister North said. "You can't persuade someone to go if they don't want to but I think we have ignored the reality of death for too long. Phrases like 'gone to heaven,' passed away,"laid to rest,' avoid the reality of death and do more harm than good." For those who work in

jects in which the stonemason showed his skill. Two sons joined him in the building industry until retiring in 1957 He now had a new life to live as he tended his potatoes, grapes, strawberries and collected eggs from his chocks and water from his tank. An afternoon siests is a necessary part of his day, as is smoking his pipe, but above all was his daily prayers with Grandma who died in 1978, seated at the kitchen table Grandma suffered a stroke and in 1978 he moved from Queens Park to be near her a t St Vincent's Hospital, Guildford. She died there that same year and he has lived at the hospital ever since. It is there I am taking him tonight after this moving 95th birthday celebration It is my privilege because I live only a few streets away from him at St Charles' Vocational Residence. It is not a long or late celebration.

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For the nursing staff it is a job that often calls for instant action and splitsecond timing. "When the bad cases come in we work frantically," Sister North said, "it's amazing how much can be done in 10 minutes." While there is now a greater awareness than in the past of the needs of relatives it is still important to assess each case individually, Sister North said. "It can be difficult," she said. "For many people, to see us working on a cardiac arrest would raise fears that we are hurting the person."' "At those times we must concentrate completely on the patient, so perhaps it is better not to have relatives present." When a life is at risk there is only one thought and that is to save that life. Meal breaks are often missed and people even don't remember, Sister North said. "But that in itself is not a good thing," she said. "the pressure can be great and because of that I think it is even more important to have a break from it. Nurses are

probably better than doctors at making sure they get that time," she said. For nurses, she said, there is the added strain of taking families for viewings at the mortuary. 'We have found in cases of unexpected death that it is important to keep the patient in a hopsital setting," Sister North said. "People need to believe that their loved one has been with a doctor, that everything possible has been done. 'There are so many superstitions and so much misunderstanding, especially now that we have such a mix of cultures in Australia. 'This makes it even more difficult for nurses "Some people have very strange ideas about what goes on and we have had some ring and ask to see the body and say , 'I believe if I don't come and see it now it will be put in a bottle of blue water," Sister North said. "Obviously it is a time of great strain and while our nurses aren't specifically trained to relate to families in grief situations they do pick it up from their peers

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Having made his little speech it is well after 8pm and he doesnt's want to be locked out of his hospital home For four long minutes he stands in the middle of the packed lounge room, with his back arched slightly over and head tilted up as his family kiss him goodnight or shake his hand Others stay in their place, near the wall or at a chair and shout out the traditional Italian dialect greeting "Sier Grandpop Stet Pop (Goodnight)" A grandson and two daughters help him down the stairs into my car

He is weary and anxious to get home. He makes sure I know the quickest way back to Guildford. He doesn't mind his young grandson as a driver, but he is fidgeting clumsily in his pocket and then I hear and see his rosary beads being brought out. He explains to me he has not "got his Rosary in today". I flick off the radio but he makes sure I do not mind the rosary being recited. "No worries Pop", I say and I mean every word of it. He is so used to saying the rosary by himself that my Holy Mary's and As It Was In the Beginnings get cut short He looks anxiously at his watch again before we reach St Vincent's and one knock on the door brings dear Mrs Priest to meet us. When he is safely in the chair by his bedside I cannot resist asking him how long he has to live. "Oh. God knows" he says with a joyful smile 'We know the past, but we don't know what is to come" Upon leaving that quiet lonely room I realised I had come to know better the 95 year old father of my father because he had shared some of the precious moments of his life with me.

Marcell. Bianchini and his son Jim at the laying of the foundation stone of the granist Presentation school they built at Goomalling.

hospitals death is a part of life.

"I guess you get used to it," Sister North said. "In the case of a young person it can strike more of a chord because of the lost opportunities and the young staff identify especially, but we tend to get on with the job which stops the sadness but doesn't make it go away. "We say to our staff that it is always better to stay on and talk about death if they are troubled by what has happened than to take it home with them. "But it is something that is done when the work is done. We have to ensure that we are always ready for the next patient so we can give them as good a treatement as we gave the last. "Obviously the serious cases always take priority and no-one is going to look at broken bones until a severed aorta is sewn up. . the important thing for us is to keep our attention on the job in hand and save our sadness for later" For Sister North the joy in the job is even greater when days pass without a serious accident.

'That is something we can look forward to now," she said. "years ago it would never have happened" Seatbelts, police blitzes and greater care on the roads have brought it about . . imagine what a wonderful Christmas they could have

Sister Jan North with two of the casualty staff in an emergency treatment room at RPH casualty. in casualty if this year there were no serious accidents. That's something worth working for.

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It sometimes seems that Christmas has become our by-word for an extravaganza of commercial opportunism. And every year we cynically attempt to justify another record-breaking spending spree by associating it with the birth of Jesus — a birth characterised by deprivation. Of course there is a place for celebration at Christmas, as at many other times of the year. But at a time in the world's history when so many must live in appalling misery, we should be moderate in our celebration. Think, instead, of ways of involving the poor, the aged, the lonely in our celebration this year. And perhaps take a small part of what you might spend this Christmas and direct it to those who are in need.

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The Corpus Christi Seminary tradition has to be able to flourish in changing conditions without altering basics, says its new rector Father George Pell. "If you get the basics right — the Gospels, the creeds, repent and believe, and so on — you are more likely to get strategies for Church living right. "If you have the basics wrong you can have every strategy in the world and they won't be effective. "I don't think the basics should be debated as much as they are," he added. Father Pell said he very much believed in a demanding intellectual preparation for seminarians. "A priest has to be prepared effectively to communicate Christ's message in a demanding environment of people of all age groups and the widest levels of understanding, and in which there is very slick

Father George Pell, the newly appointed rector of Corpus Christi College, says priests must be able to relate to different types if they are to work effectively with people.

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young men to consider sharing the priesthood with me and my brother priests. Archbishop William Foley St Mary's Cathedral Perth WA. 6000 10

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packaging of television and radio." he said. "With education levels going up in the general community and the Catholic community, a priest's preparation has to help him be an effective preacher and teacher. "You don't have to be brilliant to be a priest, hut it's the duty of each seminarian and priest to use and develop the capacities he has."

Faith, service, loyalty and commonsense characterise the tradition of Corpus Christi College, says the new Victoria's Corpus Christi Seminary Father George Pell. Father Pell has been principal of the Institute of Catholic Education since 1981 and director of the Ballarat Campus of the Institute since 1974. Father Pell has a PhD in Church history from Oxford University, and MA in education from Monash University and a baccalaureate and licentiate in sacred theology from Propaganda Fide College in Rome. He is a fellow of the Australian College of Education.

Tradition of the Corpus Christi by DAVID KENDE in The Advocate

gt?.410.g. He said it was important that Corpus Christi College produced priests who would continue to he closely involved in supporting the Catholic education system. "With parents, priests and teachers linked together — the way they have been — under the leadership of the bishops, the Catholic education system has been able to survive and remain healthy. "Education has become a much more complex situation and priests have to be at home with that complexity. "Priests have to be aware not only of the traditional Catholic intellectual formation around Scripture and theology but be very much abreast also of developments in pshychology, sociology and education so that they have a common ground, a common professional language and understanding, with Catholic teachers. Father Pell said it was an important part of the Corpus Christi tradition that it produced priests who would be close to their people in good times and had.

"Fostering a clericalism or a clerical cast has never been a tradition in this part of the world. "We have never believed in the clergy running everything. "It is important to maintain the tradition of cooperation between clergy and laity. "All priests are vitally

dependent on the support and encouragement of lay people, especially today when the pressures of work on priests are greater than they have been in the past. "More and more is required of lay people to maintain and improve the vitality of the Church." He said while lay people could not say Mass and celebrate most of the sacraments, the division of responsibilities between lay people and priests in the Church depended a lot on the particular capacities of individuals. "Some priests are very good businessmen, some are very good organisers, some are not. "Some lay people are able to give great religious leadership." Yet Father Pell warned the priests must not take "all the lay idealists out of public life and turn them into altar boys." "One of the functions of the priesthood is to produce lay leaders in public life." "The Catholic community should be producing lay leaders," he said. "If people understand the basics of their faith and are reminded of their publiic responsibilities and encouraged to follow that idealism in particular ways this should occur. "We have already had a tradition of that in Victoria and Australia and I cannot

see any reason why it should have suddcndly stopped as much as it has." Father Pell said a priest's basic goal was to remind people of the spiritual dimension of life. "A priest has to remind people of God's importance and that god loves them. "As a generalisation I don't believe in priests being in politics." He said there had been a crisis of confidence among some people about the direction of the Church. but that confidence was returning as the Church reaped the benefits of the "useful and important changes of Second Vatican Council." Father Pell said the temporary visit of confidence in the Church was reflected in Victoria in the problem of the lack of vocations, particularly among Australians of Irish ancestry who had previously been the backbone of vocations to the priesthood in Victoria.

He said one of the reasons for the lack of vocations from this group was the relegation of the things of God to a priority lower than the pursuit of material wealth and social position. He suspects another reason is that resignations from the priesthood and the religious life have unsettled some parents and made them a little nervous of encouraging their children to pursue a religious or priestly voc.ation. "I am confident we will get an increase in vocations, as in other parts of Australia. "Pope John Paul is giving a sense of direction and confidence to the Church and this has already filtered into the Catholic community. "But if the Catholic community doesn't realise the great need for vocations there will he radical changes in the Catholic way of life," he warned. • Conf page 11

Parents of those electing to take vocations often wonder at their 'sacrifices'. • • Corpus What makes a young, good-looking fellow, with bright prospects, give up a girlfriend, a coveted cadetship with an international company, study of an arts degree and pursuit of the material things in life — all for a religious vocation? The mystery of a religious vocation had often intrigued me, so I decided to find out f rom the man himself. . . Brother Damian Ferrie OEM., Franciscan Friar currently living at the Midland Friary. Born in Melbourne and one of 10 children, Brother Damian gave me an insight of his thoughts and aims this week. Many people think that you are born to be a priest or a religious, but when I was at school, I did not feel strongly that god wanted me to be a Franciscan" he said. "I think every Christian at some time in life, considers giving his or her life to God For some, the answer comes as a 'maybe' 'This was the case with me.' "At school, I saw myself as preparing for something and thought work must be the answer. "After leaving school. I hoped the lack of fulfilment I felt, would be answered in the work ethos, career satisfaction, and so on etc "However, after leaving school and embarking on what looked like a very promising career, I was disillusioned -It lacked what I wac searching for

"I wanted more out of life. "Somehow, despite enjoying material possessions and goals, and a girlfriend I liked very much, it wasn't enough. 'These things did not give me the happiness I was searching for," he says. "I had known the Franciscans for many years. "They had something special while appearing 'human' and enjoying the good things of life, they had a depth and a sense of "I wanted what they had. "For me, one of the most common questions before joining was. "How sure do you have to be?" I would ask the Vocations Directors. "Is 60/40 enough?" I decided to give it a go." A candidate has two interviews before a panel of Friars. They guide you in simple things, like what would be good preparation before joining. The first requirement is that you must work for a minimum of 12 months, preferably longer If you are doing a degree or a trade, you are advised to finish it The second is you keep in touch. During this time we had meals together, and informal chats. This enables you to sort out any doubts or

Why give up so much for God? by COLLEEN HOWARD

3EA[I "WtA 7JIM worries and you develop an informal rapport "After this eighteen month period, I started my first year of training" he said. I attended the pre-novitiate course in New Zealand. This year is essentially a time to get used to living with others in a relaxed, community setting. "It introduces you to community prayer and a little about how the Friars operate. "Now you have a chance to see things from the inside, without losing anything, because although you have joined, no formal commitment has yet been made. "Some introductory study into spirituality, theologyy of the Church and scripture, is undertaken" he says. This first year is very relaxed and low key, with plenty of free time to think. "I found it a very enjoyable and confirming experience_ 'Confirming' because it more than fulfilled all my expectations. I felt I had discovered what I had been searching for. "Initially. I had felt what a tough sacrifice it was --

giving up all my friends. career, material possessions — in order to embark on what I thought to be a life of self-denial, only to discover I received infinitely more than anything I had given up. "At the duration of this 10 months in New Zealand, I returned to my family for three months. "You can then re-apply and embark upon the second year which is a novitiate "They train you in the spirituality of the order and prepare you to take temporary vows of poverty, chastity and obedience" This year proved to be fairly enclosed and one of reflection. It is fantastic to be able lat the age of 22) to retreat, and have those hours of solitude. in order to discover the Lord and yourself. he says. Because the Franciscan life, is not one of enclosure and is in touch with people's lives, he left the novitiate and started study in preparation for the priestly ministery.

zs.§03t4 "It was a bit of a culture shock! I crashed down to reality. "I now found myself in a more pressurised academic environment. 'This stage was undertaken at the Yarra Theological Union in Melbourne. "We lived in small suburban houses, with eight or so candidates and a couple of priests. ' The idea is to live very normal lives and remain in touch with other people. "We did our own shopping and household chores and, despite study involvements, it was a very relaxed atmosphere. 'When you wished you were free to visit family or friends; the Friars' attitude is

that discipline must come from within, not from without -Throughout the formation, the directors support and guide us, but we make our own decisions affecting our lives, and take responsibility for them" he said After spending three years a t the Yarra Theological Union, he has been sent to Perth on a six months community term This entails being involved in the daily activity of a Franciscan community.

He works in the Midland parish and also teaches part-time at La Salle College, Midland. This term is a pre-requisite before final vows can be taken. A temporary commitment is made at the end of the second year. It is at this stage that you are a member of the order. I asked Brother Damian, who did the term 'Friars' include? He said this embraces both Friar Brothers and Friar Priests, but the central lynch pin of the Order is that they are a Brotherhood, with varying ministries in the Church. Brother Damian said a lot of people are confused about t he distinction between Brothers and Priests within their order and although in the past few hundred years it was clerically dominated, since Vatican II, the Order has striven to remind them they are all Brothers and called to serve one another. Brother Damian commented although the eight year formation period may seem a long time to spend in training, in many ways it was necessary. These years did more than academically educate. They really do bring about an evolving personal maturity, an awareness of the possibility of your role within the church and a development in your knowledge of the Lord.

Christi • From page 10 "When people realise the problem more deeply and it's presented to young people just what the nature of these challenges are we will certainty find people who will answer the challenge. "The Australian community needs religious heroes. people of immense compassion and strength." Father Yell said it would be useful if Australian Cathol-

Brother Damian Ferri* Onl, a Franciscan friar living in Midland until next week, with some of the La Salle College s tudents.

ics, and especially young Australian Catholics, saw the connection between ideas and following Christ and had the intellectual formation to grapple with modern possibilities and challenges. -There should he more %-igorous intellectual presentation and defence of the v.-ay Catholics look at things. "In the area of morals a lot of people often talk as if one can choose his own moral values, "That isn't the (hristian perspective."

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I ' Our house is chaotic and warm. An explosion of laughter and excited words tumble children from their beds. "The presents," they say. When they went to bed, we only had three children but this morning I am sure there are twenty. "The presents," they repeat, pulling at the blankets on the wide bed. I am inclined to stay in bed but there is no chance. The presents are really a year-round focus that r eaches a peak on December twenty-five. In mid-July a child can muse about which Barbie she wants in her stocking this year. Moments after devastating the contents under the Christmas tree, my son will build a fantasy about next year. The mounting excitement includes not just presents for getting, but presents for giving. The next best thing to getting the perfect present yourself is giving the perfect present. "Open mine! Open mine!" pleads my youngest jumping up and down on the end of the couch. The children have all e xpressed their love, or at least their tolerance, with tiny pieces of paper made into cards and treasures purchased with carefully hoarded pocket money. "Look, look," my nineyear -old insists, "Look at all the wonderful things I got." I love presents too. And although my new plastic soap holder is wondrous, and my sweaters and earrings are delights, the things I have opened are not the real \ gifts.

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And soap holder too by MARIANNE STRAWN NC News Service Someday my children will know this too. The real gifts are the presents tucked into the nooks and crannies of e veryday life. If I were to name these, it would be a very different sort of gift list. Forgiveness. It wasn't a major crime. I had forgotten to do the l aundry. The blond headed child stood in the middle of the room, tears running down her cheeks because there were no clean socks. I am not drawn and quartered. I am forgiven. My child does remind m e she had to wear "yuck" socks to school. Listening. E ven at 7.15 in the morning, when what I have to say is utter nonsense, there is a friend who listens. I can complain about the injustice of the third-grade report or the burdens of owning a n automobile or the

weather. Sharing. "Mom, you know the cupcakes you said you w ould make for the patrols. Well, tomorrow is the picnic," says my son. I have a friend who has a recipe for quick, no-fail cupcakes. She also blessed me with a recipe for a casserole that every member of the family will eat. She shares cooking utensils, child care, magazines, cups of flour and glasses of wine. Perspective. I resented my son's baseball team. They practiced at the other end of the country and I hated fighting rushhour traffic to get him there. In a casual conversation, a woman mentioned a long Saturday morning drive with her daughter w as a real opportunity to talk.

I tried to look at the long drive to the baseball field from a different point of view. It was still rotten, but my son and I talked, occasionally. Wisdom. Not mine. M y husband is wise b eyond his years -although his years seem to be catching up fast. When I stand in the k itchen slamming pots and pans, retreating into my icy silence over some slight, he is a man smart enough to keep his mouth shut. He does not remind me of my own shortcomings. He does not mention the knight in shining armour that I expected on my wedding day is not coming. There are other gifts a child who lets me hold her hand although she is too old to need it. A son who actually w alked into the kitchen a nd said, "Can I do anything to help?" All of these gifts - and a plastic soap holder too.

A homemaker and mother of four boys, Rita Ungaro Schiavone seldom had much time on her hands. Even so, as a way of putting her Christianity into practice, she began visiting families in need while the boys were youngsters in school. still She remembers Minnie, an elderly woman bedridden with arthritis. She was dreadfully thin and couldn't walk. The small row house was suffocating. Minnie's bed linens and night clothing were almost worn out. She had lost most of her sight but she didn't complain. Mrs Schiavone wanted to fix her

A box of nothin Paul sat alone on the front verandah of his white frame house. He could hear little tinny sounds — laughter, he thought — from down the street. And when the wind blew just right, the strains of familiar carols floated by.

by JOE MICHAEL FEIST NC News Service

For 9-year-old Paul, the front verandah was one of his favourite places. It was Christmas Eve, and all the carols in the world couldn't help Paul feel better. All he could think of was the new bicycle he now knew he would never have. Paul had hoped for a bicycle for a long time and had asked his parents to buy him one for Christmas. But his presents were now all placed underneath the tree and there wasn't a bicycle there, that was for sure. In fact, one of the boxes felt like there was nothing in it at all. Paul sat silently, staring at the sidewalk. No bicycle and a box full of nothing. This is going to be a terrible Christmas, he thought. He glanced up when heard the clatter of an old pickup

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truck rounding the corner onto his street. Paul watched as the pickup stopped at a house a few doors down. The driver opened the door and got out, then reached hack in, pulled up a small box and began to walk toward the house Just then the other door opened and out jumped Robert, one of Paul's friends from school. Robert ran down the footpath and up to Paul's front porch. "What are you doing. Robert," Paul asked "Is that

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your father?" "Yeah." Robert said. "We're delivering my mother's homemade cakes. A lot of people really like them, especially around Christmas. We made more this year than ever before — dozens and dozens. It must be a lot of work to make all those cakes." Paul said. "It is," said Robert as he moved close to the house. "But my father says we have to do it, you know, for the money. He says that we have so many bills. And now grandmother is coming to live with us. She doesn't have anyplace else to go." Robert looked down and shook his head slowly. "And do you know what my father says about our old truck? He says we're going to have to put it out of its misery pretty soon. He laughs when he says that, but he's worried about it." Paul felt worse than ever. He hadn't heard so much had news from one person for a long time, maybe ever. The curious thing was, Robert didn't look sad, didn't look sad at all. Still, Paul decided to change the subject.

