Record reporter COLLEEN HOWARD continues her engrossing story on Father Ray Quirk . . . a missionary's life in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. See page 4 and 5.
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Victoria Park procession of witness Three churches in Western Australia combine to introduce a college of divinity . . making a vailable for the first time in WA divinity courses. See story and pictures page 2.
Melbourne seminar told women and children are the new poor . . the victims of modern society. See story page 5.
The carrying of the cross has become an established Catholic Anglican practice in Victoria Park on Good Friday. Preparing to leave St Peter's Anglican church on a pilgrimage to St Joachim's are A. Palermo and Tony Carabba of St Joachim's, Herman Pollaers of Notre Dame, Cloverdale and Russ Condo of St Joachim's. Picture by BILL HUXLEY
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul H called on the world's youths to use their strength "not for the struggle of one against another" hut for "the struggle against evil".
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This, he said. means a struggle "against everything that offends God." The pope said that includes "injustice, exploitation, falsehood, deceit and "everything that profanes human society and human relationships" and "every crime against life." Entitled "to the youth of the world," the letter was released to coincide with a Vatican-sponsored celebration when more than 150,000 young people came to the Vatican on Palm Sunday to commemorate the U.N. International Youth Year. A special edition of the letter has been prepared for
John Paul's plea to use our strength distribution to youths worldwide, said Bishop Paul Cordes, vice president of the Pontifical Council for the laity. The book, with a bright blue plastic cover, is printed in seven languages and supplemented by a series of scripture selections around which the pope developed his letter. Bishop Cordes said the Vatican would like the blue book to have the same kind of widespread distribution
and reading the red book had. He compared the Vatican's intentions for the pope's blue book to the aim Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung had for his "red book" of sayings. Mao's hook was wide:y read and disseminated throughout China to educate young people during China's cultural revolution of the mid-1960s. In the letter. Pope John Paul notes the common
instincts of young people who question the causes of injustice, hunger, systematic violence and abuse. Young people also rightly ask, he said, why scientific and technological progress turn against humanity in so many ways. Pope John Paul tells youth to ask whether they will succeed in changing this state of affairs. The pope also advises youths to educate themselves by building character and warned them not to be critical, skeptical or cynical. He warns young people to resist the temptations of "a type of entertainment business that distracts people from a serious commitment in life and encourages passivity, selfishness and selfisolation.Instead, he says. youths should grow through con-
tact with nature, the achievements of humanity, other persons and God. An outdoor person in his youth, the pope stresses communion with nature. He asks youths to consider vocations to the priesthood and religious life and reminded them the call to priesthood in "the latin rite is linked to the conscious and free choice Of celibacy." Those who do no pursue a religious vocation still are called to he imitators of Christ, he adds. Pope John Paul tells young people to "learn married love day-by-day" and describes such love as selfless. He warns young people to be aware that "today, the principles of christian morality concerning marriage are in many circles being presented in a distorted way." This distortion transforms a human being, especially a woman, from a subject into an object, he said. "The whole great content of love is reduced to pleasure," he said.
KAMPALA (NC) — Leaders from Uganda's three main Christian churches plan to rejuvenate an ecumenical spirit in the East A frican nation. Church leaders have decided to activate the Uganda Joint Christian Council, formed in the 1970s to promote unity, understanding and cooperation among the three churches. They also heard a recommendation for a joint pilgrimage to Rome and Canterbury as an appropriate step toward unity. Cardinal Nsubuga was among those accompanying Pope John Paul ll when the pontiff visited Canterbury in 1983.
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Catholic and Anglican parishes have been asked to organise groups for a Catholic Anglican dialogue that will take place for six weeks after Pentecost. Groups can have up to 10 people for the one and a half hour discussions at which each person will have a four page leaflet of points to follow. Group leaders will have other material The discussions will be based on the Anglican -Roman Catholic (ARCIC) statements that have been issued over the past years and which point to a degree of convergence of the two bodies on euchanst aspects and ministry In other states, dialogue has already started using a publication Travelling Together. This document was not corn pletely acceptable locally and a different discussion outline will be used Catholic members of the organising committee are Father Brian Pitman, Mr Brian Mills and Mr John Cahill Anglican committee members are Archdeacon Alan Dutton, Reverend Howard Eaton and Jenny Pengelly, a former coordinator of the Anglican Youth Synod who has been appointed a full-time co-ordinator for the joint parish discussions
Most Itc‘crend Peter ( :arn ley, Aught an Archhishitp oh Perth, preached the occasional sermon, highlighting the role of the college in the serious work of adult faith using, by way of analogy and contrast, a common mtidcm mentality that chws not penetrate bcyond immediate answers, and simple "childish- pictorial story lines that can make no demands on the audience of growth and mature reflection. Nlonsignor Michael Keating. Vicar General. represented Archbishop Foley with other members of the Catholic community also in attendance.
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Better international agricultural trade relations are needed to end the "disheartening phenomenon" of surplus crops being destroyed in technologically a dvanced countries while in other parts of t he world people die of hunger, Pope John Paul II said to Italian farmers. Unless farm production is stimulated t hrough better prices and trade relations are improved to benefit nations with starving populations, society runs the risk of falling into "social sin," said the pope. "It is necessary to progress toward an advantageous relationship between the farmer and hunger in the world, between farm work and commercial trade," the pope said. "While in some places, people die of hunger, in other places surplus production is destroyed because ways found to not are A chieve collaboration between agricultural production and the needs of nations," he said. Pope John Paul called for "more open for the c hannels e xchange of crops.The pope noted that t he farmer is not always " just rewarded for his labour.
ELIE) The Perth College of Divinity is an ecumenical cooperative enterprise which, in affiliation with Murdoch niversity, will make available courses in Scripture and Theology for those who wish to study a little in this area, or to complete a BA in theology (a three year degree ). or a B. Theol. (a four year degree or a BD ( a three year degree for graduates). Teaching at Murdoch will begin in 1986. Theology will now come more into the orbit of "secular- university studies, thus creating something of a university environment similar to the European model where no university would he complete without this most important of disciplines. To study in the context of the university will also he of value for theology students, helping them to integrate and deepen their studies. later on this year, full details of the possibilities for 1986 and on will he available front the Catholic Pastoral Institute. The enterprise will have a significant and long term impact on Chrstian life. on Perth, and on the wider Australian Church and society. — Story by Father I. Sobb SI
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Preparing for the Catholic-Anglican parish discussions are Father Brian Pitman 0.Carm and Jenny Pengelly, co-ordinator of the program.
"It is sad to have to admit that market interests sometimes frustrate the results of intensive lavour, to the disadvantage of the f armer and of other working communities w hich have need of the f ruits of the earth," he said.
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Diverse crowd in the march
It could have been any city crowd thronging our worka-day streets — perhaps slightly better dressed - - well differently dressed. There were all ages present from infants in pushers to the elderly. Ethnic minorities were there somehow recognisable — the old Italian women in their traditional black. There were other differences. Everyone was walking in the same direction and silently too, behind a prominently displayed banner; but this was no protest march. Three times the crowd stopped and listened to the amplified voice of a man or a woman. The crowd listened with bowed heads obviously affected by what they heard. It could almost have been in church but it was on no consecrated ground -- only an ordinary shopping centre. Police on motor cycles kept an eye on the crowd giving it an even more ordinary and worldly appearance. Motorists and buses sped past the crowd which was quite noticeable being over 600 strong. Did they wonder why so many should have gathered on Victoria Park's streets on a holiday. A clue was the banner leading the procession - a plain wooden cross large enough to crucify a man. It was Good Friday and for members of that crowd, drawn from the Catholic and Anglican parishes of Victoria Park, it was an important annual pilgrimage in which they journey from St Peter's past St Joachim's to assemble finally in the small green memorial park on Albany Highway for a final reading, a hymn, a prayer and a quiet, reverend dispersal. It was a witness to the world
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Philip-M ANILA, Philip pines (NC) — If there is conflict between the Church and the G overnment, "it is because the Church sides with the poor," said Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila,
VATICAN CITY: The empty tomb left by Christ had caused mankind to reflect on that emptiness for 2000 years Pope John Paul told 250,000 people gathered in St Peter's Square to hear his Easter message to the city and the world. "Before every tomb, humanity questions itself," the pope said. "It questions itself especially when the tombs are the legacy of the hurricane of violence and destruction caused by war." John Paul recalled the painful lessons of World War II, which from NC was said he NEWS "unleashed by a mad imperialist ideology." "Forty years ago the For more than five war ended. Has peace, years, the pope said, as the result of a just humanity saw tens of order, been truly millions of people mas- affirmed?" The pope sacred and put to asked. death in concentra• Cont page 4 tion camps, populathe tions destroyed, Jews "condemned to and. e xtinction", finally, "the terrifying revelation of the first atomic explosions." Many of those who defended their free way of life became victims, the pope said. But they were also "martyrs and heroes" for affirming the rights and freedoms of all men. efforts Postwar protecting at aimed those rights and putting and end to the war he said.
"Right now, people speak of the Church as the church of the poor, and it is," said the cardinal. "And if this is so, that means the Government is left with the rich." Cardinal Sin said the Church "has been opting for the poor since the beginning." He said 1.5 million workers in Manila had been laid off and the city was "in a state of economic crisis." The national daily newspaper Bulletin Today recently reported that 58 per cent of pre-schoolers in depressed areas in Manila arc malnourished and that the situation had not improved in the last war
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Busy Holy Week for John Paul II PERTH: VATICAN CITY: The carrying of the cross, hearing confessions and baptising converts were some of the events that filled Pope John Paul's busy three das of Holy Week leading up to Easter. On Holy Thursday morning, the pope celebrated the Mass in which he blessed the holy oils saying they penetrated into mankind the divine strength given by the Holy Spirit. On Thursday night, in St John I.ateran basilica. Rome's cathedral church, Pope John Paul as Bishop of Rome celebrated the Mass of the Lord's Supper. The pope said the events from Christ's last supper through his death and resurrection form "a reality which continues" through the Eucharist. "The Eucharist comes from
love and gives birth to love," he said. "From now on, love and together death walk throughout human history" because they have been linked by Crist, the pope said. During the Mass the pope washed the feet of 12 priests. On Good Friday morning. the pope donned a black
cape and entered one of the confessionals in St Peter's basilica to spend an hourand-a-half hearing the confessions of 13 people chosen at random. On Good Friday night he carried the cross in the floodlit procession of the Way of the Crass traditionally made at the Colisseum. On Holy Saturday morning. the pope was presented with samples of ointments probably used to anoint
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Rebce ord A hazard against which the modern day preacher is warned is the short period of concentration of his listeners. Gone are the days when the people dropped in and out of the church during a leisurely two or three hour discourse. There was wisdom in the method quite apart from the fact that life was not a perpetual rat-race to be somewhere else. The mysteries of faith needed to be mulled over, explained time and time again, absorbed into the soul enlightened by grace. Not so for the world which concludes that Easter is over when the police traffic blitz winds down, when sports teams straggle back to everywhere, when soggy tents and caravans are put into storage and befuddled brains wonder what that five or six days of lassitude was all about. The motor car has become a new Easter symbol second only to the hyped-up chocolate industry about whose astronomical mark-ups and gimickry the sharper press investigators are finally revealing Easter secrets. There are tragic deaths the year round but the tag of being an "Easter death" is supposed to add a particular dimension of grief, although no one is sure what. The traffic jam is an obligatory routine either because it happens or because it does not happen, whether on the Old Coast Road or a record 60km bumper-to-bumper squash on the English motorways. As the world chases its tail wondering how to observe an ancient pagan fertility celebration when respect for fertility is at an all time low, there was a knee-jerk looking back over the shoulder to see what those Christians were at. Apart from building a Friday holiday into industrial awards, were they actually celebrating some religious event? What were those strange things they were doing there in those odd places called churches. Catholics can be justifiably chauvinist that Pope John Paul is our best public relations personality. There he was washing feet, carrying the Good Friday cross, delivering his Easter message to a packed St Peter's square. We should not begrudge others publicity also. In a restless search to find out what exactly religious minded folk actually DO at Easter this year's cameras discovered the Greek Orthodox ceremonials, their washing of the feet, their carrying of candles through the darkness.
