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Vatican sees -1 Australia as world ranking The Holy See sees Australia as a very important middlerange power, as an important country in the Far East and Pacific basin and as the country bridging East and West. This was said by the Australian ambassador to the Holy See, Sir Phillip Lawler, who paid a courtesy visit on Bishop Healy while in Perth last week. He also called on the Anglican archbishop. Sir Phillip said the Vatican was interested in the contribution Australia made to overseas aid to the Third World and also to its contribution in the field of refugees and migration. Australia's representation at the Holy See dates from 1973 and was established by the Whitlam government. The move resulted in the Vatican upgrading its representation in Canberra from an Apostolic Delegation to an Apostolic Pro-Nunciature. • Continued page 2
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Austral ia's Ambassador to the Holy See, Sir Phillip Lawler who also is accredited to Ireland paid, a courtesy call to the local Catholic and Anglican church dignitaries last week is and pictured e xplaining some of his Vatican activity to Bishop Healy.
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A new plan to- co-ordinate the welfare activity of all groups in Perth archdiocese will improve the Church's credibility, accountability and united approach to the government for assistance, says the Catholic Social Welfare Commission. "Government funding is becoming more difficult to receive each year and more and more services are asking for the less and less funds being made available," said Mr Tony McAlinden. full time chairman of the commission. "If our services can come into line with government guidelines, funds will be more readily accessible." The commission intends to consult with up to 100 different groups in the archdiocese offering different forms of welfare. The most significant areas were the handicapped, child care, family welfare and Aboriginal works, Mr McAlinden said.
Clashes in aid Some bodies were receiving aid from the Church when government money could be sought and this money could be re-directed to the more difficult areas the government would not consider. he said. "Some are doing the 'too hard to do' works that government stringent guidelines prevent them from doing. "The Church has been responsible over the centuries for social works that were unacceptable by social s tandards or were neglected. We want Church Mr McAlinden people to continue to do commission. that. He is assisted part time by "In fact the Church can foster work in areas that are a secretary. Mrs Barbara too hard or difficult and we Trichot, and lawyer. Mr want our people to be seen Claude Rochecouste. Other commission to be doing that." members are Sister Mary Mr McAlinden was released in February from Martin Kelly, Mrs Beatrice the Public Health Depart- MacFarlane and Brother ment to be full time director Kevin Ryan. for a year of the Catholic • Cod page 2
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in 1963. Father Clark heads a province of 68 men working Britain, Ireland, Tanzania and Australia. There were five training in England but their make-up was significant, he noted: two Indians, one Sri Lankan, one Irishman and one Pole. The order is doing remarkably well in Poland and also in Spain and South America. There were prospects of more vocations from Sri Lanka. Father Clark said the characteristic of the order founded by Father Francis Jordan in 1883 was flexibil-
• From page 1 Father Hilary Clark SOS ity to undertake any apostolate such as the motor mission. "We put this flexibility before a man entering our order because one of his concerns is 'what amIgoing to do as a priest." he may be a little hesitant because we are so flexible and not positive in what we suggest.
Vatican view of Australia • From page 1 The Australian embassy to the Holy See is nonresidential and since its inception has been handled by Australian representatives at The Hague, Istanbul, Stockholm, Malta and Berne. A small office operates in Rome. Currently it is held by the Ambassador to Ireland where Sir Phillip Lawler, formerly head of the Canberra Department of Administrative Services, presented his credentials in September 1983, and his credentials to Pope John Paul in November the same year. Sir Phillip said the importance of Australia having a representative at the Vatican could be judged by the fact that 120 countries now have a representation.
Mr NIcAlinden said there was a new government plan to have a hand-in-hand role with the private agencies, and the commission hoped to be able to provide the appropriate organisation for such a partnership. The new recommendations also refer to accountability for government funds. "We need to set ourselves up so we are proud to show our accountability to the public and rightly so because the public pay through their taxes for some of the services we provide. "It is important we show ourselves united, accounta-
ble and ready to stand for the Church. "Improved organisation will give us a stronger voice with government and to provide our best people to talk with the government as discussions develop later:' he said. The commission would work to ensure a good quality of service in order to maintain the Church's credibility. It would support agencies applying for funding but avoid competing claims forcing one or the other to lose out. It would also stimulate people in the Church to meet needs not being met at the moment.
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Bishops call f or tribute PRETORIA (NC) — The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference called for a day of mourning for black protesters killed by police in Uitenhage, South Africa. "The police action has left the bishops numb with shock and despair," s aid a statement released by the bishops. "The bitter irony is that little short of a massacre has taken place on this sad day of national mourning for the victims of the 1960 Sharpeville shootings," the statement said. The bishops called for an "immediate and independent inquiry into the incident." The statement said that a ccording to Church w orkers in the Uitenhage area the demonstrators w ere walking "peacefully empty-handed" to a c hurch service for the dead. "The people were not violent, nor were they singing when the police o rdered them to disperse," the bishops said. "We have heen told that police opened fire and shot at the crowd indiscriminately," they said. "Later, Church workers were not allowed into the w ards of the hospital in Uitenhage to administer to the injured and dying." The bishops said "No amount of provocation — if indeed there was any — can justify such bloodshed."
To study r eport The Chairman of the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia, Dr D. Tannock, said this week the report, Planning and Funding Policies for New Non-Government Schools, submitted to the Commonwealth Minister for Education, Senator Susan Ryan, was a significant document with major implications for Catholic schools. "At this early stage," Dr Tannock said, "all the ramifications are not clear. We have just received the report and are giving it careful study. "However, the Catholic Education Commission will consider the report in detail at its meeting on April 12. "A position statement will be available after that meeting."
vig;1 Inyestigations Prayer III into murder — in land rights Human Rights. The group says a judge investigating the c ase was driven from the country by death threats, a special investigating commission has been saddled with restraints, and the United States is unlikely to pass along any i nformation it has to Salvadoran authori-
ties. The report says Salvadoran President, Jose Napolean Duarte has assigned the case to a special investigating commission, but the commission has no authority to release or take action on its findings.
The prayer and fasting vigil was launched by the heads of the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting churches in a ceremony in St Mary's Cathedral.
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"Ending the vigil beside the statue of Yagan, early martyr of the Aboriginal Nyungar people, expressed the Concerned Christians commitment to stand beside Aborigines in their efforts to gain justice," said the group's convenor Beth Mowry. "The prayer and fasting were undertaken when Christians of the three denominations felt the moral considerations of land rights were being ignored. "Instead, the media focused on the views of vested interests in land rights the mining interests, pastoralists and political parties. She said the 40-day vigil was not intended to influence people to a particular view of land rights but w encourage people to pray for God's guidance in considering the moral issues.
E "Although this highlighting moral arguments has a political issue as does other public issues we were surprised by those who saw the action as purely political and who misinterpreted the true intention of the prayer vigil. Beth Mowry said the vigil had drawn the group more closely to the Aboriginal perspective of the Bill which the group now considers to fall far short of legitimate aspirations for Western Australia's Aboriginal people. Concerned Christians for Justice in land Rights say the Aboriginal land Bill: • distances itself from the major recommendations of the Seaman Inquiry and has given priority to mining interests. • accommodates or compensates less than half of the Aboriginal people of WA. Most significantly. the 10,000 Nyungars of the South-West and the urban fringe dwellers remain completely uncompensated yet they have been
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Cardinal vs communist ROME (NC) — The vicar general of Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti, and the city's Communist mayor, Ugo Vetere, have been engaged in a pre-election debate over the role of Catholics in the City Council. The verbal sparring began in February, when Cardinal Poletti told a group of Rome Religious to be guided by Christian inspiration in upcoming local administrative elections May 12. That brought an immediate response by Vetere, who heads a four-party coalition that controls the council. Italy's Catholics have traditionally supported the Christian Democrats, the country's largest party. The Christian Democrats, however, have been out of power in Rome since 1976.
"Retired" missioner returns ADELAIDE: At 82. Mrs Olive Allerton, who is renowned by Australia's Catholic community for her tireless work with India's poor, has returned from India and is now in a Beulah Park nursing home. Mrs Allerton was already afflicted with a crippling muscular disease and while in India used a wheelchair or crutches. She first hit Australian newspaper headlines five years ago when she left her Toowoomba retirement home, and all the comforts that brought, to join a Church mission team in the slums of India. The prospect of retirement and endless bridge parties
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Record In the centuries when the holy places of Jesus' life were in the hands of the Muslims it was the dream of Christendom to make a journey there no matter what the cost of life or limb. The Crusaders did not always show the purest side of the spirit of the Christian pilgrim but they were motivated by that same irrepressible spirit to have walked where the Lord once walked. The human price of war, captivity, hunger and thirst was its own reward and in the aftermath of having slain Christianity's enemies it was less important how one walked behind the Lord than where one had walked. Today the comfort of a jetliner can put a pilgrim down in those same holy places with scarcely an ounce of perspiration. Christians still throng their way through Israel, especially at this time, but it is still a journey that the majority world tourists, say to Europe, would not consider. Admittedly, the pall of war clouds that have hung over Israel and its neighbours for the past 40 years dissuade many people from making the journey. It is very likely a disguise for the deeper questions that deter a pilgrim to the Holy Land. Despite the flowering of the desert so prominently publicised by the modern state of Israel, it is still a harsh terrain by many visitors' standards: high temperatures, craggy hills and mountains, dust that has swirled from thousands of years of cultivation and quarrying. From the cool comfort of a church it requires a transition of soul as well as body to the land where it actually happened. For all their stark and occasionally excruciating detail the 14 church representations of Jesus' last struggle are not reality, even in the crowded modern alleyways of the Old Jerusalem which are not quite the same under foot now that Honda-power carries the load once given to the very obvious donkeys. In the Babel of conflicting corners of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the encased rock of Calvary is at once sacred but remote from the reality. In the streets, the clear line of the gospel is hard to trace as Israel's economic and political tensions dominate the news. The pilgrim rubs shoulders with the agressive agnostic Israeli and wonders if Jesus would stand a chance of being heard in the din. Was thiithe realty of 2000 years ago? The journey into Israel is a journey with a difference because the pilgrim is in search of the Incarnation, the place where God has touched this earth. Our Lord summed up the pilgrim-tourist's dilemma when he challenged the people scrambling out into the wilderness to see John the Baptist: What did they expect to see when they got there? Christendom does not make its physical journey to Israel this week because the same dilemma would face every individual Christian: What would you expect to see when you get there? Instead, the journey has to be one of the soul and yet it has to be encased in the human form that will trek, in the mind, through those same rugged holy places. If the whole of life is but a pilgrimage for each individual then Holy Week becomes the special pilgrimage for the Christian. It is a journey that has no doubt about where it is beginning and where it is going to end. It is a journey that may have to be attempted many times before its reality is discovered. It is a journey that starts off in the tumult of this world, in the middle of the shouting crowds that will get behind any personality who can solve their problems. The clamour of Palm Sunday is the clamour of the television advertisement that promises instant happiness but leaves the sour taste of emptiness when happiness is not delivered. No wonder they turned on Jesus. He was saying something else. He wanted instead to talk about His Death. Very few of us want to talk about that subject even in these enlightened modem days of dealing with the subject. Death is only worth talking about if life has produced a result, a conversion of heart, if the real pilgrim tracks have been followed, not the makebelieve. Good Friday cannot be imposed from the outside. No wonder it has finished up being no more than the beginning of the "easter holiday". Why would anyone take a day off work to think about Jesus' death? There must be other places to visit, other things to remember that are not so disturbing. The pilgrimage of Holy Week is not pointless or without result because the outcome is not entirely in our hands. As Jesus led his Twelve up and down the roads of Galilee and Judaea the familiar countryside began to look different. He had taught them to see what they had not at first expected—, 4
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Concern about V atican budget f inances ROME (NC) — The
gap between the Holy See's operating income and its expenses is "serious reason for concern" because Church officials no longer can cover the shortfall with the worldwide Peter's Pence collection alone, said Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia. The Vatican is using invested funds which should be earning interest to make up the difference, he said. The situation is not critical, but Church officials need to find ways to increase contributions from Catholics for the Holy See's operations. Cardinal Krol told National Catholic News Service. He spoke after attending a March 5-8 meeting of the Council of Cardinals advising Pope John Paul II on the finances and organisation of the Holy See's central administration and its worldwide operations. The Vatican's deficit is estimated to reach 530 million in 1985. The 1984 shortfall was partly covered by reserve funds. The reserve funds come from the money given to the Vatican under the 1929 Lateran Pacts by the Italian government for expropriation of the papal states, said Cardinal Krol. "The problem is those funds earn income. But the income is not enough to cover the gap, so they are now reducing the principal," he said. This means less earned income in the future, he added. To solve the budget problem over the long run, Church officials must find means of increasing contributions, the primary source of income, said Cardinal Krol. The cardinal suggested a quota system by which Catholics, especially in the developed countries, would be assessed about one per cent of their income with part of the money being used for the Church in their country and the rest being forwarded to the Holy See. In Perth archdioceses, the churches already contribute on June 29 each year one per cent of their income to the Peter's Pence collection. Eighty five per cent of the 1984 collection came from the United States, West Germany, France and Italy. Almost 60 per cent came from the United States alone. But Catholics in developed countries must do more to support the Holy See because people in underdeveloped countries cannot make significant contributions, he added. "What are you going to get out of drought-stricken Ethiopia?" he asked.