"At least it's Christmas and you'll get some presents." "I don't know," Robert said. "Maybe yes, maybe no." As he watched his friend drive away. Paul felt the same way he did in school sometimes when he knew he'd just learned something important. only he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was he'd learned. But he did know that the bicycle, the one he wouldn't get, wasn't that important anymore. The next morning, very early, Paul and his two sisters and his mother and father gathered in their living room to open presents, just as they always did on Christmas morning. Paul didn't feel anything like the way he did the day before. He felt comfortable. fortu-

nate. He feld warm as he watched the exchange of gifts and listened to happy. delighted sounds. Finally. Paul only had one box left to open — the box of nothing. He slowly unwrapped the paper, lifted the lid and peered inside. He was right, he thought. There was nothing in the box except a crumpled part of a page torn out of a cataloge. Just as he was about to put the box down, he caught a glimpse of the torn page. There was a bicyle on it, red and bright and exciting. Paul's parents were both smiling and his father pointed to the front porch. Paul didn't understand, and then he did. He ran and opened the door, and it was there.

by SISTER VERA GALLAGHER, RGS NC News Service

something to eat but the refrigerator and cupboards were empty. Minnie's daughter, leaning against a wall, was expressionless. Recently sent home from a psychiatric hospital, she was speechless with depression. Schiavone Mrs bought food and gave Minnie and daughter her sandwiches and coffee. But she worried about what they would do for dinner. That night, at the f amily dinner, Mrs Schiavone filled two extra plates. Later she delivered them to Minnie and her daughter.

of.tvt% Mrs Schiavone also r emembers Dorothy. She remembers how the doorbell was answered by a woman, alone in a house without heat, bundled up in sweater and coat. The building was rundown; the plumbing needed fixing and the refrigerator didn't work. Her clothing, torn and dirty, draped about her thin figure in folds. Dorothy accepted the homecooked

meals fearfully. Since her father's death, she had lived alone. Schiavone Mrs bought clean clothing, new sheets for the bed, a bedspread and blankets. The water was turned on and the plumbing repaired. Dorothy's father her had left money. It came monthly, but others always got to her mailbox first. The homemaker told her friends about the two women she was helping and the extra plates of food dished out at night. Then members of her parish, St Jerome's joined in her work. Staff and parishioners began searching for people in need, making dinners and delivering them. Then Mrs Schiavone spoke about t he work at a meeting of a local ministers' ecumenical. association. The ministers told members of their c ongregations and they too joined in the enterprise.

Mrs Schiavone was invited to speak in churches. Somebody wrote a new story. There was a radio report about it too. People began to send money. For 10 years now, thousands of volunteers have cooperated in the program which is called "Aid for Friends.- Mrs Schiavone is the

to be program's unsalaried executive director. Most dinners come from families. In the context of a family dinner, parents teach children to serve the poor and handicapped first. Volunteers collect f rozen dinners from cooks and carry them to central freezers in 65 locations. Some cooks bring frozen dinners to their church or synagogue as part of their offering. Volunteer visitors pick up a week's supply of frozen dinners and visit the person they

deliver them to f or at least an hour, once a week. and Salt -free kosher meals are stocked in freezers too. At Hanukand kah Christmas, gifts pour in: blankets, sweaters, night clothing, afghans, poinsettas, toaster ovens. Today volunteers carry 700 meals a day to elderly, handicapped and isolated men and women throughout the greater m etropol itan area. It's all in the spirit of Christmas and it lasts all year.

4.11 When Charles Dickens died in 1870, a young boy reportedly asked: "Is Mr Dickens dead? And will Father Christmas die too?" That story, reported by James Barnett in "The A merican Christmas" ( MacMillan Publishers, 1954), reveals how closely identified the British author is with Christmas. A recurring interest of his, Dickens turned to Christmas in several including w orks "Sketches by Boz" and the oft-retold, "A Christmas Story." Barnett writes Dickens had firm theories about Christmas: • It was a time for forgetting oneself and thinking of others, especially the poor and unfortunate. • It was the season for f estive partying and rejoicing in family ties and f riendship. • It was a time for recognising and renewing the bonds that link all human beings. Dickens, whose writings hammered away at the grievous social problems o f his day, was convinced

Is Mr Dickens dead? And will Father Christmas die too? human greed was the cause of all the misery in society, says Bernett. For Dickens, greed blinded individuals to their duty toward others. To drive the point home, t he prolific author c reated the unpleasant character of Scrooge. The selfish miser's eyes

ite among all who came in contact with him. His rollicking adventures are told in "The Pickwick Papers." In that memorable book, Dickens draws a portrait o f Pickwick enjoying Christmas Eve at Dingley Dell: "When they were all tired of blind man's bluff,

by KATHARINE BIRD NC News Service are opened to a different w ay of life in the course o f nocturnal visits to t hree Christmases — past, present and future. Part of Dickens' genius, however, was to create c haracters who were the opposite of Scrooge, such as the delightful Mr Pickwick. His love for other people, his droll sense of fun and his eagerness to help made him a general favor -

there was a great game a t snapdragon, and when f ingers enough were burned with that . . . they sat down by the huge fire of blazing logs to a substantial supper and a mighty bowl of wassail . . . in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look and a jolly sound, that w ere perfectly irresistible. — This,' said Mr Pick-

wick, looking round him, 'this is, indeed, comfort.' "Our invariable custom,' replied Mr Wardle. 'Everybody sits down with us on Christmas Eve, as y ou see them now — servants and all; and here w e wait til the clock s trikes 12, to usher Christmas in and wile a way the time with forfeits and old stories." T he classic scene draws t ogether many of the elements of a Dickens' Christmas: friends and r elatives of all ages enjoying each others' company, lots of fun and games. copious amounts of food and drink — and all the barriers between people lowered for the time. There's no distinction in the household between servants and master, rich and poor at Christmas. Herbert Wernecke in "Christmas Customs

Around the World" (Westmi nster Press, 1959) c omments that Dickens' Christmas scenes vividly portrayed the customs current in Victorian England in the 19th century. Wernecke adds that the w orks also established t hose customs more firmly. I have a hunch, however, t hat Dickens did more than that. S omehow, whenever people today talk about w hat Christmas means, it isn't long before Dickens' name or one of his unforgettable characters pops into the conversation. It strikes me Dickens set a standard for Christmas that people today still measure their Christmas c elebrations against. He had a vision of what Christmas was about and a knack for focusing on t he season's universal themes. 9.

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A home for Jesus on .1 West Sheridan Ave /Ili My chequebook reminds me that I wrote five cheques on Christmas Eve, 1983. Thelast one has the simple description "Jesus House." Walking back along the trail of my memor I recall that day. It is a typical day before Christmas for me — presents to be purchased. homilies not yet packaged, no gifts wrapped. Too little time for too many things. Unholy tension before a holy event. My secretary agrees to help her panicky employer wrap some items in their proper Christmas brightness — if I can get the stuff to her home some 25 miles away. Along the way I will deliver the cheque to Jesus House. At the door I pass through a curtain woven of the odors of unwashed bodies and the cacaphony of jabbering tongues into a kingdom unfamiliar to a middle-class priest It is not a place of famine. Baskets of food are being toted. The oversized kitchen is bubbling with the evening meal. By midnight 10(X) baskets of food will be given away. Several hundred more people will share in the energising warmth of the spread right here I edge my way down the central hall There is a whitebearded oldster slumped on a bench with the vacant eyes

by FATHER DAVID MONAHAN NC News Service

TNIA MT_ iON3GLII2 [1[11Bc, of a man pursuing dreams of Christma.sses past. There is a young couple, holding a baby with the sniffles. There is a man, face roughly chiseled by hard times, staring at the opposite wall. This place is the reverse of the original event. Here there is room in the inn. Later this day there will be a unique Chistmas party. The guest list includes an honor roll of street people — youngsters who threw away the good money when there was work to be had in the oil fields; a family newly arrived from the country; a waitress who shakes too much to continue in her occupation; a grizzled man who cannot recall his own name; and some 300 more battered sons and daughters of God. I ask the whereabouts of Sister Ruth and Sister Betty. There sitting at a long table with other staff members are the two holy founders and managers of _Jesus House.

sister Ruth sports bib over ails over a flannel shirt. Sister Betty, a splinter of quiet strength. is dressed in blue jeans and a plaid flannel shirt. Both heads are covered by bandanas. Which religious community? As a matter of fact, none Neither are Catholic, hut they just may be saints. Ruth Wynn and Betty Adams are alcoholics who have been walking on the sober side of the street for a long, long time. A decade ago they began Jesus House as a chemicalabuse centre for teen-ager, Jesus House has had a winding history through the unexpected Always. though, it remaind "an experiment in faith," says Sister Ruth. SIR further defines it as "a voluntary therapeutic community." Life at Jesus House depends on voluntary contributions utility bills mount and good gets scarce, but they trust God will provide. Jesus House has a considerable staff but no one receives a salary. None can remember Sister Ruth or Sister Betty taking a day off. I exchange greetings with the two sisters and hand them my cheque. it seemed large when i wrote it. Now, in the centre of so much need and in the presence of such huge hearts, the check has shrunk to almost nothing. But God and the two sisters do wonders with piddling things. I walk out the door into the cold, warmed by what I have seen and heard — that Jesus has found an inn in West Sheridan.

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For almost as long as he could remember Tony Evans had been keen on boats and sailing, so there was logic in his doing his twoyear national service stint in England with the RAF air-sea rescue service and then pursuing his maritime ardour as a junior purser with the P and 0 Line. His first ship was the Strathaird and he was again aboard her when she broke down and was laid up in Fremantle over the Christmas period in 1 955. In his 1952-56 sea service he became a published free-lance writer, a career he continued in England after he left the rolling deep.

His holiday 1 experience made story by BOB BOYLE

chill Fellowship and spent the whole of 1970 with the BBC in England on TV documentaries, including assignments for Panorma which is the BBC's current affairs flagship. A mong his workmates were Sir Robin Day, who married a Perth girl, and Michael Charlton, who started his career with the ABC in Perth Back with the ABC here in 1971, Tony went into production full-time.

great fun and we had a feverishly- at manipulative sense of achievement in surgery till the nose was keeping things going" returned to some semblance There was the case of the of its former glory. well-known scupltress visit-The scupltress either did In 1960 in London he maring Perth not see the program or was ried a Western Australia, Early in the day, Tony went a lady of great forbearance."' Clair Kelly — secretary to to where she was staying Tony says, "because when Perth Lord Mayer Sir Harry and did some filming for I returned it to her in a state Howard — and the couple showing that evening of considerable trepidation migrated to WA in 1961 He much admired a beaushe made no comment Tony took along to the ABC tiful clay bust on which she Often the full program had some of the films he had was working and finally not been determined by the made "Even before then," he prevailed on her, against her time it started to be transTelevision here was very says, "Dean Hawes — also better judgement. to lend it mitted young then and Aunty could to him for inclusion in the The executive producer known as Father Hawes or not find a TV slot for him program would remark to Tony some- Monsignor Hawes — was There was a vacancy for a He would take great care thing like: "I hope to have haunting me in a way. radio announcer, however, -My mother-in-law, Mrs of it and return it to her so-and-so in for you to and he could try out for that Kelly, originally came from unharmed after the show interview before the finish" if he liked Back at the studio the usual Into this category fitted a Greenough and in her earlier days she used to get lighting rehearsal, which young Aboriginal from a took some time, was carried Kimberley mission due to postcards from him reguout before the progam went arrive in Perth to start a larly from various parts of to air live world tour made possible by the world "I studied these cards He passed the tests and What nobody had consisome benefactor. was appointed keenly while she exclaimed dered was the effect on the The lad had never set foot repeatedly 'He was a great Before long he graduated clay of a long period of outside the mission's terrimen from the announcers" desk exposure to the heat genertory before and joined the old talks "Architecture, particularly ated by the studio lights Somebody brought him in department where he proMidway through the live from the airport and ushered church architecture, was a duced a wide range of radio subject in which I had telecast of the segment the him into the studio in midprograms. always been deeply interbust, standing on the desk program ested. The next step was into at Tony's elbow while he television as the original "Mrs Kelly had been urging talked, started to develop a me to see some of his buildpresenter of the ABC's first threatening lean forward ings. I went to Geraldon and WA current affiars program, A s nonchalantly as he Tony welcomed him, sat saw his striking cathedral as Today Tonight. could, he supported it by the him down at his desk and well as other buildings in the "It was a daily program put head began to chat to him while area. to air without the facilities But the melting process got the cameras put the pro"Then my interest was that exist now," Tony out of hand, as it were, and gram to air live. remembers. really up the artistic creation toppled The young chap was abso"I proposed to the ABC I -We had to bargain for forward onto its elegant lutely terrified at the strange should make a documentary whatever we could get and features and frightening situation film on Hawes, and they wait our turn for necessities A post-show examination into which he had suddenly agreed." such as studios and camerrevealed the finely-moulded been thrust. The first colour documenamen nose now resembled the Frozen with fear, he sat tary to be made by the ABC "We only just got there f lattened schnozzle of a mute while the presenter in WA, it was released in every day — fell over the veteran prize-fighter. line, as it were. But it was 1973 with the title The Clumsy fingers worked prattled on with questions. Tony switched from ques- Stones Cry Out. It created tions to an impromptu mono- nation-wide interest — so logue which the segment's much so repeat screenings time limit ultimately ended are planned. to the great relief of both After the release Tony did parties. further research on Father Tony made arrangements Hawes and got a lot of with Tom Spence, director of memorabilia and reministhe Perth Zoo, to bring into cences from people who had the studio to be featured on known the remarkable prithe program an orang utan est. that was reputed to be something of a character. The animal took a liking to Tony immediately and. when they were on air, even All this made two things put a loving arm round his clear — he had merely shoulder. scratched the surface of the When the program had Hawes story, and there had ended Tony took the orang been mistakes in the film. utan on a tour of the studio, He determined to set things and the pair got on famously. right by writing a book on Later, Tom said to Tony: "I Father Hawes. didn't tell you before, but With his family on the that animal has a shocking Sussex coast during a visit temper. If he dislikes a to England, he heard there person, he tries to strangle was a Hawes-designed him." building called the White Now he tells me, thought Tower at Bognor Regis the presenter — with memowhich was not far away. ries of that hairy arm around At the striking White his shoulder. Tower, a man doing the The 'White tower' Towards the end of 1969 gardening turned out to be Tony was awarded a ChurMartin Hawes, a nephew of

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Anthony George (Tony) Evans, producer of drama and features (radio) at the ABC in Perth, was born in Surrey on July 6, 1931. he started his education at a Surrey convent and completed it at X averian college at Mayfield in Sussex. On leaving school he studied lettering and design on a part-time basis at evening classes and worked in a commercial art studio in Brighton in the late 1940s before doing two years' national service with an RAF airsea rescue unit. He joined the P and 0 line as a junior purser and j ourneyed to various parts of the world in ships such as the Strathaird, Himalaya, Arcadia and Chusan from 1952-56 in a period in which he began free-lance writing and had some of his work published. On dry land again, he worked part-time in England for the Catholic Film institute as an assistant to the editor of Focus, Father J.A.V. Burke, while

continuing his free-lance writing. In 1960 in London he married a Western Australian, Clair Kelly, who was secretary to the then Lord Mayor of Perth, Sir Harry Howard, and in 1961 the couple migrated to Perth where Tony joined the ABC as an announcer. In the 1970s he wrote and produced the first colour TV documentary to be made by the ABC in W A entitled The Stones Cry Out, the story of outstanding priest-architect Dean John Cyril Hawes on whom he is currently writing a book with the title The Conscious Stone. T ony and Clair are Mosman Park parishioners a nd he is a former member of the parish c ouncil there. The couple have two daughters. Emily (19) is now studying the French language in France and Alice (15) is a full-time violin student at the WA Conservatorium of Music.

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Tony Evans (RIGHT) and Edgar Metcalfe discuss a script. the priest. Martin introduced him to other members of the family, and all agreed that Tony should write a book on Father Hawes With the aid of a small grant from the Literature Board, he spent six months of long-service leave in England and the Bahamas, where Father Hawes died. While doing the English section of the work, he lived in the White Tower for a

couple of months. Father Hawes designed it as a holiday home for himself and his two brothers. Its tower structure is due to the wish of the priest for the bedrooms of each of the brothers to have a view of the sea, over the roofs of nearby fishermen's cottages. The Evans' book, The Conscious Stone, is due to be published soon by the Pold-

ing Press. Tony is now writing and producing radio dramas and features. One of his recent major works was a program about the Distributionists. Based temporarily in England early in 1984 doing some work for the ABC, he followed Hilaire Belloc's Path to Rome, and he is now making a radio program about this journey

METRO MASS TIMETABLE Applecross: 7.30, 9.30 a.m., 6 p.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. Attadale: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.: 7 P.m. 1rmadale: 7.30, 9.30 Sat. 7 p.m., 7 p.m.; Sat 6.30 p.m.

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8 a.m.

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4th

9.30 a.m. 8 a.m. 7 p.m. Sat.

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CUNDERDIN DALWALLINU

2nd, 4th: 7.30 a.m.: 1st, 3rd, 5th: Sat. 7 p.m. Saturdays: 6.30 p.m.

DANDARAGAN

8.00 a.m. 7 p.m. Sat.

DOWERIN DUNDININ

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10 a.m.

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GOOMALLING GUILDERTON

10 a.m.

7 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. 7 p.m. Sat noon long weekends and school holidays

HERNE HILL

8 a.m. (every Sunday) 8 a.m. 10 a.m.

K AMBALDA K ARLGARIN KELLERBERRIN KONDININ

8 a.m.

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8 a.m.

JENNACUBBINE JURIEN K ALANNIE (Ang. ch.) K ALGOORLIE

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8 a.m.

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HYDEN

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7 p.m.

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COOLGARDIE

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9.30 a.m. RAAF base. 6.30 p.m. Sat. 8.15 a.m. 8.15 a.m. Sat. 9.30 a.m. 7.30 p.m. Sundays: (1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th) 9.30 a.m. 7 p.m. Sat. 7 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m.

GILLINGARRA CALINGIRI

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KULIN

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LANCELIN

5 p.m. long weekends and school holidays.

LEONORA LAVERTON MARVEL LOCH

Every third Sunday. Notices posted. 7 p.m.

MECKERING

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TOODYAY

9.30 a.m.

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9.30 a.m.

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Inglewood: 9 a.m.

Jarrandale: 10 a.m. 1st Sundays. Joondanna: 7.30, 9 a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m.