EEEE But still the nagging question: What do Australians do at Easter if they are not rioting at Bathurst instead of Rottnest? Mercifully, the Catholic and Anglican cathedrals were said to be overflowing. Thank heavens. It would have been a blow if they too had packed up and gone away for Easter. The resort churches apparently did not notice the difference. There was a glimmer of dissension. The maverick Bishop Jenkins of Durham was the media's delight. No-one knows what exactly he said, or why but he was the straw at which to clutch. The Bishop of Durham suddenly emerged as a rallying point for the decent chaps of this world who don't mind the idea of a God, who even like parts of the Bible but who feel it a bit unreasonable when asked to actually believe that the events of the life of Jesus actually happened as reported. Which gets back to those quaint suburban churches and chapels around the world in which the cross-carrying, foot -washing, candle-lighting, eucharist celebrating people of suburbia were actually proclaiming to the world that the crucified Lord has risen. Why don't more people look in on a church and ask their Easter questions there? What is the barrier that separates the liturgy of Holy Thursday, the drama of Good Friday, the positive joy of the Easter Vigil from a world that feels more at ease on an endless bitumen road? The Church anticipated this confrontation between the believers and the facts of Jesus' Resurrection. The appearance of the Lord took time to sink into their doubting minds. His presence was going to rock their souls to the roots of their being. If He rose from the dead what does it say for the rest of us? There would be an octave of Easter said the Church. There would be eight days during which the new converts, baptised at Easter, would talk about their experience of faith, of their becoming new in Christ. Easter is only just beginning, says the Church. There are forty solid days of it, says the liturgy, the longest sermon one could imagine. It takes all that time and a lifetime to absorb the truth. Not just an hour in a public holiday. The preacher is Christ Himself.
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Empty tomb s ymbol From page 3 In response, he said it must be "painfully" recognised that in too many places around the world "human rights are denied or violated under the tbrm of the most stringent oppression." In too many places, he said, "torture, segregation camps and camps of inhuman labour continue to reap innumerable victims, often silenced and forgotten."
EE Millions of people arc left to die because of hunger and want, he said, and numerous wars continue "to sow ruin and drench with blood various parts of the world." "Idelogics that instill hatred, violence and aggression do not cease to deceive or poison societies," the pope said, while "the armaments race increases the threat of total destruction." Some nations were still waiting for recognition of their sovereign rights "because they have not yet recovered them or because they have lost them." The pope did not specify which nations he meant. WILTON PAOR1EY
—PART FOUR of the Record's series on About the villagers' dedication to their Catholicism once christened? Father Ray recounted a moving story. "It disturbs me," he said, "to hear people say they haven't got time to go to Confession or Mass. Maybe they should know about Francis . This little chap Father Ray discovered when visiting a village three days walk from the mission. His spine was crooked and he had no use of his legs. He got abng by crawling and dragging his body. Father christened him "Francis", saying God held him as special. His limbs were thin and his body so light, you could support him easily on your two open hands. It was customary for the Catholic folk from outlying villages, to go to Father's Vanimo mission just prior to Christmas and Easter. They would all attend Confession and the Masses during these periods. Francis was always so keen to attend, he would start off from his village a month before, to make sure he got there on time. Accompanied by some family and friends, he would literally crawl down into the jungle valleys and up over the mountains on his hands and knees, dragging himself along until he reached the mission post at least three weeks later_ Father would care for him in his own house until Francis wished to return to his village. Ultimately he obtained for him a pair of crutches. On one occasion during Francis' mission stop-over, an army boat moored not far from the Vanimo mission. So father, with dog 'Lulu' and Francis, went out in the canoe and circled around the vessel. The army sappers looked down and saw the strange trio. Father pointed at Francis in the canoe and they then returned to shore. Later on the sappers came ashore, took note of Francis' condition unobstrusively and had a chat to him. Some months later when
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they returned to Vanimo, the sappers appeared proudly bearing a beautiful wheel chair they'd bought from f und-raising activities in Queensland, for Francis.
El E It would have been of limited use in the sandy mission soil, so these tough Army sappers, who underneath their rough exterior had much compassion, undertook the three day trek to Francis' village to present it to him. He was better able to use it on the hard village ground. They subsequently continued to show interest in him, bringing him parcels from time to time and a spare wheel for the wheelchair whenever needed. Father Ray was ultimately able to set him up in a coastal trading post business which enabled him to earn his own livelihood. "He never missed Mass," father said.
-Each Sunday, he would crawl into Mass if he couldn't use his chair, Francis was an inspiration to many of us" Father's work continued at Vanimo until 1957 when he was requested by the Church to enlist in the Citizens' Military Force and become a part-time chaplain to the Pacifc Islands Regiment. This he did for the next two years. In 1959 he left the Vanimo mission on receiving an appointment to the Australian Regular Army as full-time chaplain to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, based in Taurama barracks at Port Moresby — a post he filled for the next 18 years. As with everywhere he went, Father Ray's contribution was remarkable He had an intimate understanding of life in Papua New Guinea, of the people and their language and this expertise proved invaluable_ Accolades came from far and wide commending Father Ray on his work. In 1964 he was appointed a member of the Military
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Accompanied by some family and friends, he would literally crawl down into the jungle valleys and up over the mountains on his hands and knees, dragging himself along until he reached the mission post at least three weeks later.
Division of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of his "outstanding qualities which have had a profound effect on the morale of all who have served with him" and for working "tirelessly and selflessly for the needs of servicemen and their families." And to quote another writer! -Stories of Father Ray are legion. Underlying them are his achievements. He has had the most unusual rapport with senior officers. He was at the one time their father and philosopher, gave them comradeship and pastoral care and remained their accomplice and accessory! -To many he will be remembered as The Pied Piper', children seemed attracted at the first contact." His "cionga" became a meeting place for children of all families.
Father Ray's life was richly filled with many events, so I asked him had he ever encountered cannibalism. He said he knew it went on in some remote outreaches of his parish. However, he told a story which happened during his army term, whereby a platoon of native troops plus an army captain, a lieutenant and himself, had just had a swim in the Nomad river and were sitting on the gravel having a cigarette. Arrows suddenly flew at them from behind in the rushes on the river bank. They went to investigate and discovered a pygmy type people with pig fat in their hair.
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Tiny in stature with big 6 ft bows, they eyed off the men and their pile of coloured beads and highly prized salt. The captain nervously said t o father "I hope you're saying your prayers, because I'm saying miner' Father gave them some beads and salt at which the indigenes offered to take them back to their village for a meal. The warriors they discovered, had just returned from hunting another tribe and had borne off one of the killed victims. A camp fire was lit and the dismembered corpse was roasted with every last particle being eaten, even down to the entrails. They were handed some of the roasted flesh with vegetables, on a taro leaf. "You're not going to eat it are you?" whispered the horrified captain. "No,'" father replied, -but don't refuse the food. Just pretend to eat it and then quickly scratch a hole next to you bury the meat, and eat the vegetables." This they were able to do because they were sitting on the outer perimeter of the fire-light circle. Father Ray felt cannibalism was mainly symptomatic of a protein deficiency area and was used as an expedient measure for diet supplementation in areas devoid of sufficient animals to kill. He also felt only their enemies were at risk! The year 1976 was an eventful one for Father Ray. He was recommended for the most prestigious "Order of Australia" award, for "exceptional service in the Australian Army." As stated in the recommen-
dation: "His devotion was epitomised when in 1972, at the scene of a tragic aircraft crash (involving 20 young school cadets), he became involved in rescue operations with complete disregard for his own personal safety. Now, after 19 years with the Force, he shall be remembered for the moral and spiritual welfare and character development he has fostered in all members and dependants." He was appointed a Member in the Military Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in January 1976. Father Ray left Papua New Guinea on May 7, 1976 after 30 years of dedication to God and man. His great contribution to this young nation has been extolled in various communications received from all parts of Australia and Papua New Guinea. He is a man of high stature and humble humility. "Vanimo now is a busy area and churchwise it has grown and become a Diocese.
[1] "John Mulialie, a child father remembers well during his Vanimo days, has since been ordained a priest. "I probably baptised him!" father said. "It made me very proud to hear of his ordination." The decision to leave New Guinea was a traumatic one for father. However with ill health and the fact Papua New Guinea had now achieved independence and could supply more of its own people to fill positions previously held by whites, he felt it was time to return to Australia.
Arriving in Sydney, he was discharged from the army in January, 1977. Accumulated long service leave allowed father to spend several months in the Holy Land --- Jerusalem, Nazareth, Mt Tabor and Galilee. This he felt was necessary to reorientate, and refresh himself spiritually before taking on a new posting. After his return in 1978. Father Ray was asked to go to the Midland Friary in Western Australia, where a priest was needed. And so once again, he set off for a state almost as far away from his hometown Victoria as was New Guinea This parish has been fortunate enough to enjoy his services these past seven years. Everybody loves Father Ray: And of HIS special love? 'The children," he said. "I don't care who knows it. I just love children — they are my life." " What are your thoughts in retrospect on those mission days?" I queried. "Looking back," he said, -the risks we took were ridiculous! However, we were young and full of enthusiasm — and ignorant of the dangers. 'These days intending misstoners are trained in a variety of courses and are therefore much more prepared than we were." When you see his poor physical condition today, having given 30 of his best years unselfishly and without cost to self, to his missionary zeal in Papua New Guinea, the inevitable question arises 'Was it worth it?"