Record reporter, COLLEEN HOWARD continues her feature on the life and times of Father Ray Quirk, the Franciscan Friar who worked as a missionary in New Guinea, and also as an army chaplain. They dug up the box and there was the chalice, ciborium and monstrance, along with mildewy but intact church registers. Father Ray thinks the Passionist Fathers, who ultimately took over from the Franciscans, may still have these same sacred vessels at Vanimo today. It was 18 months since cessation of hostilities and regrowth had taken over the devastated mission post. Father Ray sought to cut, dry and burn the vegetation and began rebuilding — an operation no one forgot in a hurry Upon firing the site, hidden 44 gallon fuel drums exploded, grenades and bombs detonated and bullets fired! The children dived into the relative safety of the briney and submerged themselves until the fireworks abated! Father Ray didn't repeat the exercise! He also had the task of burying the Japanese and some American dead, killed during battle. There were 500 skeletons at the mission post alone Graves were dug and some given sea burials. Many more Japanese servicemen were discovered inland and up mountain sides, not having had the strength to make it to the top. The rebuilding venture, but the forerunner of many, saw completion of a house, medical centre and dispensary, plus a big bush hut used as a hospital: Father Ray then began the medical aspect of his missionary work, giving 200 injections daily, mainly for yaws (an indigene contracted disease brought on by food deprivation, bad sanitation, repercussive to the war), and
Father Quirk went to the Sepik region of New Guinea, on the north west coast of the British ruled section of the main island, soon after it was liberated from the World War II Japanese occupation.
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Father Quirk's New Guinea occasionally for malaria, meningitis and pneumonia. Father had to use the NAB and sulphur drugs as penicillin was not freely available at that time, when it did become so, it proved invaluable His treatments were imperative as the "people were dying like flies", without his care. Normally the indigenes' immune systems (now depleted because of the war) were greater than Cauca-
sians and had remarkable powers of recovery, where a white man would have died. Even tiny babies seemingly close to death and burning with fever, recovered and were drinking mother's milk within an hour after an injection of quinine.
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Objectives of peace rallies From KIERAN RYAN, state president National Civic Council SIR: One of the great concerns of the 1980s is the question of peace and how peace is to be maintained. If genuine disarmament is to be achieved it will not be assisted by demonstrators acting to destroy the position of one super power against the other. Again, the Palm Sunday peace rallies have as their major objective the termination of the American alliance in a way Soviet foreign policy would be given a significant boost. Some advertisements for the rallies proclaim "No US bases; No MX tests; end the ANZUS Alliance- others call for unilateral disarmament the absurd suggestion the US should disarm first as a gesture of goodwill. If Christians are to campaign for genuine peace they should dissociated them-
selves from such a policy and certainly not participate in the politically biased Palm Sunday rallies. They should refuse to allow the spiritual nature of this day to be perverted and set aside their own day surrounded by r ational discussion and prayer. It is no accident the organiser of the Brisbane rally is the vice-president of the Moscow — backed Socialist Party of Australia. This party is the driving force of a significant section of the peace movement throughout Australia. The People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) who are organising the Perth rally is dominated nationally by communist and extreme left-wing personalities. It is bank rolled by two communist controlled unions, the AMFSU (metal-
Because of the combination of an expanded news coverage and associated production difficulties, priority in future will be given to double-spaced typewritten or handprinted letters of 150 words or less. Letters must include a name and address, not necessarily for publication, and be at The Record office by Monday morning the week of publication. workers) and the FEDFA, (engine drivers) which make regular donations by bank transfer and direct monthly payments. Christians interested in real peace should not participate with these people not only because they are philosophically opposed but because they are wrong. Any policy deliberately designed to give a distinct advantage to one side over the other, does more to harm
peace than to achieve peace. Peace has been maintained since the end of the World War II for one reason and one reason alone. It has nothing to do with demonstrations but everything to do with the balance of power. Remove that balance and then peace really is threatened. In Western Australia the promotion of a Helen Cal& cott film by the newly formed
Father Quirk is a New Guinea legend well loved and honoured with OEM, AM, MBE, and is currently residing at the Midland Friary. His reputation for being
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V ATICAN CITY: During his Angelus address, Pope John Paul spoke of those who suffer from f amine and noted "every b rother who dies of hunger weighs on the c onsciences of all." He urged Christians to show their concern for w orld hunger and said "Christianity is a religion of love" and "a religion of sociality". The parable of the Good Samaritan teaches Christianity has to be put into action, the pope said.
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You can prevent disease this Lent. Missionaries travelling by boat on the Sepik River, near Angoram. introducing white para-medics and 1952 saw the establishment of the first hospital in Vanimo Living alone — the villagers lived 20 minutes walking distance away through the was not without its jungle trials. Asking father how he avoided "going troppo", he recounted stones of cases who did, and said, as you had no one to talk to of your own kind, it was often hard to know whether you had been
Catholics for Peace is ot concern as Dr Caldicott fits the peace protestors stereotype in that she is antiAmerican and pro-Soviet. To quote her "the Russians are OK to work with . . the US has many military bases around the world where as Russia does not.- 'Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Ma 8-7-81). In a long article published in the Soviet Pravda on December 1, 1980, Dr Caldicott really showed her colours. "Our politicians have long ago turned into obedient puppets of the military — industrial complex. . . 'The noisy jabber about the "Soviet threat" begins every time the Pentagon adopts a new system of mass annihilation into its arsenal. 'We received a telegram by President Brezhnev in reply to out appeal to end the arms race. "Soviet physicians immediately supported our movement,- she says. It would be reassuring to hear the WA Catholics For Peace do not follow the path of their Victorian counterparts who mix it with every left-wing outfit they can find. A January 1984 newsletter of the Victorian Catholics For Peace shows they are work-
affected tool There were tragic cases of men who would climb on roof tops and howl like wolves and of suicides brought on by mental stress caused by loneliness and isolation, on individual outposts. In one case, a replacement of a recent suicide, stayed one night only and returned the next day back to civilization, unable to stand Many incidents filled Father Ray's life, some of which had their frightening aspects.
ing with PND, the Movement Against Uranium Mining, Friends of the Earth, Women for Survival of Pine Gap fame, and those associated with civil disobedience at Roxby Downs. It would be even more reassuring if the WA group. as they use the name Catholic, could say they pursue the policy of the pope in these matters. That is: nuclear arms are
He told of how one night at dusk, when his assistants were preparing to leave for the village, his house-boy rushed back into the house, his face ashen-grey with fear, stating the "Sanguma- (sorcerers of the inland people), had encircled the house area -Lulu- his dog started barking wildly, as Father went out and fired bullets into the air, to intimidate any would-be agressors
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morally defensible as a deterrent in the process of arms limitation and disarmament; and that disarmament must be bi-lateral involving both nuclear and conventional weapons as the only sure way to peace. Perhaps not insignificantly, the crowd that cheered Christ on the first Palm Sunday were the same people who three days later were calling for His crucifixion
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from JOHN CAHILL, Shenton Park. SIR Liberal Party spokesmen seem to be constantly stressing land rights are granted on the basis or race. Land rights are not based on race. They are based on the dispossession of the Aboriginal people. Phillip Pendal's claim Aboriginal ownership of land is divisive (The Record. March 21) leaves me bewildered. Under the proposed legislation Aborigines will own the land on weaker title than other freeholders. Far from having more rights than the rest of us, they will have less. The logic of the WA Liberal Party's opposition to land rights should lead to a prohibition on ownership of land
in this state against all but Europeans. For Asians and Africans to own land would be as racially divisive as for Aborigines to own it. On principle, the Liberal Party supports private ownership and is opposed to unnecessary state ownership. The WA party's implacable opposition to land rights is quite odd when seen in the context of its own philosophy. I would be happy to see Mr Pendal oppose the Bill in the Upper House if it were because the Bill falls so far short of the first and legitimate aspirations of the Aboriginal people. The irony is he may end up doing the right thing but for dreadfully wrong reasons.
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Although he had always been a better than-average student and finished sixth out of a class of 97 in second-year sub-junior in his final year at CBC Fremantle, Mike Devereux had never enjoyed the classroom. Sport had been fine and he had got on well with his contemporaries. They included Brian Gore, whose name was to ring from the Philippines throughout the world; Barry Hodge, now the WA Minister for Health; Harry Neesham, of later football fame; the boy who was to become Father Ted Miller; and John Cattalini, nowadays the Mayor of Fremantle.
Michael David (Mike) Devereux, secretary of the WA Division of the Bank A ustralian Employees' Union, was born at North Fremantle on September 5, 1944. He attended the Tuckfield and King Streets schools of the Sisters of N otre Dame des Missions, Fremantle CBC and Fremantle Technical College. His first job was at Woolworths, Fremantle, w here Father Brian G ore's mother was a supervisor, before he moved to several menswear stores, the last of w hich was Barny Silbert's.
But academia was not for him.
At the age of 16 he j oined the accounts branch of the WA Government Railways where he became a founding direc-
So soon after he had reached the legal school leaving age of 14, he quit and got a job at Woolworths Fremantle for a wage of two pounds five shillings ($4 50) a week. Mike Devereux
DEE The headstrong adolescent soon realised that education, no matter how abhorent, was vital if he were to make any progress in the world He enrolled for night classes at the Fremantle Tech. It was the beginning of a part-time study path that he was to tread throughout the years of his later employment a t three port menswear stores and with the WA Government Railways. His menswear store days marked his official entry into the field of organised labour when he joined the Shop Assistants' Union whose local organiser, Jim Feeney, had impressed him more than somewhat. His interest was inevitable because his forebears for generations had been keen unionists. In 1960 Mike got a job in the accounts and audits branch of the WAGR in Perth, and his new employment had some interesting sidelights.
Union background One of them involved the central police station, which was located close to his Beaufort Street office. Every now and again a policeman would appear and enlist the aid of Mike and selected colleagues in an identity parade at the lock -up. No victim ever picked him out as the alleged criminal, but he might well have been wrongly "fingered- with embarassing consequences. As a Justice of the Peace for the past 12 years, he is now engaged in a different branch of law enforcement. A figure of the time still clear in his memory is the late Cobber Wright, the cripple who conducted a newspaper kiosk just around the corner. Mike recalls him as a
cheery, common-sense philosopher ready to listen to the woes of his customers and give them comforting and practical advice
He was also generous with interest-free loans to deserving cases At the tender age of 17 or 18, young Devereux became the secretary of the accounts and audits branch of the Railway Officers' Union
EDE It was an appointment that was to bring much in its wake Travelling from Fremantle to his work in Perth one day, he found an abandoned copy of
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tor of the Railway Officers' Credit Union. It was the first step along this path, and the next saw him as manager -secretary of the Railways' Institute Credit Union for seven years. He started with the Australian Bank Employees' Union as an organiser in 1979 and became secretary in 1981. Mike is state economic officer of the Knights of the Southern Cross and belongs to the Queen's Park branch. He is a former member of the Kenwick-Thornlie parish council and of the local P and F. In his younger days he w as very active in the Y CW. Mike and his wife Sue ( nee Feeney) have three daughters and a son aged from six to 13.