Scarborough: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Balcatta: 7.30, 9, 10.30 (Italian) 6 p.m. (Croa- Kalamunda: 7.30, 9 a.m.; St Catherine Laboure, Bedford Ave., 8.30 a.m. tian), Sats 6.30 p.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Serpentine: 10 a.m. 3rd Balga: 8, 9.30 a.m.. 6 p.m.: Karragullen: 9.30 a.m. Sundays. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Karrinyup: 7.30 and 9.30 Park: 7.30, 10 Shenton North Balga (Majella a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Sat. 7 p.m. School): 9 a.m. a.m.; Kelmscott: 8. 10 a.m.; Sat. Marianum (Hungarian Bayswater: 7.30, 9.30 a.m. 7.30 p.m. Sat 7 p.m. Sisters'): 8 a.m. Kensington: 7.30, 9.30 a.m. Perth: 7.30, 9.30 South Beaconsfield: 8.30, 10 a.m., a.m., 5 a.m.: Sat. 7 p.m. (Portugese 7, 11.30 a.m.). Kenwick: 9 , 10.30 p.m.; Sat 7 p.m. (See 7 p.m.; Sat 7 p.m. Spearwood: 7.30, 9, 10.30 Thornlie) a.m. 10.15 8, Bedford Park: a.m., 5 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. 5 p.m.: Sat. 6.30 p.m. St Mary's Cathedral: (See Belmont: 10 a.m., Sat. 7 Leederville: 7, 8, 9.15 (Italp.m. Perth). ian), 10.30 a.m.: Sat. 7 Bellevue: 7.30 a.m., 9.30 Subiaco: 7.30, 10 a.m.; Sat. p.m. 6.30 p.m. a.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Street: 6 p.m. Tower Bentley: 7.30, 9.30 a.m., Swanbourne: 8.30 a.m.; Sat Lesmurdie: 8, 9.30 a.m., Sat. 6.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. Brentwood: 9, 11. a.m. Lockridge: 8,9.30 a.m.; Sat ( See Willetton) 7 p.m. Thornlie: 7.30 a.m. Bullsbrook: Pearce RAAF: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.; Lynwood: 9.30 a.m. Gingin Sat. 6.30 Sat 6.30 p.m. p.m. Maddington: 7 (after Easter 7.30), 9 a.m.; Sa. 6.30p.m. Victoria Park: 8, 9 (Italian), 10 a.m., 7 p.m.; Sat, 7 p.m. Carilla: 8.15 a.m. Carlisle: 8, 9.30 a.m.; Sat. Maida Vale: 9 a.m.; Hos6.30 p.m. pital 6 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Wanneroo: 7.30, 9 a.m.: Carmel Monastery: 11 a.m. Manning: 7.30, 9 a.m.; Sat. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Chidlow: 7.45 a.m. p.m. 6.30 Claremont: 7,9 a.m.. 7 p.m. Maylands: 7.15, 8.30. 10 Wembley: 7, 9.30 a.m., 5.30 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. a.m.; (Susan Street) Sat. Cloverdale: 8, 9.30 a.m., Wembley Downs: 8, 9.3() 6.30 p.m. Sat. 7.30 p.m. a.m., 7 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 Medina: 8, 9.30 a.m., 7 Coolbellup: 10 a.m. p.m. 7 p.m. Sat. p.m.: Como: 7.30, 9 a.m. Sat 6.30 West Perth: 8, 9.30 a.m., Melville: 7.30 a.m.. 9.30 P.m10.30 a.m. (Italian), 11.30 p.m. 7 Sat. a.m.; Cottesloe: 8. 10 a.m., 5 p.m. a.m. (Polish). : 7, 9.30, 11 (It) Crawley (St. Thos. More); Midland Whitfords: 8,9.30. II a.m.; a.m., 7 p.m.; Sat 6.30 p.m. noon, 5.45 p.m.; Sat 7.15 Sat. 7 p.m. Monastery: 7, 9, 10.30&m.. %Magee: 7, 9 a.m.. 7.15 P.m6 p.m. p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Morley: 7.30, 9. 10.15 a.m.. W ilson: 9.30 a.m.; Sat. 7 6.00 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. p.m. Darlington: 8.30 a.m. Mosman: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.. Dianella: 7.30, 9.30 10.45 Sat 6.30 p.m. a.m., Sat. 7 p.m. Mt. Lawley: 8, 9.30 a.m., Doubleview: 8, 10 a.m.. Yanchep: Noon. Club Sat. 6 p.m. 5.30 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Capricorn Mt. Yokine: 8. 10 a.m., Sat. Dwellingup: 9.30 a.m. 6.30 p.m. Mundaring: 9 a.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. (see Chidlow, Glen DEAF Mass Windsor St. 5 p.m. last Sun. Forrest). East Cannington: 8, 10 a.m.; Sat 6.30 p.m. East Fremantle: 7.30, 9.30 a.m., 7.30 p.m. Nedlands: 8. 9.30 a.m.; Sat. ITALIAN Mass: Balcatta: 10.30 a.m.: Hamil6.30 p.m. East Perth: 9.30 a.m. ton Hill: (2nd. Sun.). 10 East Victoria Park: 7.30, North Beach: 8, 9.30 a.m.. a.m.; Fremantle: 8. 10 6.30 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. 9.30 a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. a.m.; West Perth: 10.30 North Doubleview: 7.30 Eden Hill: 9.30 a.m. a.m.: Highgate: 10.30 a.m., 9.30 a.m.. 7 p.m.: a.m.; Leederville: 9. 15 Embleton: 7.30,9 a.m.. Sat. Sat. 7 p.m. a.m.; Bassendean: (1st. 7 p.m. Sun.) 7.30 p.m. Midland: North Fremantle: 8 a.m. 1 1 a.m. Osborne Park: 10 a.m.; Vic. Park: 9 a.m. Floreat Park: 8.30 a.m.. 10 a.m.; 6 p.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Osborne Park: 8.30, 10 a.m.. 10 a.m. (Italian), 7 Fremantle: 7, 8 (Italian), 9, UKRAINIAN Mass: p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. 10 (Italian), 11 a.m.. 5 Maylands: 10 a.m. p.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. Glendalough: 7.30, 9 a.m., 5.30 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Palmyra: 7.30. 9.45 a.m.; POLISH Mass: Sat. 6.30 p.m. Glen Forrest: 6 p.m. Midland: 8.15 1st. Sun. West Perth: 1 1.30 a.m.: Girrawheen: 8, 9.30 a.m.; Perth: (Cathedral): 7.30. 9, Fremantle: (1st. Sun.) 10,11 a.m.. 5 p.m.; Sat. 7 Sat 6.30 p.m. noon. p.m.

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Queens Park: 7.30, 8.15 9.30 a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m.

PORTUGUESE Mass: Beaconsfield: 7, 11.30 a.m.

Redcliffe: 7.30, 8.30 a.m. Riverton: 7.30, 9 a.m., 7 p.m.: Sat. 7 p.m. Rivervale: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.: Sat. 7 p.m.

CROATIAN Mass: North Fremantk: 10 a.m. Bassendean: 3rd. Sun. 5.30 p.m. Balcatta 6 p.m. Midland, 4.30 p.m. 2nd Sun.

Something to buy? Something to sell? Use R ECORD CLASSIFIEDS The Record, 20 - 26 December, 1984

111 111111WITS In fullness of time By Father John Castelot In boiling an egg,

you keep one eye on the little hour glass. When the bottom half is full of sand, you know it is time to get cracking. The "fullness of time" has come. This idea is behind St. Paul's statement in Galatians 4:4: "But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his son born of a woman." By sending his son on his saving mission, God brought to a decisive turning point the plan he had for humanity's happiness.

A power to transform By Father David

e'Rourke This Christmas story is about the power of an unborn child to renew and transform. But the coloured

story is by the

change and instability that are both the hallmark and the curse of modern living.

gentle, the sort you would just expect someday to be a solid citizen, a good husband and father. He works now in his father's electrical. supply business. Construction cutbacks meant things had been tight. But that is not why he came to see me. He wanted help for a friend. Since school days Paul had known a girl, now a young woman. She had married. one of those marriages that probably should not have taken place, for both were young and immature. She had no family to guide her; her husband's family was happy to see him out of the house. The priest counseled delay. But they got married. Then she became pregnant. And what it would mean to be a father and to provide for a child finally dawned on the young man. It was more than he could take. One day he was there. The next day he was gone — simply disappeared with the car, his clothes, the little

in the cheque account and the stereo. The young woman found herself pregnant, with no money, no husband and no

family to turn to. With rent coming due and no prospect of paying it she faced being A young man named Paul put out on the street. She came to see me. He had sent was beside herself with me a brief letter, hoping I anxiety. remembered him. I rememThis is where Paul came on bered well. the scene. He had kept I knew him when he was contact with the couple just a kid. Paul was never at during their marriage. He the head of the pack. But he felt sorry for her now, but Was conscientious, kind and didn't know what to do. _ 1. a/ lon..............,_ ,11.10..... . ...........1 Only recently had he and his sister moved away from home, renting an apartment. They had a small, extra room. But the young woman's needs seemed Urger than Paul was ready to handle. He suggested she contact local authorities. But they kept talking about her "pmblem pregnancy." The young woman found the simple,

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final solution proposed to her unacceptable. She wanted to keep her baby. Then my young friend made what is proving the biggest decision so far in his life. He decided to take care of her and her baby. He doesn't know how — but somehow. He offered her the small, extra room in the apartment he and his sister rent. lie is providing food and medical care. Perhaps most important, he removed fear and uncertainty from the life of the young woman and her unborn baby. One day Paul brought her to my office so we could begin to plan the baby's baptism. Paul and his sister would serve as godparents. He recognises that. with no father and provider around, being a godfather might well go beyond a ceremonial role. I saw Paul and the young woman to the elevator after our discussion. Watching his generous attention, I was reminded of the Christmas story. A young woman ready to give birth is so dependent on others for survival — as is her child. That dependency is not a fault or a problem. To the contrary, it is humanising. It touches us and brings out the best in us. We and our world need the good it brings if we are to make it.

"God chose us in him before the world began, to be holy and blameless in his sight, to be full of love; he likewise predestined us through Christ Jesus to be his adopted children" (Ephesians 1:4-6). God had created humans in his image. To be in God's image is to be given a share in God's creative love, It means that to be authentically human, to fulfill God's intention in creating us, we must love — selflessly, creatively. Not to love is to become subhuman. As Paul put it in his famous hymn to love: If I "have not love, I am nothing." Sadly, men and women chose self love over creative love. This choice destroyed them. To regain their dignity as human beings, they would need to be shown the way. To this end, God "sent forth his son," who was perfectly in God's image. "He is the image of the invisible god, the firstborn of all creatures" (Col. 1:15).

People could see in Jesus what it was like to be really, gloriously human. For they had as a model not some mythical, unreal ideal, but a flesh-and-blood man. Jesus shared all their weaknesses, their ordinariness, their uncertainty and fear and pain. He could and did rise above these obstacles. And he did this in a strangely paradoxical way, by denying himself, by setting on its ear all that society prescribes as the secret of happiness. A nobody from nowhere, born and raised in humble circumstances, Jesus changed the course of human history, pointing humanity toward its original dignity. Jesus did this by loving creatively and selflessly. E ven Jesus' love inspired death was creative, it empowered those who became one with him in faith and love to share in his glory. And he did this as one of us. That is the whole point of the incarnation — of Christmas when the word became flesh. Christmas is a celebration of humanity. Christmas is a ringing proclamation that human life is precious, destined for glory. Christmas says once more that the secret of human fulfillment

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Can you put your creative instincts to work on Christmas? It seems that this holiday, more than others, is infused by us with expectations. People hope they can make Christmas a great day for each other. But if that is to happen, are there special steps to take — and pitfalls to avoid? Here is a list of suggestions on planning Christmas Day. Add your own suggestions to the list — your own ways of sprinkling fresh spirit into this holiday celebration. • Try to plan a good day. But don't try to plan "the perfect day." Don't set yourself up for disappointment. • Take whatever action you can to free Dec. 24 from shopping expeditions. Otherwise, you may find yourself too fatigued to enjoy Christmas Day. • Don't plan out every moment of Christmas Day in advance. Allow some time for visiting and for the unexpected. • Introduce an activity to your Christmas celebration that is new different for you. p up some fun games Perhaps you'll want to and put them under the tree. Then set up a card table and spend time with family or friends playing games on Christmas afternoon.

Liturgical traditions free the church

To my mind, one of the oddest liturgical innovations today is the practice of celeMidnight brating Mass as a birthday party for the Baby Jesus. Of course, the impulse t o popularise the church's liturgy isn't surprising: Liturgical historians could tell story after story of what Catholics in other times and places have done to make the liturgy congenial and familiar. Sometimes popular impulses contain genuine insights that enrich the church's faith.

• Go for a walk alone or with others on Christmas Day. Lack of fresh air and exercise can sap the spirit as this greet day wears on. • Plan ways to introduce your faith into Christmas observances at home. A measure of frustration can result for many people if Christmas at home is celebrated almost as though it were not a holy day. You may wart to plan a special prayer to begin your Christmas dinner, or a special reading from a favourite book or from Scripture to precede the opening of gifts. • Consider aspects of past Christmas Days that you found disappointing. Is cooking all day the last thing you want to do on Christmas? Could you simplify Christmas dinner? Are all the gifts opened up in five minutes, leaving you feeling that all the gift preparation was much ado about nothing? Could you consider a way of opening gifts in turns, allowing time to savor each other's gifts? • Finally, ponder some good things in your life. The birth of Jesus as one of us indicates that the world is meant to be filled up with goodness. The goodness around us is cause for celebration.

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Tradition is no straitjacket. Understood with insight, the liturgical tradition can free the church to celebrate its faith. The only way to tell a good idea from a had one is to have something to test it against. That way the living tradition of worship grows authentically. And, compared with the rich tradition of Christmas liturgy. "Happy Birthday. Baby Jesus" is an impoverishment of the church based on too limited

By Sister Mary Collins, OSB religious imagination and t oo superficial doctrinal understanding. The ancient Roman liturgy, in imperial Roman style. regularly noted in a solemn way on December 24 that the next day was the birth anniversary of Jesus. That meant a solemn public proclamation in a manner worthy of a person whose life had universal historical significance. For centuries the proclamation was chanted in latin at the morning Liturgy of the Hours called prime. Since Vatican II Prime is no longer said; so every vestige and memory of the ancient proclamation is in danger of being forgotten. Fortunately. the Austrian pastor-liturgist. Father Pius Parsch, a leader of the liturgical movement before Vatican II, preserved the text of the ancient proclamation of Jesus' birth. It's in his commentary on the liturgy, 'The Church's year of Grace." The birth anniversary proclama-

tion began with what was then the best available, if now quaint, chronology of world history: "In the 5,199 years since the creation of the world, when God made heaven and earth . . . In the year 2759 since the flood. . " Thc text next related the birth event to Israel's history, "In the year 1510 since the exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt under the guidance of Moses. . . In the year 1032 since David was anointed King. . Then the proclamation moved to Roman history: "In the year 732 after the building of Rome, in the 42nd year of the reign of Octavius Augustus when there was peace in the whole world . Finally it spotlighted the event of worldwide signi• fance: "Jesus Christ. eternal God and Son of the Eternal Father desired to sanctify the whole world by his gracious coming. He was conceivedby the Holy Spirit and now after nine months he is born as human in Bethlehem in the tribe of Judah from the Virgin Mary. . Since the event nothing has been the

reign of John Paul II as bishop of Rome and head of the universal church: "In this 25th year since Pope John summoned the Second Vatican Council:

"In this 16th year after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King; "In this 39th year after nuclear weapons destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "In this 67th year since the Russian revolution:

Such a proclamation of Christ's birth could climax with resounding acclamations, using sections from the Christmas liturgy of the Hours: "Christian people, because you believe, lift up your heads; behold your redemption is at hand: "Tomorrow the iniquity of the earth shall be abolished: and the Savior of the world shall reign over us; "The Lord shall come: run to meet him, saying: 'It is the great beginning and of his reign there shall be no end" But what about the children? Isn't Christmas for them? How can they relate to this? Children have wonderfully rich imaginations. They are ready to hear front adult believers about an uncommon infant who is God, the Prince of Peace. They arc open to hearing the good news about the reign of God and how "the wickedness of

the earth will be abolished." Furthermore, children who live in a world of nuclear weapons might have the simple innocence to ask the hard question of the adult church: "How will this come to be?" The faith of the church celebrated in every Christ's Mass provides the answer, if the hundreds of thousands withered in churches everywhere for Midnight Mass were really ready to become more like Jesus. the healing of our earth could begin. And contemporary threats to the whole solar system could be reduced. The liturgical tradition preserves a strong interpretation of the significance of Christ's birth. The objective of the liturgical tradition is to invite people to deep faith in a great mystery. The church has solid food and nourishing drink as its own birthright at Christ's Mass on Christmas Eve.

same."

Now let me suggest a way of updating that lovely prcx:larnation, perhaps along the following lines: "And now we celebrate this mystery of our redemption in the flesh on this Christmas Eve 1984: "In this sixth year of the

and happiness is love, human love — the love of flesh-andblood men and women created to share the creative love of their maker.

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All times are regular for each Sunday unless otherwise noted. GERALDTON: Cathedral; 7, 8, 9.30 a.m.; 7 p.m.; Sat. 7.30 p.m. Beachlands: 8 a.m. Rangeway: 8 a.m.; 5.45 p.m. Kojarena: 9.15 a.m. 2nd and 4th Sundays. Bluff Point: 7, 9 a.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. Wonthella: 8 a.m. BUNTINE: 2nd Sat. 7 p.m. CARNARVON: 9 a.m., 7 p.m. Sat. 7 p.m. C ARNAMAH: Sats. 7 p.m. COOROW: Feb., Apl., June, etc.: 7.30 a.m. Jan., Mar., May etc., 9 a.m. CUE: 10.30 a.m. DAMPIER: 8 a.m., 7.30 p.m. Sat. 6 p.m. DONGARA: 8 a.m. ENEABBA: 7 p.m. (alt.) EXMOUTH: Base 9.30 a.m.; Town 10.30 a.m.; Sat. 6 p.m. GREENOUGH: 8 a.m. GOLDS WORTHY: 7 p.m. K ALBARRI: 7 p.m. K ARRATHA: 8.30 a.m., 6.30 p.m. Sat 6.30 p.m. LATHAM: 1st, 3rd, 5th Sats. 7 p.m. LEEMAN: 5 p.m. (alt.) MEEKATHARRA: 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7 p.m.; 2nd, 4th, 7.30 a.m. MINGENEW: 9.30 a.m. MT. MAGNET: 1st, 3rd, 5th., 8 a.m. & Sat. 7 p.m.; 2nd. 4th., 7 p.m. MORAWA: 10a.m. MULLEWA: 8 a.m.; Sat. 7.15 p.m. NANSON: 7.30 a.m. NEWMAN: 8, 9 a.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. NORTHAMPTON: 10.30 a.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. NULLAGINE: 2nd Sun. 4.30 p.m. PARABURDOO: 1 1 .00 a.m.; 7 p.m. PERENJORI: 1st, 3rd, 5th Saturdays 7 p.m. PORT HEDLAND: 9 a.m.; Sat. 6 p.m. SOUTH HEDLAND: 9, 10.30 a.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. ROEBOURNE: 10.15 a.m. TARDUN: 2nd, 3rd, 4th. 5th, 9.30 a.m. THREE SPRINGS: Jan., Mar.. May., etc: 7.30 a.m Feb., Apr., June. etc., 9 a.m. TOM PRICE: 8 a.m.; Sat. 5 p.m. WICKHAM: 9.30 a.m.; Sat 5.30 p.m. WITTENOOM: 4th Sun. 6.30 p.m. YUNA: 9 a.m. YALGOO: 1st, 3rd. 10.30 a.m.

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BALINGUP

Weekly: 9.30 a.m.

BODDINGTON

11.00 a.m.

BOYANUP

Sundays 10.15 a.m.

BOYUP BROOK

Sundays: 9 a.m.

BROOMEHILL

8 a.m.

8.00 a.m.

BRUNSWICK

Sundays: 9 a.m.; Saturdays 7.30p.m.

BUNBURY (St. Pats.)

Sundays: 8, 10 a.m., 7 p.m.; Saturdays: 7 p.m.

BUNBURY (St. Mary's)

Sundays: 9 a.m.

BUNBURY (Carey Park)

Sundays: 8.30 a.m.

BUNBURY (Eaton)

Saturday: 7 p.m.

7 p.m.

BUNBURY (Australind)

Sat 7 p.m.

BUSSELTON

Sundays: 9.30 a.m. (Jan. add. 7 p.m.); Saturdays 7 p.m.

Sat 7 p.m.

CAPEL

10 a.m.

COLLIE

Sundays: 7, 10 a.m., 7 p.m., Saturdays 7 p.m.

8.30a.m.

COOMALBIDGUP

8.30a.m.

7.00 p.m. Sat

COWARAMUP

Sundays: 7 p.m.

CRANBROOK

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DARDANUP

Sundays 9 a.m. Saturdays 7 p.m.

DARKAN

8.30 a.m.

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10.30 a.m.

BORDEN

5.30 p.m.

10a.m.

8.30a.m.

DUDININ

10a.m.

7.30 p.m. Sat.

10a.m.

10.00 a.m.

8.00 a.m.

DUMBLEYUNG

8.30 a.m.