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MELBOURNE: Women and children are Australia's new poor, according to Women's Action Alliance. Two-thirds of social security payments went to women, the WAA's state vice-president, Mrs Pauline Smit, said last week. - They're the new from LEO 01EARY poor — the women, In The AENtate and along with them, the children," she said. "They're a growing proportion of the Australian population. "It's a problem the government must address." Mrs Smit said the Henderson report had disclosed that one child in every five was living in poverty in 1981. "One in three children will live in poverty within the next decade unless the rate of family breakdown is arrested." she said. She quoted reports sole parent women were also living in poverty, according to a 1983 report made by Helen L'Orange, a member of the adsisory unit on women's matters to the NSW Premier, Mr Wran. Ms L'Orange said many deserted wives were already living on a pittance. and a report claimed one deserted wife was then living in a fossi pen. Ms L'Orange predicted poverty lay ahead for women for the 10 years following 1983. Mrs Smit said. Mrs Smit also quoted university political science lec-
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nIVATICAN CITY (NC) — The causes of
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. Police, the incarceration in "Re-education" camps in South Vietnam of hundreds of religious including the Coadjutor Bishop of Saigon Bishop Thun, the merciless suppression of religion and basic human rights in all of occupied Europe has warranted minimum comment from the media However, it was of great concern to notice the duplicity of the secular press in rela
tion to the imprisonment of religious in the Philippines, where they were able to contact by phone in their cells the two priests there in incarcerated and since released mainly attributable to the clamour To avoid the label of arrant hypocrisy, to say the very least, the media needs to conduct a similar exposure of the Russified countries men boned
Needs to ask about "nukes" from G.A. TAYLOR Riverton Sir Kieran Ryan (The Record March 28) needs to ask a f undamental question about nuclear deterrence. For a weapon to deter, an enemy must know that it would be used in certain circumstances. That is, we would not build them unless we intended to use them in those circumstances. If the decision to use them is a rational one, not an irrational one based on desire for revenge, that presupposes there is a desirable political outcome from their use in
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SIR! Congratulations on your excellent editorial (The Record March 14). Even a belated awakening may yet offer some hope Catholics start to appreciate they have been recipients of a mammoth confidence trick, perpetrated by the department of "disinformation" of the KGB, aided and abetted by a trendy, sensation-seeking media, and supported by so called "peace protestors' ', who seek a type of "peace" which would nail the Western world to the coat tails of the Soviets and their agent provocateurs. Palm Sunday was again listed to witness Australian citizens foisted with the incredible blasphemy of extreme left wing cadres, organising demonstrations through the various capital cities, which attracted no doubt some well meaning but naive people in the name of "peace". Soviets, means a "peace" of intimidation and subversion, aimed at disarming the West while the USSR continues to spend nearly 20 per cent of its gross national income on instruments of war, as it continues in its murderous attempts to subjugate Afghanistan and Cambodia by force of arms and to destabilise the West by subversion of their democratic system of government. The sooner the Western world generally and Catholics in particular remove the "mist from their brain and the scales from their eyes", cease the woolly, flabby-minded, debilitating "she'll be right mateism" and appreciate in practical terms the words of our Lord — "I have given you intelligence to use and you have not used it — I might as well have never given it to you" --- the sooner we may have some slim chance of salvaging a respectable, Christian world to hands to posterity. The murder of Father Popeluszko by the Polish Secret
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which the political gains outweigh the losses. Given the recent admission that causing a nuclear winter would be mass suicide, that the destruction caused by today's bombs in multiple independent re-entry vehicles would exceed anything that can be imagined (Hiroshima by comparison would be insignificant), the long term genetic legacy of nuclear bomb usage, the social a breakdown after nuclear exchange, and the admitted complete inability of medical resour-
Moscow: Delayed reports are coming to hand that Ukrainian Catholic Ivan Kopolovets was arrested in January 1984 in the village of Dolgoe ( Trans -Carpathian region of Ukraine) for active participation in Christmas carol singing. He was viciously beaten up during the arrest. Kopolovets was sentenced to two years' deprivation of liberty with compulsory labour. Another tkrainian Catholic, Ilya Ulihanynets was arrested in the village of Tihava, also in the TransCarpathian region. The KGB confiscated a Bible, a catechism and hand-written texts of prayers during a house-search. Shortly before his arrest, Ulihanynets and several other Ukrainian Catholics burnt their passports and refused to have any dealings with the Soviet authorities. Ulihanyriets has been sent for compulsory psychiatric examination in Lvov. It is also reported that Fr Stefani Hryhorovych was arrested in the Trans-t :arpathian village Nelepino at the home of Dcrbak, a member of the outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Church. Fr Hryhorosych and his daughter Kateryna had renounced their Soviet citizenship and sent in their passports to the authorities. As a readt. Kateryna was expelled from the medical institute in which she was a fifth-year student. Fr Hryhorovych was released three days after his arrest and ordered to take hack his passport within three days. He refused to do so, and on March 18, 1984 both he and his daughter were arrested. — Keston College report. ces and civil defence capabilities to deal with such an event, what is the desirable political outcome that rational use of nuclear weapons would bring about? Until that question IS answered, support for deployment of nuclear arsenals must be questioned.
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and Catholic officials have agreed to cancel a planned meeting in May between Pope John Paul II and Dutch Jews after a dispute over the agenda. Maurits Goudeket, a spokesman for the Jewish community, said Jews had agreed to meet with Pope John Paul on the condition he would "speak about the state of Israel as a fact- and "express the guilt feelings of the Catholic Church before and during World War II and the period of the Holocaust" He said Jewish delegates were told the pope could not speak about guilt feelings because it was not possible for one pope to discuss the actions of a predecessor. LI E E
Ban still applies PRAGUE: Cardinal Tomasek. has reaffirmed the ban on the officiallysanctioned "Pacem in Terris" priests' organisation. He restated the Vatican ban in view of persistent rumours spread by "Pacem in Terris" members that the Vatican is changing its stance toward their organisation, and also in view of the fact two letters have gone to the Vatican from the Czech and the Slovak hierarchies. calling on the Vatican to reconsider its attitude to "Pacem in Terris" Reliable sources in Prague say the letters were written under government pres sure, and that Dr Janku, Czechoslova kia's Minister for Religious Affairs. made it clear in the Vatican last year that the regime would never allow 3 dissolution of "Pacem in Terris". Keston College report from MAUREEN MACKAY. Mt Lawley Sir. Marie Cadds views (The Record March 21) are both important and enlightening regarding the Diocesan Bio-ethics Committee's approval of in-vitro fertilisation and freezing of human embryos. No amount of theological theorising can justify a practice which has an 86 per cent failure rate, or in other words. unborn babies coming into being through IVF are being exposed to a program of experimentation, manipulation, and finally destruction. If we accept Catholic teaching of the inviolability of each and every human person from the moment of conception, along with the fact that married couples do not have
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WARSAW, (NC) — Poland's Catholic priests have increased their use of churches for political speeches, claims government spokesman, Jerzy Urban. "I have a big file on political speeches by priests," he said. "But it is only a small group of priests who are stubbornly trying to change the Church into a place where political statements arc made and where hatred and intolerance are propagated." Sources opposed to the government said priests have politicised their sermons more since the murder of pro-Solidarity priest, Father Jerzy Popieluszko in October. Urban named three priests — Fathers Stanislaw Malkowski, Leon Kantorski and Henryk Jankowski — for attacking authorities in their sermons. In mid-March, Father Kantorski joined a hunger strike staged in sympathy with an army draftee gaoled for not taking an oath of allegiance to the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Father Jankowski is a close friend and adviser to Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa. In November, Poland's primate, Cardinal Jozef Glcmp of Gniezno and Warsaw, banned Father Malkowski from preaching in Warsaw churches. Cardinal Glemp said at the time there had been an "influx of complaints" about the priest, whom he said had received repeated warnings about his outspoken attacks on the communist government.
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NEW YORK (NC) — A man who objected to girls as scripture readers at Mass was arrested for the shotgun slayings of Father John Daniel Rossi' ter and two lay workers in St Patrick's Church, Onalaska (Wisconsin). The shootings occurred minutes after the priest had celebrated Mass for 200 school children. Before Mass, Brian Stanley, 29,
Views shed light a God given right to have children, but rather use the conjugal act which may result in a child, then we cannot accept the procedure of in-vitro fertilisation, which is the first step to freezing embryos. Not only does IVF dehumanise the marriage act, but puts it into the area of production where a scientist plays the role of a manufacturer whose technology allows him to intrude into the woman's body to retrieve multiple human eggs, to fertilise them with sperm obtained through masturbation, and then select what he considers
most suitable, while destroying, experimenting or freezing the rest. This is abortion by in-vitro fertilisation, and a denial of Catholic teaching on the inviolability of each and every human person whose life begins at the moment of conception. No amount of theoretical talk can change the fact that IVF is an illicit act as far as Catholics are concerned. We can try to add or subtract from the fact to try to justify our argument, but this does not change the fact, the fact still remains.
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The cardinal also said Church authorities had received indignant complaints from Catholics about priests who "allow themselves to be carried away by worldly feelings." Instead of "preaching divine truths," the priests "enter into non-theological polemics, which have nothing in common with pure patriotism," he said. During Father Popeliuszko's murder trial, Father Jankowski and Father Malkowski were mentioned as other possible government targets. Polish authorities have also censored an edition of the Vatican newspaper which c ontained a hardhitting speech by Pope John Paul II about contemporary Poland. the of Distribution December issue of the Polish-language edition of Wssers-atore Romano has been "blocked indefinitely."
An appeal for unity COLOMOBO: Sri Lanka's Catholic bishops have called for a united country and have appealed to Tamil separatists to lay down their weapons and negotiate a peaceful solution to their fight with the government. Expressing sorrow over a recent escalation of violence in the island-nation, the bishops said they condemned every form of violence and terrorism. "We stand clearly and firmly with our people for a united and undivided Sri Lanka," the bishops said. The statement was signed by the c onference president, Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando of Chilaw. The bishops said anyone involved in terrorism "does so on his own personal responsibility and shall have to take the consequences of such involvement before the law." The statement was issued after the bishops met in early March. It spoke of the "mutti-ethnic character" of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church. Catholics come from the Tamil and the Sinhalese communities, the country's dominant ethnic groups. The bishops said because the Church crosses ethnic lines they have a "role and duty as bridge builders of understanding." The statement asked Catholics to pray for the country and "work unceasingly towards the reconciliation of all peoples."
Reasons behind rejection of French text VATICAN CITY - A proposed French religious text for children was r ejected because of the historical approach taken by the text. say Vatican officials. The text originally began with the Book of Exodus, followed by Kings, then discussed the Book of Genesis as a story of the Hebrew people's search to discover how the world began. The Vatican said this was "historicism" — which the New Catholic Encyclopedia describes as a "tendency to accord a primacy to history" in the explanation of biblical facts.
shotgun to make a point e ntered the church sacristy and objected to the fact two girls from the school were going to read the scripture readings at the Mass, which was part of the observance of Catholic Schools' Week. The man argued Father Rossiter had no authority to permit girl readers. The priest, pastor at St Patrick's
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The egg as a symbol By of Resurrection Doug Landwehr
Tsarina Maria Feodorovna woke and said to her husband, Alexander III, "Christ is risen," and kissed him three times. It was the traditional Russian Orthodox greeting on Easter morning. His response, also by custom, was to give his wife an egg. Not an ordinary hen's egg, but an egg made by the master goldsmith, Carl Faberge. A Russian story said the custom Of giving eggs on Easter originated with Mary Magdalene. Two stories are told. — One said she was arrested by a Roman centurion in Alexandria and was able to gain her freedom by giving him an egg. — Another story says that she gave an egg to the Roman emperor as a symbol of Christ's resurrection. The first Faberge egg, given to Tsarina Maria Feodorovna in 1884, was white enamel on the outside, like a hen's egg. The yolk was golden and contained a golden hen with ruby eyes. Inside the hen was a golden crown and at the very centre of the crown was a tiny ruby egg.
EEO The tsarina and tsar were delighted by Faberge's creation and commissioned him to create at least one imperial egg every Easter. The tradition of imperial eggs ended with the Russian revolution in 1917, hut not before the craftsmanship of the goldsmith astounded the court and rival artisans. The egg, always a symbol of rebirth, was adopted by early Christians as a symbol for the Resurrection. It was associated specifically with Easter when villagers brought eggs, forbidden food during Lent at the time, to the church to he blessed on Easter Sunday. The first food eaten in a Russian home on Easter wa-s an egg. Those in even the poorest areas of Russia exchanged eggs when they greeted family and neighbours on Easter day. A Russian folk tale ties the Easter egg gift to the virtue of charity in this way: A dying father tells his son to care for the p(x)r. The young man sets out for church on Easter Sunday carrying many eggs to distribute. By the time he reaches the church, all the eggs hut one are gone. This he gives to an old and
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dirty man. "You shall become my brother by the cross," the old man says to the youth. The youth then sees that the old man is the Lord himself Possibly the first royal Easter egg was given to Francis I of France in the 16th century. It was an egg containing a wood carving of the passion of Christ. Royalty gave eggs made of many kinds of materials to those who attended them during the Faster season. The first Faberge egg given to a tsarina probably was copied from an egg in the collection of Danish royalty. The tsarina, a Danish princess, was homesick and frightened. She had wit-
nessed the death of the assassinated Alexander II. Her husband, the succeeding tsar, Alexander Ill, hoped the Faberge egg would make her forget for a moment the violence threatening the Russian royalty. The next tsar, Alexander's son Nicholas II, continued to commission the Faberge eggs even into World War I and the revolution. 'file last Faberge egg a tsarina received was made of steel and decorated with her initials in gold. It is a sad conclusion to this story that the final eggs the royal family received were not made in the workshop of Faberge.