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r 'bank' secretary the Readers' Digest on a train seat. Its article on credit unions, of which he had never heard, sowed an immediate seed in his mind. Before long he and Fred Membrey had formed the R ailway Officers' Credit Union. Fred is still its secretary, and Mike was its first account holder. There was no payroll deductions in those days and the No 1 account -holder was kept busy answering all sorts of credit union questions and collecting dues when he travelled round as a WAGR pay officer. Among other voluntary chores he undertook were running the union's Christmas club and discount service. The WAGR salary was not princely so he took on a parttime job, first as a barman and later stock controller, at the Raffles Hotel at Canning Bridge. In the seven years he spent there, he thoroughly enjoyed meeting a big cross-section of the public and gaining an insight into the workings of a different industry. Somehow or other, he managed to find the time to continue his studies now of agricultural subjects because he had acquired a small
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE property at Serpentine. But property and study went by the board when he was afflicted with a serious illness and had to undergo major surgery. He had been born 11 weeks premature. This had resulted in his aorta being only a quarter of the normal size, with deleterious effects on his heart as an adult. In the operation that was necessary he lost nearly all the ribs on his left side, and a plastic tube was installed to connect the heart to the brain. But in a time far shorter than
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the doctors had predicted, he was back at work and shortly afterwards playing tennis and squash again. Again despite predictions, he suffers only one lasting illeffect from the massivee surgery, and that is minor. His eyes are now more sensitive to light than they were previously. "My case proves wrong the old belief people born prematurely never grow as tall as those whose birth was normal," Mike laughs down from his 6ft 4in. He left the WAGR to be the manager -secretary of the Railways Institute Credit
Union, and his first day in the new post was memorable So bereft of everything was the credit union, he even had to borrow a pen from the secretary of the institute When he left the credit union seven years later, it had S3 million in deposits. He joined the WA Division of the Australian Bank Employees' Union as an organiser in 1979 and became secretary in 1981. He believes members should run a union, and the union should not become involved in politics. He often clashes with the federal office of his union on policy matters. For instance, he strongly disagrees with the federal office's view the union should affiliate with the Australian Labor Party.
LEE He contends the union's best interests are served by doing what it can to ensure the growth of the banking industry (credit union staff are also members of the union). 'We cannot and should not oppose the progress of technology,' he says, "but too many employers do not discuss with their staffs the changes occurring in work practises. "They also neglect staff training to cope with these changes • Cont page 12.
Every now and again a policeman would appear and enlist the aid of Mike and selected colleagues in an identity parade at the lock-up. No victim ever picked him out as the alleged criminal, but he might well have been wrongly "fingered" with embarassing consequences.
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number of pilgrims shrine at e Lourdes, France, increased in 1984. There were about 4 2 mi l lion visitors to the shrine in 1984, compared to about 4 million the previous year. An analysis of the figures showed that the increase was among those traveling to the shrine individually, that is, not with an organised tour.
inLONDON (NC) The Church of EngLiland general synod has endorsed the f inal report of the Anglican -Roman Catholic International Commission but raised serious questions about the role of authority in the Catholic Church The synod overwhelmingly approved the ARCIC-agreed statements on the Eucharist and on ministry and ordination, which it described as "consonant in substance with the faith of the Church of England." But in the statement on authority, it found only "sufficient convergence" to warrant further discussions of authority, collegiality and primacy in the Church The Anglicans expressed widespread scepticism about the way authority is handled in the Catholic Church The Anglicans voiced anxieties about the Catholic role of the laity and over Catholic dogmas regarding the Immaculate Conception and assumption of Mary
Peres and John Paul in talks VATICAN CITY (NC) — Religion and politics must remain separate when considering the status of Jerusalem, Israeli Prime minister Shimon Peres said after meeting with Pope John Paul II. The pope showed he wants the peace and well-being of my country," said Peres, who, like the pope, was born in Poland.
UNITED NATIONS (NC) — The well-being of the family should be a "paramount concern in the development of population policies," Mons James McHugh, adviser to the Vatican's UN mission, told the UN Population Commission.
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The status of Jerusalem remains a touchy issue between the Vatican and Israel. Pope John Paul has called for international guarantees which would protect Jerusalem as a city sacred to Jews. Moslems and Christians.
WASHINGTON (NC) — The president of the US Conference Catholic asked all members of Congress to vote against funding of the controversial MX missile. In a triple attack on the administration-backed nuclear system, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago and Archbishop John O'Connor of New York also called for "nay" votes on the MX.
The Vatican has expressed opposition to the 1980 Israeli decision to declare Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel. Arab countries oppose the Israeli decision, saying parts of Jerusalem should be returned to Jordan, which lost them in the 1967 war with Israel. Peres was the second Israeli prime minister to meet a pope. Golda Meir met Paul VI in 1973.
MANILA — The growth of basic Christian communities in the Philippines has been a quiet but "revolutionary" development in the life of the island-nation's Catholic Church, says retired Bishop Claver of Malaybalay, Philippines. The communities have been creating a "more participatory Church," while most media attention has focused on the Church's conflict with the Philippine government, he said. B asic Christian communities were "empowering the powerless through the Gospel" and e nabling "faith to be stronger than ideology," said the bishop. Bishop Clayer said the members of basic Christian communities participate in the decisions which brought change in t heir communities, as well as in society.
Mons McHugh spoke to the commission during hearings on programs and policies developed by the 1984 International Population Conference in Mexico City. "It is extremely important to recognise the different types of family structure, the cultural traditions of various nations and the importance to society of the stability of the family," he said. Mons McHugh advises the Holy See's delegation on population matters. He told the commission the Vatican emphasises "recognition of the dignity of the person in the formulation of policies and the establishment of programs." fundamental Recognising human rights and freedom, such as determining the size of a family, also was important, he said. Programs such as those dealing with adolescent pregnancy, which "attempt to meet the problem merely by providing contraceptive services and advice, represent a limited and negative approach," V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Faith is both possible and Mons McHugh told the commisnecessary because "God is credible," Pope John Paul II sion. said during a weekly audience. The Vatican refused to endorse "No one is like him. No one possesses the authority of the truth like he does," the pope said. the population plan developed at Pope John Paul said in speaking the "I believe" that the Mexico City conference, begins the Christian creeds, people profess their faith saying the plan encouraged both in the truth and in the person of Christ. methods of family planning "that The creed, in collecting religious truths, is one of the the Catholic Church finds morally "symbols of faith" that should be fundamental points of reference for religious teaching, the pope said. unacceptable."
Peres said he did not ask the pope to establish diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Israel but he did invite him to visit the Middle East country.
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The UN conference called on governments to increase funds to make voluntary birth control methods and education more widely available.
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"The visible world," he said, "constitutes for the human intellect the basis for affirming the existence of the invisible creator."
African crisis spreading UNITED NATIONS (NC) — Droughtstricken Africa needs S1.5 billion in shortterm emergency aid to feed its people through the next harvests, UN officials said. The figure represents immediate needs above what has already been supplied in aid, they said. It would cover 20 African countries south of the Sahara Desert. Africa's "unprecedented crisis" shows little signs of abating in the near future, the
officials said. The $1.5 billion represented conservative and realistic assessments" of the situation as of January. They predicted the African emergency would last well into 1986 and the need for funds would grow. Any shortfall in international response "must be measured not just in terms of a deficit in funds available, but in terms of human lives lost unnecessarily."
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VATICAN CITY (N(; ) Scientific progress can stimulate faith, Pope John Paul II said during his weekly general audience. "The immense progress made by modern science in coming to understand the physical universe," the pope said, can "serve as a stimulus to faith in God or at least to the recognition of the mystery of creation."
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A perspective on life is "an attitude, a way of considering myself, the people around me, people of different races, religion and colour,- says Jesuit Father Walter Burghardt in an interview with Katharine Bird. In a special way, he suggests, the development of a perspective on life involves coming to terms with one's past, with present events and hopes for the future. Suzanne Elsesser reflects on the 25 years since she graduated from college, concluding that she is still pursuing some goals set then, though in new and fresh ways. Some goals run like threads through her entire life, so that the past is not as remote as it might at times seem, she suggests. that c,an be fuller •David Gibson examines the focus of Christians on personal growth — on a future and better. Gibson, editor of NC's religious education package, says that the human person always has a sense of being incomplete, a sense that there is more to come in the future. This becomes a major factor in the person's outlook on life. Father John Castelot tells how a certain man named Simon had his perspective gently altered when he invited Jesus to dinner. To Simon's surprise, Jesus defended the seemingly outrageous actions of a woman who c,ame in and washed Jesus' feet at dinner. The struggle between an expanding stomach and its owner, a man reaching middle age, was recounted in a short story by American writer John Cheever. The stomach won the struggle. The personal expansion I i man then underwent may have been typical, though not the sort of growth actively sought out by others his age.
Discovering a true potential What kinds of personal growth are open to adults like the man in Cheever's story? Undoubtedly Cheever had his finger on a real concern of many who would like to alter lifestyles by eating less. Probably they'd also like to alter lifestyles in other ways: by
reducing stress or getting free of a habit that enslaves them. Some want to grow by entering into more valuable c onversations with spouses and friends and by listening more carefully to those very people. 'Ihe -me generation" proposes that you grow hest by hecoming rigorously independent, seizing control over life's events and making certain those events are to your advantage. And, it can't do much good if life's events swirl out of control, making you thcir victim. But there is another side of
the coin. It is found in a Gospel that proposes adults grow by discovering the truc potential of interdependence. The pursuit of adult growth
can be frustrating at times. A photographer can
observe a plant's development over time, capturing each stage of that development on film. Yet if you sit
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n the uman Situation Expanding our horizons in retrospect Some of us sat in c omfortable chairs; others perched on chair arms; most of us were seated on the c arpeted floor, the spot young people find most comfortable in any location. That was 25 years ago. We were a group of senior women gathered in the living room of a residential university college.
We were together for a last conversation with our president. We would soon graduate and he wanted a few informal last words with us. It's amazing how I still remember the faces and I I !I1iP1 in that room — my ri)ommate Gail and close friends, Judy, Barbara and Betty. We'd lived. studied and
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had fun together for four years. Now we were leaving. I don't remember the exact words President Joseph Palamountain useI that evening, but I dly recall his image of an amusement park set beside the ocean.
He said that when we got "out there in the real world" there would be choices to make. There would be the gaudy lights, the noise and the self-serving activities of the amusement park. And there would be the natural beauty of the ocean with its vast horizon on the other. Palamountain implored us not to spend our lives caught up in the glitter, commotion and finiteness of the amusement park. With a gentle smile and pull on the pipe he always held, he urged us instead to set our sights high, to I. toward the horizon that would expand even as we moved toward it.
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I liked the president's imagery. But how little any of us knew then what reaching toward those horizons and not getting stuck in distractions would really mean for us. Many of us married and started families soon after our graduation. We spent the swirl of the 1960s — the civil rights movement, the Great Society, Vatican II, Vietnam — as young wives and mothers. We gave our first priority to spouses, the creation of a home and the raising of our babies as they came. Our priority was family and we did that well. But we did more. We continued studying in graduate schools, we read, we listened to what was being said around us, we worked and learned, we discussed and kept the image of boundless horizons before us. Gail, Judy, Betty, Barbara and I are different now — different than we expected to be in 1960. We thought then that our moment of maturity had
come with diplomas and marriages. Among us now we have five masters' degrees, 13 almost grown children and careers that involve us beyond our families. Gail is a psychotherapist in private practice; Judy the manager of a business; Betty a community organiser; Barbara a social worker with adolescents; I a writer and pastoral minister.
The five of us have grown through the continuing challenges of parenting and mrriage, a the realities of relationships and our fears as we ten• • tatively took steps into the world of work. In new60 19 we were not fully aware how much we were poised on the edge of world-changing events. Nor did We truly suspect that 25 years later we would still be mming, with increasing self-confidence, toward the horizon that so preoccupied us on graduation eve.
still and watch a plant. you can't see it growing. It is much the same with personal growth. After a long period, an adult looks hack and says "Yes, I've grown. matured." But the growth may have been nearly imperceptible all along the way. Furthermore, the growth likely occurred along a twisting, irregular path.
UIUIS It seems that the conscious decision to foster personal growth does not pmduce instant perfection. A decision to grow — to develop as a person — is a decision to change. This kind of decision, of course, can produce its own set of fears. Not least is the fear that your own change won't be welcomed by others — or, worse, that your changes will hurt others. This fear can be a healthy reminder. however, that personal change isn't achieved in isolation. Communication with the others who are intimate parts of your life is of the essence when it comes to decisions about change. Isn't it possible that people will grow together? "fhere is, however, a basic curiosity that drives people to develop as persons. We sense that we are underdeveloped in certain areas. This writer confesses he is an underdeveloped pianist. At age 19, 12 years of piano were behind me — literally I gave it up, only to return
20 years later wondering just hovv much I'd left behind. Our niece, a piano teacher, says she now takes more and more students in their 40s, people just like mc. They are curious to discover how much they left behind — to recapture a missing part of themselves. Thoma.s :Merton, the Trappist monk who was an influential writer, was driven by curiosity about his potential for spiritual growth. He died of accidental electrocution while iting the Far East. But he left behind his "Asian Joumal'' to reveal iust how intense his curiosity was about ways to grow as a Christian. like Father Merton, many people suspect there are depths not yet touched withiI themselves. And they become curious about those depths. It is, I think, a curiosity coloured by the sense tIat each human person is incomplete — with much IIore to come in the future.