DUNSBOROUGH DWELLINGUP

Sundays: 8 a.m. 8 a.m.

ESPERANCE

Sundays: 7, 9 a.m.; (June-Aug: 8,10) Saturdays: 6.30 p.m.

8.30 a.m.

FRANKLAND RIVER

10.30 a.m.

GAIRDNER RIVER

10.30 a.m.

GNOWANGERUP

10.00 a.m.

10.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m.

GRASS PATCH

9.00 a.m.

10.00 a.m.

10.30 a.m.

7.00 p.m.

Weekly: 10.30 a.m.

HARVEY

Sundays: 9a.m. (Jun-Sep: 10 a.m.), 7.30 p.m.

JERRAMUNGUP

10.00 a.m.

10.30 a.m.

GREENBUSHES

1 1.00 a.m.

9.00 a.m.

K ARRIDALE

Sundays: 8 a.m.

K ATANNING

Sundays: 9.30 a.m. Saturdays 6 p.m.

KIRUP

Saturdays 7.30 p.m.

KOJONUP

10.45 a.m.

8.30 a.m.

10.45 a.m.

8.30 a.m.

KUKERIN

Sat. 7.00 p.m.8.00 a.m.

7.00 p.m.

10.00 a.m.

9 a.m.

LAKE GRACE

9.00 a.m. 7p.m. (Suns 1.5. Sats 2.3.4.5.) 8 a.m. (Sun. 4), 10 a.m. (Sun. 2.3.)

LAKE KING

8.00 a.m.

LOCK YER

Sundays: 8.30 a.m. Summer 8.00 a.m.)

MANDURAH

Sundays, 9.30 a.m.; Saturdays 7p.m..

MANJIMUP

Sundays: 8.30, a.m.; every Saturday: 7.30 p.m.

MARGARET RIVER

Sundays: 10 a.m.

MOUNT BARKER

Sundays 8 a.m. (Apr - Oct 9 a.m.)

MUNGLINGUP

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5.00 p.m. Sat.

MURADUP

Weekly: 7 p.m. Sat.

NARROGIN

Sundays: 1st, 3rd: 9.30 2nd. 4th, 5th; 9 a.m; Saturdays: 7 p.m.

NEWDEGATE (alternate months)

ONGERUP PEMBERTON

8.30 a.m.

PINJARRA R AVENSTHORPE

Sundays 1.3.4.5: 10 a.m., 2:7 p.m.; Saturdays 7 p.m.; 7.00 p.m.

ROCK GULLY

10.30 a.m.

SCADDEN (Shire C'ncil)

10.30 a.m. 10.30 a.m.

Sundays: 8.30 a.m.; Saturdays. 7.30 p.m.

SALMON GUMS STH. STIRLINGS

10.30 a.m. 8.30 a.m.

8.30 a.m.

5.00 p.m. Phone (095) 51 1119 8.30 a.m.

WAROONA

1st, 3rd, 5th: 8.30 a.m.; 2nd, 4th: 10 a.m. Saturdays 7 P.m-

WEST ARTHUR

10.45 a.m.

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8.30 a.m.

WILSON PARK YAR LOOP

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Country 6 P.M. K atanning 6.30 P.M. Augusta Boulder Esperancc Gingin Moora Kambalda 7 P.M. Albany Bluff Point Bndgctown Bunbury Busselton Bullsbrook Carnamah Collie Dardanup Esperance Geraldton Kojonup Mandurah Maradup Menedin Mullewa (7.15) Narrogin Northam Northampton Pinjarra Toodyay Waroona Wongan Hills York

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7.30 P.M. Boy-up Brook runswick Donnybrook Geraldton Kirup Manjimup Pemberton

Sunday 7 P.M. Beaconsfield Claremont Medina Midland North Doubleview Osborne Park Riverton Rockingham Willagee (7.15)

5 PM Bedford Cathedral Cottesloe Fremantle Hamilton Hill Kenwick Mirrabooka Spearwood 5.30 P.M. Crawley (5.45) Doubleview Glendalough Hilton Lesmurdie Wembley

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6 P.M. Applecross Armadale Balcatta Bellevue Forrestfield Gwelup Floreat Monastery Morley Tower St

5.30 P.M. Norseman 7 P.M. Albany Bunbury Cowaramup Collie Geraldton

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Young Lou Belci wanted to be a writer and he was working on The West Austrlian as a copy boy in the hope of obtaining a journalism cadetship. He had never had an interest in cameras a nd knew nothing about them. In those days of a quarter of a century ago, however, there was a lot of publicity on television which was about to be launched in WA. It was a popular talking point and the copy boy had a vague thought at the back of his mind he would like to be part of the new medium, but just how he could he did not know. Then one day, quite out of the blue, journalist D'Arcy Farrell said to him. "Ever thought of becoming a TV cameraman?" The chance remark was the spark that ignited a new f ire of ambition in the youngster. In no time flat he was out at Tuart Hill as one of Channel Seven's two cadet cameramen —the other was Peter Goodall The news department was hardly over -burdened with staff In addition to the two cadets there were two journalists, D'Arcy Farrell and ross Cusack, and two camera men, Tom Hall and the late Digby Milner, both of whom had been newspaper still photographers and were operating movie cameras for the first time in their lives

Luciano (Lou) Anthony Belci, head cameraman of Channel Seven, was born at Pola in Italy (it is now Pula in Yugoslavia) on May 11, 1942, and migrated to WA with his parents in 1947.

He started his education at the Highgate State School and finished it at the Mt Lawley Senior High School. His first job was as a copy boy on The West Australian until he switched to Channel Seven as a cadet cameraman and one of the original members of the staff just before the station went to air in 1959. Lou and his wife Marjorie (nee Piper), members of the Dianella parish, have two sons — Brenden (12) and Jason (10) — both pupils at Trinity College. Lou is currently filming a series of 27 lectures organised by parish priest Father O'Meara. He is a keen playing member of the Harlequin-Dianella veterans' hockey team which became a 1984 grand finalist in the first year in the competition. His main spare-time activities in the summer are fishing and snorkelling from the small family boat with his two sons.

t his sigh On a TV career Today's People

A regular feature By BOB BOYLE

Lou had never even handled a still camera, but by necessity and through a process of trial and error he soon became adept with the movie gear. Those were the days of the hand-cranked cameras and black -and-white film, a far cry from today's colour equipment, sound cameras and electronic apparatus. Then people who were the subjects of studio interviews wilted under the heat of the batteries of powerful lights necessary to provide sufficient illumination; with today's sophisticated film, tape and cameras, normal room lighting is enough. But those foundation years were exciting times, Lou recalls. The small news staff happily worked long hours, conscious that they were WA pioneers in their field, and there was not the need for the precision required to operate today's advanced apparatus. Some of those early experiences are still fresh in Lou's mind. He remembers barreling through the darkness of the rain-lashed night on the road from Perth to Carnarvon to film cyclone damage and the shock that accompanied his first sight, by the dawn's early light, of the d evastated town surrounded by a sea of muddy water. At that time spare film had to be carried on ice in an Esky and the car was airconditioned only if a window

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1-11[7d irmu llTi happened to be broken — which was not infrequently. You had to make your way to the nearest place where an aeroplane could land to get your film back to Perth. Now you plug your fancy colour camera into special equipment at one of the strategically-located Telecom centres, your shots are transmitted back to the Perth station and, if need be, thence direct to air.

Or your material can be shown to viewers as you are actually filming it. On his return from the Carnarvon adventure the weary and dishevelled Lou, who had not slept for the best part of three days, was about to take a much needed bath at home when the phone rang.

He was wanted urgently at the station. He had a quick plunge and raced out to Channel Seven. A man had shot and killed a policeman. Still armed and dangerous, he was hiding up in the Gnangara pine plantation By first light of day Lou, with trepidation shared by his colleagues, had joined a bunch of newsmen trading a police posse carefully probing the forest in search of the killer. All knew that he was likely to take a shot at them. In the event the murderer, who was later hanged, was grabbed in the bush over the road from the pine plantation without inflicting further casualties. The arrest took place in time for Lou's film to be shown on the evening news bulletin as well as in the Eastern States on the same day. Channel Seven won an award for the coverage. Because he was the only cameraman at the station keen on diving. Lou was assigned to cover the story of the recently-discovered wreck of the Gilt Dragon near Lancelin, a job that involved a lot of under -water filming. The excellence of the documentary that resulted gained him a promotion in his job. Late in the 1960s Lou and wife Marjorie decided to make an overseas tour, which meant he had to resign from his job because

they expected to be away for some time It turned out to be two years In London. he ran a camera shop over the road from Westminster Abbey for a while. His nexty move was to try selling encyclopaedias, a career for which he was obviously not cut out because he spent a lot of his time telling impoverished families they really could not afford the books. The couple bought a second-hand MG A car, a tent, assorted pots and pans and spent more than a year travelling as the fancy took them through Britain and Europe. On the Continent in their gypsy existence they made several discoveries. Sign for language, instance, could be a remarkably effective means of communication if you did not know the local lingo

On the Iberian Peninsula, particularly in Portugal, food and wine were very cheap. In those parts, too, the angler Lou found that fishing could provide many a meal. On their return to Perth, there happened to be a vacancy for a cameraman at Channel Seven and Lou was r e-employed by the station Since then he has gone overseas again several times on assignments. One was to beautiful Beirut, whose present destruction he laments. There were trips to many parts of Asia, including Singapore and Hong Kong. He covered both the London -Sydney car rallies through the whole of India and WA

On the Parmelia yacht race he spent 31 2 / months in England and South Africa, which resulted in three documentaries in addition to regular news film Lou's main spare-time occupation now is videoshooting (with hired equipment and not station gear, he is quick to point out) a series of 27 lectures by top speakers organised at Dianella by parish priest, Father O'Meara. The subjects range from the Ten Commandments to in-vitro fertilisation. The series is being recorded on VHS tape so that other parishes can make use of the material. Even people in remote areas who have video sets will be able to glean the accumulated wisdom in the comfort of their own homes. The effervescent Lou, who heads a station staff of nine senior cameramen and six assistants, is delighted to be associated with the parish project and Father O 'Meara.

Channel l's news cameramen Lou Belci with his camera

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(Responding to different needs in society T hroughout history, from ancient times when handicapped babies were taken out and left to die, different societies have responded to their disabled members in many different ways. People have always looked for the meaning of handicap. During the Middle Ages, many thought the fairies took the real human baby and left a changeling in its place. Later, when witch hunts were common, those with obvious handicaps in the community were especially scrutinised for evidence of evil possession. In more modern times, pseudo-scientific theories flourished. Feeble mindedness was thought to be inherited and linked with lower social class a nd evil. Those with -good blood- were encouraged to reproduce, while those with "bad blood" were presented, sometimes by involuntary sterilisation, from causing the degeneration of the human race. Today it is probably hard to imagine how seriously this particular theory was taken, given the almost random distribution of

handicapped people in our population. Around the 1950s, a new perception emerged. People began to see the handicapped as God's special children. This led to more benevolent attitudes and treatment. Great pains were made in the provision of services.

disability is a loss or reduction of functional ability which results from this important. A handicap is the disadvantage suffered by the person because of his disability. Impairment does not always lead to disability, and if the community is responsive to the disabled person's needs,

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It is in this mood that the National Catholic Edcanon Commission set out to encourage the development of special education in facilities Australian schools. In a recent report prepared by the Commission on Special Education with a Catholic perspective it said: -An impairment is an anatomical or functional disorder in the person. A

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handicap can be largely prevented. "Impairments can be of any type and severity and therefore so can the disabilities and also the handicaps. While a number of special education facilities already exist in Perth — including Mercedes College and Catholic schools in Doubleview, Tuart Hill, Bassendean and Midland, the latest to move

into the field is Loreto Primary at Nedlands. The school will open a special education unit next year which will be called the Mary Ward Centre. It will cater for a maximum of eight children, with six likely to be enrolled in 1985. School principal, Sister Mary Finlay said the new classroom would match in with existing constructions on the school grounds Work began on the unit in November and it is hoped construction will be completed in time for t he start of the new school year in February. "We're looking at taking on children in the mild to moderate range. Children who are toilet-trained and capable of basic function but who are minimemotionally ally disturbed," Sister Margaret said. The children will be within the age range of four to nine years and will alternate between working in general classrooms and the special education unit. Sister Margaret said the decision to establish the unit was based on an

existing community need. "We had been asked to help in this area before but didn't have the support," she said. "It's a field I have long been interested in and I see one of the benefits being the interaction between the handicapped children and the rest of the students." The new -style special education sees the focus 'normalisation', 'individualisation' and 'whole-of life education' . In its simplest form normalisation means treating the disabled person as normal rather than deviant. This incorporates awareness of the need for even the most profoundly handicapped person to have a normal rhythm. .and for children that means getting up in the morning and going to school, just as other children do. The trend is toward integration and emphasis is placed on the benefits to all children from meeting, working and playing with a range of children in their communities. In the area of individualisation it is important to note that two main problems have hindered this

development in the past — the practice of labelling and the over-reliance on medical models. It has been an almost universal practice to categorise and label handicapped people. The procedure was justified by the claims that it offered a broad framework in which to ensure that each child could be given the education suited to its individual need but the vast majority of children with disabilities do not fit neatly into just one of the categories. They often have more than one disability

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Whole-of -life education is based on two important factors, early inter vention and post school provision Special educa-

tion is in fact part of community life. Sister Margaret said the emphasis at Loreto would be on developing programmes to fit individual needs. "All of the children are so different," she said. 'We may have some really young ones who will need to be taught to r ead and write From talking to the parents it seems they are keen to children their see attempt whatever they are capable of. "At the moment we can only afford to take on one teacher trained in this

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field and are not planning for an aide at this stage we may have to depend upon the help of volunteers

on the' The longest fight PAnefeature eds of special

Kerry Smith is a force to be reckoned with, hut there is still a glimpse of the tears that sit silent in her eyes as she talks about her fight for her handicapped child. Kerry and her husband Roger have two children, David ll,andKaty9. Itwas David who was born as one of "God's special children," and Kerry who was brave enough to try again for Katy Kerry has fought tooth and nail to see the realisation of a special education unit at Loreto Primary — despite the fact that her son will not go there. lie is settled into Christchurch Grammar. and

while Kerry would dearly love him to receive a Catholic education, she is happy to see him secure and comfortable in a Christian environment. "It would be too traumatic to move him and anyway there would he no point," she said. "He has only a short time left in primary school and at least at Christchurch will be able to continue on through secondary school." But Kerry Smith was still prepared to fight the good fight for others. She knows too well the pain and heartbreak of first finding your child is incurably handi-

capped and then agonising over what to do next. She remembers too the tears that only fade with sleep and the exhaustion of grappling with a problem that looms so large you expect it to ultimately crush the life from you. "Inow look back and think Imust have been around the bend for four years," she said. "All I wanted was just one afternoon free soIcould go to sleep. I don't want other people to go through what I did if lean help it." For the Smiths' son there is also no real diagnosis. "He's a one-off." Kerry said.

"It has no name He has minor brain damage and had motor control with very poor speech. As far as school is concerned he is borderline . . . he is not good enough for a normal school and not had enough for most of the other facilities." By the time he was three months old the Smiths were worried. Their baby vomited a lot and wouldn't sleep. "It was difficult because much of what he did came within the range of 'normal'," Kerry said. "He crawled toward the end of the given period — that was at 11 months. He

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walked toward the end of 1months and again doctors would say that wasn't ahnor. mal. But I knew, like all mums, I just knew. Ihad had no formal training but some thing in me knew it wasn't right." It was to be another two years before a doctor would say, 'Yes, there is something wrong.' "It was mainly his speech — I could understand him but other people couldn't." Kerry said. The hardest part, she says. is not knowing and yet feeling that all was not right. "It was obvious to me and other people's expectations also hit hard," she said. Like most parents with these children Kerry found herself on the ring route of doctors, going around and around and around. "There were so many who wouldn't tell me anything," she said, "that when I finally did come across a doctor who didn't pussfoot around I stayed. "He said, 'I don't know what's wrong with this kid.' hut at least he was honest and at least he was prepared to go on from there." At the time David was nearly five years old. A child with a great deal of understanding, he was asking very early why he was different. "I said, 'Some people can't hop, some can't skip. some can't sing' . . now he just knows he is different and that is that," she said. The problems with understanding come more from outside than within, she says. There is a lack of acceptance because your child is different and

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because no-one knows how to handle it. Reactions cover a wide range, from those who overcompensate by gushing over the child and those who think it is catching! "Some people just accept the child as a person with a problem," Kerry said, "while others will see it as a problem attached to a bit of a person. "Very young children are good but as they get over the age of nine they change and become less relaxed. That is one of the reasons I think Catholic education is so good, because it has that caring commodity."

DOD On the marriage front Kerry says she is wellblessed. "We are lucky because we get on well." she said. "It was hard for us but not so hard. I've seen many marriages collapse. "I think the biggest problem is tiredness. . . you are forever tired and you just don't have the energy to relate to other people." Until David was four years old he slept only three hours a night. 'We'd go to bed at 11 and he up at 2 It all seems like a had dream now, then it was a nightmare with no relief in sight

"Friends don't offer to look after these children. They would have Kate but never David. But how can you blame them? He was never still, I used to wish he would just sit in one place." Peace of mind came for the Smiths when David was accepted at Christchurch in Year 1. "At that stage there was nothing available," Kerry said. "not in Catholic schools anyway. I had tried everywhere. Christchurch was a blessing because he can stay there until he is 16. It was the best thing that happened. Not only was his future secure for the primary years but right through secondary as well. "We were very lucky to get him in, there's a huge waiting list." Having secured a future for her own son, Kerry was still quick to see the need for others. With daughter Katy at Loreto Primary she was soon pushing for a remedial teacher and then lobbying for special education. "I don't want others to go through what I did and I have a strong belief that families should be kept together." she said. "That's what Catholic education is all about and these children need that more than anyone.

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A big step f orward "Before we got David into Christchurch we were faced with bussing to Balg,a or moving south of the river to get him into a school we considered to be suitable. Ultimately, we didn't have to do either but I still believe that all Catholic children, no matter what their problems. should have an opportunity for Catholic education. "For a start it means they can fit into the community and be accepted for what they are. It means their lives are an extension of home, parish community and school" For Kerry Smith special education is a big step toward changes in society. and much needed changes at that. Understanding is fine, she says, but acceptance is better. It is only by mixing with other children that the special ones will ever be accepted. "People have a great deal to learn," she said. "It is understandable, that unless you have had a handicapped child you cannot really understand We all have a lot to learn from each other. "I will never forget the kindness of our neighbours...someone who would have David while I went shopping. It meant so much to me." Kerry is the first to admit that the birth of her son set her on a long and winding path through life. There were many tricky turns but much beauty along the way.

"You do learn from it," she said. "You have to. You learn patience, understanding, you see people differently and you grow in yourself. I had had a spoilt childhood and when this happened to me at the age of 25 it brought me down to earth with a shock "You get to a point where you know it isn't the end of the world hut I don't think you ever truly accept it. "I think the first few years are the hardest because they are so physically draining. I would say we spent about four years in the car going from speech therapists, to doctors, to occupational therapists to physiotherapists. . . "But you have to say to yourself, 'this child is here,' and then go from minute to minute, day to day, week to week and month to month. "But more than anything we just love him, just as he is and because of what he is."