After Nicholas II abdicated in 1917, the royal family was exiled from their home and placed under the guard of communist troops. They were almost forgotten as others struggled for power. Yet on Easter 1918, the villagers near the place where the royal family was guarded saw to it that the Easter custom was kept alive. They were simple eggs prepared by the villagers hut perhaps they helped the family forget for a moment the violence around them. A few months later on July 16, Nicholas, his wife, son and daughters were taken to the cellar of a house in the Siberian town of Ekaterin• burg and shot.
By Joe Michael Fiest J
It is Easter, again, in Kisii, Kenya. The sun's spreads warmth across the hills and valleys of this portion southwestern of K enya. Everywhere there is green life springing from the earth and stretching upward like a just awakened child. And there are the crowds.
A modern gospel By Monica Clark I met Petras quite by accident during a visit to the Church of Sts Peter and Paul in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. It was a warm August Saturday. I'd walked to the church to observe 500th-anniversary observances of the death of their country's patron, St Casimir. This large church has served as the central place of worship for the archdiocese since the 1953 confiscation of the Cathedral of St Stanislaus. I found it filled with young parents presenting children for baptism, nervous brides and grooms awaiting their turn at the altar and scores of relatives and friends. Petras, a 24-year-old student at Lithuania's only seminary, was assisting the priests. An altar boy with whom my companion had spoken briefly when we arrived introduced me to Petras, who spoke English. Petras was eager to learn all he could about Christian life outside his Soviet republic. I, n turn, wanted to learn firsthand about Catholics in a land where religious belief and practice are stifled. When Petras was replaced at the altar we walked to a nearby park. Dressed in a well-worn suit, he looked like a poor businessman. He turned over his lapel to display a small silver cross and told me religious symbols cannot be worn in public. He talked of harassment by Soviet officials when
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he applied to the semi- shook their heads in frusnary. "Sometimes I feel tration when I told of afraid,- he said. "Then I programs of sacramental remember Jesus tri- preparation. umphed over adversity "The government would and I find courage to never permit that here," carry on." they said sadly. "Some My companion with- parents send children to drew a small Bible from 'secret' nuns for religious his backpack and Petras education but it is danreached for it. "The gerous." whole Bible, you have the I realised I was amidst whole Bible?" he said in a 20th-century catacomb astonishment. church quietly keeping Arriving at Sts Peter and the gospei story alive and Paul the following morncourageously passing on ing for Mass. I found a faith. large crowd outside. "It's too early to go in," I thought. Soon I realised there wasn't standingroom inside. Petras escorted me to a reserved seat in the sanctuary and I stared at the crowd so tightly packed that even one person's slight shift created a wave of motion. Men and women of all ages were singing, reciting the rosary. Every few minutes a small child would land in the sancWhen I think of tuary, pushed there by a Easter I don't usually relative to see Lithuania's bishops concelebrate the think of presents. I Eucharist. During the tend to associate the Blessed Sacrament pro- giving and receiving of cession around the court- gifts more with birthyard after Mass trumpets days and Christmas. There are exceptions, of blared. the lopsided "This is a persecuted course: ceramic apple complete church, yet people are with a missing bite presopenly joyful," I kept ented by a daughter on thinking. "They believe in the life that emerges Mother's Day; the heartshaped box of candy; the through suffering." bouquet of flowers which Later Petras led me silently up three flights of made an ordinary day stairs to an apartment of memorable. But most of my gift buying friends. Seated at a table enjoying biscuits and and making is focused on early September when my instant coffee were university students and brother, son-in-law and younger daughter celebrate young professionals — Catholics, secretly living three consecutive birthdays, and on December. Having their faith. two children with birthdays They closed the windows so we could talk in the 10 days before Christfreely about their efforts mas makes for hectic holiday to study Scripture, to preparations. I've always been glad that introduce Vatican-IIrenemy own birthday falls in wal, to organise youngearly March when it seems adult groups. that nothing else is going on They were surprised to and spring will never come. learn of the laity's role in western churches and A pair of ice skates, a watch.
At the Kanzalu mission in Kenya, a nun distributes Communion to the faithful during a Mass. For Maryknoll Father Edward Killackey, who spent five years in Kenya as part of his 18 years in Africa, the huge crowds coming into the village to celebrate Easter will always be a vivid memory, a reminder of how the faith is lived in Africa and how black culture has contributed to the faith.
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radio. typewriter and medical text marked milestones in my growing up. Equally vivid are memories of gifts given: a camera for one daughter last Christmas. a puppy for my son years ago, a chalice for a friend's birthday. Yet despite these associations, two of my most important experiences with gifts occurred on Easter. I was eight or nine the Holy Saturday afternoon when my father brought home not only an Easter corsage for my mother but also a small orchid corsage for me. There was no prouder, happier person than I at church the following morning as I wore what seemed to me the ultimate in grownup luxury and glamour. That orchid nestled beside the grapefruit in our refrigerator the next several weeks and then spent many more years on my bookcase, a tangible reminder of the promise of woomanhood. A second memorable experience occurred a year or two later. It too, involved a flower. I particularly love fragrant blossoms, roses, gardenias, carnations, narcissus, hyacinths. It was the custom at the church I then attended to bank the alter with hyacinths for Easter. Then, on Easter afternoon, all the children returned to church and each was given a potted
hyacinth to keep. The scent of that flower is as vivid to me now as it was that day when I walked home from church, breathing the aroma — and struggling with a decision. Two elderly sisters lived across the street from our family in a large, dark house The women intimidated me on the infrequent occasions when I saw them, though they were kind and had once showed me the oldest part of their home — a kitchen dating back to the 18th century. Much later I realised that they were a wealthy old Massachusetts family, but to my young eyes the sisters' age and isolation made them seem sad and very poor. I finally decided to brighten their Easter with my hyacinth. I gave it to them quickly, before I could change my mind. Only many years later did I fully appreciate that childhood decision. The two sisters could have afforded a great many hyacinths, hut I gave them something money could not buy. Now I see that hyacinth I gave away as a reminder of life that comes from a death to self And the little orchid will always he for me a symbol of the ability to see beyond what is to what will be. Those, for me. are the gifts of Easter.
For Maryknoll Father Edward Killackey, the huge c rowds coming into the village to celebrate Easter will always be a vivid memory, a reminder of how the faith is lived in Africa and, just as important, how black African culture has c ontributed to the faith.
'There is Easter brings memories of coloured Easter eggs, family celebrations. But it also is a time when people remember the empty tomb, the women hurrying at dawn to anoint Jesus' body, the bewildered guards, the appearances of the risen Lord to his disciples. Here is a little quiz just for fun that asks: How well do you remember all the details in the biblical accounts of the resurrection? This quiz is based on Matthew 28; Mark 16,1-8; Luke 24,1-49; John 2021,14. Take a minute to try your hand at this Easter pursuit. And then — no matter what! — take another minute to re-read the four biblical passages just cited. 1 . Who was the first to see the risen Jesus, according to Matthew and John? a. Mary, Jesus' mother; b. Peter; c. John; d. Mary Magdalene. 2. How was the stone blocking the entrance to the tomb moved away, according to Matthew? a. by an earthquake; b. by Jesus when he rose from the dead; c. by an angel; d. by Joseph of Arimathea. 3. Who made up the story that Jesus' disciples had come and stole his body from the tomb? a. the guards; b. the chief priests and elders; c. Pontius Pilate; d. Herod. 4. According to Mark, who did the women tell that Jesus had risen from the dead? a. John; b. Peter; c. Mary; d. They said nothing to anyone. 5. John tells of a race by two of Jesus' disciples to see the tomb. Name the two disciples.
homes. They'll say, There — Peter's house — there's the church.' Or, 'Over there at John's house. That's the
church.— There is also a much greater sense of life as a passnge or journery — so identified with Lent — among Africans, Father Killackey said. At each stage of life — childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age — the Africans Father Killackey knew were given a new name to symbolise life's journey. For them the taking of a Christian name at baptism, administered for adult converts during the Easter Vigil, is profoundly meaningful. Deeply ingrained in the culture, too, said Father Killackey, is the idea of reconciliation. Africans, for example, won't sit down and eat with someone they're angry with; since they will be sharing in the eucharistic meal, they naturally seek reconciliation. Much of Holy Week, he added. was spent hearing confessions.
"I remember the crowds coming in (to Kisii) by foot from all the outstations during Holy Week," Father Killackey said "The human flow of people coming for reconciliation always struck
me." Black Africans do not look at the events of Holy Week with intellectual detachment. To them. the crucifixion is real. 1
"During Holy V. cek I'd be doing catechesis, talking about the crucifixion. And the people would be calling out, 'Have couragejesu.s' or 'Stay strong, Jesus.' Good Friday is a real event. That God would suffer nourishes their ability to struggle," said Father Killackey. "Easter is the culmination of the victory," he added. "In a culture that's denied advan-
taw, it's a wholc new hope. Africa celebrates the victory. But their lives are such that they never forget the struggle." lbe Easter liturgies themselves, said Father Mita:key. are "totally participatory." There is more vocalisation. more body movement, more enthusiasm than in other cultures. His African experience shows the capacity of faith "to penetrate a culture," Father Killackey said. "In
Africa you has c deep values and a tremendous culture developed over centuries. Yet the message of Jesus can resonate in that culture. It is uncanny how the gospel message touches their And Father Killackey's experiences convinced him that the rest of the church can learn much from the African church. Exposure to other cultures could deepen and broaden our spiritual lives, he is convinced.
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Father Killackey served as a missioner in Africa from 1959 to 1977. He spent five years in Kenya, 11 years in Tanzania and two years in and out of Uganda during the bloody rule of dictator [di Amin. What Father Killackey discovered during those years. he said in a recent interview. is that the role of a mission ary often becomes reversed. "My purposes were turned upside down," he said. "I was trained to be a giver and I became a receiver. I was trained to be an evangeliser but I was the one who was evangelised."
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6 Who won the race to the tomb? 7. The risen Jesus was mistaken by some as: a a visitor to Jerusalem; b. a spirit; c. a gardener; d. all of the above; e. none of the above. 8. Which one of the disciples refused to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until the nail prints in his body were seen? a. Thomas; b. Nathaniel; c. Peter; d. Matthew. 9. How did Jesus demonstrate to the disciples that he was really alive? a. He told them to touch him; b. He prepared breakfast for them; c. He ate some broiled fish; d. None of the above; e. All of the above. 10. Name two of the women who visited Jesus' tomb on that first Easter morning.