"Faith which does not convert itseff into culture is a faith which has not been fully received, not entirely thought out and not lived with t S tal fidelity." (Pope John PaulII speaking in Quito, Ecuador, February 1985.) "Your church history is rich in illustrious models of Chiistian living, who were able to illuminate their time with the newness of the Gospel and to guide toward the transformation of a better future." (Pope John PaulII speaking in Lima, Peru. February 1985.) " 'Christ has ransomed us, freeing us from evil; he has forgiven our sins; he has reconciled us with God and with our brothers and ters." (Pope John Paul II)
Laugh a little at yourself By Katharine Bird -emamminli
At 45 and again at 60, Jesuit theologian Father Walter Burghardt asked himself, "Is my life worth living?" Both times, and especially when he was 60, he answered "with a resounding S. and literal 'By yesr." Having seen his book SeaII sons That 1.augh or Weep ( Paulist, IL lAhere the comment above appeared, I wanted to ask hien some F uestions about how Christians fine-tune their outlook Sn a life in which expectations of the future, memories of the past and a complicated life in the present moment sometimes seern to compete for attention. The history of the Christian community reveals "we are a pilwim people, mining like lightning in fits and starts, advances and regressions," Father Burghardt said in our conversation. He added: "Faith gives a vision, a way of looking at reality, how I get there, where I am going." For this theologian, a knowledge of history — our personal history' as individuals and our history' as a Christian community — is crucial in developing a perspective on life. "If we are to find our way through our future, we must find our way through our past he writes in his book. For the Christian "the most demanding type of memory is memory 4 the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ," the Jesuit says It is in connecting the human story with the story of the suffering Jesus that Christians learn how to transform the events of their lives into an opportunity to explS re God's works among them. This suggests that growth can he hard. Essential to growth as Christians is learning how to let go, Father Burghardt observes: "Time and again. froni womb to tomb, you have to let go. And to let go
is to die a little, it s painful." But, he continues, for the journey to go forward, you have to "let go of the level of life where you are now, so as to live more fully." Fine-tuning one's outlook as a C.hristian almost inevitably involves adapting to change — in oneself, in
others, in the circumstances of ones life. Flannery O'Connor, the Catholic novelist and short -story writer, represents for Father Burghardt what this can involve. At age 25 Ms O'Connor discovered she had incurable lupus erthyematosus; she died at 39 in 1964. In
his book, he tells how much he admires her re-alism and her ability to adjust to hcr drastically altered situation. He writes: "She described her human and Christian stniggle as 'not a struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and -4Aith pa.ssion. I mean, possibly, v.ith joy'."
Desire — clarifying what is most important to a person — is "the beginning of change" for Dolores leckey. Desire is vital when it comes to promoting growth as a Christian. Sbe pointed out that Jesus in his healing istry often asked people: "What do you really stunt?" Mrs Leckey said that
Through prayer and discussion, the woman finally saw that "creating beautiful spaces for God" could he a Christian gift. Mrs Leckey said. Now the U'Olflan uses ber gift to create peaceful emir-or:merits in special group situations where children are living temporarily away from home. Skill at listening is a key factor in Christian growtS. according to Suzanne ELsesser. " When I became a Catholic." Ms Messer said. "I listened a lot to what others said about the church and about what they we're doing in tbe church." From tening she discovered "whatIwas looking for — a community of people trying to accomplish something together. That was very attractive to me. - she commented. She added that "listening inprayer" is helpful
for growth too. Sbe often prays without using words. "Something happens in the quiet." Ms Messer said. "Iget new thoughts and connections. make Somehow God is communkating with me." Developing a positive
I . bow one wants to change can come from spiritual directors or a SMal &WW1in a parish. She told of a woman who was convinced she bad no gift for church ministry. In talking with a spiritual director, it gradually became clear that tbe woman had a gift for interior decoration. Lecke"' Mrs But, eAplained, the woman never had considered this gift in $a• I a ministry.
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Despite the king nights of suffering she experienced — suffering that meant she seldom WAS able to write more than three hours a day — her concern was for others. not for herself. Father Burghardt Nints out that Ms O'Connor W2S able to write to a "specially dear. troubled, questing friend: 'you will have found Christ when you are concerned 1,vith other people's sufferings and not your Father Burghardt adds: "I wish I had known her. There was so much christ-life in that frail frame — grace on crutches. lbe end of hcr life simply capped all that had gone before." The Jesuit indicated that in thc course of his long life he's had to adjust to mam changes. "To the challetizk• of change I could hardly respond 'no. thank he says. At one point, the challeny:c for him was hovv "to react to a cha.nging,ivorld, a changing church. a changing esthood . . My problem was how to harmonise past and I tradition t and reform." He commentS that for him the answer was to adapt creatively to nevv challenges, to find ways to "continue to discover God. sense his presence" in the people and circumstances of his life.
The heart has reasons By Father John Castelot Jesus um a dinner guest at the home of a certain man named Simon (Luke 7). His host had treated him wale rndely, omiting the customary kiss greeting and the soothing anointing of his head with perfumed oil This had to create a certain tension and matters didn't improve. The dining area um on the ground floor, open to the street. The interesting tabletalk ofa group of intelligent men was a strong attraction andit was not unusual for a passersby to slip in
unobtnisively to sit quietly along the wall. On this occasion the party crasher was a woman, a notorious streetwalker. Her entrance surely, bmught the contersation to a sudden, embarrassed halt. The guests reclined around small tables, supporting themselves on their left elbows, with their legs extended into the room. The woman made straight forJesus, fell at his feet and wept so copiously that her tears splashed on them. Embarrassed now, she hurriedly wiped auuy the tears with her hair (loose hair was the mark of a loose woman). Then, brazenly, she kissed his feet and rubbed them with scented rril she had in a ruse. This um too much for Simon ti,ho muttered: "If this man urre aprophet, he wouldknow who and what sort of woman this is that touches him, she is a
sinner." Jesus then told about turr men who owed a moneylender unequal amounts. The creditor wrote off both debts. Irbich person would be more grateful? Simon grudgingly replied: the one whose debt um greater. Jesus then applied his little parable to thepresent situation, explaining that the woman's tears were a genuine expression of gratittuie for God's forgiveness of her sins. In contrast to her behaviour, that of Simon was deplorable. One scholar. Frederick flanker, sums up Jesus' comments to Simon in his • hook, "Luke" ( Fortress Press, 1976): 'And so (Jesus) said of the woman, whose sensitivities the rude host had punctured uith hypocritical milers. look at all her kindnesses. As a hostess she has done better than you. As w5Jr sins,
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Igrant you, they are many, but she has already received forgiveness'." ( 7.-48). Jesus' comments were not the polite thing to say but the kingdom took precedenc-e °ter the socially 'Correct things." said Danker. Jesus gam this woman a new perspective on life and opened up the ftaure for her. Before the encounter with Jesus she had lost all selfrespect and had given up hope she rid ' timii of guilt and selfhatred. Previously she hadfelt like a nonperson, a thing. despised by those who used her a I by those lx) didn't ri'Ii tlitb Now she um a person, a potential for growth anti achievement. Something similar happened repeatedly in Jesus' ministry. He had a way of giringpeople a new perspective. of showing them that their lives had meaning arui undreaMed ofpotential for future grouth.
"'Listening to people of Hope, - by Brother Leonard of the ecumenicalmonastery in Taize, France. This book tells the stories of 30 individuals throughout the United States s truggling to help others under difficult conditions of poverty and hopeless. They include.. a young fll who found woman the simplicity in a California Catholic house worker -exactly what I'm looking for--; a Baptist niinister in San Texas, A ntonio, whose services electrify people and lead them to make prayer a more regular part S f their lives. Brother Leonard says he wrote the book out of the conviction that people often on't know what's going on next door." He believes the stories can demonstrate what the churches are called to become.. "A people one yet diverse,. suffering yet hoping,. uniting struggle for justice and contemplation. - (Pilgrim Press, 132 W 31st St, New York. 10001. $6.95.) "Allow the Redeemer to guide humanity toward a better future beyond the threshold which separates the second from the thirdmillennium." (Pope John Paul II) "To be human is to grow, to search, to discover, to share what one has found and to invite criticism of what one has shared. To be human is to know the warmth of being hugged and the loneliness of being rejected. To be human is to hunger physically, to hunger intellectually, t S hunger emotionally, to hunger spiritually, always to want more. It is precisely into that human hunger that God sS.,ks his word as food for life." (Holy Cross Brother James Hansen in the 1984 Paulist Press book, Christian, Why Be a Catholic?")
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The despairing mothers problem
Postnatal depression means mothers in despair. It's a far cry from the "baby blues" we all hear about. Postnatal depression is more distressing, deeper and longer lasting than a fit of the "blues". Mothers become very emotional, cheerless, despondent, anxious and lacking in confidence. They have disturbing feelings about themselves, baby and often other members of the family. Always tired, unable to sleep, poor appetite and loss of interest. These are some of the more common symptoms of Postnatal depression. Some 10 per cent of mothers suffer this depression while rearing very young children. This week Roslyn Ross looks at some of the possible causes of this, one of the cruellest disorders. Next week she talks to Jan Valentine, a founding member of the Postnatal Depression Support Group about her own experience of postnatal depression and about the work the group does in providing care, emotional support and practical guidance to women suffering from postnatal depression.
It's been called the "black rose", an ominous flower blooming after the birth of a baby. Post-natal depression means mothers in despair; energy gone underground, flatness a nd greyness all a round; desolation, silence, withdrawal from life. Women have variously described this time as being behind a black curtain, falling into a black pit, walking through a tunnel, falling into darkness. It is like the night of the soul when even the newly arrived baby can provide no flicker of light to show the way.
Some 10 per cent of mothers suffer this kind of depression while rearing very young children and approximately one in 500 deliveries is followed by a severe depression requiring hospital treatment and long term use of drugs. This is not the "baby blues' most of us know about, where tears may be ready to fall and physical exhaustion has taken the edge off life.
The "baby blues" are experienced by half of all mothers and usually happen shortly following birth They last only a few days Post -natal depression is more distressing, deeper and longer lasting, and usually begins when the mother comes home with the baby But the onset can be delayed for a few or many months This is a depression failing to pass in a few days It can last anywhere from three months to three years It can destroy marriages, cripple women and in the most tragic of cases, bring about the death of children Postnatal depression is not a new condition Hippocrates cited the case of a woman who gave birth to twins, developed restlessness and insomnia on the sixth day after birth, became delirious on the 11th day and went into a coma and died on the 17th day
His opinion was blood collecting at the breasts of a woman indicated madness. It is only recently depressive illness after childbirth has been isolated from mental distrubances from physical infection. Before the discovery of antibiotics, electric shock treatment and the main tranquilisers and anti -depressants, many women died from puerperal psychosis. The causes of death were toxaemia, dehydration, starvation and suicide. At one English hospital, of 134 women suffering from puerperal psychosis who were admitted between 1927 and 1961, 14 died, but of these, 13 were admitted between 1927 and 1941. The incidence of puerperal psychosis appears to have remained fairly static for the past hundred years or more which has led some psychiatrists to wonder whether the cause may not, in fact, be hormonal. The milder forms of postnatal depression have been reserched very little, even today, and there are no figures at all for earlier times. Like many disorders which affect only women, postnatal depression has found itself way down the research list. The -blues'. was first mentioned in medical literature in the late 19th century and was sometimes referred to as "milk fever". Whether we live in a more or less depressed state than our mothers or grandmothers is hard to say but it seems
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ILICSIUYN ILCSS likely that the greater suppression of women in years gone by and the glorification of motherhood would have led most women who experienced such symotoms to deny them. Apart from which, the physical labour required in those days to run a household and the constantly arriving babies would have been enough to make women many depressed. While women of past generations may not admit to feelings of depression after childbirth, the law has recognised for some time that women may become emotionally disturbed after the birth of a child. In Britain the Infanticide Act of 1938 states a mother cannot be found guilty of murder if she kills her own child within 12 months of its birth, provided the "balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth-.
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The cruelty of post -natal depression is it has never been easy at any stage of history to admit to mental disorder in the family — how much harder for a woman to admit to it when to all intents and purposes, and certainly in the opinion of those around her, "this should be the happiest time of her life-
While no-one denies the joy of parenthood, society still clings to the belief no woman can be fulfilled until she has become a mother — the other side of that coin is the belief every woman is filled with the joy of fulfilment as soon as she does have a baby. But the truth is motherhood drives many women to despair.