For Carolyn Polizotto, of Nedlands, the announcement that a special education unit would definitely be established at Loreto Primary brought a peace of mind she had almost ceased to believe in. As one of those who had worked long and hard for just such an announcement it was the joy of seeing her labours come to fruition; as the mother of a mildly retarded son it was a time that brought tears of relief. For the Polizottos it was more than just a school for their son. It was a chance for an education in the warm, secure environment of his own parish, his own suburb and at the same school as his brother and friends The parents of such children all too often find the anguish of going from doctor to doctor in hope of a

Learning to live and love with the 'Special' children God gives . . . developmental delay there was no real diagnosis." Carolyn and her husband Lorenzo are both academics at the University of Western Australia and she recognises that they are able to give their child a much higher level of care because they have financial security and a greater ability to relate to medical professionals. "Even when you know for sure that something is wrong it takes you years to accept — perhaps you never do," she said. "He is now moving toward three 'intellectually and I guess we can say it has taken him five years to teach the stage of a child half his age," she said. The sad part, she says, is that such children develop on a slowing curve — there is a horrific feeling of the child slipping away. He lives in a different world — his brain has many fewer learning centres and pro-

card but very often you are so low on energy you just can't be bothered explaining it all. "Your life seems to be made up of appointments. One after the other. With these children the mental handicap is often accompanied by other problems. And then when one thing goes wrong, so does another. "Luke has to go regularly to an eye specialist, he has to see an ear. nose and throat specialist eves- six months because very often these children also have muscular weakness — he sees two different paediatricians and also an educational psychologist. There is also a special dentist because he can only have dental treatment under a general anaesthetic. You try to spread the visits apart because Luke doesn't like to see too many people in white coats. I seem to spend most of any life filling in Medicare forms," she said. The biggest obstacle in caring for these children is oneself, she says. "It's such an individual journey. 1 was alright for awhile but then I re-ached a point where I badly needed people like me again. -You sec, Luke has made riagc. I have a supporting me a member of a club that husband hut even so, life I never asked to join. You takes its toll. There is no do feel different. While you time to re-charge our batter- don't need to spend all your ies." time with other mothers in But the pace does often the same position, every ease as the child grows now and again you do need older. The Slow Learning It) come home to them:* Children's Group has special There has been a sharp babysitting rates which offer knife edge to life over much relief from time to time. of the last five years, she said, It is harder too, she says. especially in the area of to have a retarded child who schooling. looks normal. "Our options were just "At least with something about zero without Loreto." like Down's Syndrome other she said. people know what to expect "While there are some but all people see with Luke lovely State schools, in most is a child who is misbehaving cases they are on the other or a neurotic mother watch- side of the city. At least with ing his every move." she said. Loreto he will be in an area "Sometimes I tell people he knows, with people he what is wrong, sometimes I knows. don't. It's always your last

"Other people don't realise how demanding such children are," she said. "It's a constant problem finding time for others." She gets upset at the "magazine success stories" of life with handicapped children and says that the reality is more often a broken marriage because the husband cannot take the strain and leaves and other children are farmed out to relatives while the mother focuses all her time and attention on the retarded child. For every parent of such children there is the "dream child". This is the child you meant to have, she says. It is the child you hoped for and planned for — it is the child that haunts you. An important stage in acceptance is grieving for that "lost child". But meanwhile there is a family to look after. "It strains you to the utmost. It strains your mar-

'Giving birth to a child who is not 'okay' does terrible things to one's self worth' diagnosis. in hope of hope. is replaced by the agony of a final assessment and a need to plan for the future. "We can rest easy for at least the next seven years and that is a relief," Carolyn said. In the five years since her son Luke was born there has been little chance to rest easy. "U took a long time to find out what was wrong and it was hard to get any definite opinion." she said. "By the time he was sLxweeks-old I was w-orried. You know something is wrong and I think credit should always be given to the mother's feelings. We took him to the Child Development Centre when he was six months old hut even though he was said to have

cesses by which information is transferred are more rigid. For Carolyn Polizotto the question. "Why?" has never been answered and probably never will be. "I go to support groups for back-up but I still ask myself why?" she said. "In '0 per cent of cases there is no answer. The Child Development Centre offered play therapy for Luke and a support group for me. I think that brought me through." Previously researching at home, Carolyn has a Doctorate in History and has taken up an Honorary Fellowship at UWA researching 17th century British history. Frustration and anguish can better be borne by burying herself in books from time to time.

has learned to stare the 99 per cent grind in the face and keep the danger of "burnout" at bay. Giving birth to a child who is not "okay" does terrible things to one's sense of worth. ..11 families have tensions below the surface but any marriage with a handicapped child is in dire risk "For every Einstein you get a Luke.' she said. It's important to talk about the problem. with your family and your friends. There will alw-ays be the thoughtless people who dismiss the situation with comments like: "You must have eaten too much cheese." Such words fall like acid, says Carolyn. "Because in your heart you are always asking, "Is it because 1 did this or is it because I did that." Because !mu don't know you have a terrifying need to know, to lay the demons to rest with reason." But in the end, she says, you must accept the thoughtless remarks, the ignorance, the superstition that it "might be catching:* Among the questions you ask, she adds, is why we have children. "The higher expectation is, the further you have to come For the Polizottos it is a back. Perhaps ego is chance to keep their special involved. As academics we certainly have a greater child close. expectation than perhaps -You hurt a lot, but you other people would have learn with these children — it is the only way," Carolyn but we have to learn to see Luke as he is and to see life said. "The experience of being differently. "To some degree you are a whole person is a handicapped child's gift to its no longer part of the normal world. You become. 'The parents. Luke has made me Polizottos — they're the more sensitive, more aware ones with that child' Someof my existence. "You don't ever stop wishtimes I feel like screaming. ing it hadn't been so but 'I wasn't born the mother of eventually you have to come a retarded child.' It's still me to accept it." she said underneath it all." It is a hard road. but one "At first I believed I could that can bring renewals. The make him okay. After nearly long hours of lying awake killing myself doing it I now know I can't." does pay dividends, she says. Meanwhile, all she can do The pain of that knowing is look and love as her child is sharp in her eyes hut like all those with courage she dances to a different drum.

"It is so important that he learns to relate to normal children. I think it is crucial. You see, with children like Luke, one hello doesn't do. You need to make an effort before he will respond. Not all children would be prepared to do that and certainly, if he is at a school where all the other children are the same it is even less likely to happen. "His first community is his family, then the friends of his family. the parish and the school."

Carolyn Polizotto with her sons, Luke and Mark.

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Thanks to all our members who took part in the Christmas Contest . . . the hard part was choosing the winners. Congratulations go to the three finalists: Mathew Monisse, of Mt Hawthorn ( 13 and under); Erica Martin, of Lesmurdie, ( 10 and under); Gwyneth, of Nor -

tham (band under). Their letters to a friend telling about the birth of Jesus are as follows:

Dear Anthony, Iam uriting to you about a tery important occasion. the birth of babylesus. This occasion is called Christmas and because it is so special is that Jesus is the Son of (iod.

BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Claire Bennison, Lesmurdie; Ruth Cawley, Kalamunda; John Douglas, Woodlands; Christine Colegate, Three Springs; Clinton Mancer, Maida Vale; Debra Nicitbra, East Cannington; Kaye Haydock, Pithara; Bernadette laierys, Walgoolan; Trevor

Jones, Woodlands; Peter Hill, Tuart Hill; Megan Wendt, Geraldton; Mare.Briggs, South Fremantle: Nicole Laffrey, Embleton; Rayelle Walters, Queen's Park; Michael McAullay. Duncraig; (Mem. Thompson, City Beach.

God immensely toted us to send his only son into the world as a man and to know he would give bis life for us. But of course jou would think Jesus was born in a royal palace with servants and guards. Not so. Jesus was horn in a lowly stable in Bethlehem uith cows, donkeys and goats SUM1t4nding him. His mother the Lirgin Mary knew she would hate God's child and on her journey to Bethlehem, she nem,. complained

Jesus foster father, Joseph, did a marrellous job in making the journey possible. But Jesus uds born for a special reason, to gii.e his life for us so we could one day share in God's Glorious Kingdom. Matheu

Dear Friend, It was dawn. Mary, wbo WaS an ordinary maiden, bad just given birth to the King ofJerusalem.

Mary's husband, Joseph, bad been wandering all night looking for a place to sleep. Although Joseph WaS a carpenter, be didn't get much money. An inkeeper took pity and sympathy on them, and kindly lent them a stable to use for the night. She made a manger for the coming baby with bay and straw.

steps, as a carpenter. He grew better, and stronger.

He was the one and only person in this world of ours, whoperformed miracles such as healing the deaf, sick, and dumb. He cured the blind and those with leprosy. We worship and praise Him, for if He bad not come down to earth, there would be no heaven for those who die. Ever since He died and to this day, we celebrate His life with us. by giving

presents to friends on Christmas day. lie will be with Him someday, and can share eternal life with others. Erica

Night came and Mary bad ruirne was Jesus. a baby Then shepherds worshipped Jesus. The next night three wise men were following a star which led them to the stable in Bethlehem. The three utse men gare Jesus three gifts which uere gold, frankincense and myrrh

To Dana, Mary and Joseph were &melting to Bethlehem. When they came to a hotel and they knocked on the door. A num came to the door be said there uds no room. But then he said there was a stable &mil the road SO they uulked to the stable.

}Our loving friend, Guyneth. Prizes have been posted out to the winners.

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Holiday readin Super Mindstretchers, by Deane Hutton and Rob Mor'4 rison, published by A shton Scholastic, $ 3.50. Rob and Deane bring you a collection of brain teasers, puzzling tricks and do-ityourself wonders. Learn how to: • open a door with hot air • teach your calculator to talk • perform amazing tricks • make a steam-jet engine and even bc.ome a millionaire in three weeks.

Inspector Smart Gets The Message, by Richard Fowler, published by William Collins, $6.95. This delightful little book comes complete with its own spy glass so the reader can find the clues. It's lots of fun solving the mystery with the help of the spyglass and Inspector Smart.

Then one day the money runs out. Negrito has to be sold, and suddenly Pop's lengthy, unexplained absences and total lack of concern take on a sinister slant.

Elephant in the Kitchen, by Winsome Smith, illustrated by Stephen Axelsen, published by Ashton Scholastic, S2.95. Cato the elephant was the star of the circus. Several months ago he disappeared very mysteriously. No one knows that he is now the size of a mouse' The circus magician has cast an evil spell on him — a spell that can only be broken by an act of kindness. Will Cato have to stay hidden in a dark kitchen drawer? Or will John Darcy and Sam help him by breaking the spell?

The Amazing Bubble Gum Caper, by Jane O'Connor and The Dandee Dia- Joyce Milton, pubmond Mystery, by lished by Scholastic Jane O'connor and Book Services, $2.50 Joyce Milton, pub- Strange pink LIFOs heading lished by Scholastic for earth Book Services, $2.50 What are those strange

Search for hidden treasure' Your rich uncle has just died and left a very strange will. Someone is going to inherit the fabulous Dandee Diamond. But who? It could by you — if you're the first to figure out your uncle's riddles and wacky clues. Your adventure is beginning! Captain Jack thinks he'll sail to China. If you want to go with him, turn to page 6. If you decide to follow Drusilla Devine to the museum, turn to page 4. Every time you make a choice, the plot gets nuttier. There's no telling where you could end up'

pink UFOs that look like bubbles? your friend Iggvsays he knows what they are. • If you want to hear Iggy's story, WITI to page 4 • If you don't believe in UFOs (especially pink UFOs). turn to page 5 That's the beginning of your adventures. You decide what will happen next. There are lots of funny surprises waiting for you in this Pick-a-Path book.

Tex, at fifteen, is easygoing. likes everyone and everything — especially his horse Negrito and his best friend's blue-eyed sister, Jamie. OK, so there are times when older brother Mason's protective nagging and bursts of temper spoil the peaceful scene, but that's only once in a while.

proves that snacks prepared at home can be more appetising and certainly more nutritious than fast-food takeways. The wide variety of delicious recipes in this book are set our clearly, with instructions that children will find easy to follow. These recipes will satisfy the hungriest of children while providing them with food that is good to eat and good for them too.

Nutritious Snacks for Kids, written by Judith Ryles, illustrated by Julianne Epstein, published by Tex, by S.E. Hinton, The Five Mile Press, published by Fon- $4.95 Nutritious snacks for kids tana, $2.95.

The Silver Crown, by Robert O'Brien, published by Lions, $ 2.95.

Ellen had known all along she was a queen, and the silver crown she found on her pillow on her tenth birthday only went to prove t. Proudly wearing her new present, she tiptoed out for an early morning walk that was to lead her into the realms of deepest danger. Suddenly people were pursuing her, or was it the crown they were after? She mustn't let it go at all costs, but whom could she trust? Aunt Sarah was the only person and she was four hundred miles away. So with her priceless possession and with the help of her new friend Otto and his talking crow Richard. Ellen travelled cross-country on a strange trail beset by mystery and adventure. But would she reach her destination? Newhery Award winner Robert O'Brien has written a powerful, fast-moving and eerie fantasy set in haunted forests and bleak landscapes

The Land Behind the World, by Anne Spencer Barry, published by Ashton Scholastic, $3.50. When tiara finds herself in the Land Behind the World she meets people with strange powers. Why was she chosen to help them' What danger is there in Fields'of Silver? What is a Missing Person and who are the Hugs?

First term at Trebizon, by Anne Digby, published by Granada, $2.95. Fresh from her London comprehensive. Rebecca Mason wonders how she's going to fit in at Trebizon. the famous boarding school for girls. Especially with people like Elizabeth Exton there! Will she ever make any friends? Then, unwittingly, Rebecca sparks off a row that rocks the school and she finds that Tish Anderson & Co are all on her side. . . Other Trebizon books available include; First Term at Trebizon, Second Term at Trebizon. Summer Term at Trebizon, Boy Trouble at Trebizon, More Trouble at Trebizon, The Tennis Term at Trebizon, Summer Camp at Trebizon.

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier, published by Fontana, $3.50 Jenny Renault, freshman, honest and straightforward, is singled out as a potential non-conformist by Archie Costello, leader of the Vigils. For this high school Mafia, public victimisation is the name of the game and absolute control is gained by humiliating fellow students into conformity through initiation tests devised by corrupt Archie. When one of the masters enlists the help of the Vigils in a fund-raising event. it becomes terrifyingly clear that Jerry hasn't a chance.

The Folk of the Faraway Tree, by Enid Blyton, The De Luxe edition illustrated by Georgina Hargreaves, published by Budget Books, $5.95. Enid Blyton is an old favourite and still much-loved by children today. Her story of the folk of the Faraway Tree is as enthralling as it ever was. Thu will follow Connie's adventures as she explores the world of the Faraway Tree.

The Friends of Emily Culpepper, by Anne Coleridge and Roland Harvey, published by The Five Mile Press, $9.95. (Commended The Children's Book Council Picture Book of the Year, 1984.) Emily Culpepper lives in a charming cottage at the end of a row in a quiet little village. A lovable lady of simple tastes, she enjoys nothing better than the company of good friends. Sometimes, however, her desire to be the complete hostess causes serious problems in the village. But Emily Culpepper has her own special way of solving problems. Ann Coleridge was born in England and has an Oxford science degree. She is married, has some children, and has lived in Melbourne sine 1981. This is her first book. Roland Harvey is an artist who lives in Melbourne with his wife and three children. He has produced a highly-

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Warriors of the Wasteland, by Douglas Hill, published by Piccolo, $3.50. Finn Fermi, introduced to us in The Huntsman as an e xpert in woodcraft and survival. continues his adventures in Warrior of the Wasteland. The Earth has long been devastated by some great war and is now ruled by an alien race, the Slavers, cold, sinister and technically advanced aliens from outer space. Finn fights / for freedom to recover his parents from slavery and I,— lead a revolt against the Slavers. Finn is now no longer the lone huntsman. but is joined by Baer and one of the Slavers human mutations known as Bloodkin. Together, they travel to rescue Finn's sister Jena from becoming yet another horrific creation Finn has also to come to terms with the thought that his highly developed instincts and uncanny wilderness skills are not learnt. but created by the Slavers. Escaping from imprisonment by the People of the Gorge. the pair head for the deserts of The Wasteland pursued by Claw and his 'people'. In this strange land. Finn finds new allies, but finally realizes that he has to make a stand, not that of fight and flight, but that of fight to the end. Douglas Hill was born in Canada but has lived in Britain for several years_ One s." of the first critics to review science fiction seriously, he is the author of over 20 nonfiction books and is the editor of five anthologies of science fiction and fantasy for adults and one for children (A Piccolo Original), ALIEN WORLDS. His recent triumph in science fiction/fantasy for young people is the quartet. WARLORD, GALACTIC DEATHWING OVER vEy NA& DAY OF THE STAR. WIND and PLANT OF THE WARLORD, all available in Picador. For several years Literary Editor of Tribune. Douglas Hill has recently resigned to write full time.

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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.