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The priest, now director of Maryknoll's justice and peace office in Washington. D.C., remains deeply impressed with African Christianity. As the central event for African Christians, Easter is celebrated with enthusiasm and vigour and with a uni que blend of culture and traditional ritual. First of all, the idea of church in Africa is different, Father Killackey noted. "Whenever someone conies into an African village and asks where the church is, the person asked will point to one of the Christians'
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ROME: Benedictine Monasteries in Africa are growing and taking their first tentative steps toward becoming truly African said Abbot Viktor Dammertz, abbot primate of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation of 9700 monks in 333 independent monasteries. The integration of African cultures and monastic values "is a process that cannot be pushed. It has to grow" at its own place, the abbot primate said. Although some Benedictines had been working there earlier as missionaries, the first monastery in Africa was founded in 1956, in what is now Zaire. Another was founded the following year in Tanzania, and most were founded in the 1960s after Pope Paul VI urged the order to establish monasteries in Africa. At this stage, said Abbot Dammertz, about half the 200-plus Benedictine monks in Africa are still Europeans, and most of the superiors are still European. Abbot Dammertz said some African cultural traditions are very close to the spirit and ideals of Benedictine monasticism. "Monastic hospitality is a very African value," he said. Hospitality to
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strangers and travellers was one of the original reasons for the founding of Benedictine monastries across Europe and remains one of the basic values in Benedictine spirituality. He also cited the spirit of "sharing" among the community that governs attitudes toward property in many A frican tribal cultures. "The rule of St Benedict does not speak of poverty, but of sharing," he commented. A sked if attitude against celibate life in A frican cultures are a hindrance to Benedictine vocations there, Abbot Dammertz answered that, as regards men, "I don't think this problem is any more serious in Africa than it is in Western countries." He thought the situation was different for women, however. African cultural views, which look down on a woman without a husband and children, make it "more difficult" for African girls to think of entering religious life, he said.
Colum Byrne, supervising exploration geologist of Getty Oil Development Co, was born at Larne in County Antrim, Ireland, on February 10, 1944. He received his education at Walkinstown convent in suburban Dublin a convent at Bally Shannon in County Donegal, a state school at Bronte Park in Tasmania, the Christian Brothers' St Virgil's College in Hobart and the University of Tasmania from which he graduated with a B Sc. degree, majoring in geology, in 1966. As is the way with many geologists, his employment took him to various parts of the world including his native Ireland. Canada and outback Australia. Colum and his wife Jean ( nee Gately), parishioners of St Cecilia's at Floreat Park, have three sons and a daughter aged from 13 to three years.
The helicopter's engine stopped dead as it flared out for the landing on the earth, still a considerable distance below, of a remote area of a Newfoundland in Canada. G eologist, Colum Byrne was familiar with helicopters — he had often been towed by one while he was on water skis in Tasmania but for his four fellow-passengers it was their first flight and they had been a little uneasy from the outset. So he said nothing as the chopper flopped to a bone-shaker of a landing. A fter all had emerged unscathed from the undamaged aircraft, one of the new boys ventured to inquire whether the landing had been a bit rough. "Oh no," fibbed Colum, -that's the way it always is in choppers." It was an excusable white lie prompted by the fact the only way to get men in and out of this sequestered site was by helicopter. If he had told the other passengers engine failure was the real reason for their scary arrival, they would never have stepped into a chopper again. But this episode was a long way down the track in the story of Colum Byrne. Father Bill had sailed round the world often before the mast in windjammers and had lost the top of a finger
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It is nearly 40 years since the great Austrian tenor, Richard Tauber died — but Fay Gilbert remains one of his staunchest fans. Fay Gilbert was born in Perth 45 years ago, when the great singer was at his peak, and became an ardent follower from the age of six after hearing his of Tauber's music and songs on radio. The lilting sounds of perhaps some comYou Are My Heart's ments on his life. Fay keeps a notebook diary Delight, Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss of every tiny detail she can gather on Tauber's life and and My Heart And I, live after finding two books about on inside her. him, written by his wife Diana Her small Perth flat Napier, while hunting finds space for a large through second-hand shops, collection of Tauber's wrote to the tenor's wife. It was the beginning of a albums and when she correspondence that was to doesn't have a record last until Mrs Tauber's death on, she is likely to be in 1982. listening to the radio in hope of hearing more
Rickard Tauber and IdS wife Diana during their visit to Australia in 1938.
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Richard Tauber was born on May 16, 1891 in a little inn at Linz, capital of Upper Austria. At the time of his birth, his mother, the leading soubrette at the local Municipal Theatre, was over 40. She had married an actor, nearly 10 years her junior but as her career moved toward decline and his was yet to be established, the marriage ultimately failed. Richard Tauber spent much of his early life with his mother and dressing rooms became his nursery.
The smell of powder and grease paint mixed with the air he breathed from the first days of his life. But at the age of six he went to live with his father who had definite thoughts on a settled life and a good education. It was the latter which Richard Tauber would come to loath and the hatred with which he regarded especially mathematics and Latin, stuck to him throughout his life. Luckily, neither were necessary to a singer. Tauber's first public appearance took place when at the age of nine he participated in a concert at lnnichen, a small resort in the Tyrol. The youngster took his audience by storm and received a grand reception . he was to continue as he had begun. In the years to come he would sing in opera houses throughout the world, cut numerous records and appear in films. The year 1913 marked the beginning of his career as an operatic singer; a career that was to endure, undimmed for 35 years until his untimely
death of lung cancer at the age of 57. His professionalism and talent were to take him as far as anyone would want to go; even to his final performance as Don Octavio in Don Giovanni with Josef Krips conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, on September 27, 1947, just five days before he was to have surgery. For the few who knew of his true condition the evening remains a miracle. He had been racked by savage coughing spasms for months, and it was only sheer willpower that saw him through the role, without a flaw. It was one of his finest performances and few rea-
lised the tremendous ovation from the audience represented his final curtain call. To doctors even more than to laymen, his performance in Don Giovanni seemed incredible. How a man could have gone through such a strenuous task with only one lung working remains a miracle. But, says Fay Gilbert, Richard Tauber was not just a great singer, he was a truly remarkable man. She has no qualms about naming him as her idol although she admits some of her workmates look askance when she tells them who her favourite singer is. -So many of them have never heard of him," she said. "It's a pity in a way that he
His professionalism and talent were to take him as far as anyone would want to go; even to his final performance as Don Octavio in Don Giovanni with Josef Krips conducting the Vienna Philharmonic O rchestra, on September 27, 1947, just five days before he was to have surgery.
scary helicopter rides for this adventurous geologist
Adventures aplenty for geologist explorer Today's People
A regular feature By BOB BOYLE through frostbite suffered high in the rigging while he was reefing sail in an icy gale off Cape Horn The ship's medic had been lost overboard in the same gale Bill had been impressed with Australia and decided it was a place for him and his family to spend a few years before moving on So in 1951 they arrived in Tasmania and mother resolved to mark the occasion by ordering bikes in Launceston for her two sons But the drive on winding gravel roads through precipitous mountains to Bill's work site caused her to change her
mind about the bikes and she cancelled the order at the first opportunity. So the seven-year -old Colum's initial memory of Australia is disappointment through being done out of a bike, but this was quickly tempered by his delight in the wondrous bush surroundings of his new home The swiftly -acquired love of the outdoors, aided by an interest in scientific subjects, was to be the ultimate determinant in his choice of profession. It was a path along which father Bill could not guide him for long.
doesn't have a fan club. I am not even sure if he has ever had a fan club, anywhere in the world. although he has been a much loved singer." For Fay, who was impressed by his voice at an early age and has grown to love his songs even more over the years, it seems a pity such a
"Part of the reason for the scarcity, I think, is that a lot of his records were banned in the war and many were probably destroyed. Strictly speaking he was a Catholic but his father was Jewish." Richard Tauber was an only child and never had children of his own With the death of his wife there were no links left.
"Of course, in opera circles he is remembered," she said. "I am a keen supporter of the opera and often hear his name mentioned." Tauber came to Perth in 1938 and sang at His Majesty's Theatre. That was two years before Fay was born and much to her chagrin, one of her aunts was able to go and see the noted singer perform. "And does she rub it in," Fay grinned, "I haven't even seen him on film and I would love to." "He was planning another trip to Australia when he died so I suppose it was never meant to be," she said. Now that the generation which would have been familiar with Richard Tauber is dying out, Fay is even more determined to gather as much information about him as she can. "It may only be snippets," she said, "but it all adds up." His records are also becoming increasingly difficult to procure and hunting through second hand shops is less likely to turn up a find. "Many of the records I have wouldn't be able to get again," she said. "It was hard enough to get them in the first place. I only have about 30 LP's but there must have been a great number of 78s made also.
Death claimed the old sailor, and with him died any family plans to move on. On graduating from the University of Tasmania as a geologist. Colum sent in applications for six advertised positions and promptly shot up to the Gold Coast in Queensland on holiday. When he returned he found the six firms to which he had applied had each offered him a job. Understandably, he chose the one paying best. It was with a Canadian nickel exploration company called lnco and the work was north of Rockhampton in Queensland. After a short time Colum became a little disappointed because his tasks involved more man management and supervision than geology. He resigned when his mother fell ill and returned to Tasmania. There he got a job as a geologist with the Hydro Electricity Commission
Fay Gilbert . . . a devoted fan after 40 years.
Colum and his colleagues carried hypodermic needles and a couple of ampoules of anti-venene as they set out to work each day. They kept the anti-venene at the required cool temperature by submerging the ampoules in the river on the end of pieces of string No snake bit Colum, but the travel-bug did. He toured Asia and Europe for three months before popping over to Ireland for what he intended to be only a short visit to the and of his birth. However, an employer and Cupid took a hand to lengthen the sojourn. He accepted a job as a geologist at a copper -leadzinc-silver mine in County Galway with the Northgate Group, with whom he was / years in 2 to remain for 121 different spots on the globe, and working in the mine office was a colleen named Jean Gately.
"It was the end of an era," said Fay. "I did write to the BBC once trying to get more information about him and to see if there were any other family members alive but I didn't get anywhere.But Richard Tauber's
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memory will live as long as Fay Gilbert is around Rarely a night goes by without the sound of his voice as she sits at her knitting or exquisite embroidery, taught to her by the nuns during her schooldays. "I have to stop to turn the record but I don't mind," she said.
An area in which he worked was the Lower Gordon River, the proposed damming of which was later to give rise to the Franklin River controversy of recent memory There were no protesters in the rugged bush then, but there were snakes a-plenty In summer the reptiles, mainly deadly tiger snakes, would congregate on the river banks
Anyone with information regarding Richard Tauber can write to Miss Gilbert, C/O The Record, 26 John St, Perth 6001.
The couple were married at Loughrea in County Galway. The nickel boom in Australia was beckoning geologist Colum and he and his bride landed in Australia early in 1971. Perth was the choice of where to settle. Colum had visited the city before and decided it was a good place to live. Besides, it was the centre of the nickel boom which was beginning to fade by early 1971_ Colum continued with the Northgate Group on base metals exploration in the Western Pilbara. He and Jean lived in a caravan adjacent to the exploration camp. To the girl from Ireland the stark surroundings contrasted sharply with the soft green of her native land. Early in the piece, a big bungarra settled itself comfortably in the cool of the annexe of their caravan. Colum returned from work
to find his terrified wife warning him about the alligator that was about to devour them His exploration team found a copper -nickel deposit. Declining metal prices caused the company to pass it up then, but it is now being worked. Colum's work in 1975 was mainly in the Eastern Goldfields north of Kalgoorlie. but in that year the company transferred him to Toronto in Canada. Here again was environmental contrast for the Byrnes. Colum's first project was involved with drilling in pack ice in the Bering Sea to trace off -shore extensions of goldbearing river channels east of Nome. He had been used to temper atures of minus 12°C in the mountains of Tasmania and it had been pretty nippy at times in Ireland. But here in the Bering Sea the daily average temperature was minus 30°C. Later, in the Yukon, he was to experience minus 58°C. He says until you have experienced them you can have no concept of what such temperatures are like. Near minus 40°C will freeze your windpipe and choke you, so you have to have fur protection around your face to warm the air before you take it into your lungs. In Alaska he suffered broken bones when the skidoo (motorised sledge) on which he was a passenger crushed his foot against pack ice. Fortunately, the chairman of the company happened to be visiting the camp in his Learjet and the geologist was quickly flown back to Toronto for treatment. The lditerod, the gruelling annual dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome in which contestants have to finish with the same number of dogs with which they started even though the animals may have to be carried dead on the sled. passed the exploration camp and provided a memorable spectacle for the workers.