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tries all over the world They wake you up every time you go to sleep and you'll do anything and say anything.' We all know when a person is deprived of sleep over a long period they become confused and listless Complete sleep deprivation results in hallucinations and ultimately complete collapse For many women, those first six weeks after the baby's birth, while she is still tired from the exhausting delivery, can mean just a few hours sleep a night, and if there are other children, no chance to even stop, let alone rest during the day The surprising thing is not that 10 percent of women suffer severe depression but that the figure is not higher
becomes de -humanised and for this, the most human act of all, it is a tragedy In the hours and days after birth the woman may find herself, not only physically and emotionally exhausted but bearing an enormous burden of guilt and a sense of failure that the birth was "less than naturar
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What is even more disturbing is the lack of literature on t he subject of postnatal depression. It reflects the feelings of the mothers themselves that they "shouldn't be feeling this way". Why should the black rose bloom so bitterly when they have spent the past nine months looking forward so joyfully to the birth of their baby? The truth is no-one is quite sure and it is only in recent years enough people have bothered to try and find out. The only comprehensive book in world literature on psychiatric problems connected with childbearing was published in 1858, the milder forms of postnatal depression have hardly been studied at all
Obstetricians appear to have little interest in the subject, their job is to deliver the baby, and psychiatrists by and large consider it does not exist as a specific problem. Yet figures have shown something like a third to a half of mothers with pre-school children have been found to have been significantly depressed over a 12 month period. When a problem is recognised to have such proportions, it must not be ignored There are a number of factors contributing to the incidence of postnatal depression. Hospital birth must be one of them.
Any woman who has had a baby will testify to the autocracy and often downright insensitivity of hospital staff and medical practitioners Childbirth is the most natural thing of all, they say, and then plant mothers in hospitals and treat them as if they are sick
While the safety of mother and child is an important factor it seems likely concern with the physical safety has completely removed any concern with the emotional safety and well-being, certainly of the mother and no doubt of the child. Modern society, too, has placed enormous pressure on women to have their babies "naturally", whatever that means, for every birth is different. But despite the preparation and long discussions with doctors and hospital staff, women can find themselves pulled, pushed, injected and strung up before they know it. Not only does childbirth become de -sensitised, it becomes de-humanised and for this, the most human act of all, it is a tragedy. In the hours and days after birth the woman may find herself, not only physically and emotionally exhausted but bearing an enormous burden of guilt and a sense of failure that the birth was "less than natural". Few doctors or nurses take the time to discuss the birth
with mothers to give them a better understanding of their experience. In one case, a young woman of 22 experienced a very difficult first labour with agonisingly severe back pains and no sensation of stomach contractions or desire to push as she had been told to expect in preparation classes. Badly bruised by the experience (with no desire to push she had pushed wrongly and broken blood vessels throughout her body, including her eyes) and shattered at the relative failure of her intensive "breathing training" she had been left with a sense of shame and guilt. At the six-weekly checkup she had asked her doctor why it had hurt so much and been dismissed with the comment "it was just the position the baby was in", without being told what that position was. Her guilt remained for six months until a friend informed her the birth, a posterior delivery, was one of
the most difficult of all "If only someone had told me at the time," she said "I thought the birth was "normal" I felt weak and a failure" Such experiences leave women less than resilient when ultimately they return home with the baby
In her book, Postnatal Depression (published by Fontana), Vivienne Welburn says- "If a man who had just won the marathon was then allowed only three hours sleep at a stretch for the next six weeks whilst being expected to perform during the day a series of boring repetitive tasks in isolation and was constantly told throughout that he ought to be happy because he had won the Marathon, we might
imagine some fiendish political reigme was trying to break him. Yet women, after the immense physical effort of birth, face precisely these conditions and are expected to cope... She adds one primary cause which is underestimated by some 100 percent of male doctors, is fatigue, just sheer physical exhaustion "Some of them have the imagination to be able to realise in their heads at least. what it's like to be on the go all day with a very demanding two-year -old, and it really is a killing age to have all day, and then a baby who gets you up at regular intervals throughout the night. Some of them can imagine what that is like but a lot of them can't. It's like medieval torture isn't it? After all, it is used. They use it in Northern Ireland, they use it in coun-
Exhaustion can lead inevitably to isolation since it becomes impossible, without energy, to get out anywhere Lack of sleep undermines physical resistance and disturbs the balance of the mind While It is not easy to mark the point at which physical f atigue due to weeks of broken nights and daily housework turns into the lethargy of depression but it is easy to see how it happens The tiredness of depression is energy swallowed and unless there are people around to provide support and encouragement, ultimately the whole person is "swallowed" The other major factor is oi course the effect of hor mones Childbirth, along with puberty and menopause is a time of enormous social, psychological and physical upheaval when women are especially vulnerable to breakdown Some doctors hold the view that it is the fluctuations in hormones which leads to postnatal depression All bodily functions are regulated by hormones which are chemical messengers travelling on set routes through the body If there is a shortage or imbalance in hormones the body will react by producing either physical or psychological symptoms The two female sex hormones are oestrogen and progesterone These regulate the menstrual cycle, ovulation, pregnancy and the supply of breast milk It has been suggested that postnatal depression is caused by the problems experienced by some women in adjusting to low levels of
progesterone after birth. Between the sixth and 16th week of pregnancy much higher levels of progesterone are pumped into the body. Progesterone is nature's tranquiliser and high levels in the body may be one of the reasons why some women feel so placid during pregnancy The problem arises when the progesterone is removed. With the delivery of the placenta, which produces the much higher levels of progesterone, the hormone production is cut off abruptly and there is no more progesterone in the body until two weeks before menstruation. This means that the body has to adapt itself to a siriripn and considerable chemical change. While hormonal treatment is obviously the answer for some women, it is not the whole answer. Just as some women do not respond to psychiatric help for their depression, so hormone treatment is not the "instant answer" for others Mothers embarking on the immensely complex and responsible task of child rearing often to do without any social support Our faith in the natural ability of our bodies to give birth to and feed our baby is consistently undermined by the rigidly entrenched medical and hospital systems_ While motherhood is reputed to be important, many women find that society regards them as a nuisance once they have trailing toddlers and prams to push and pull through public places.
The nuclear family too. adds extra strain. It is not a flexible unit, it is far too small for that. It cannot open wide enough to provide the extra support and assistance that new mothers need. There is no protection for the children. The baby reared by an isolated mother receives the magnified intensity of her every mood, if her mood is depressed, how does the child interpret It? What effect does it have on a developing mind to be exclusively in the company of a listless, frustrated, miserable mother. These are the questions that must be answered if women are to be relieved of much unnecessary suffering and all children are to be given a bright and beautiful start to life.
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six weeks after the baby's birth, while she is still tired from the exhausting delivery, can mean just a few hours sleep a night, and
if there are other children, no chance to even stop, let alone rest during the day. The surprising thing is not that 10per cent of women suffer severe depression but that the figure is not higher.
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The sudden death of Jack Shanahan early this week was a loss to education that went far beyond his work at Servite College, his close associate Servile Father barn Mackie said yesterday.
the government to the Beazley inquiry on secondary education. His period in charge of Servite College saw a student increase from 500 to 800, the establishment of a centre for deaf and disabled, the construction of the manual arts centre and most recently the commencement of new classrooms and administration area. Father Mackie said Mr Shanahan was a leader with initiative, proven by the fact that he was inaugural chairman of many committees on which he served, including inaugural chairman of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Mr Shanahan was 58 and "He was a perfect Christian had been associated with Ser- gentleman, with great ability, vite College for 18 years, nine knowledge and wisdom and not attached to anything. He of them as headmaster. Originally from Fremantle was a great one for sharing his where he studied under the gifts,' he said. Christian Brothers he taught Monsignor Nestor of the with that order at Tardun Catholic Education Office said (1952-54), Highgate (1955-58) Mr Shanahan had a spirituality and Aquinas (1959-61) that was committed to the idea He spent a short time at Tuart of a Catholic school not only Hill and Applecross High in name but by showing his Schools and Christ Church own personal witness to it College before commencing at "He was a most approachable Servite, first as an after -school and gentle person and because physics coach and then joining of that was enormously availthe staff full time able. ready to drop whatever he He was deputy to Father was doing to put people at their Mackie 1971-75 and became ease." headmaster. While retaining His funeral took place at his that office he was seconded for Balcatta parish church of St 1983-84 to the Catholic Edu- Lawrence where he was inaugcation Office, as consultant and ural president of the parish liaison for Catholic secondary council and church organist. schools He was appointed by May he rest in peace.
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number of district credit unions and been involved in welfare work. He is active in the Knights of the Southern Cross and is a member of the State Executive of the ALP and of the Trades and Labour Council. Mike keeps his Catholic philosophy at the forefront of all his actions. A prominent YCVV member in his younger days, he believes Catholics now are looking for something as evidenced by the growth in membership of the Knights of the Southern Cross. "Catholics in the past," he says, "always looked after each other, and this is starting to happen again -- but we have a long way to go 'We have to get our youngsters to meet others of their own kind. "Unless we get the old YCW attitude back again the loss of young people from the parishes we are now suffering will increase. -The drop in the number of teenagers attending Mass is noticeable. 'They have to have the support of the parish. "More publicity for their activities in the parish bulletin would be a help in this direction.'" Mike spends a lot of time away from home and he says he could not carry on without the aid of "my wonderfully supportive wife_ -
'We have a lot of problems 0 Holy St Jude apostle and LYNAGH Sr Mary Lucwith health matters such as martyr great in virtue and PAINTING quality worIZ ina, St John of God ConRepetitive Strain Injury. at the right price. John rich in miracles, near kins- vent, Subiaco. Sr Lucina "It has been around since Freakley. Phone 361 4349. man of Jesus Christ, faith- died peacefully on March ful intercessor of all who 15 in the 61st year of her 1850 but recently a number of injuries have been classiElectrical Contractor 5 invoke you, special patron R eligious life. Beloved fied as coming under the RSI J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, in the time of need, to you sister of Sr Jerome (SubR ivervale. 30 yrs expe- I have recourse from the iaco), Sisters Mercedes & heading. rience, expert, efficient, depths of my heart and Osmund (Subiaco), Sr Fer"Bank hold-ups are another reliable. Ring 362 4646, humbly beg you to whom gus (Ballarat), Sr Clotilde worry, but on that score we God has given such great (Geraldton) and a cousin after hours 385 9660. have made some progress power to come to my assist- of Sr Alexis (Subiaco). lately. PROPERTY Improve- ance. Help me now in my During her long life of ments Service all types of present and urgent need dedicated service she "We have arranged an w indows and doors and grant my earnest peti- endeared herself to many agreement with certain installed: walls and ceilings tion. In return I promise to in St John of God Hospiemployers not to sack staff removed; wooden pergo- make your name known tals in Subiaco, Ceraldton, who can't cope with the las; general repairs. Phone and cause you to be Goulburn (NSW) and Wartraumatic effects of hold-ups_ invoked. Say three Hail rnambool (Victoria). 341 2946. -There is the problem, too, Marys and Gloria, St Jude Her spirit of prayer and of drug and alcohol addiction ELECTRICAL: For all pray for all who invoke generosity, her steadfast among staffs. In this matter, types of electrical work your aid. Publications must and singleness of purpose phone 335 2277. be promised. This prayer were an inspiration to us unfortunately, some employnever fails Thanks. MR ers are given to draconian her Sisters, and to all her STEELWORK: All types Most Sacred [lean of Jesus friends. counter-measures because of steel gates and balus- may your name be praised May her gentle soul rest of their archaic views on trades, mig welding and arc and glorified throughout in peace. industrial relations." welding. Phone 335 2277. the world now and forever. Mike is proud of the fact the Say this prayer nine times SHANAHAN, John ABEU offers more services to A CCOMMODATION for nine consecutive days Patrick: Suddenly at home its members than does any A VAILABLE thanks. MR. March 25. Loved husband other union. Please pray for the power- of Violet (Chauncy), and These cover a wide range, Holiday House in Wembley ful intercession of Mary father of Paul, Stephen overlooking Lake Monger, including insurance brokerever virgin, Mother of God. and Michael. 