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A long silence

Winning Ways, In Search programs. economic recovery. There has of Your Best Performance, The speeches cover the econ- also been an unanticipated by Rush Webster, published omy, the re-structuring of decrease in the death rate. Surviving Rape, A by Fontana, $6.95. industry, industrial relations, Attempts to arouse concern handbook to help This book is about perfor- foreign policy, immigration, for population problems have women become mance in sport and the non- arms control and disarma- failed and there is a tendency aware of the reality of physical factors which affect ment, youth employment, to brand those who are con- rape, compiled by the performance. It is a mixture affirmative action for women, cerned about quality of life or Sydney Rape Crisis of sport, medicine, psychol- the environment and more. environment as morally susCentre, published by ogy and commonsense and pect — racists etc. Fontana, $4.95. tills a gap in the current The Murderer, by Roy Individual chapters examine For too long, women have literature available. Athletes Heath, published by Fla- t he social, economic and been silenced about the too are bombarded with mingo, $5.95. environmental consequences many forms of rape and highly specialised and techni- Contantly humiliated by his of population growth on the violence they experience in cal information in the fields dominating and fiercely pur- scale implied by present pol- their lives. "As women," say While the threat of such utimieria Ma of 'persuasion' to rape their MN*IMPS IIMINIIPMINO of exercise physiology, sports itanical mother. young Galton icies including the massive 110111110. 1114111111111•MIL the authors, "We are sub- violent and sensational rape wives and it is rape when the psychology, physical educa- Flood becomes burdened by casts and the stress of provid- jected MaiMilMUM to wolf-whistles, ugly is a reality in our lives, it is woman is not willingly parGrIllSO ailet111111OMNI tion, weight training and dangerous accumulations of ing for extra millions finding stares, TIN• A MINOMMIL insults, prods, pokes in fact rare compared with ticipating in the sexual act. 1,1.•• statistics. Commonsense is sexual guilt, jealousy and employment and housing, and verbal attacks. We expe- other tOrms of rape. Most "Children are the most often overlooked. paranoia. Murdering his wife social inequalities, and envir- rience many levels of sexual powerless and defenceless women who are raped acturiences, it does eventually Webster has provided in his Gemma is his act of protest onmental deterioration. and other violence in our ally know the rapist quite victims of rape. Child' help to break down the book a blueprint for success. and liberation. It is probably homes, work places, par- well or at least know who rape incest, like marital isolation you feel after rape. He recognises that in the also a kind of matricide. legion, by William Peter ents homes, friends' homes, he is. He is often her father, rape, is surrounded by a It aLso helps to destroy the flurry to apply the latest Blatty, published by Fon- schools, doctors' surgeries, brother, boyfriend, ex -boyhuge silence which protects myths that do so much findings and technology to The Mandarins, by .Simone churches and on the streets. friend, husband, ex-hustana, $4.95. the rapist. Child-rape myths damage to women's selfimprove performance, the de Beauvoir. published by This is William Peter Blatty's include the popular notion band, boss, doctor, lawyer respect. Lack of knowledge individual person inside the flamingo, $11.95. sequel to The Exorcist that 'dirty old men' abuse and so on. The list is endless. about forms of help and athlete's body has been neg- The Mandarins has been young children as they walk "Rape is any sexual harasssupport available also lected, Sports people are in highly praised and won the A Crowning Mercy. by home from school. Rarely do increases the sense of isolament or interference that is need of care, particularly Prix Goncourt among other .Susannah kell.s. published we talk about the fathers, uninvited, unwelcome or tion women feel. when performing under literary prizes. by Fontana, $5.95. brothers, unwanted. step-fathers, "This book was written to duress. Trainers and coaches It is the story of life among A romantic saga set in turuncles and friends of the "Rapists do not always expose myths and to give will find their athletes the literary and artistic giants bulent 1-th century England. family who form the majorattack unsuspecting victims women the information to respond with a significantly of the Left Bank after the war. combining drama and intriity of child-rapists and moleswith weapons nor do they find the help and support better performance when Written by a woman who was cate suspense. ters. Even more protected always use brute force. Boythey need. their overall psychological at the centre of the life she are the school teachers, friends or so-called friends "Surviving Rape was ongand emotional needs have described in this novel, it is ministers, priests, dentisits, or husbands commonly use inally written by women in Talon. by Antony Melvillea wickedly accurate picture of been recognised. doctors and other men in emotional blackmail to Los Angeles It has been ROSS. published by Fontana. The framework for this some of the greatest names of force a woman to submit to positions of trust. edited by Sydney Rape Crisis $5.95. worthwhile information is a this century, their work, their "For centuries women him sexually. Centre for women in AusTalon is the second in the friendships, their love affairs. series of interviews with some have kept silent about rape "Rape within the marriage tralia. The women involved submarine series which began of Australia's most eminent and other violence out of in this book, both here and is as old and institutionalised So Many Partings, by Cathy with Digger. As the war in sportsmen and women. Rayas marriage itself. Yet the fear and isolation from each in America are survivors of Cash ,Spellman, publishedby Europe draws to a close the lenc Boyle. Peter Brock. Greg other. This isolation is breaklegal system has only just rape and know those feelsubmarine Talon is patrolling Fontana. $6.95, and Ian Chappell all feature in ing down and more and begun to recognise that it ings of fear, guilt and anger the waters of the Far Fast. Her A family saga that sweeps this hook and discuss with more women are realising e xists! Women have for and share them in this book. new commander is deter- "It is a common myth that Webster what they see as the from the mansions and cotrape is committed only in centuries, been the property that they are not alone: that "The more women krunv tages of late-nineteenth cen- mined to excel, and the sucmost important elements in their experience is the expeabout their rights and the cess of his American allies and dark, deserted places by of men — the husband's tury Ireland to the rich world psyching themselves to perrience of other women. property if she is married of big business and politics in rivals only adds fuel to the fire strangers who are psychopaservices available to them, form well. thic monsters. People tend and the father's property if "Although at first it can be the United States. the more power they will of his determination. to believe this lie because hard talking about fears and have to not only survive a she is not. Husbands use MedicalBy-Ways, by OrJim Fighting For Wilderness, these are the only rapes that violence, emotional blackfeelings to other women rape but also to change their Leavesley, published by Fon- Introduced by Geoff ,Hosley. S4.5 TheJungle Frontier, by receive media coverage. mail and other kinds who have had similar expe- lives." Peter Dickens, published tana. $5.95. published by Fontana. Fontana, $6.95. More humorous and lucid $5.95. The SAS played a crucial role medical meandering into med- A collection of papers that in the Borneo campaign, but ical history. looks at Australia's wilderness this book is more than a Dr Leavesley discusses the from a campaign point of gripping account of the SAS The Naked Public attempted to follow in his tantalisingly close to saying American life." because rapid history of the illnesses view: what have been the in confrontation. The author Square, by the Reve- book is impossible to discern. what he would like to see by Catholics form the largest of famous patients such as great wilderness battles lost deliberately uses the story of rend Richard John Neu- My best guess is that he was of religion upholstering religious group in this counCharles IL Hitler, Richard HI and won in the conservation this campaign to probe deeply haus, published by wanted to prove the need for the public forum or the now- try. But no. he concludes the and Elizabeth I, and the vier and what will determine into the motives and attitudes Eerdmans (Grand Rap- constructing a public philo- uncovered "naked public religious revival that might impact of diseases such as how future battles for wilderof the regiment and, by con- ids, Mich., 1984), sophy in the US based on square," as he puts it. plague. cholera, syphilis and ness in help do away with the cursed Australia are waged? $16.95. Reviewed by values inherent in Judeo- He reminisces fondly about nakedness "must be an ecumalaria on civilisation. Recent events in South West centrating on the activities of Christian religion. If that was the days when the United menical revival," one comparatively few men, he Richard Philbrick. Tasmania have clearly demonprovides the reader with the The Reverend Richard John his chosen course, the one he States was a "Christian coming Christians. National Reconciliation. strated a need for increasingly most perceptive insight ever Neuhaus' dense, discordant, made gixxl is several degrees monwealth," The Speeches of Bob Hawke, mentions Jews and presumably others sophisticated campaign stratetantalising book reminds me wide off the mark. Prime Minister of Australia. into benignly the the "establishment" who are not four-square Christrue nature of these gies to achieve success in of a ship in heavy seas. It rolls One cause of his failure is the that has quite wrongly been tians will acquiese in what Compiled by John Cook. conservation. Leading conser- elite fighters. from side to side constantly, rolling in his book. His prac- displaced and recalls "the results, he goes on, because published by Fontana, vationists who have been suffers occasional jolts and tice is to present an argument vision of a Christian America." they will become convinced $6.95, actively involved in the fore- A Dictionary of Computer lurches and has a hard time and then offer two or more At another point he says "that that there will always be in Bob Hawke is one of Austra- front of Australia's wilderness Terms, published by Fonsides of it. As he goes from in many ways, this ought to this nation "reverence for staying on course. lia's most popular Prime Min- campaigns tell of their expe- tana. $7.95. That it progresses with dif- side to side he seems to be he the Catholic- moment' in democratic dissent" isters. His personal popularity riences and offer advice on Over 2500 clear, concise ficulty is a pity because the trying to he fair. Instead. he is certainly one reason for the strategies and tactics for those definitions with cross-referenauthor is more than a person often presents inaccurately success of his Government. who The author Jose will carry on this struggle ces for full, quick understandairing his ideas. He is editor sides he dislikes. And someBut it is not the only reason. Cortes was born in to secure our last wild lands. ing. of Lutheran Forum magazine, times his presentations arc so 'Throughout his period as Spain in 1945. He A comprehensive, up-to-date a periodical well-known in its scrambled one cannot make spent his early childPrime Minister he has clearly Populate And Perish, The guide to computer language hood in Central Amerfield. He has written a great out what he favours. and consistently set out in his Stresses of Population for students of computer ica, where he learned deal and is director of the new The jolts and lurches come speeches his Government's Growth in Australia. by science or data processing the theory and pracCentre on Religion and when he says, for example policies. Through his fiirrelt Hill and ;Willi, pub- and users of personal computice of Liberation TheolSociety, which has its mission "since the 1930s the social speeches he has communi- lished by Fontana, *95. ters as well as professionals in ogy, 'side by side with That's My Boy, by influencing the controlling alisSiOn of mainline Protestcated his vision of Australia to The main purpose of this the poorest on God's the field. J.L. Cortes, English ideas about the role of religion antism has been to advance — the Australian people, and that book is to revive concern in earth'. A handy, compact aid in an version by John Medin the modern world. albeit with 'a sense of uneasvision and policy is National the problems associated with The translator John easy-to-read format for ready calf, published by ColNot long ago he was in the iness and guilt' — the proReconciliation. population growth. The wriMedcan is a Catholic use at home, in the office or lins Liturgical, $9.95. priest who has spent public eye as a major person- grammes and fortunes of the In this hook are collected ters are challenging a belief at school. A comic book about five years working in age in an episode in which a left wing of the Democratic Bob Hawke's major speeches ( which has been fostered by the life and teachings Peru. His present television programme sharply Party." Or again, "the editors as Prime Minister and in the the National Population of Jesus Christ, God's work, briefly in a Brixperiod immediately before Enquiry of 1975) that our I mage — Music — Teti by criticised the National Coun- of The New York Times would boy. Unique of its kind, ton parish and now in the election of the Labor population has almost ceased Roland Barflies, published cil of Churches. Spokesman not recognise a theological the hundreds of black Suburban Surrey, confor the council said that he argument if it fell like a stone Government in March 1983. to grow. Yet the immigration by Flamingo. $6.95. and white illustrations vince him of the From these speeches it is clear intake has increased under the A collection of essays on had done much to shape the tablet on their heads..." The are as important as the urgent need for that his Government is based guise of the family reunion issues of literary theory in programme's content. A clear comments are provocative vigorous, witty text in Cortes' approach to not only on his personal program. and there is poten- regard to the effect of photo- statement of his views would and entertaining, hut they presenting this 'life of communicating the JC' to a new generapopularity, but also on care- tial in the current migration graphy and film on music and seem to he most interesting. don't advance his argument. Gospel in our Englishtion of readers. fully thought out policies and policy to increase this with the voice. speaking world. But the course Mr Neuhaus In his last chapters he gets

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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.

Liberal future Liberals face the future, Essays on Australian Liberalism, edited by George Brandis, Tom Harley, Don Markwell, published by O xford University Press. The Liberal Party has been Australia's most successful national party. Yet today it seems in deep trouble. Where does the road ahead lie for Australian Liberals? In this stimulating and controversial collection of essays edited by George Brand's, Tom Harley and Don Mark well, twenty-seven leading Australian Liberals face the future. Drawing upon the lessons learned during the Fraser years, they subject the Liberal Party to searching a and unprecedented scrutiny In doing so, they shed new light on problems facing Liberals in government. The contributors conclude that the way ahead for the Liberal Party — to that revival of the spirit and replenishment of the mind which Sir Robert Menzies saw as the chief fruit of a period in Opposition — is to rediscover its liberal ideals. The collection presents a unique insiders' view of what makes the Liberal party tick The Contributors include Richard Alston, Louise Asher, George Brandis, Fred Chaney, David Davies, Bruce Edwards, Saul Eslake, David Fraser, Chris Gilbert, Phil Gude, David Hamer, Sir Rupert Hamer, Tom Harley, Leo Hawkins, John Hyde, David Kemp, Stephen Litchfield, Ian Macphee, Don Markwell, Alan Missen, Andrew Peacock, Chris Pullick, Barry Simon, Sir Billy Snedden, John Sosso, David Tonkin and Reg Withers.

And in the end we find ....

The End Of The He is only one of a number been greatly affected by what It is because this is a hot End Times" is the highlight. in eternity is decided Then World, A Catholic of preachers in the "electonic they believe about the des- topic today, especially with It alone is worth the modest sometime — no one except View, by Robert F. church" — the Rev Oral truction of the world, the the threat of possible nuclear price of this paperback. God knows exactly when, Baldwin. Our Sun- Roberts, the Rev Pat Robert- great predicted war between disaster, and because there is Finally, there emerges from where or how — Jesus will son, the Rev Rex Humbard so much misinformation that this volume a summary of return to judge the living and day Visitor Press and the Rev Jimmy Swaggart Baldwin decided to write this Catholic doctrine that is the dead in a general decla(Huntington, Ind., ( who is violently antibook. acceptable. It contains the ration of the ultimate triumph 1984). $5.95. Catholic) are others — whose The plan he follows is to following scenario: of good over evil. Reviewed by Msgr. message often refers to the divide his material into three When each person dies, Charles Diviney. end of the world. sections. First, he discusses in there is an immediate per- As the liturgical acclamation

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It is now almost two hundred years since the arrival of the first European settlers in Australia. Our most momentous achievement of that time was the gaining of independence. But, how independent is Australia? Australia and The Empire examines the relationships which were most important in the shaping of the country's economic and political destiny and argues that finding the answers to such questions as 'What did Britain want out of its colonies on the other side of the world?' and `Why was the United States prepared to step into Britain's shoes after 1942?' is central to making sense of our history. The distinguishing feature of this book is its account of the economic and social forces that lie behind wars and diplomacy.

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Letters to Celebrities Collected by RITA CARTER

Fan Mail, Letters to Celebrities Collected by Rita Carter, published by William Collins, $4.50. Which of us at some time has not felt like writing a letter of congratulation or complain? Thousands and

thousands of such letters are received by our best-known personalities every year and, be it fan mail or hate mail, they make extraordinarily funny reading. To Reginald Bosanquet and Andrew Gardner: "Please send me ONE MILLION POUNDS damages by return of post. This for watching me get undressed for bed last night. P.S. And don't think I don't know what you were saying to each other afterwards, either . . R ita Carter has assembled an enter -

tam ing and revealing cross section of letters — some clever or caustic, others absurd or a dulatory --- which have been received by such diverse celebrities as Pat Phoenix, David Steel, Barbara Cartland, Paul Daniels and many, many more.

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Relatively Speaking, The Family Tree Way to Better Health, by R oss Meillon and Chris Reading, published by Fontana, $7.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. The subtitle to this book is, The Family Tree Way to Better Health and it is based on the eminently logical proposition that we may be able to pinpoint areas of physical weakness by look-

Avocado, her first novel, is set. Working later in London she met Kenneth Tynan in a small but famous theatrical club behind the Haymarket Theatre, and later married him. In this same club she later met Peter Finch who would be the subject of her first biography. Finch. Bloody Finch. After the birth of her daughter Tracey, she gave up acting ( she says 'It gave me up') and became a writer. Her London experiences were the inspiration for her second novel The ()Id Man andMe, which was followed by The Injured Party. Divorced from Kenneth Tynan in 1964. she returned to America and took up journalism, writing for NeuYork magazine, Esquire, Harper 's Bazaar and Harper's & Queen.

This book demonstrates how a medical family tree can uncover the factors causing a wide variety of illnesses in a family. With the help of many detailed case histories and family tree diagrams the authors show how family trees can foretell the future by indicating who in a family is at risk for which serious illnesses, and the steps needed to initiate lifesaving preventative action. It all makes compelling reading although I must admit I raised my eyebrows at the fact that most of the cases discussed in the book were traced hack to food allergies. It may well be so, it just all seems a bit simplistic . . . one answer for everything. Be that as it may, the family tree way to better health

seems a sensible way to go. book also offers information on how to construct your own family tree. Dr Chris Reading graduated in medicine from Sydney University in 1968 and qualified in psychiatry in 1973. He then specialised in organic psychiatry. and subsequently became interested in research into vitamin/mineral deficiencies, metabolic disorders, food allergies and clinical immunology/ecology and genetics as it applies to neumpsychiatric disorders. It was in this area that he became increasingly aware of the medical significanace and implications of the family tree Dr Reading is currently in private practice in Sydney. He has published many medical articles on his particular

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areas of research and interest. Ross Meillon has had many years of experience in the world of advertising, writing everything from press releases to television commercials. He has joined here with his brother-in-law, Dr Reading, to help write Relively Speaking.

Triumph Through Failure, A Theology of the Cross, by John Navone SJ, published by St Paul Publications, $6.25.

A little over-ripe ElAINE DUNDY The Dud Avocado

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"Excessively funny. (x:casionally shocking. nearly always brilliapt," and "Scandalous and entertaining," it soon becomes evident that no doubt The Dud Avocado was just that in 1958 but in this 1984 reprint such words no longer apply. This is one avocado that is decidedly over-ripe and very outdated. It would make better reading if the cover comments were removed and the story could speak for itself I don't know that it would say much but it is reasonably entertaining and no doubt will stir fond memories for anyone who lived in Paris in the 50's. It's the story of Sally Jay Gorce who wants to be a singer in a jazz band. Elaine Dundy was born and raised in New York. She became an actress, working in Paris where The Dud

TRIUMPH through FAILURE

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We confront failure in all levels of our humanity. There is failure in the use of the gifts of the earth, the unlimited exercise of intelligence, and enjoyment of freedom, and in the acceptance of the call of an infinite God The failure to achieve fulfilment at any one of these levels may contribute to a particular frustration that

may destroy the wholesome harmony necessary for hipmess, In a period of utopian ideologies and theologies. this book may SCINC as a reminder that we do fail and that our faith does not promise that we shall not fail. Yet, precisely because we experience failures, we find cause for hope and deliverance outside ourschrs This is the theology of the Cross — Triumph through failure. Father John Navone, well knucvn for his contribution t, narrative theology, is pr, )1essor of theology at the Gregorian University, Rome where he obtained his doctorate in theology. For over a decade he has taught summer courses in theology at Seattle University. Father Navone is the author of 10 books. He has already published more than 100 articles in such journals as Concilium. Irish Theological Quarterly. Revue de L'Universite d'Ottzwa Studies in Religion, Thought. and Theology.

John Navone

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says. Christ has died, Christ is risen. Christ will come again.

a general way the mood of the sonal particular judgment. Not only .do individual clergThe Rev Jerry Falwell, a times, which seems to indi- Contingent on that, the future ymen preach about this topic, Moral Majority leader, is cate that the times are out of but it is an important doctrine quoted in his book as saying joint. of many churches, including that he does not own a cemeTo illustrate this he points the Catholic. tery. plot. When asked why, he out the number of wars, the replies that he expects Jesus The Millcrites were in the acts of genocide which desto snatch him and all other extreme in their concern troyed millions, the scourge of faithful followers to heaven about the end of our history abortion, the environmental before they die. Thus he as a human earthly race when good and evil called Armaged- destruction that marks our expects the Parousia, or the they declared the world don, and the second appear- age, and above all, the incessecond coming of Jesus. to would end on Oct 22, 1844. ance of Jesus have been the sant stockpiling of arms that take place within a relatively As a result many quit their jobs could easily destroy all life of Mormons and the Shakers. short time. and gave away their belongHistorically they are con- any kind in the universe. ings but waited in vain for the nected to a large group of It is in such an atmosphere end to come. Obviously it popes. saints, heretics, sinners that people begin to think that didn't but the expectations of and some priests and Reli- maybe God will terminate the the Millerites were continued gious. and popular authors whole human experience and Australia And The in a modified form by the A Theology of the Cross such as Hal lindsey whose start anew somehow someEmpire, From 1788 Seventh-day Adventists. where else. book. "The Late Great Planet To The Present, by Michael Dunn, pub- Other religious groups Earth,- has sold in the mil- The section of Baldwin's 1111111rim whose outlook on life has lions. book called "Scripture and the lished by

The dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy, published by Pavanne, $4.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. I wasn't long into this volume beforeI was flipping back the pages to find a first publication date. . .1wasn't surprised to discover it was 1958. While the cover blurb contains such epithets as:

Here's a life of Jesus that is quite different!

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A NEW STYLE PRESENTATION OF THE LIFE AND MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST • DRAWN WITH VIGOUR AND SIMPLKITY • TOLD IN A WITTY, RACY SIMPLE LANGUAGE THAT IS VERY FUNNY AND DEEPLY MOVING • JUXTAPOSING THE GOSPEL EVENTS WITH OUR OWN WAYS OF THINKING AND LIVING, WITH EXPLOSIVE IMPACT THE FRIENDS OF IC - THE FISHERMEN AND WORKING MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE HIS COMPANIONS AND FIRST DISCIPLES TELL IT HOW IT HAPPENED IT BOWLED THEM OVER AND TRANSFORMED THEIR LIVES AND IT WILL DO THE SAME TO YOU • AVA 1 LABLE NICW FROM YOUR BOOKSELLER

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(Youth Forum

Wishing you all a Merry A busy year for YCS The YCS movement strives to develop active christians, students who together reflect on life around them, and take action to bring about God's Kingdom. The past year has been a busy one for all involved with the young Christain Students Movement. It has been a year of reaching out to young people in YCS. We have seen the growth of six new groups including St Mary's, Santa Maria, and Northam YCS. We were happy to go out to Northam and Geraldton to help get new groups started. However we have also seen the folding of about four older groups. Unfortunately students seem to have a short stay in YCS as they complete their secondary education. There's no doubt that

Above: Suzanne Keane at the Maida Vale Antioch weekend puts the finishing touches to the groups poster as Frank Basoli looks on. Top: Alana Boss and Phillip Roolvink have the job of cleaning up the brushes.