A doctor who cannot he named because of AMA ethics has criticised aricies in The Record post-natal depression. He says some of tiie more obvious and misleading innacuracies in t he article by Roslyn Ross are: 1. Physical causes for severely disturbed behifviour following childbir' c ontaminated early studies, and are now recognised to be of many origins such as infection or disturbance of body c hemistry now readi ly diagnosed and treated. These must be very carefully distinguished from such disorders as depression. 2 . Lactation (breast f eeding) makes no contribution to postnatal d epressive disorders, despite the use of such old terms as "milk fever" or "lactational insanity". Indeed breast feeding c an often proceed very satisfactorily in the presence of quite severe illness. 3. There is a massive psychiatric literature on p ostnatal (also called puerperal) disorders, and not a little on the more normal "baby blues". 4. To suggest psychiatrists "by and large consider it does not exist" is frankly ridiculous. Every psychiatrist in Perth will have considerable experience of these common disorders, which are t aught in every postgraduate training program. S everal hospitals in larger population centres have purpose-built units with facilities for admission of mother and baby; one such was started in a Perth psychiatric hospital in the past. Now such enlightened treatment, given without interrupting the relationship between mother and child is readily available at Perth teaching hospital psychiatric units, and at the major Catholic private hospital. Unfortunately funding regulations imposed on private hospitals by the Federal government do not permit reimbursement of the baby's costs despite several submissions from psychiatrists around Australia. 5. Sleep deprivation has nothing to do with the incidence of significant depressive disorders. It is a far more common error among doctors to incorrectly blame fatigue for puerperal disorders than to overlook it as you suggest. Nor have "hormones" ever been shown to play any causal role, certainly not easily measured ones such as progesterone.
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John and Annie Juracich o f Wembley celebrate this weekend the 50th anniversary of their wedding on April 13, 1935 in St Brigid's church, West Perth. Present at the jubilee Mass in Our Lady of Victories church at 4 pm on Saturday, April 13 will be their four children Frank, Millie (Kelly), Ivan and
Jeanette (Chesson) and their 22 grandchildren. John Juracich came from Yugoslavia to Australia at the age of 17 and seven y ears later married Annie Tarabochia. The family lived first in Shenton Park and for the past 25 years have lived in Wembley, where John is an active member of the SVDP.
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economic history in the University of WA. He was secretary of the W A Industry Expansion C ommittee and later moved to Sydney with the Commonwealth government where he became acting director of the Industries Commission of the Department of Trade. Later he was the first appointee to the commission set up by the Institute of Applied Economic Research. E arly in 1967 he entered the Oblate novitiate in Geelong, Victoria taking his first vows in
March 1968. He studied for the priesthood at Catholic College Clayton and in 1972 was posted to lona College, Brisbane and then to the parish of Sorrento, disorder of hypomania, are sometimes seen and have an equally good outlook. A family history of depressive disorders is common, and women with a past history of depression are particularly vulnerable. The period after childbirth is almost certainly one of risk for first onset of these illnesses in women who carry the genes for them. Why childbirth provides the trigger is not known, but the reason is more complex than "hormones". The great tragedy is that families, far more than caring professionals, overlook the fact the young mother is not sharing everyone else's joy, or blame her for not being happy, and a readily treatable illness is missed. EDITOR'S NOTE: I would like to point out material for these articles came from the Postnatal
Victoria. He joined Mazenod College, Lesmurdie in 1974 and was ordained priest at Lesmurdie by Archbishop Goody in October the same year. In recent years he suffered indifferent health and assisted in the archdiocesan parishes of B oulder and Wongan Hills. In his later years he devoted much of his time t o historical research especially into the life of Bishop Gibney. Father Goerke was buried in the Oblate section of Fremantle cemetery f ollowing Mass in St
Patrick's church at which the principal celebrant was Father John Coakley, OMI, provincial superior. Depression Support Group and a variety of printed literature on the subject of postnatal depression. It must also be noted the majority of views expressed came from women who have suffered from postnatal depression and have tried to get help . . . it is interesting they obviously do not feel there is adequate help available, even though members of the medical profession do. If the sufferers are left wanting, something must be wrong with the system. It is perhaps worth remarking that while I feel the clinical points made above no doubt arise from a solid foundation, the reality is, the women involved do not feel the medical profession is as informed nor as open-minded as it could be. Surely those who have suffered are the best to judge.
Family and friends gathered at St Mary's Star of the Sea church, in Peppermint Grove, to witness the marriage of Tamara Sheridan Smith to Edward Coppola. Tamara wore an off -the-shoulder dress of white paper taffeta with lace trim. Matron-of -honour and bridesmaid, both friends of the bride from school days at John X XIII College, wore off -the-shoulder dresses of soft apricot chiffon. Parents of the bride, Mr Neil Sheridan Smith, of Bayswater, and Mrs Terry Walker, of Duncraig, and those of the groom, Mr Guiseppe Coppola, of North Perth, and his wife, Angela, were among guests at the R oyal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club reception. Atriwer.
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1 I. I). Matthew 28.1 and 9. John 20.1 it 2. (: Matthew 28.2. 3.11 Matthew 28.11-13. 4. D. Nlark 16,8. 5. Peter and Ow disciple ( John ) whim Jesus loved. John 20.3-1. 6. John. John 20.3--). I). Llikc 24.18 and 5 . John 20.15. 8. A. John 20,25 9.1 John 20.21 and 21.91-1: Luke 24.39; .folin 20.912; Luke 2 4. 4 2i3 10. Stat- Magdalene. Matthew 28. I. Mark 16.1; Luke 2 4. 10: John 20.1. \ tary the niother of Jams., Mark 16,1; Luke 24.10. Salome. Mark 16.1. Joanna. Luke 24,10. "Other women ' l ii 24.10.
From page 5 To Father Ray the answer returns as a quick "Yes." To the countless people indebted to him, for the lives he has saved, the consolation given and the morales uplifted, there would be a 'Thank God for Father Ray." But it has taken its heavy toll. I see before me now a physically sick man, but one who engenders love and a perpetual aura of gentleness about him that attracts people magnetically. His arm is always around someone, or a child's head nestles against his chest depicting love for Father Ray - and his reciprocation for them.
From page 16 the patronal feast of Australia, was chosen as the title f or the Midland festival some seven years ago after discussions between the then parish priest. Father Robert Matthews, and the different ethnic groups in the parish who honoured Our Lady according to their various national traditions. It was felt that the Help of Christians title would be a symbol of unity amongst the migrants. In 1844 Australia's first priest Father Therry asked Bishop Polding to dedicate Australia to Mary. In 1944 the first provincial synod of Australia decreed that Mary Help of Christians be the national feast on May 24. The petition was sent to Rome in 1847 with Bishop Pompalier but was lost in a mislaid suitcase. The official approval was given by Rome in 1852.
DE \ CLARKE: Passed away peacefully on 4th April, 1985, Kevin Duncan. of 67 Arkwell Street Willagee. Dearly beloved husband of Ainslie Margaret, loved father of Judith & John. Father-in-law of Cliff & Sandra. Lo‘ed Poppy of Julie, Michael, Gavin & Stuart. The funeral took place in the Crematorium chapel Fremantle Cemetery, on Wednesday 10th April, after Requiem Mass celebrated in St Patrick's Church, Fremantle. BOWRA & O'DEA Funeral Directors 328 7299 I at
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"Murphy Wing" By Bishop Robert Healy, D.D. on Sunday, April 21 at 3.00 p.m. Friends of the College and those interested are cordially invited to attend.
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The newspaper headlines of the last couple o f weeks suggest 1985 is "International Animal Year" rather than International Youth Year. The fairy penguins of Melbourne, the menagerie mystery slaughter in Adelaide, and more recently the quokkas' plight on Rottnest, have been in the spotlight. frequently These animal occurring issues seem more popular than the reduction of youth wage levels, youth unemployment Of the activities of voluntary youth organisations. What annoys me is not that cruelty to animals is publicised, but rather the degree to which graphic details of animal suffering is presented on television and in the newspapers. Often the details of human degradation, of the born or the unborn is shielded from our "sensitive"' view. During the second world war the German media was in control of the Third Reich and the slaughter of 10 million people was hidden from public scrutiny. There was no public outcry in Germany, the public knew nothing or little about it. The same happens today, there are no graphic pictures of how abortions take place, and there is no public outcry for one, ten or one hundred unborn children, destroyed each day in A ustralia. On another front, a few presentations of the starving Ethiopians lead many to say — "Let's change the and channel watch. . The care and compassion of people seems to be directed, by our media, more towards animals, than it is towards young or old — be it Youth Year or not. I would not be surprised to find in the morning papers, pictures of human beings relegated to the sports pages. The headline pages are filled with animal pictures. Our national airline advertises the delivery of 10,000 babies (namely 10,000 chickens) from Sydney to Perth. A dvertising consultants are suggesting products will receive
more attention if featured with kittens, puppies or joeys rather than scantily clad young women (that's some consolation). In the past animals have helped humans in their struggle for survival. We no longer hunt game, with the assistance of retriever dogs. not do Farmers plough fields with work horses. Chemicals have made the household cat redundant as a mice exterminator. The majority of people still need animals for food, clothing, milk and other byproducts, yet a vocal minority decries even leather shoes. For most children the first close encounter with an animal today happens when mum or dad brings home that promised family pet. It can be an occasion for a child to learn responsibility by regularly feeding, watering and caring for his or her pet.
Australian YCW President, Bernie McEvoy, has released an introductory manual to the Young Christian Workers Movement called, Starting the YCW In The Eighties. The 100 page document is a step by step description of how to start a YCW group in a parish. There are planned Australian YCW president Bernie McEvoy (second agendas for seventeen meetright) shows Perth YCW full time workers the new ings and the booklet is divided Manual Starting the YCW in the 80s, (left to right) into four sections. Anna Rossi Joseph Tufilk Bernie McEvoy and In the other three sections: Gemma Wooltorton. the review of life method IS explained, the role bearers been Chaplain to the National to Miss McEvoy this booklet are described and a detailed movement for four years and should step up that growth in program for a training wee- has been involved in the leaps and bounds kend is given. The manual Adelaide YCW for the past 20 The language is simple and years. costs only $4. clear, it is easy to follow and A supplementary package The manual gives step by would be of great assistance consists of handout pages step assistance to anyone to a priest or a youth worker that can be photocopied and interested in doing some- in a parish used by members at each thing for young workers who Anyone interestedin obtainhave left school. In the last ing further information can meeting. Much of the written matter seven years the YCW movecontact Anna Rossi, PO Box was put together by Father ment has grown by 700 per 194, North Perth, 6006 Hugh O'Sullivan who has cent in Australia. According Phone 328 9667 YOUNG ADULT WEEKEND The single young adult weekend is an experience for young people in the church aged from 20 to 35. The program has been developed over the past 18 months by Father Chuck and S.J Gallagher members of the Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre in U.S.A. The program is having great success in the Eastern States as well as the Philippines where Kevin Bailey from Cottesloe parish attended a weekend in February this year. The first weekend for WA is being held in Cottesloe Parish on May 3-5. It is hoped that from this base the experience will be passed on to parishes throughout the State. The Parish Renewal Week-
It gives children an opportunity to lavish attention on something other than themselves. It's sad if this care is never translated to a human relationship later in life. It's sad when some people in old age have left more in their wills for "Fido" and the nearby dog home, Over the past twenty than for their own or years Australia has other people's child- witnessed the "topsyren. like" growth and diverNot to mention the sification of the youth millions of starving affairs field. homeless, sick and In the 1960s it as reladeprived in other parts tively easy to define the field. of the world. There were denominational Animal lovers of the Church youth organisations, world need not fear nationally organised but that I'm against them; locally based on gymnastics. Iwish to highlight that team sports and camping. some of our priorities, and a few State-based youth at least in the way the and family welfare agencies media presents them, engaged in counselling, are back to front. drop-in centre or outreach Jesus cared about work. Stage government animals — he was departments engaged primprobably the best yoke arily in statutory- work with maker in Galilee, or so juveniles. Paid youth one legend suggests. workers were a minority When he said to the group in youth affairs. Trainpeople, "my yoke is ing was virtually non-existeasy and my burden ent apart from some agencylight", perhaps the based institutes set up. to listeners smiled to equip volunteers and prothemselves, remem- vide in-service training for bering Jesus as the staff. wonderful carpenter During the late 1960s and who made the 1970s there was a virtual smooth well fitting explosion of activity: yokes which never • state governments chafed domestic anim- expanded their roles to fund als so vital for human community youth program, survival. became more directly But Jesus cared for involved in preventive work people more — espe- and later established Youth cially those who hurt Bureaux the most! He proved it • Local government bodies with His life. ( particularly in Victoria and
end Experience and the Choice program were inspirational in the development of the mentality of the single young adult experience. It is part of an ongoing process working at a parish spirituality and empowering pani
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ANTIOCH
shioners to play a more active role in their parish_ Doubleview parish recently held its third Antioch It is a weekend to renew weekend. Pictured above are Stephen Kennedy, commitment and belonging Kris Kerlin, Father Falzun (front) Sharon Marshall, as vital members of the Shelley Vitasovic and Craig Patterson parish family. Through prayer sharing and noting down feelings and attitudes on such issues as belonging, family, hurts and healing, scriptures, sexuality and outreach, it is hoped to form a close bond between people in a similar situation to each other as single young people in the church Anyone who would like further information please contact Kevin Bailey at 39 L yons Street, Cottesloe Telephone 384 1581. Book for the next Choice weekend by ringing Margaret and Terry Fennessy on 386 6494. The programme starts on Friday, June 28 at Eagle's Nest.