5 mins from city, sleeps up age, travel and holiday Loved nephew of Sheila to her Divine Son Jesus to to six, linen, crokery, etc, homes tirevent cruelty and the Ives. fully furnished, long or Fond brother-in-law of Among his multitudinous abuse of children. sexual short term. 450 5301. Father John Chauncy duties are being chairman of P.G. (Hamilton Hill), Arthur the state advisory committee Accommodation available Novena to the Holy Spirit Chauncy, Patricia Seeber on armed hold-ups, lecturing for student attending lona Holy spirit, you who solve (dec) and Margaret Barber on RSI and other occupaor John XXIII, preferably all problems, light all (dec). girl. Phone 384 8109. r oads so that I can attain tional health issues as well May he rest in peace. my goal, you gave me the as on taxation, future techACCOMMODATION divine gift to forgive and nology and so on. NOTICE forget all evil against me W ANTED As a voluntary community and that in all instances of service he has founded a R efined elderly my life you are with me. Intellectually Handicaped: Catholic woman I want in this short prayer Hosanna House is offering 0 Holy St Jude apostle requires board within t o thank you for all things short-term care for Intellecr---1HONOLULU (NC): Five couples, origtually handicapped adults THANKS and martyr great in virtue w alking distance of as I confirm once again in L_Iinally married outside the Catholic caring christian home and rich in miracles, near Catholic church. Phone that I never want to be environment. Its aim is to Church, renewed their vows in a joint kinsman of Jesus Christ. ever, Novena to the Holy Spirit you from separated Father Rogers at St ceremony in a parish convalidation proHolN. Spirit, you w ho faithful intercessor of all spite of all material support those families in John of God Hospital in gram for Catholics who want to correct illusions. I wish to be with crisis or need of respite. Its solve all problems. light all who invoke you, special Belmont 277 2667 or you in eternal glory. accommodation, from roads so that I can attain patron in the time of need. invalid marriages. 277 241 1. Thank you for your mercy necessity, unfortunately is my goal. You gave me the to you I have recourse "Although they are married in the eyes restricted to those who are divine gift to forgive and from the depths of my t ov.ards me and mine. the (civil) law, these couples are not of capable of near self suffi- forget all evil against me heart and humbly beg you SITUATION Ivy married in the eyes of the Church," St ciency in personal hygiene to whom has given God and in all instances of my V ACANT Theresa's pastor, Father Cohn Correa. said St Jude, glorious apostle, and room care. life you are with me. I want such great power to come before the ceremony. Shorthand typiste wanted faithful servant and friend Bookings are now being in this short prayer to to my assistance. Help me "Some were married before judges. 1 2 hours weekly $7 per of Jesus, the name of the taken. Phone 'co-ordinator thank you for all things as now in my present and hour. Apply in writing to traitor has caused you to on 399 4984. Others were in previous marriages before confirm once again that urgent need and grant my be forgotten by many. but "Typiste" this office. I never want to be separ- earnest petition. In return entering into their present invalid marthe true Church invokes Car wanted. Hosanna ated from you ever, in spite I promise to make your riage," he said. mildly home for House, a y ou universally as the Father Correa said Catholics involved in requires a of all material illusions. I name known and cause PERSONAL patron of things despaired handicapped, wish to be with you in you to be invoked. Say have Do you car. reliable invalid marriages pose a real challenge to of; pray for me who am so one you no longer use? eternal glory. Thank you three Hail Marys and Glothe Church. miserable; pray for me that at ria, St Jude pray for all Replies are being held Would you care to donate for your mercy towards me "It's important to locate these couples, this office for "Catholic finally I may receive the it or sell it to us? Phone and mine. This prayer who invoke your aid. Pubconsolations and the sucreach out to them and let them know what lication must be promised. must he said for three days Lady", "Gent 30", "Colcor of Heaven in all my 399 4984. can be done to change the situation," he after which the favour will This prayer never fails. lege Accountant", "Sin- necessities, tribulations Thanks. R.L. said. be granted. The prayer gle Lady". Replies to and sufferings, particuTHANKS must be published imme" These people are cut off from the our address must be larly (here make your Novena to the Holy Spirit diately Mark. sacraments, and when that happens, their collected personally. Holy spirit, you who solve request), and that I may Thanks to Our Lady of relationship with the head of the faith bless God with the Elect Sacred Heart for prayers Most Sacred Heart of all problems. light all community, with Jesus, grows weak." Jesus you never let us roads so that I can attain Eternity, t hroughout REAL ESTATE answered. J.R. down. May your name be my goal, you gave me the Potential participants were identified Amen. In thanksgiving to W ANTED when they tried to have their children St Jude. Our Lady of Mt Most grateful thanks to St praised and glorified for- divine gift to forgive and ever. May we always place baptised or registered for school. Once Triggs to Mullaloo, Carine Carmel and St Joseph for Jude and the Sacred Heart our trust in you. Mid- forget all evil against me special favour received a located, the couples were invited to join and that in all instances of of Jesus for favours t o Heathridge. Buying. dleton family. my life you are with me. the program. selling, renting in these recently and a favour granted. May your names popular areas? Please con- received some yars ago. be praised and glorified. Novena to the Holy Spirit I want in this short prayer Holy Spirit, you who solve to thank you for all things Rita. tact Helen Larsen, West Mary Teresa J. all problems, light all as I confirm once again Something to buy? Coast Real Estate Special thanks to Our Spirit roads so that I can attain that I never want to be 447 7799 (AH 448 5374) Lady, Infant Jesus of Novena to the Holy Something to sell? Spirit, you who my goal, you gave me the separated from you ever, Holy — for professional, honest Prague, St Jude, St light all divine gift to forgive and in spite of all material solve all problems, Use service. Anthony, Sacred Heart of roads so that I can attain forget all evil against me illusions. I wish to be with R ECORD Jesus, St Therese, and the my goal. You gave me the and that in all instances of you in eternal glory. novena to the Holy Ghost divine CLASSIFIEDS FOR SALE gift to forgive and my life you are with me. Thank you for your mere for prayers answered. forget all evil against me I want in this short prayer towards me and mine. B. Altar servers' red cassocks Heather. and that in all instance of to thank you for all things and white surplices to fit Most Sacred Heart of my life you are with me. as I confirm once again Novena to the Holy Spirit Novena to the Holy Spirit Grateful thanks to St Jude. 8-12 year olds. Excellent Jesus, may your name be I want in this short prayer that I never want to be Holy spirit, you who solve Holy spirit, you who solve May the names by praised condition $2 per set plus praised and glorified to thank you for all things separated from you ever, all problems, light all all problems, light all of St Jude. Holy Spirit, postage. Phone 096 throughout the world now as I confirm once again in spite of all material roads so that I can attain roads so that I can attain Our Lady of Perpetual 421 149. and forever, Amen. Many that I never want to be illusions. I wish to be with my goal, you gave me the my goal, you gave me the Help, and St Gerard for favours thanks for an incredible separated from you ever, you in eternal glory. divine gift to forgive and divine gift to forgive and Majella answer to my prayer. Mon- in spite of all material Thank you for your mercy forget all evil against me forget all evil against me received. M.F. THANKS illusions. I wish to be with t owards me and mine. and that in all instances of and that in all instances of ica. my life you are with me. my life you are with me. Holy St Jude thank you My sincere and never end- you in eternal glory. L.G. I want in this short prayer I want in this short prayer for prayers answered and ing devotion to the Sacred Thank you for your mercy Most Sacred Heart of R ECORD to thank you for all things favour granted. M.T. Heart of Jesus, Our towards me and mine. This Jesus, may your name be to thank you for all things as I confirm once again prayer must be said for CLASSIFIEDS as I confirm once again Most Sacred Heart of Mother of Mercy, and three days after which the praised and glorified that I never want to be that I never want to be $4 cash for Jesus may your name be holy St Jude for prayers favour will be granted. The throughout the world, now separated from you ever, separated from you ever, 28 words praised and glorified answered and favours prayer must be published and forever, Amen. Val. in spite of all material in spite of all material t hroughout the world now granted. Vida Jones. Many thanks to Sacred illusions. I wish to be with illusions, I wish to be with Post or deliver immediately. Coral. and forever, Amen. Thanks to St Jude for Heart of Jesus, Our you in eternal glory. you in eternal glory. (no phone ads) Thanks to Sacred Heart many favours received. Thank you St Jude for Blessed Lady, St Jude, St Thank you for your mercy Thank you for your mercy for prayers answered. May his name be praised. impossible favour granted. Joseph of Cupertino for t owards me and mine. t owards me and mine. Jack. R.L. M AR. prayers answered. M.T.R. R.I.. Jason.
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(Youth Forum Together we hoped And together we built. Together we shares Our dreams were fulfilled For we had a world set apart from the rest With love joy and peace We gave it our best From Albany Bunbury and Geraldton too It showed all the rest What our youth can do At the bushdance and Barbie And talent night too By the river, at prayer It was through love of You For You Dear Lord entered everyone's heart
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Heart Highgate and one year at Saint Thomas Aquinas. My final year of schooling v,, 'Spent doing a secretarial course at Olympia. Introduction to Anna I was now ready to plant Rossi — new fulltimer for my feet in my first job, hut YeiV that didn't arrive for another My first involvement in five months. I finally landed VOW started about three my first job at Osborne Park years ago in my parish, Poultry doing clerical work lighgate. Looking back over for three months. Since then those years I see now I've I have worked for Telecom changed as a person, and as a data processor. become much more aware People supported and chal. of what is happening in the lenged me through my time world around me. in the movement, leading I come from a family of five me through faith to being a children. I'm the second fulltimer. I see my role as a youngest. 'My parents immi- fulltimer being of imporgrated from Italy in the early tance both in the responsi1950s. bilities I hold in the Most of my school life was movement and reaching out spent at Catholic schools. I to young people in friendspent 10 years at Sacred ship.
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We shared something special We at least made a start. A start to rebuild This broken down world We laid a foundation with banners unfurled The banners of Hope of Joy and of Love We gave of our all To our Lord above. We've said our Goodbyes Our tears wiped away But we have the memories To last day to day. So to all those who cared and shared for a while Remember God Loves you And keep up that smile By Julie-Anne Glamuzina
An eye on the future
Vatican City: the pope told a group of 3000 Italian young people to keep -a watchful eye on the future- and start making serious choices during their youth. The pope told the young people that, -you will be tomorrow what you have learned to be today." The irreversible choices of maturity are partly formed during youth, he said, and young people should make free and thought-
ful choices, not those of mere "instinct or conditioning."Tomorrow can be yours, if you live the present with seriousness and commitment,the pope told them. He urged the youth to reflect, especially during lent, on the values that should guide their lives. To make such reflection possible, the pope suggested "giving something up, and making strict use of your time.
mitment, it is best described by what one experiences in one's own family. Today, increasing numbers experience the lack of c ommitment in their own families and even in the "happy families" there are going to be times of disharmony and distrust.
that point he was important more than his idiosyncrasies. As a child I would shrink with embarrassment as my parents debated over a purchase in the store — in Polish — as the years passed I would join in the conference and delight in a private discussion in public, which the majority could not understand. C ommitment involves making a decision to act and be loyal in a relationship. It involves the will and heart accepting and belonging to another. Each person craves to have this — yet it's the most difficult thing to achieve at times — especially with those closest to us. Take time out to discover who you belong to, and how free you are in that commitment. Join me on a Choice weekend on March 29 at Eagles Nest, Gidgegannup. Ring Margaret and Terry Fennessey on 386 6494.
Coach course What is
Forty sports coaches from all over Western Australia have enrolled for the first every coaching by correspondence course. The coaches come from a wide range of sports including athletics, basketball, bowls, cricket, croquet, football, hockey, judo, netball, rugby league, soccer, softball, squash, swimming, tae kwan do, touch and volleyball. In W.A. the course is being offered through the Department for
Youth, Sport and Recreation. It is approved by the Australian Coaching Council and is an advanced general coaching course at the second level of the National Coahing Accreditation Scheme. Coaches are guided stepby-step through the course at their own rate of learning. Further information on learning to coach by correspondence is available by telephoning Brian Cook on 38' 4400.
People pics
Alana Hall and Anthony Jianachini take a moments rest off the disco floor, on the recent CPY river cruise.
Jan and Geoff Haines are surrounded by young people from the Hamersley parish, where it is hoped to establish an Antioch group. (Back) Matthew Ahern and Geoff Haines. (Front) Ann Dragon, Jacintha Martin, Caro/in Jansen and Alison Verrall
real freedom? There used to be a song on the radio that said, "What the World needs now is Love." I find young people will launch Into a discussion about affection, sexuality and friendship rather easily but strike difficulty in grappling with 'commitment'. For many young people the words, "I do", I commit myself to you permanently, are frightening words. The fear seems to stem not so much from the commitment itself, but rather from the supposed loss of freedom. Young people are free as the breeze; or the butterfly in the garden which goes where it pleases and usually pleases where it goes.