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Putting it all in paint 1985 Perth Festival will focus on the United Nations theme International Youth Year with an attempt at a Guiness Book of Records entry of the longest poster in the world. Three-metre long pieces of calico will be distributed to schools and youth groups; Each will have the opportunity of expressing its message. Many groups already use the method of group painting in order to encourage young people to express their thoughts and feelings. Such is the case with the Antioch Weekend. On the Saturday afternoon each small group attempts to put down on paper what the Antioch experience has meant so far. Those individuals who have not had a chance to speak infront of the large group, are encouraged to explain the poster to the whole community. Speaking before the large group is made easier with the help of the poster.

despite this short stay i t always leads students on to living a life in which YCS princiespecially ples, through the Review of Life method, plays an important role. The Review of Life method helps students to make connections between their faith and their everyday lives. They do this by looking at issues that concern them in their lives, they then reflect upon these situations in the light of their faith and the gospels. Finally they try to act to either work for change or to build on what is a good situation. There have been many events held throughout the year, including education days on peace, leadership in YCS and International Week. There have also been introductory and leadership camps throughout the year. A Gospel and US day was held in which Father John Harte gave the students a brief outline of how to interpret and understand the Gospels today. The Faith Committee also organised a Prayer Night to show students the many ways in which we can pray and involve our faith in YCW meetings.

The Fulltimers course which was held in February was a great opportunity for the ful'timers of YCS and TYCS around Australia to get together to learn and share how we can work effectively as youth workers for the movement. Probably the main highlight of the year was the 10th YCS National Conference which was held in May. Western Australia had the largest delewith 22 gation representatives including 14 students, five fulltime workers and three assistants all from Geraldton, Bunbury and Perth. About 100 people attended the conference from all around Australia. The theme of the conference was 'Our Faith Urging Us to Act on the Concerns of All Students'. The National Conference is held every three years and is the major decision-making body for the Australian YCS Movement. It was a time of development

and growth for the Australian movement. In June the Perth fulltime workers had an International visit from Jos Smits, a Belgian assistant for the YCS movement. It was interesting to make comparisons between YCS in Belguim and YCS in Australia. On December 8-9 the Perth movement will elect two fulltime workers for YCS in 1985. Over the past

year Christina Kadmos, Damian Hart and myself have been working for the movement. YCS would like to thank all those people been who have involved and worked for the movement this year, especially Father John Dwyer, who has helped us as our Chaplain. FRANK LOSS PERTH FULLTIME WORKER

On the last day of school in 1984Iasked a group of primary school children to tell me what the world needed to be saved from! I asked them to tell me what they thought was the biggest threat in the world today. A s the hands shot up, Ijudged that most were ready to say, "'Nuclear war is the biggest danger. ' Recent protests would suggest that many agree with my young friends. Total annih- , ilation is not just an idea confined to fiction novels, comics and space invader games, it is a very real possibility. However, some would seriously question whether nuclear destruction is the greatest danger to people. A s we look around our families and neighbourhoods, there seem to be many destructive elements already tearing apart the fabric of life. The depression of young unemployed, the heartbreak of broken homes, the lonliness of the aged, the hopelessness of the mentally disturbed, the violence of our streets and suburbs — these are but a few of the pains that destroy life now. People look for saviours that will bring happiness and preservation from these and other dangers. The media advertisements are not short of redeemers and instant saviours. Modern technology saves the homemakers from repetitive tasks; pop stars save the teenager from a boring and colourless existance; reticulation saves time and energy; the counsellor or doctor saves from depression; fast food outlets save waiting; weight reduction and health studios save us from obesity and heart attack. We could go on and on and miss the fact that Christ came to save us from ourselves. He came to save us from our own greed and selfishness. The only problem is that we must first recognise and accept that we have a need for Him. Unfortunately there are few media campaigns to remind us of this truth. The Angels of Christmas announced to the shepherds a message of great joy. They were glad tidings, that the saviour of all people had come and pitched his tent among us. He is our saviour; He gives us life. Come let us adore Him. I wish you a very happy, holy and blessed Christmas. Iwish to thank all the people involved with the young scene in WA in 1984. In particular chaplains, parents, full timers and the many hundreds of volunteers and movement members. May International Youth Year be rich in blessings for everyone. *

Youth Forum

Xmas and happy 1985 MEMORIES OF PARADISE Memories of Paradise there are so many vivid and fading alike too many to detail too precious to pass.

What was your childhood like? James Depiazzi grew up in the dairy country of the south west in Dardanup; His parents property was called "paradise." Since moving to the city to complete his teacher training he has gained new appreciation of his childhood on the farm. Now a manual arts teacher at Newman college, James puts his sentiments in poetry.

Captured in the sepia tone atmosphere of the old wash shed bare boards and dusty windows hazy filtered light walls full of memories washboards and rabbit traps chains and wire and pieces of string a parasol, a copper and a marble topped thing all with a smell so delighting

UNITED NATIONS (NC) — The erosion of spiritual and moral values leaves youth with "a frightening lack of certainties and ideals," the Vatican's delegate to the United Nations said.

Takes you back to the outside loo endowed with flowing grapevine disguise a creaky latched door and watch out for spiders no light for your way but a comfortable stay on boards well polished by use the smell unoffensive in this dreamy old place Takes me back there again like a dimly remembered story read with love as I lay sleepily in the old backroom with sagging, discoloured masonite ceilings and rough grey blankets warm Feeding the calves with Denkavit from big bags of powdered milk putting out hay and cutting the maize so many the memories of my childhood days. So many the people who shared our way Checking the rainfall for the day with Nana using the old measuring glass or reaching gingerly under a chook to gather the eggs for another wonderful cake while we played Beatles or euchre or piled up the bricks to make plastic bridges on long, wet winter's days Contrasted by days of toil and sweat out in the bush learning to work like a man with sandwiches and a thermos for lunch and a fight for the paper while Pop took a nap from his grunting efforts at peace under a nearby tree Like old charlie at The Camp just turned up one morning and stayed a while then moved on was gone like the milkoes who came and went every morning muscled men swinging cans off the ramp with a clang and a smile. Sounds come back the putt putt putt of the vegi man's van Mr Penny's pigs and the baker's toot or the herdtester's bagpipes Jack Hunt and Eric Dee La Porte heros still with Laurie and his old battered truck like his face rough from work and experience I learnt from these people

JAMES B DEPIAZZI

A lack of certainties

James Depiazti is pictured above with some of his manual arts students. The 20 young people who attended a CPY Camp at Eagle's Nest last weekend learnt about -Unity -. To assit in reflecting on unity a special method was used, introduced by CPY fu//timer, Paul Newton. A sketch of a human person on a large sheet of butcher's paper was cut up into four parts. The head, arms, torso and legs. On each of the four parts, the members of a small group recorded their own reflections and ideas. Beginning with the legs, participants shared the story of their journey in life. The torso focused discussion on the things of the heart. The hurts andpains that occur through relationships. While using the sheet of paper with the arms, members talked about the walls that are built or broken down in order to build relationships with family, friends and God. The method was not new. St Paul had said as much two thousands years ago. What was new was that the thoughts and ideas of Christ's presence in the world today is dependant on individual's striving for unity. This truth began to live for the young people on the camp. All the experiences shared by the young people were written on the 'parts' of Christ's body and offered at the presentation of gifts at the final Mass.

Society neglects to communicate to youth "the art of real fulfilment, which must be rooted in the truth and in genuine values." Sister Janet Richardson said during an October 22 debate on youth issues in the 1 'N's Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee. The General Assembly is preparing world-wide activities for 1985, designated International Youth Year. The delegate also idclied to the youth theme Pope John Paul 11 chose for the 18th World Day of Peace observance to be held January I. 1985. Sister Richardson said modem .1:)tith is aware of contradictions in society — seeing that scientific progress has not always led to genuine human advances. She said that youth "realise in the attempt to master the material World, man has often ended up manipulating the human person." But some yritith "feel powerless to do anything about such situations" and end up trying to "build 1 better world through hatred and violence," Sister Richardson said. She said that society should resist "attacks on young people's spiritual and moral

intewity" such as exploitation by prostitution and "invasive pornography." Sister Richardson also said some social policies which weaken the family and deprive young people of the most important natural community -where they can find their personal, cultural and religious identities." She did not identify the policies The delegate said that while young people face serious moral challenges, they also can make a special contribution to peace

Sister Richardson quoted Pope John Paul's recent observation that youth can work against evil by speaking out against the "culture of death." Youth "can, with others, advance in peace." Sister Richardson said. The Catholic Church has appealed to youth to commit themselves to serving others "through self-discipline and sacrifice in the love of God." she said. The Vatican delegate said that in the family, work and culture, youth finds "all the fascination of God's plan for humanity."

Wanted. Those who would strive to make it perfed.

Not those who merely dream of, or wish for, a better world. But, those few who would actually dedicate the!" lives striving to bring peace and justice to the world: to bring love and freedom to the world. So that. with God's grace. the world may become perfect.

If you have ever considered becoming a Priest. Brother or Sister, consider it again. We need you and. God knows, the world needs you. For further information on vocations as Priest. Brother or Sister, please contact Brother Robert Callen.

Dare the Dre.

Religious Vocations Council

100 Fern Road, Wilson, Western Australia 6107. Telephone 09) 451 5737

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estive food for friends Ham it up with style CAMBRIDGE CABBAGE AM.) BACON

GLAZED HAM AND CIDER SAUCE

Ilarge crisp uhite cabbage 4 rashers back bacon (or more) 4 rashers streaky bacon (or more) knob of butter salt,pepper,pinch ofground allspice

Ipiece ham weighing I.8kg (31b) or more, soaked over night if necessary to remove excess salt Ionion, stuck with a dove I bunch parsley, thyme, bayleaf 2-3 tablespoons brown sugar Itablespoon Dijon mustard I teaspoon grated orange rind several whole cloves 2-5m1 (½ pint) dry cider 1 tablespoon dry English mustard

TO SERVE FOUR Trim and quarter the cabbage and wash it well. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and throw in the cabbage. While it is cooking, cut the bacon into small pieces, and fry in butter in a hot frying pan. When it is tender, after about 10 minutes, drain the cabbage thoroughly, cut it into shreds with a knife and press lightly to strain off the water. Place it in a mound on a deep dish and throw the bacon and its hot fat Over the top. Season with pepper and a pinch of allspice and serve large helpings.

Some fancy fish FISH PIE

3 5g fillet of fresh gemfish or flake Ismall uhole smoked haddock. about 500g 2/3 cup milk Ibay leaf lkgpotatoes butter and milk for mashing 60g butter 2 tablespoons plain flour 4 hard-boiled eggs 3-4 sprigs fresh tarragon or parsley, chopped salt and freshly ground PePPer SERVES 4-6 Preheat the oven to 170 °C/325 F. Put both kinds of fish into a baking dish or roasting pan with the milk, 2/3 cup water and bay leaf and poach them in the oven for 15 minutes. The fish should be just cooked after this time, with a creamy liquid coming to the surface.

75g ( Joz) sugar I75g (6oz) castor sugar 8 slices white bread, crusts removed Make this a day ahead so

that it ha,', time to steep in its own Juices. Cook the raspberries briefly with the sugar until the juice runs out.

2 small onions Meanwhile, peel the pota2-3 tomatoes toes and start them cooking 4 tablespoons olive oil in salted water. salt and freshly ground Turn the oven up to 2207C/425 °F, or heat the flePPer few sticks and leaves of grill. fennel Flake the fish, taking care to remove the skin and all the bones. Melt 30g of the SERVES 4 hotter in a small pan. stir in Preheat the oven to the flour and make a sauce 170 *C/325 F. the which in liquid the with fish was cooked. Drain the Clean, trim and scale the potatoes, using some of their fish, and pat dry. With a liquid to bring the sauce to sharp, pointed knife make the consistency of thick two or three deep diagonal cream. Taste it to see if it slashes on either side of the needs more salt — it probfish. In each slash, wedge ably won't. Put the fish and half a clove of garlic and the hard-boiled eggs, peeled either half a slice of lemon, and chopped, and the tarpeel side outwards, or a ragon or parsley into the sprig of parsley. Put another sauce. Mash the potatoes half clove of garlic in the and season well. head and another in the Put the fish mixture into a belly. Peel and slice the pie dish or gratin dish. cover onions and skin and quarter it with a nice even layer of the tomatoes. mashed potatoes, dot the • In a buttered ovenproof top with thin slivers of dish, surround the prepared butter and either bake for fish with the tomatoes and 15-20 minutes until nicely onions. Sprinkle with oil, salt browned, or brown it under and pepper and bake near the grill. the bottom of a gentle oven Serve with a green salad. for half an hour. Scatter sticks and leaves of fennel BAKED WHOLE FISH over the fish and hake for a further 15 minutes, or until Ibream, about lkg cooked through. Serve hot 3 doves garlic with steamed young veget/ lemon or few sprigs of 2 1 ables, or cold with a garlicky parsley home-made tomato sauce.

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took the blackcurrants separately with -5g ( 3oz) of sugar and a tablespoon of water. Do not boil too fast, allow them to give up their juices slowly, or they will become a mush. Take a 1 -litre (2-pint) pudding basin and line it with slices of bread, cutting them to shape so that they all fit together neatly. Fill the bread mould first with blackcurrants and then with raspberries. Cover the top completely with more trimmed slices of bread so that the fruit is completely enclosed. Put a plate on top of the pudding and weight it down with a full bottle of something. Allow to stand overnight in a cool place. Remove the weight and turn out the pudding carefully, the bread should he a uniform deep rosy red, and the fruit inside like delicious soft cheese. BROWN BREAD ICECREAM 2 egg yolks 75g (3oz) sugar 150m1 ('/ pint) single cream 2 -5m1 ("a pint) double cream 2 teaspoons rum or brandy 100g ( 4oz) fresh brown breadcrumbs This icecream, an Edwardian country weekend treat, has an elusive flavour which always seems to fascinate people. Make it in the freezer if you have one, otherwise in the ice-making compartment of the refrigerator. Eat within a day or two or the bread will become soggy. Beat the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until light and frothy. Bring the single cream to simmering point, remove it from the heat, let it cool for half a minute, then pour it on to the egg yolks, heating all the time. Put the howl over a saucepan of

3 teaspoons Dijon mustard

tin with the cider, and the English mustard, mixed to a cream with a little water. and roast in a hot oven ( 220 'C, 425 'F. Gas Mark 7 ) until nicely browned and glazed basting it with the cider 2-3 timesit will take about 20 minutes to brown nicety. Then let it rest 20 minutes before carving. Serve it with its own pan juices. If it tastes too salty add more cider to the sauce. Cumberland sauce is also traditional with glazed ham which can be served hot or cold, and sliced very thinly.

up the flavour for 20 minutes. Put the steaks coated with the mixture, in the bottom of a casserole and pour on the cider. Bake in a hot oven. ( 200'C, 400'F. Gas Mark 6 ) for 20 minutes. When the steaks are cooked, strain off the liquid into a small saucepan. Add the comfour dissolved in 2 tablespoons of water and stir while you bring the mixture to the boil and let it simmer gently for 5 minutes. When the cornflour is cooked stir the cream into the sauce, taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper.

2 level teaspoons brown sugar 275m1 (½pint) dry cider 1level teaspoon cornflour 2 tablespoons double cream Sall andpepper TO SERVE FOUR Soak the ham steaks in water for 1 hour. Remove them and pat them dry with kitchen paper. Make a paste with the mustard, sugar and a little cider, and spread the ham steaks with the mixture, allowing them to soak

TO SERVE SIX Put the soaked ham into a large saucepan of cold water together with the onion stuck with a clove and the hunch of herbs. Bring it rather slowly to the boil, skimming off the froth that rises, and then cover the pan and simmer steadily but gently for 2 hours — 30 minutes per 450g (I Ih) plus 30 minutes. Remove the ham from the cooking

Desserts to keep your cool ,SUMMER Pt 1)1)1,\"0 To serve four 450g (Ilb ) raspberries /112 ) sugar 2 225g (1 450g (Ilb ) blackcurrants

liquid and cut away the skin, leasing the pale fat looking quite naked. Now, with a small sharp knife, score the fat across at 3-em (1-in) intervals, then do it again across the first cuts so that the fat opens slightly into diamond shapes. Stick a clove into each interstice of the lattice pattern. Mix the brown sugar, mustard and orange rind in a bowl and coat the fat thickly with the mixture. Put the ham in the roasting

simmering water and stir until the mixture starts to thicken. Allow to cool and thicken further. Whip the double cream until it is soft and light and flavour it with the rum or brandy. Now fold in the cooled custard with a spatula and lastly the bread. crumbs. Turn the mixture into a nice-looking container — a souffle dish would be ideal — and freeze. No need to stir. Do not serve this rock hard, hut just frozen, otherwise the breadcrumbs may seem too granular.

HAM 87FAKS li7771DRY CIDER SAUCE 4 thick ham steaks weighing I75-225g (6-8oz ) each with rinds removed

Pour the sauce over the ham steaks, garnish with parsley and serve hot.

and family Pate's to please a PATE DE C4MPAGNE CHICKEN LIVER TERRI.\-L 3 75g chicken livers 500g chicken livers 125g streaky bacon 150g butter 125gpie veal ( neck ) 2 tablespoons finely 2 draws garlic chopped Onions 8 juniper berries, crusbtvl 1 clove garlic, crushed 15 peppercorns 1 bay leaf cup dry cider or uhite pinch dried thyme wine salt and freshly ground dash of brandy PePPer 1 egg 2 tablespoons brandy cup fresh white bread 30g butter, melted crumbs Serves 6 1 teaspoon each of dried Heat 30g of the butter in sage and thyme a frying ran and lightly fry teaspoon ipuitre cpices the onions and garlic until ground allspice they are softened. Remove 1 2 / Onion the strings from the livers, 60g butter add the livers to the frying 11 2 / teaspoons salt pan with the bay leaf and 125g por* fat thyme and fry this gently for Serves 5 minutes until the livers are Pick over the chicken livlightly browned hut still ers, removing strings and pink inside. any greenish parts. Mince Remove the bay leaf from the bacon and veal coarsely or chop in a food processor. Transfer to a howl. Chop the livers fairly finely, and add them to the bacon and veal. Peel and crush the cloves of ROAST 7771?KEY garlic and mix them into the meat together with the Iturkey weighing 3. 54.5kg 90g butter crushed juniper berries and peppercorns, cider or wine. .5 tablespoons olive or peanut oil brandy, egg, breadcrumbs. for the cbestma stuffing: herbs and spices. 500g chestnuts Mix everything together 2 sticks celerl and leave for 2-3 hours. Peel 15g butter and chop the onion and 1 slice onion saute in the butter in a small pan until translucent. Add 8 prunes. soaked in warm water for 1-2 hours this to the meat together salt and freshly ground with Slit. Put the mixture PePPer into a terrine. 1t Preheat the oven to for the sausage meat S114/ 180 *ci350 °F. Beat the pork fat flat. with fing: -5og sausage meat the side of a cleaver, and cut 1 onion into strips. Arrange them in 30g butter a lattice over the top of the the turkey liver pate. cover the terrine and 2 cups fresh white bread. cook for an hour. Then crumbs remove the lid and cook for a further 30 minutes unco- Iegg 2 tablespoons choppedparsvered. Store in the refrigerator overnight or longer. ley 2-3 tablespoons dry white before cutting. uine finely grated rind of 1 lemon 1 2 / teaspoon grated nutmeg salt and freshly ground RI1J.EnTs OF PORK PePPer 125g flare fat (back fat) for the graiy: 1 kg belly of pork. skin .; cups good stock, made removed salt and freshly ground with the turkey giblets 2 / cups except the liver, or 21 p er stock and 1 cup cream grating (1nutmeg 1 tablespoon plain flour Serves 8 ( Vtional) Preheat the oven to I cup white wine or dry 140 °C/2-5 °F. sherry Cut the fat and pork into salt 4 cm cubes and put them

the pan and blend the livers in a food processor or blender. Season them with salt and pepper and beat in remaining butter and brandy. Spoon the mixture into a 3-cup earthenware terrine, smooth the top and pour the remaining butter, melted, over the top.

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into a heavy pan or casserole with 3 tablespoons water. and season. Cover and cook in a very low oven for 4 hours. Strain off and reserve the fat and liquid. Puree the meat briefly in a food processor, or wait until cool but not cold, and shred it with your fingers, removing any cartilage. (This is a lengthy job but there is no better way; you need fine threads of meat in a creamy, spicy base.) Season very well with salt, pepper and nutmeg and return the fat and liquid to the meat. Reheat until it bubbles, then put it in stoneware jars of china or earthenware dishes. It keeps in the refrigerator. This is good for a cold lunch or snack. Serve just below room temperature, not chilled.