Also attending were (Back) Steve Thompson, Scott Millard, Karen Deppe, Paul Kennedy. (Front) Michele Preshaw, Mark Patterson andMarie Yearvvood
Great growth in youth field New South Wales) to perform. Most of these expanded their roles into paid and voluntary workers human service areas of comwere "thrown in at the deep munity development includ- end" and asked to swim, or ing youth services. at least not to sink. Locating • The Commonwealth govthe only pre-service training eminent entered the arena centre for youth workers at first by establishing Phillip (previously Coburg) hundredstof locally managed College in Victoria, made Community Youth Support this kind of training mostly Schemes and later the Youth inaccessible to people from Services Scheme. The Office other States. The pressures of Youth Affairs was set up. of unemployment, poverty, Officers were breakdown in family relayouth appointed in the Common- tionships and homelessness wealth Employment Service. compelled these workers to • Some State Education direct their energies to the authorities developed stu- distress of young people dent counselling services. rather than to their own • TAFE Colleges expanded professional training and their roles from providing development. Funding vocational and leisure guidelines, salary levels and courses for adults to numer- conditions of employment acy/literacy and vocationally did not help them to obtain oriented courses for young the support and training unemployed peo- they needed. Numerous surple. • Some Church youth veys of workers during this programs have employed period have confirmed these paid youth workers. The problems. resulted in changes John Ewen highlighted the hundreds of people being problems in 1981 when he employed, mostly under completed a national study govenment funded schemes, entitled "The Education and to work in entirety unfamil- Training of Youth Workers iar ways with young people. in Australia." Depite his call Similarly, hundreds of peo- for a response to the urgent ple who had never managed inservice training needs of or worked in a youth serving the field and the expansion organisation before found of pre-service training themselves volunteering for opportunities, little was roles they were ill-equipped done to rectify many years
of neglect in this area. One can only speculate about the cost in worker "burn out" and the quality of youth work services!! Workers in the field frequently tried, through their own networks and associations, to take responsibility for their own in-sen-ice training. Many of these initiatives failed because the worers could not always assume a collective identity to make such training viable, or the demands for training far outstripped the resources available. Only recently have training funds been allocated for the vastarmy of CYSS workers, for example. Gradually over the years a body of theory and practice in youth work has been evolving despite the diversification. A wide range of "workers with youth" have started to see that they have much in common and could mutually benefit from access to co-ordinated training resources. Recent initiatives by the C ommonwealth Government through the Office of Youth Affairs have placed the issue of training high on the national agenda of the youth affairs field. In 1983 and 1984 funds were allocated to the Youth Affairs
Council of Australia to assist the non-government sector to organise its networks around the training issue. In 1984 OYA engaged a consultant to advise on national strategies and developments and to organise a National Workshop. Fifty-one people attended the workshop held in June 1984. Since then consultations, meetings and discussions have been held in each of the States and Territories. At some of these meetings the participants have needed to address such basic issues as "defining the field", "assessing the training needs of workers" and "the resources currently available". At other meetings greater co-ordination of training and the establishment of appropriate structures to achieve crosssectoral representation and co-ordination of training at State/Territory and national levels, have been the main issues. Any person or organisation wishing to participate in this c onsultation process or offer some advice on the coordination of youth worker training may contact Mr John Peachey (062) 89'650 in the Office of Youth Affairs for further information.
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Jokes Customer: "These eggs taste terrible." Waiter: "Sorry!Ionly laid the table." Q. Why shouldn't you tell secrets near a wheat field or a potato patch? A. Because wheat has ears and potatos bare eyes. A man goes into a butcher's shop and asks, "Have you got a sheep's head?" The butcher replies, "No, it's just the wayIpart my hair." Q: Who always has guests for dinner? A: A cannibal. Q: What did the cannibal have for breakfast? A: Baked beings. Q: What's a cannibal's favour t e game? A: Swallow the leader. Q: What did the cannibal say when he found the hunter asleep? A: "Ab! Breakfast in bed. Q: What happens when you throw a handful of grapes into the air? A: They come down plonk. Customer: -Waiter! This coffee tastes like mud!" Waiter: "I'm not surprised sir, it was ground only this morning." Q: What goes around a frying pan at a hundred kilometres an hour?
Halloween Harriet's Candy, by Nancy Carlson, published by Picture Puffin, $3.95. A simple story of the joys of Halloween and candy and sharing with younger brother. Harriet shares her candy with Walt, but not for any reason of sisterly love! Ages 3-8
.I.fog At The Zoo, by Helen Nicoll and Jan Menkowski publishedby Ladybird, $3.50. Meg, Mog and Owl visit the zoo, but who would have guessed the adventure that follows when the zoo keepers mistake Mog for a tiger? A surprise rescuer ensures Mog's safety. Ages 2-6.
Adventures Of Major Tom, published by Ladybird. The Fiery Space Dron, Space Invasion SkyFrau*, The Deadly Plant Planet, all $1.75. Major Tom is th heroic Space Cat, who is ably assisted by the robot. Oddball, in the quest for combating mischief in the galaxy. There are three new titles in this exciting series. The Fiery Space Dron — is A perilous road to victory for Major Tom and Oddball against the deadly fire-breathing Space Dron. Space Invasion SkIchawk — Major Tom is captured by th Hawkdroids and held captive in their ingenious hideout. Thanks to the brave Oddball. Tom is rescued and the fortress destroyed. The Deadly Plant Planet — The fiend. Dr Plantro. has sprayed the city with an evil plant mixture and monster weeds have taken over. Will Major Tom and Oddball succeed in overpowering the doctor and find a mixture to kill the weeds?
A: An unidentified frying object. Customer: "Waiter, do you serve crabs here?" Waiter: "Sit down sir, we serve anybody." Yesterday a five tonne truck of eggs collided with a five tonne tanker of milk. Police are now looking for a ten tonne omelette. Q: What did one strawberry . alt to the other strawberry? A: "If it wasn't for you we wouldn't be in this jam." Q: What can you serve but not eat? A: A tennis ball. Q: Where do sick lemons go? A: To the lemon aid centre. "Jimmy, do you pray just before dinner?" "No, my mum's a good cook."
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Happy birthday to Rekeil Parsons. Kelmscott; Regan McClure, Kendenup; David Lawson, Lesmurclie; Jaysen Gowrea, Dianella; Mary Beilby, Nollamara; Amber A: No, you should eat your Southwell, Greenwood; fingers separately. Kerry Vanhaeften, Ashfield; Q: What do nuclear scientTroy Hughes, Balcatta; ists eat for lunch? Sheryl Lyons, Cloverdale; A: Fission chips. Natalie Sargeant, Rossmoyne; Nathan Parsons. Customer: "Waiter, what's Kelmscott; Sue Whitelaw. this fly doing in my Anne-Mari ' Karrinyup; soup?" Duce, floyanup; Liam Duane. Waiter: "It looks like the Wongan Hills; Jennettc backstroke to me, sir." Della fora, Hamilton Hill: Customer: "Waiter, Christine Bog,gon, Scarbothere's a fly in my soup." rough; Graham Bergin, Cool Waiter: "Sssh sir, evegardie; Adrian Bloodworth. ryone else will want one Medina; Emma Giambazi. too." Kendra Hassett. Dalkeith; Shopper: "How much are Regina Howe, Rivervale; these chickens?" Willetton; Jennifer Jensen. Grocer: "Sixty cents a Mt Magnet; Gerard Kelly. kilo." South kumminin; Joanna Shopper: "Did you raise Lane, Morawa; Gregory them yourself?" Murphy, Quairading; Joanna Grocer: "Yes, sir. This Preistley, Manning; Natalie morning they were only Pow, Karrinyup; Ashley Tay• forty cents." 'or, Wattleup; Anne Wayne. Q: How is an egg different South Perth; Beth Castieau. from an elephant? Phillip Tucak, Swanbourne. A: If you don't know, I Michael Thomas, Heawouldn't like to send you thridge; Rebecca Swar, Hilto buy eggs. ton.
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Holiday Of The Ikon, by Thomas Shapcott, published by Penguin, $4.50. Three friends on a visit to Queensland's Stradbroke Island are expecting carefree days of swimming, beachcombing and exploring. But then they befriend Ken Gregory, whose obsessive search for the mysterious family Ikon draws them all into a drama which shatters the holiday calm. Holicty- of the Ikon is the second novel for children by this well-known Australian writer. Australian Original Ages 10+
Sarah Finn, 8. Rebecca Franklin, 8. address is included. all those members C ongratulations go who take part in our to Claire Miguel, of puzzle and colouring Hope Valley, 8 years; sections. Rebecca Franklin, of Swan View, 8 years; Erica Martin, of Lesmurdie, 9 years; Tracy 1 ou ha‘ e got to be in the club To join simpb send the comou *ant to enter our com- pleted coupon here to The Green, of Wembley if petitions and *in some of the R ecord kid's Club, PO Box Downs, 10 years; super prizes. 50, Aberdeen Street, Perth. Timothy Merks, of Kal6000. goorlie, 5 years and rSarah Finn, of Albany, 8 years. Books have been sent out to all our Name winners courtesy of Macmillan and WilAddress liam Collins publishers. P , code Don't forget that we have lots of lovely A ge Birthdate books to give away to
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Tracy Green, 10. Thanks to all our members who took the time to take part in our Easter colouring and drawing contest. We have six winners who all put a lot of effort into their work.
Timothy Merks, 5. Unfortunately, we also had some entries from people who didn't include names and addresses so try and remember next time to make sure your full name and
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A look at books Compiled by Roslyn Ross.