Freedom is treasured by the young. Some young people think that freedom comes from not being tied to anything or anyone; to being able to flit in and out of people's lives with little or no caring. Sadly young people are finding fewer examples of c ommitment around them. The obvious place where a person first meets with commitment is within the family. The commitment that exists between husband and wife, the commitment that esists between brothers and sisters, children and parents. There is no easy definition of corn-
When it comes to believing in the c ommitment that God makes with each individual this can be experienced in the community of the church, and in particular in an active local parish: but how can an individual believe in a loving God when Sunday Mass goers can file in and out of church without an exchange of a word or a smile. Someone should write a new song "What the World needs now is not love, but commitment." Perhaps the words of that song, could explain that true freedom comes from making a commitment to another person and remaining loyal to that commitment. Making a commitment means accepting the real people of our lives and not the figments of our imagination. It means accepting our mother and father as they are and not as we would like them to be. I can distinctly remember when the idiosyncrasies of my father no longer mattered; at
CONFERENCE '85 Remember early '85, There came a change in all our lives, Groups and movements all, Gathered together in the halls. Gathered to learn, Our faith to earn, O urselves to know. Beliefs to grow. A five day gathering, For living and loving. Friendships, hopes and things to come, Growing through Christ the Son. KEVIN FONG
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A GOOD FRIDAY PRAYER 0 King of the Friday Whose limbs were stretched on the cross,
How to make hot cross buns You will need
5 cups of plain flour 1 teaspoon of salt 1 2 / cup of sugar 1 teaspoon of mixed spice We stretch ourselves 1/2 teaspoon of cinBeneath the shield of namon thy might, 1 envelope of dry Some fruit from the yeast (7g) tree of thy passion 11/2 cups of milk (280 Fall on us this night. ml) 0 Lord who did suffer the bruises, the wounds, the loss.
60 g (2 oz) butter 1 egg (beaten) 60 g (2 oz) sultanas 60 g (2 oz) currants 30 g (1 oz) mixed peel Sift half the flour and mix with all the other dry things in a large bowl. Gently heat the butter, milk and beaten egg until warm ( not hot). Add the liquids to the dry
mixture and heat for 2 minutes at medium speed on an electric mixer (or 300 strokes by hand). Stir in only enough of the rest of the flour to make a soft, not sticky, dough. Put dough on a lightly floured board. Thump it flat. fold it over, keep folding and thumping for five minutes until it is smooth and elastic. If the room is warm, just
I 4 4ks. 1 4 4 Its. 1 4 4 hi. 1 4 4 kis t4 4 his A Little Fear. by Patricia Wrightson. published by Puffin, $3.95. Mrs Tucker looked on her inherited cottage — deserted, overgrown and isolated as it was — as a salvation from the old people's home her family had settled her into. There was much to be done, but she had the companionship of the dog. Hector and a keen awareness of the land. What she had not reckoned with was the ancient .spirit of the Njimbin, which was part of the land itself and resented the intrusion of this old woman. Australian Children's Book of the Year 1984 "Assured and elegant writing, marvellous characters, and humour
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as sly and tricksy as the old spirit itself make A Little Fear an outstanding novel for all ages — including adults." — Australian Bookseller and Publisher. Australian Ages 8-12 Easy Connections. by Liz Berry, published by Puffin Plus, $3.95. With her first year in art school, Cathy has an optimistic view of the future — learning and painting and freedom. But without warning she is plunged into an unreal world of pop stars and relationships which alter her life drastically. An unusual and powerful love story. Ages 12 +
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The Druid's Tune, by O.R. Melling, published by Puffin Plus, $3.95. Two Canadian children, on holiday in Ireland, magically find themselves part of one of the most famous battles in Celtic history. A fierce warrior-Queen, the doings of the sacred caste of Druids, and the gods, magic and superstition of an ancient world are compelling ingredients in this exciting and intriguing adventure. Ages 12 + Waiting For The End Of The World by Lee Harding, published by Puffin Plus, $4.50. In this "urban fantasy". young refugees from the city find themselves struggling
with their new world. A harsh, realistic story of survival in Australia in the twenty-first century. Short-listed for the 1984 . Children's Book of the Year Award. Australian Ages 12 +
Harriet and Walt. published by Ladybird, $3.95. Younger brothers can be a terrible nuisance at times. Walt falls through snow tunnels, he is too young to play tag and he always wants to do what Harriet tells him not to. But that does not mean Harriet is going to let George criticise her brother. Ages 3-8
cover the dough with the bowl turned upside down or put the dough hack in the howl, cover it with a cloth and put it in a warm place such as in the sink half filled with warm water. Heat the oven to 200° Turn off the heat and then put in the covered dough. Check after 10 minutes. The dough will rise to double its size in about 3040 minutes (but the time may be less or more).
ODE Punch the dough down as flat as you can. Divide it into 24 buns and put them on a greased tray. Leave enough room for them to double in size. Cover the buns with a cloth and leave them to rise again. Heat the oven 180C before you put the buns in. Bake for about 20 minutes. When they are cooked, buns should be brown and should sound hollow when you tap them. Put the buns on a wire rack to cool. Sift half a cup of icing sugar and mix with a little milk. Use this to mark crosses on the buns.
After their meal, Jesus and his friends went out to the Mount of Olives. He said, —The sorrow in my heart is nearly crushing me. Wait here and pray." He went away to be by himself. He threw himself on the ground a nd prayed that he would not have to go through the time of suffering ahead. "My Father," he prayed "all things are possible for you. Take this cup of suffering away from me. But let it be as you wish, not as I wish." He went back to his friends. They were all asleep. They could not keep their eyes open. Jesus said to Peter, "Couldn't you stay awake with me for just an hour? Stay awake and pray." Jesus went away and prayed again that he would not have to suffer. When he came back his friends had fallen asleep again. Jesus went into the garden and prayed the same way. When he came back they were still sleeping. Jesus woke them and said, "Look, here comes the man who is giving me away to the soldiers!" Early in the morning the chief priests and elders finished their plans to kill Jesus. They wanted to cover themselves so his death seemed to be according to the law. They put Jesus in chains and sent him to Pilate, the Roman Governor. A t Passover Festival each year Pilate freed a prisoner, whichever one
the people asked for. Pilate wanted to free Jesus. "Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?" he asked. He knew very well that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous. But the chief priests stirred the people up to ask for Barabbas, a man who had committed murder in a street riot. "What will I do with 'the king of the Jews', then?" said Pilate. They shouted back, "Crucify him." "But what crime has he Pilate committed?" asked. They shouted even louder, "Crucify him."
Jokes Q: Why do teddy bear biscuits wear long panto A: Because they're got crummy legs. does a cook put on Q: a high white hat? A: To corer his bead. Q: -there were three tomatoes walking across the desert. Which one was a cowboy? A: None. they were all redskins. Q: What tables are cooked and eaten? A: Vegetables. Q: What cake makes its own cggs? A: A layer cake. Q: What do you call a man who makes bread? A: A loafer. Q: What is the hest thing to put into a pie? A: Your teeth. Q: Why did the lemon run to the middle of road? :\ He wanted to play squash. Q: Why did the orange stop in the middle of the road? A: Because it ran out of juice. Q: Why did the banana cross the road? A: Because be wanted to be a banana split. Q: What pie can fly? A: A magpie. Q: What is the most dangerous vegetable on a ship? A: A leek Q: Did you hear about the fight in the candy store? A: Two suckers got licked. Q: Why do you feed cocoa to tadpoles? A To make chocolate frogs. Q: How do you tell the time without a watch? A: Eat an orange and wait for the pips.
GOOD FRIDAY On this day, Chrisremember tians Jesus' death on the cross. They call this Friday 'Good' because, although it is a sad time, it reminds them of Jesus' love and their hope in him. Many people eat buns marked with a cross. You might like to make some. The cross is a sign, or symbol, of Christians. On Good Friday, you could make a cross from clay, wood or wire.
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A look at books
Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
Life's a search A reflection on part of Journey The Coming of God, by Maria Boulding, published by William Collins, $6.95. Maria Boulding is a contemplative nun but her book is not necessarily aimed at the religious . . . it can be read, understood and enjoyed by anyone. If you want God, she says, and long for union with him, yet sometimes wonder what that means or whether it can mean anything at all, you are already walking with the God who comes. If you are at times so weary and
involved with the struggle of living that you have no strength to even want him, yet are still dissatisfied that you don't, you are already keeping Advent in you life. If you have ever had an obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better, greater, more wonderful than you deserve or desire, that the touch of God in your life stills you by its gentleness, that there is a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect, you are already drawn into the central mystery of salvation.
Sunday scriptures
Savouring God's Word — a Majellan publication, written by Father Max Barrett, CSSR obtainable from the Majellan, PO. Box 43, Brighton, Vic. 3186. Price (including postage) $ 10.50. This volume provides a reflection on at least part of the Sunday Scriptures for every Sunday in the three-year cycle of readings
Culinary corner Pasta For Pleasure, b y Moyra Bremner and Liz Filippini, published by Fontana, $8.95. Pasta is probably the most versatile and satisfying food man has ever created, and t he sauces and ways of preparing it, which have been perfected over the centuries in t he kitchens of popes, princes and peasants alike, have a range few other foods can boast. Infinitely varied in shape, colour and texture, it can add an e xtra dimension to soups, make the lightest and most delicate of first courses, be the basis of rich dishes to satisfy the heartiest or the most discerning eater, or create unexpected cakes and sweet dishes. Yet, despite its growing popularity, the range of
dishes it offers is little appreciated outside Italy. Indeed pasta is probably as much misunderstood as it is popular. This book brings t ogether the full range of Italian pasta recipes. The best Italian cooking is intensely regional, and the varied flavours are vividly expressed in their pasta dishes. In Abruzzi they can be as fiery as any Indian curry, in Lombardy they are as rich with cream and delicate cheese as the most sophisticated food of France. while the Roman sauces transform homely eggs, peas. and bacon Arranged region by region, the recipes take you on a journey though Italy and enable you to discover the most authentic ways to prepare, cook.
serve and enjoy pasta just as the Italians do. Moyra Bremner has had a lifelong love a ffair with good food. She was born and brought up in Britain, because her but mother had spent many years abroad, she grew up on continental food and learnt how to cook it long before its flavours were popular in Britain. She has collected recipes since she was a young child. Liz Filippini was born and Yorkshire in trained to be an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. For the past twenty years she has been living in Rome with her husband, who Is Italian, and they have two grown-up children. During all the time she has lived in Italy, she has travelled to every part of the country.
The title is taken from the Prophecy of Ezechiel: -The Lord God said 'Son of man, eat the scroll I give you and have your fill of it.' I ate it; it tasted sweet as honey" (3, 1-3). To savour more fully the taste of God's word. obviously it is helpful to prepare the mind and heart for its impact, or to stay with the Sunday Scripture for a reflective moment Savouring God's Word provides means for doing this. Vatican II encouraged God's People "to learn by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures the excelling knowledge of Jesus Christ, for" (and here the fathers of Vatican ll quoted St Jerome) "for ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of Christ."
Savouring God's Word focuses on Christ, as the index of the book amply demonstrates Under the heading of Jesus, the entries read "advocate,
ascension of, authority of, baptisms, character, compassion," right down to "Christ and women, Christ the Word" — 61 "Christ" entries in all.
A long history England, Christian Volume 1. It's story to the Reformation, and Christian England, Volume 2, From the Reformation to the 18th century, by David L Edwards, pubFontana, lished by Volume 1, $4.95. Volume II $14.95. These two books between them cover quite a time span. The first tackles almost a thousand years of English Christianity, with its Roman and Celtic prelude. The second book begins with the
Reformation in the 1540's and tells the story of English Christianity through the storms of the Protestant revolution, the Catholic reaction, the Protestant and Catholic objections to the settlement made under Elizabeth I and the Puritan explosion on both sides of the Atlantic during the 17th century. David Edwards sets out to explore the impact the Christian religion has made on the lives and imagination of the English people.
A Journey in Ladakh, by A ndrew Harvey, published by Flamingo, $8.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. Andrew Harvey takes us on a very personal journey, high up through the remote Indian borders with Tibet, China and Pakistan, beyond the to Valley Kasbmire Ladakh, one of the last places on earth where a Tibetan Buddhist Community survives. For Harvey it was to be a passing into another auareness of reality. His book offers a glimpse of that experience and paints a picture of a life, land and people that few of us will see. ildrew Harvey was born in 1952 in Coimbatore, India. and educated In England. .Since 1973 be has been a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He divides his time between teaching in America, writing in England and travelling in India.
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The maddest exploits of the otherwise innocent Peculiar People, by Patrick Donovan, published by Fontana, $5.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. This slim little volume which is sub-titled, 'The maddest exploits of the otherwise innocent,' IS a good one to slip in your pocket on 'bad days. ' Not only does it provide an almost instant giggle but it will re-assure you just how absolutely normal you really are. The exploits of the rich and famous are well publicised, but how about the idiosyncrasies of the rest of us. . . this humorous anthology of crazy but true stories highlights for the first time the activities of the world's little-known eccentrics. Like the woman who painted the cat, dog and canary red to
scare her husband off drink . . . or the man who tried to sell advertising space on bald heads. . . or the couple who carried on living together after their divorce, only speaking to each other during their regular game of Scrabble from 7pm to 9pm on Saturday nights.