Series 8 Make the two stuffings. starting with the chesnut stuffing. Remove the shells of the chestnuts with a sharp knife. Put the shelled chestnuts in a saucepan. just cover them with the turkey stock — later to be used for the gravy — and boil until just tender. about 15 to 20 minutes, and then drain. Remove the skins, and put the skinned and slightly broken chestnuts into a bowl. Finely slice the celery into crescents: heat the

stuff the neck cavity, skewering the neck flap underneat the bird to secure it. Preheat the oven to 170 *C/325 'F. Next Make the sausage meat stuffing. Peel and chop the onion fairly finely and cook it gently in the butter in a small frying pan until tender and transparent Mix it into the sausage meat in a howl. (hop the turkey liver and mix this in too, then add all the rest of the ingredients and work them together thoroughly Stuff the body of

roasting pan and pour on the oil. Place the pan fair and square in the centre of the oven, and roast for about 20 minutes per 500g It will take about 3 hours, depending on your oven. The bird is roasted rather slowty. so that it cooks evenly. Baste it frequently and when it is an even golden brown all over, cover it loosely with foil to prevent it going too dark. To test the bird, stick a skewer deep into the thigh: a bead of clear

or cloudy, pale pink or colourless liquid will emerge ( if it is a reddish colour the bird is not cooked). Turn off the oven. leave the door slightly open and let the bird rest for 20 minutes to firm and set. This will make it easier to carve. To make the gravy, take the turkey out of the roasting pan. transfer it to a heated platter and keep it hot. Spoon most of the fat from the roasting pan ( you can use if for frying potatoes on

some other occasion ), stir in the flour — if you like a slightly thickened gravy — and pour in a cup of wine. Let it boil for a few minutes over a medium hcat, and scrape up all the brown sediment and caramelised juices from the pan. Then add the stock and let it boil for about 10 minutes. Taste the gravy and season it with salt. For a cream gravy. substitute sherry for wine and use stock and cream instead of all stock

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butter in a frying pan with a scrap of chopped onion. add the celery and let it soften in the butter for 5 minutes. Then mix the celery into the chestnuts. Cut the prunes in halves and remove the stones. Roughly chop the halved prunes and mix them with the celery and chestnuts. Season with salt and pepper, break in the egg. mix it in thoroughly and

the turkey with this mixture, and skewer the rear opening closed. You may prefer to use this stuffing for both the neck cavity and the body. Take care to fill the neck cavity lightly or the stuffing may burst the skin and it will spoil the look of the bird. Spread the butter all over the turkey — breasts, legs and wings should all get their share. Put it into a

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City social change

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Mrs Rose Burke is stepping down as the convenor of the CWL Catholic Senior Citizens group and passing over the r esponsibility to Mrs Mary Kinsey. which The group attracts up to 50 people each Friday meets at the Cathedral Parish Centre after the midday Mass at St Mary's Cathedral.

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How a carol began

• From page 4 Gruber accepted the challenge and later that afternoon, his composition completed, the mating of the words and music was hastily rehearsed in readiness for the first public performance. This, in due course, was r eceived with instant acclaim by the packed congregation. It seems almost incredible, a kind of fairy legend, but these are the facts as I got them in the course of my reading.

In the Remembrance Chapel which now stands on the site of the old church, there is a precious page of t he original manuscript, secure inside a glass case, and a large guest book signed by a stream of visitors from all parts of the world. And since that Christmas, and every Christmas that follows, we listen to the simple melody with the equally simple words which have become immortal, throughout the Christian world, and which we all hear in churches. TV and radio throughout Christmas week. Silent Night took 13 years before it was sung to a congregation in Leipzig. and another eight years until it crossed the sea to reach Trinity Church in New York. Even then, it might never have achieved its very special place in the hearts of all Christians. had not some

SVDP says thanks Probably the fastest growing business in Australia today is that of charitable welfare. Regretably more and more people are running short of money each week and call the Society of St. Vincent de Paul headquarters for assistance. A growth rate of over 20 per cent would be envied by many business bosses, but for the Society it is a sign of the depressing times. The demand is also made greater by the large number of single mothers setting up home by themselves and then finding the expenses beyond their financial income. Calls for assistance prior to Christmas were over 65 per day and kept the two incoming telephones running hot. With the tremendous dedication and support of our members it would not have been possible to visit those in need in their own homes on the same day as the call was made. Many people who can manage during most of the year find Christmas a difficult time to make ends meet, and ring for a Christmas hamper. VVe hope to also give one t o most families assisted sometime during the year. Without the help of Father Brian Morrison as well as the children from many Catholic schools and the people from most Parishes, it would not

MARTIN ILMA: Our loving thoughts are with you this Christmas. The Lord took you suddenly to his heaven above. I.eft me alone here on earth with a heart full of love. If there w ere a stair to climb or a telephone line I would call to say I love you and I'd mean it from the bottom of my heart. Thanking you now and always. Your husband Harry, also Tony Silvana, Barry, Lee, Graeme and grandchildren R ebecca, Stacey, Tanya and Jason. musicians of the Royal Orchestra of the Berlin Court. taken an interest in the lyrics and music. They started making inquiries into the origin of what until then had been regarded as just another Tyrolean folk lore. Fame is as strange as it is enigmatic. Oberndorf makes more fuss about the impoverished master, Franz school Gruber, and his dear pastor, Joseph Mohr, who wrote the poem, all these years after their death, than ever happened during their lifetime.

Mrs Mary Kinsey (left) succeeds Mrs Rose Burke as convenor of the Cathedral Friday group

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Sacrifices

"I once wanted instant personal and spiritual maturity", said Brother Damian, "but I have now come to discover such growth can only take place in the context of faithfully living through the daily rigours of life." He describes himself as being "simply an average fellow " "My vocation does not make me special or better than anyone else. "Essentially it is a call to faithful service and daily living out of the gospel and celebration of the Sacraments. I discover God through people: God is relational." On the question of celibacy, Brother Damian's comments were interesting. He said many people believed because you were celibate, you were automatically prohibited from loving! "But really, to make a lifelong commitment to celibacy, seems to me at this early stage. I must make a

commitment to unquestioningly love all those I meet and this does not limit me to the exclusive love of one person within a marriage. "Celibacy is a radical commitment to love, without demanding sole rights over that person" he says.

Brother Damian will be returning to Melbourne at the end of the year. He hopes to take his final vows in May, complete a further year's study, and be ordained to the ministery of deacon towards the end of 1985. At the end of this period he will do another six months pastoral work, and then, if approved, be ordained to the priesthood upon completion of this term. Reflecting back, Brother Damien said he now realised the Lord really did have His hand on him and believes that if you are open to His call, it is very difficult to ignore Him. "I tried running for a while, but the Lord caught up. And

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I'm glad He did! -Through my living out the Franciscan life. I have found a fantastic and profound happiness — the son I never knew existed "Ii is not superficial, but something deep within your heart. "People cannot be neutral when faced with Franciscanism. -It has a charistmatic impact that has to be felt and looked at. it emanates the spirit of Saint Francis" he says. His final comment was: "Religion is not a head trip — it is a gut feeling!"

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have been possible to supply all the food hampers needed. To the many people and children who gave goods, or toys, to fill the hampers the Society of St. Vincent de Paul expresses it's sincere thanks.

To our many benefactors who sent in donations — large or small — I pray that your Christmas may be a Holy and happy one. May God bless you in your charity.

There is no restriction on who turns up and the group have tea, play bingo or card games and entertain each other with conversation The group meeting is a favourite for a number of Italian women who use the opportunity to meet each other every week. The activity is not all tea and talk. Modest funds are r aised and donations have been sent to the Eagle Nest Youth Centre, St Charles Seminary, the Christian Television Association for Mass For You At Home, the Africa Appeal arid other charities. The group first met when Mass was said at the old All Saints Chapel in St George's Terrace When Father (now Archbishop) Foley became administrator of the cathedral he helped the group to get going in St Joseph's School and then in the Cathedral Parish Centre when it was established four years ago.

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Sights and sounds Sequel to a movie hit

Programs on ABC radio for Christmas Day and the days leading to the holiday feature many of religious interest. H ighlights of the programs include. SUNDAY DECEMBER 23 6WF 8 am. Encounter Convergence on Bethlehem A nativity play by Clive Sansom (who died in Tasmania in 1981). Two angels tell the story of the Nativity in various scenes and poems with music composed by Sidney Sager. 6WN 11am Christmas Sacred Music ABC FM 4-5 pm. The first Nowell: a Nativity play with music by RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. Edited and completed by Roy Douglas, the words are adopted from medieval pageants by Simona Pakenham The First Nowell was originally created for a charity matinee organised by the Church of Saint Martin-inthe-Fields in London and given at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The music, based on traditional tunes, was Vaughan Williams last composition 6WN 5.30 pm. Sunday Service from Guildford Grammar School. The staff and students of Guildford Grammar School present carols, hymns and readings from the School's Chapel. The School Choir sings the carols and staff and students present the readings. The Prayers are led by the Reverend Keith Wheeler the school's Chaplain 6WN 10.15 pm. Perceptions of Christmas different people from a six-year -old to an archbishop, address the issue of whether Christmas is still important in 1984. There are readings from Christmas now. with a little nostaglia in regard to memories and writings about this great Christian festival. CHRISTMAS EVE ABC FM 8-9.30 am. Australian Christmas Carols by WG James. ABC FM 8-9 pm. Pastorale Timelss Christian music. ABC FM 9-10.20 pm. Rheinberger's Christmas Contata. ABC TV 9.50 pm. Traditional service of nine lessons and carols. 6WN 11.30 pm. Solemn midnight Mass from St Mary's Cathedral Sydney by Archbishop Clancy. The choir of men and boys is one of Australia's most distinguished and will sing a selection of carols before Mass and during communion. ABC FM 11.30 pm. Christmas Carols old and new Liverpool Philarmonic Choir and Orchestra.

Traditional carols sung by English cathedral, collegiate and parish choirs. There's part of a Christmas concert with The King's Singers; writer Alison Uttley recalls her childhood Christmas impressions; we learn about Wassailing and there's the strange but true story of the year there was no Christmas! 6WF 8am. Encounter The Christ of Christmas — with Cliff Richard, Long standing rock -n-roll superstar Cliff Richard has become a leading modern-day evangelist, not because he aspires to be one but because he is free to express his Christian faith from an already established platform At the end of his recent tour in Australia, Cliff Richard attended a coffee-lounge breakfast in Adelaide with Stephen Watkins, where they put together this mix of music and interview about the Christ of Christmas. 6WN 10.10 am. A Child's Christmas: Christmas is for children . . . or so the adults say! What do children really think about it all! In this program we hear from the children themselves — their thoughts about the nativity story and Santa Claus. Christmas carols and the Christmas tree, and why we all behave the way do at Christmas time 6WN 11 am. Sacred Music for Christmas. 6WF 6.30 pm. Hymns and Carols for Christmas Day The Brighton High School Senior Choir in Adelaide. ABC FM 10.30 pm. Good People All Christmas music from the monks of Glenstal Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland. Good peple all this Christmas tide, Consider well and bear in mind. What our good God for us has done. In sending his beloved Son. One of the carols in this program, sung by the monks of Glenstal, the only Benedictine Abbey in Ireland. Though it is the Benedictines who have the responsibility for preserving the tradition of Gregorian chant, the carols in this program were written in the 17th and 18th century in Kilmore, County Wexford. Somehow this treasure t rove of carols did not become known outside Kilmore — indeed, it was one family in particular which kept them alive for two to three centuries without a note of music being written down.

One of the most charmin and certainly best remern• bered films of the recent past was Lilies of the Field which garnered Sidney Poitier an Oscar for his portrayal of Homer Smith, the itinerant drifter who encounted a group of impoverished nuns and together they pulled off a few minor miracles in opposing t system. Plow the sequel has produced by the Osm Studios. Christmas Lilies of the Field begins where the original left off and Billy Dee Williams takes over the Poitier role. The setting is a mission is the American southwest and the time is late fat On his way to El Paso. Homer decides to make a brief stop at the mi to see tne sisters Mother Maria, the s but devious German n ow played by Mar Schell, to check out c hapel which he bui a gainst the seemingly insurmountable odds.

Christmas Lilies of the Field is a movie starring Bill Bee VVilliams in the role of Homer Smith and Maria Schell as a nun and can be seen on Nine For Mother Maria, Homer is once again the answer 110 at 2pm on the afternoon of Christmas Day. her prayers. Unless she can build a prop. structure to serve as in orphanage dormitory fir a group of homeless children living at the missiod, and do it by the mid* of December, the authrsities will place all (Ire children in foster homed. The kids operate as f amily and Mother Marti a nd the nuns firmt believe separating the would be a disaster.

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At first the cynical Horn* wants no part of Moth Maria and the nuns aga nor of the kids or th plight. But Mother Ma is relentless in her det mination to enlist assistance, and the chi r en very quickly find most vulnerable spot . a giving heart.

Brilliant ice-skating duo, Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill show their spectacular style in Channel Seven's dazzling Special — The Russian Ice Spectacular with Torvill and Dean on Tuesday, December 25, at 7.45 pm.

The drama that ensues touching blend of t nuns' faith. Homer's pr matism and the childre delight, all worki together to surmount obstacles of bureaucr prejudice and pove Humour abounds and I triumphs . . . quite tingly on Christmas Ev

CHRISTMAS DAY ABC FM 6-7 am. From the Realms of Glory: Christmas music with Leontyne Price; The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw. Traditional music together with works by Bach; Bizet; Respighi; Lully and Handel. 6WF 7am. The Herald Angels Sing: A selection of Christmas carols, old and new, for Christmas Day. *or ABC FM 7.10 am. Nativity:

Christmas in the Depression

Jason Robards

Academy Award- ing Christmas story winners Jason set during the R obards and Eva Depression. Maria Saint star in Jason Richards is David Channel Seven's Larson, a Minnesota 9.15pm Tuesday farmer embittered by the death of his only son in night movie, A World War I. Larson to blames God for his plight Christmas Remember, a touch- — and has little time for

man as well. Moody and haunted by memories, Larson has isolated himself from all his neighbours. But it's his own wife, (Eva Maria Saint) who increases his torment — by allowing their city bred grandson, Rusty

(George Parry) to visit for the holidays. Larson sees the act as a violation of his late son's memory. "There's no boy but one belongs on this place," he says. Larson doesn't trouble to hide his feelings and young Rusty can't help

but be affected. The result: He runs aw on Christmas Eve. J oanne Woodwa makes a cameo appea ance as Rusty's moth in this TV-movie, a sto adapted for the screen E mmy Award-winne Stewart Stern ('Sybil'

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WHAT'S ON

Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster

Sunday race meetings haven't come to West em Australia yet, but there's a race meeting of a different sort on Sunday, December 30. ,. Members of the racing '' fraternity will be gathering that day for the annual Racing Mass.

1 MEDICAL MISSIONARY proved his city form good when he flew home to record his first city win at Ascot on Saturday. This Colin Webster trained gelding has beaten several smart gallopers in the country and he should continue on his winning way. SUDELEY CASTLE showed he was set for a successful campaign with a last stride win when racing first up on Saturday. Sudeley Castle has always shown ability and is definitely a horse to follow over the oncoming weeks. EASTERN TEMPLE returned to the summer carnival racing forefront with a scintillating victory in the Budget Quality Cup. After being under a serious injury cloud. Eastern Temple showed she is far from a spent force. Eastern Temple has now been returned to the head of the Railway Stakes betting. She had a set hack but is now declared fit by astute trainer Ted Hickling. LADY GORMLEY won very well when racing first up at Pinjarra on Thursday. It was only her second start in a race and allowing for improvement she should be hard to beat in the provincials at her next few runs.

As in previous years, the Mass will be held at St Ann's Church, Hehir St, Belmont at 6 pm. A warm invitation is extended to everyone with an interest in racing to come along. chaplain, R acing Father Peter McMur-

rich, has some reassuring words for punters. "It's the only fixture in t he racing calendar where punters are sure t o come with their wallets intact." he says. when A ctually, pressed, he admitted some money does

change hands. "We have a little collection, and split the take between the Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul." Afterwards there will be the opportunity to renew friendships and enjoy light refresh -

ments. Persons: Contact Father Peter McMurrich, 11 Hehir St, BelPhone mont. Bernie 2772251. R yan, 176 Leake St, Phone Belmont. 277 4529.

The 'good' word in sos video V r ecording

. Ever the practical man and arch realist Dianella ' parish priest Father Pat O 'Mara has a simple explanation for his producing a , mammoth 27 lecture video ' series for religious instruciions. "I was just getting too ...tired continually talking to eople during instruc• ns" said the priest who ys he was born before he electronic era but who as no doubt about its .. elevance. Dreaming he might sell of the set of nine tapes overing 27 hours of ording, he admits a note optimism at firm orders 65 so far with possibly re to come when the electronics is not new to rd gets around. the busy parish priest who The price of $200 per set can be seen with a portable , .s rock -bottom because of telephone sticking out of the voluntary labour that his pocket when he is cirnt into the tapes proculating in his church, cention and other concestre or school. s Father O'Mara has Nine years ago he put 26, n able to achieve. one hour instructions on he when ago Two years audio tape and these are ught of the idea, he given to adults to be conped he might get four firmed or others under - fling lecturers. instruction to listen to at His hopes swelled to 12, home before coming to the now in retrospect he is presbytery to ask their th gratified and satisfied questions or discuss prob.that 27 different pnests, lems. including five bishops, The new video tapes, says were prepared to give the Father O'Mara, will be ideal lectures. f or private viewing at "If there had been only home, or for pansh groups one lecturer for the senes RACE SIX: Blue Echo 1, RACE ONE: I.otsadots 1, in public viewing, for staff the people would have Lady Temlock 2, The Hit it Bally 2, Boundary development in Catholic stopped coming. Quick 3. Rider 3. schools. "I live record wanted to RACE TWO: Sierra RACE SEVEN: Gold They have even been tried performances not a solitary Duke 1, Twilight Town 2, Velocity 1, Stephen's Gift out on senior secondary lecturer at a desk." 2, Pether Road 3. Leitrim Again 3. students. The Dianella parish people He believes trained leadRACE THREE: Frankie RACE EIGHT: Baltybeg responded. ers are needed to help users Francis I, Countess Kim Clancy 1, Ebony Regent At least 80 attended each of the series. 2, Storm Glade 3. 2, Summer Snow 3. evening, the peak being Father O'Mara is conRACE FOUR: Aulfee I, RACE NINE: Rebel Rob140. vinced of the value of tel2, Centrefold Many enjoyed the explaMan of Irish 2, Kellie's .bie I, Miss evision and video in the nation of the faith. Crown 3. Khana's Supreme 3. modern Church. othand couples Engaged RACE FIVE: Little Acorn RACE TEN: Supa Trak 1, "People watch television ers under instruction were 1, Hanover Cloud 2. Alice Will 2, Tivessa even if it is not interesting, urged to attend the senes Zappa Fox 3. Pride 3 just because something is Father O'Mara also had a moving. cal audience in mind. "What video has over me No lecture is more than Something to buy? speaking is that it can with defined minutes, 45 Something to sell? times and 15 minute breaks and ques- repeat itself 100 Use tired. get never tions from the audience R ECORD "The advantage of the up the last quarter. CLASSIFIEDS But his use of the modem taped lecture is it can be ---''-------41111141switched off whenever the eill1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111E person wants to and it is E re when they resume. i

Race Talk with Rod Evans

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"If they walked out of a lecture, they cannot ear what they have wissed. = 1 = For all his optimism, -§,... father O'Mara has definite E Views about how far the = video medium will ever E. • = the live priest. = .replace = . He sees the value of hayE ling video in churches for = — Opecial features such as 7-_-• papal messages and such 7 . inaterial but not to replace F E Iltie homily.

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