From the strangest fraud to the weirdest invention, the whackiest job and the grooviest vicar to the 'foulest mear. . . Robert Wate divorced his wife Edna in 1955 because she served up a stew consisting of large chunks of mud, chopped lamb and fried car tyres when his boss came to visit for the first time. It's all good fun and since laughter is supposed to be the best medicine it's worth a look.
new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles new titles, new titles Family Bible Readings, published by Fount. $11.95. A book of short readings ideal for the young family that has already enjoyed Bible stories, and is now ready to dip into the Bible text itself. A Very Private Life, by Michael Frayn, published by Flamingo, $6.95. A marvellously ingenious tale, set in the future, where the privileged few live in a luxurious existence in virtually complete isolation. A Very Private Life is one of the most original and engrossing novels by this talented author. Uncumber is one of the privileged few. One day she meets and falls in love with an outsider and her exploration into the outside world is quite a shock . . . The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, by Thomas Kerwagy, published by Fla mingo, $5.95. This is the brilliant and harrowing story of Jimmie Blacksmith, who with his
brother, was infamous for a notorious incident in 19(X). The chant ofJimmie Blacksmith is the chant of the underdog — the courageous struggle for independence and respectability which. through ignorance and prejudice, culminated in the murder of seven white people. The Forging Of A Rebel, by Arturo Barea. published by Flamingo, The Forge, $8.95; The Duck, *95, The Clash. $9.95. This autobiographical trilogy vividly recreates the years of poverty, political corruption and social violence which finally erupted in the Spanish Civil War. The Forge The first past of the trilogy describes Arturo Barea's childhood and youth in Madrid and is a superb atmospheric evocation of a city with sounds, smells and colours as crisp and new as when the book was written. The Track follows Senor Barea from the age of 20 to 28, into business and marriage, children and a mistress, and into the sordid life
of a conscript soldier in the years in Spanish Morocco between the wars. The Clash, the third and final volume of the trilogy describes the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and Barea's own part in the struggle. Forced out of Madrid in 1939, he died in exile in 1957. The Forging Of A Rebel is truly a masterpiece of modern literature. Barea's remarkable autobiography offers unforgettable glimpses of a wholly different world. Children's Minds, by Margaret Donaldson, published by Flamingo, $5.95. Margaret Donaldson's book is a major inquiry into the nature of human thought, focusing in particular on how, as children, our minds work. The hook contains highly original research, its findings are of immense practical significance to the way in which children are taught, and it is extremely readable. These qualities
have made it outstanding among books of its kind. A Ragged Schooling, by Robert Roberts, published by Flamingo, $5.95. This is a vivid story of life in industrial Salford in the years leading up to World War I. The author knew at first hand the poverty and degradation which drove the working man to seek oblivion in a pint glass and his wife to pawn the family's Sunday best for a loaf of bread. A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics, 1960-1980, by Kosmas Tsokhas, published by Oxford University Press, $25. In this carefully researched and forcefully argued book Tsokhas shows how much political life in Australia has been shaped by the ideologies and political actions of businessmen and their organisations. Contents: Manufacturing capital and the state; Pastoral capital and the state; Mining capital and the state;
Banking capital and the State; Capital, labour and the state; Conclusions. The Collected Letters of Mansfield, Katherine Volume One, 1903-1917. by Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott, published by Oxford University Press, $37.50. Over 300 letters, covering Mansfield's early life and the first five years with Middleton Murry. Among these vivid and affecting letters are passionate letters to Middleton Murry and Garnet Trowell, flirtatious notes to the French writer Francis Careo and sober, straightforward communications to Bertrand Russell. The Oxford Anthology of Australian literature. by Leonie Kramer and Adrian Mitchell published by Oxford I"niversity Press. $40 (hardcover), $25 (paperback.) From extracts from a journal of the First Fleet to poetry and fiction of the nineteen-seventies, this anthology represents the
best of Australian writing over our two-hundred year history. The four chronologically arranged sections, linked by commentaries, reveal certain themes and preoccupations. The Corporate Imagination, How Big companies Make Mistakes, by Peter Earl, published by Oxford University Press, $47.50 (hardcover), $19.99 (paperback). This controversial book presents a new vision of the problems of corporate growth. It includes a thorough analysis of the factors that can lead firms astray, or make them perform less well under conditions of uncertainty. litylacine: The Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger, by Eric R. Guiler, published by Oxford Universits' Press, $25. Eric Oilier documents the history of the Thylacine from fossils and early Aboriginal paintings through to the present day. Anatomical details and behavioural patt-
erns of this singular Antipodean mammal are presented, and zoological comparisons are made with more familiar creatures. Trappers' tales, searches and sightings from all over the continent add a further and lively dimension to this study of a rare species. A Dictionary of Sexist Quotations. by Simon James. published by Oxford University Press, $25. There are full quotations on 105 separate subjects and an index of sources and authors in this delightful and often hilarious book. The Classical Preparation and Preparation of Food, by TEK.H. Bode & J.M. Leto, published by Oxford University Press, $27.50. A sun-es' of the historical and technical development of the classical menu, with examples of the selection of foodstuffs and the preparation and presentation best suited to each course. Readership: Catering students. general readers.
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TENNIS After two rounds of the WA Catholic Lawn Tennis A ssociation mixed pennants, there is every indication the A and B grade competitions are going to be very even and keenly fought. R esults of the matches played have been very close with teams in many instances winning on games only. In the A grade competition, three teams appear to have a slight edge, namely Lynwood. Pignatelli and Queens Park. Although set margins have often been large the true keenness of the competition has been reflected in the low games margin. In the B grade, competition has been even keener with in several instances matches being decided on games only. There has been no trend established in this competition as teams are fighting for every point. R esults of matches played to date are as follows: R ound 1 - A grade: Dianella 6 41 defeated Applecross 4 43; Queens Pk 6 - 46 defeated Pignatelli 4 - 38; Lynwood bye. B grade: Pignatelli 1 8 64 defeated Greenwood 4
WHAT'S ON WATER SAFETY With the increase in backyard swimming pools and obvious dangers associated with them, La Salle College has joined Belmont, Thomlie and Aquinas Colleges in conducting water safety classes. These are held within physical education training times and certificates are issued at the completion of the course.
— 47; Pignatelli 3 8 — 64 defeated Pignatelli 2 4 — 46; Willetton received a forfeit from DianeIla; Queens Park -- bye. Round 2 -- A grade: Pignatelli 9 — 58 defeated Applecross 1 — 18; Lynwood 7 -- 51 defeated Queens Pk, 3 -- 46; Dianella - bye. B grade: Pignatelli3 6 -58 defeated DianeIla 6 — 56; Pignatelli 1 6 62 defeated Pignatelli 2 6 — 58; Queens Park 7 — 60 defeated Greenwood 5 52; VVilletton bye. ASSOCIATION MEETING The next meeting of the executive is to be held on Tuesday April 2 at the home of Frank and Pat Hackett, 125 Alness Street, Applecross commencing at 8.00 pm. All members are welcome to attend as well as anyone interested in helping with the organisation of this year's national carnival. We desperately need help f or the planning of the carnival and ask for your support in whatever capacity possible.
ORGANIST NEEDED St Columba's Church, Bayswater requires an organist for 9.30am. Mass on Sundays, preceded by a half-hour practice. Further information can be obtained from Sister Irena, School days 271 7181 Convent 279 1156.
LEEUWIN ESTATE EASTER MASS The annual Mass and Blessing of the Vintage which has been held at Leeuwin Estate for some years now will again be held on Easter Sunday, April 7 at noon. The Bethel Covenant Community will be supplying the singing ministries. Leeuwin Estate this year was the site for the inaugural concert in Australia of the London Philharmonic Orchestra where more than 5000 people saw a magnificent performance. Anyone in the district is welcome at Sunday's ceremony and to use the barbeque and picnic facilities afterwards. Wine will be on sale.
K EANEY COLLEGE WAY OF CROSS The Way of The Cross will take place at Keaney College at 1lam on Good Friday followed by Liturgy at 2pm. Ceremonies on Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday begin at 7.30pm. . Easter Sunday Mass at Guilderton Country Club Hall at noon and at Lancelin at 5pm.
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GIRLS' REUNION A reunion of members of the original Catholic Girls' Movement (CGM) of the 1940s will be held at the Good Shepherd convent on Thursday April 25, beginning with Mass at 11 am. The CGM functioned until the 1950s when it became the National Catholic Girls' Movement (NCGM). Founded by the late Father Harold Lalor the CGM had more than 1000 members at its peak. Participants are urged to bring photographs and other mementoes of the period. Sandwiches and coffee or tea will be provided by the Sisters. COUNTRY TELEVISION SPECIAL A special religious education program produced in Australia will be televised on the Golden West country network on Good Friday at 9.30am. Stay Close is being supplied through the Catholic Pastoral Institute and is a program for parents and teachers about the development of Christian faith in children. It portrays everyday interactions between children and adults in the home and at school, and emphasises the importance of the partnership between parents and teachers in the process of faith development. R eal situations are depicted with observations by parents, teachers, a child development specialist and Michael Fallon MSC. Mrs Maureen Cleary from the Adult Education Centre in Sydney says about Stay Close, "Many parents believe they lack the skills to educate their children in "Stay Close is an important instrument which could enable parents to understand they do have the skills to talk to their children about their values and faith experiences." A further program will be shown on Tuesday. April 9 at 9.30am.
,cHANCE... RACE ONE: White Foot lass I. Small Conquest 2. Summer Snow 3. RACE TWO: Icy Fox I. Red Inkerman 2. Bowetzel's Time 3. RACE THREE: Livand Boy 1. Spaceman 2. Rebel Robbie 3. RACE FOUR: Supreme Carmen I. Lotsadots 2. Lady Temlock 3. RACE FIVE: Victor's Encore I. Valiant Victor 2. Icy Wind 3.
RACE SEVEN: Ballarat Tiger I. Mr Winapeg 2. Astra Crown 3. RACE EIGHT: Row Of Billa I. Frankie Francis 2. Candle Lock 3. RACE NINE: Gillie's Jewel I. All Star Deputy 2. Mellow Port 3. Colleen Monaro 2. Formula Balance 3, 4
Good Friday: 6WF 8am Encounter: "Judas: The Case for the Defence." A dramatised documentary re-examining the evidence for the betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot.
6WN 2.40pm: The Way of the Cross: "Through the streets of Jerusalem." Reflections on the suffering of Jesus by Brother Gilbert Sinden, as he retraces The Way of the Cross through the streets of Jerusalem. The program also includes selections from Joseph Haydn's composition for string quartet, 'The Seven Last Words of our Redeemer on the Cross."
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6WF 6.30pm: Hymns and Songs for Good Friday.
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HOLY WEEK ON RADIO Palm Sunday: 6WF 8am: Encounter "Challenge to a City." Jesus' entry into Jerusalem represents a challenge to city life and civilisation. Three incidents in Holy Week clarify the nature of that challenge:
6WN 11am: Sacred music for Good Friday.
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Wednesday: 6WN 9-10pm: "Holy Week and Easter music in Australia.Around the nation, Australia's finest ecclesiastical choral ensembles have been preparing for the major Christian seasons.
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It is really a four day long Orthodox Church Service condensed into 52 minutes and includes narration and occasional interviews with words as an explanation of events.
Monday to Thursday: 6WN 11.10pm Meditation: "Easter Vigil." As a young priest, Karol Wotyla expressed many of his feelings about his faith and the world in poetry. These days, he's better known as Pope John Paul II, but his poetry remains fresh and stimulating to the western mind. This week, Meditation presents a selection of that poetry, which includes his feelings for his fellows and looks forward to the Easter season.
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It includes a centuries old theatrical reenactment of events leading up to the resurrection.
• an incident involving a widow's generosity.
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ABC 9.15pm: Patmos — Isle of the Apocalypse: This film centres on the traditions of Holy Week on the Greek Agean Island of Patmos.
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Good Friday: ABC 3pm: Love so amazing: A service for Good Friday with dramatic readings from Saint John's Gospel and Chorales from "The Passion according to Saint John" by J.S. Bach.
• the money changers in the Temple;
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The annual Legion of Mary Acies ceremony was held in five churches. Pictured above at the Vexillum in East Fremantle church where they made their profession are Mrs Muriel Hill, Miss Stella Lake and Mrs Skelton Picture by MARY URQUHART
HOLY OIL VESSELS Containers for the Holy Oils to be blessed this week are required to be returned to the Catholic Church office without delay, washed and ready for distribution on Good Friday.