Testing time for all The Book Of Tests, by Dr Michael Nathenson, published by Fon$11.95. tana, R eviewed by Roslyn R oss. You could say this txmk is the neurotic's answer to the crossword - more than anything however, it's a hit of harmless fun. While some people are really addicted to filling in magazine 'tests,' most of us can take them or leave them but are still lured from time to time to 'till in the spaces' if it is a subject that interests US.
This book, with its 65 separate tests, will be a must for the addicts. There's so much to find out, well, that's the theory anyway. There are tests on health, love, marriage and the family, work, personality, stress, anxiety and fears, abilities and aptitudes, relationships and some just for fun.
Prayer of Faithful: A new look
I doubt that the results in any of the tests are likely to change your life or even tell you something you hadn't already suspected but it will
Let Us Pray To The Lord, edited by Father Peter Elliott, published by E.J. Dwyer, $ 25 for hard-bound c over, deep brown leaembossed goldtherette, blocked on face and spine; fitted with head and tail bands and marker ribbon.
keep you busy on a rainy day if you haven't the energy for anthing physically or intellectually taxing.
For 20 years we have been using the Prayer of the Faithful, or, more correctly, the General Intercessions, in
There is a test to tell you how healthy your heart is, what you are really I(x)king for in a job and one to find out if you are a right-brain or left-brain thinker.
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Between Ourselves, Letters Between Mothers and Daughters, Edited by Karen Payne, published by $ 10.95. Picador, R eviewed by Roslyn Ross. The letters in this volume range between 1750 and 1982 and represent a unique at relationships look between mothers and daughters. Some are happy. some are not, but all arc special.
Karen Payne travelled throughout America and Europe to research this hook. She had originally intended to compile a book of letters between contemporary mothers and daughters and advertised for contributions in magazines. The response was mixed. Some people wrote immediately. happy to share their correspondence while others took years to decide to allow her to publish their letters. As the collection grew she made the decision to broaden the subject and include historical letters between mothers and daughters. Between Ourselves reveals women's most private thoughts about ambition and adventure, sex and the family, mothers and marriage. work and politics, death and childbirth. The unknown rub shoulders with the famous - George Sand. Florence Nightingale.
Queen Victoria and Joannie Fritz, Susan Abbott and Marion Cohen. These are women from all walks of life, from different countries, generations and attitudes. All reveal an awesome strength of character, from the 19th century doctor teasing her mother atxmt marriage to the 20th century mother preparing her daughter for her death. More than anything. the book offers a slim but fascinating slice of life as it touches on the stories of women, many of whom would warrant a book all to themselves. The letters "talk" long and loud about the ability of women to face life and all it has to offer and gives truth to the saying: "It is in the tiny struggles of individual people that the great movements of history are most truly revealed." Rosa Luxemburg.
our post -Vatican II liturgy, said Father Elliott, editor of Let Us Pray To The Lord. It must he admitted that this has been one of the least successful reforms of the Roman Rite, a rather "grey area", at times rather boring, in some instances even something to be passed through as quickly as possible in order to reach the major part of the Mass, he said. "Some of the attempts to solve the problem of the Prayers of the Faithful have been sincere, hut misguided. Freely composed intentions can degenerate into mini-homilies, with a "message" aimed at certain members of the congregation. A worshipping community is soon divided by such misuse of prayer. Personal intentions, when uttered aloud can he embarrassing. or have the flavour of telling God what He knows already. Because few people have taken the trouble to discover what the liturgists of the Church intended in restoring these intercessions. many mistakes have been made, even in sincere attempts to rescue this "grey area" of our eucharistic liturgy. "The publication of Let IS Pray to the Lord is not merely an attempt to provide for the obvious need for a new set of Prayers of the Faithful. It marks a return to the classical "form" of the intercessions, as envisaged by Vatican II and the various documents which describe and explain these prayers.
Within this classical framework we find the balance envisaged in the renewed liturgy: a clear form and structure with room for adaptation to local situations. -the five priests and the layman who %vrote the basic drafts of most of the prayers offered their own skills in the pastoral field, and in diverse areas such as literature, Scripture, liturgy. music, ethnic culture and theology. On the advice of Archbishop Young they maintained the classical form of the prayers, while attempting at the same time to link each set of prayers to the Readings of the da% in the Three-Year Cycle. The contents of Let Is ftay to the Lordmirror the contents of the three-volume Lectionary. "In providing many varied topics for prayer in Let Is Pray to the Lord, we have tried to include a wide range of interests and themes," said Father Elliott. We have avoided making the hook too Australian, as it provides prayers for national feasts of most English-speaking countries. With pastoral needs in mind. a series of Prayers of the Faithful for the sacraments, funerals and some other celebrations has been included. Even in the major section of the book, the intentions seek to find a balance between the hunger for peace, justice and freedom in the world, and the need for Grace, faith and the spiritual life. Key themes
from the teachings of John Paul II have been worked into many intentions, for example, the family, human rights. devotion to the Eucharist and Our lady. However, the Marian theme does not take the form customary in England, of including a "Hail Mary" in the General
Intercessions. "Ibis may have Medieval precedent in the English "Bidding Prayers", hut is not part of the classical Roman Prayer of the Faithful. "We also attempted to free this hook from being too closely identified with our era."
ust a wee bit dull... It's difficult to know how to describe this hook but I think the best thing say is that it represents an attempt by Raban to take two views of a city - one at about "ant" level, looking %cry closely at people and the way they live and another at giant's eye level, where the city as a whole is seen as an operating. functional entity.
Soft City, by Jonathon Raban, published by Flamingo, $7.95. Reviewed by R oslyn Ross. After eagerly devouring Ftaban's other two books. Arabia Through the Looking Glass and Old Glory ( both also published by Flamingo) I was well primed with an unfortunate set of expectations. Soft City is nothing like either of them and. I think. suffers by comparison. Having thoroughly enjoyed the first two for their people, places. turn of phrase. wit and colour I found Soft City just a wee hit dull.
Raban calls these two deliunions "hard city", which can be located in maps and statistics and "soft k ity" which is the private place where each and ev en indi%idual lives differenth It's certainly an interesting way of looking at a city but I feel it fails on two counts firstly Mr Rahan spends a little too much time postulating and secondly, he seems to have last his all important sense of humour. Soft City represents a diversion from style that I feel is not so well suited to his talents. It is a boc)k which informs, hut probably not enought to make it of much use in a professional sense, and a book which entertairts all too infrequently and therefore falls short on general appeal.
new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles, new titles new titles, new title Faith .4nd Love. by Jack Dominian, published by Fontana. $6.95. This is a masterly, definitive study of marriage. seen from (NM' aspect and through every stage of the relationship. In these modern times, when only two out of three marriages last, this subject is increasingly relative to all people who are married or considering marriage. The Coming of God, by Maria Boulding, published by Fontana, $6.95. An advent book which tells of our search for Coxl and of His coming to us in human form at Christmas. This is also a book for all seasons, as it shows how God comes to us in our lives, in our prayers, in other people. and how He will come again at the end of time. The Other Side, by Diana Hensteg publishedby Fontana, $4.95. Maggie tried to rebuild her life after two of her three children had been burned to death in their flat. Then, Marriage.
with her husband and their only remaining child becoming distant, the terrifying nightmare becomes reality . . A Fragile Peace. by Teresa Crane, published by Fontana. $5.95. A rich engrossing saga. by the author of Molly, set in the years before and during the second world war. Spearfish. by Brian Callison, published by Fontana. $4.95. A tough, war-ravaged mercenary from Africa who thought he had retired finds that there is still plenty of adventure and action to be found in the bleak moor and loch country of north Scotland. The 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, by Mary Daub;', $4.50. A selection of horror stories to make your blood run cold. Cary Grant* Haunted !dot by Geoffrey Wanseg published by Fontana, $6.95. The first substantial biography of one of the screen's
most enigmatic characters and enduring stars. Living in Overdrive. by Clive Wood, published by Fontana. $7.95. A self-help book for anyone who has felt the pressures of living in the 1980s 'overdrivers' and their families should certainly read it. The Master and Margarita. by Mikhail Btdgakov. published by Flamingo, $9.95. The Master and Margarita is one of the classic 20th century works of fiction. It is a combination of political satire and fantasy, set in the Russia of the 30s, when the crackdown on artists was just beginning. line Master' is a writer living in Moscow, and attracting the attention of the political commissars. But the Devil has decided to make trouble - and taking pity on the Master and his lover Margarita. he begins to enjoy himself - at the e xpense of the politicians . . Mikhail Bulgakov is widely regarded as one of the great Russian novelists of the 20th
century. Born in Kiev in 1891, he graduated as a doctor in 1916 but took to writing full-time in 1920. He frequently ran into trouble with the Soviet authorities. Among his works is The White Guard. He died in 1940. How Many Miles To Babylon, byJenniferJohnstop,. published by Flamingo, $5.95. A moving, beautifully crafted novel of friendship, class and war. Since childhood Jerry and Alex had been friends, though their backgrounds could not have been more different. And when the war comes, both join the army - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private soldier. Although the battlefields give them a taste of horror neither had dreamed of, there is an even worse ordeal awaiting them - one that could destroy their friendship - or both of them in turn. Jennifer Johnston was selected as part of the Thp of the Irish promotion in 1984. She is widely regarded
as one of the most impressive novelists writing today. and has won the Whitbread Prize for the best novel and been on the Booker showdist. Married, with four children. she lives in Iondonderry. The Penthouse, by Fileston Trevor, published by Fontana. $5.95. Terrifying novel of kidnap and suspense played out high above the Manhattan Streets.
Raven, by William Kinsolving, published by Fontana. $5.95. A dramatic, powerful novel based on the extraordinary story of the development of the aircraft industry, seen through one tumultuous family. 20th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, edited by R. Chettrynd-Hayes, $5.95. Fifteen stories of nameless fears, of terror beyond dreams. of death and horrifying resurrection - to be read only in the sunlight.
The Biggest Game In Town. by A. Aharez published by flamingo, $6.95. this mesmerising In account of the 1981 world poker knockout championship. A. Alvarez once again describes a totally alien world. Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Glitter Gulch. las Vegas, provides the highest stakes and the hottest challenge for high-rolling professionals. The winner takes $-50,000; but the money is not what counts. A. Alvarez is a poet. novelist, critic and author of books such as The Savage God: A Study of Suicide and Life After Marriage: Scenes From Divorce ( Flamingo)). He lives in London and plays poker every Tuesday night. He wrote the introduction to Yardley's Education Of a Poker Player ( Fontana).
The Second .Saladim by Stephen Hunter, published by Fontana. $5.95. The ultimate new thriller by Stephen Hunter
The outstanding manhunt that crackles with excitement from the mountains of Iraq to the closed doors of Washington. Giant Book Of Games For Your BBC Micro. by Tim Hartnelland lan Hutt, published by Fontana. $11.95. A superior Giant book with high-class games for the BBC Micro. Among the emes of games included are arcade games. games of artificial intelligence, hoard games, adventure and simulation, brain games. card games, graphics and keyboard and general utilities. Giant Book Of Games For }bur Commodore 64. by Tim Hartneli, Roger Bush & Robert Young, published by Fontana, $11.95. The authors have adapted their Giant Vic 411). book to make the program4layable on the Commodore 64. a more popular machine. Every type of game is included.
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EDITH STEIN Encounter on 6WF at 8 am on Sunday. April 14 and Radio 3 at 9 pm on Tuesday, April 16, features Edith Stein, a Catholic Jewess whose martyrdom in 1942 is a modern parable of the sufferings of war and oppression. Edith Stein was born into a Jewish family in Breslau in 1891. Although her family were Orthodox, Edith considered herself an atheist as a young girt She became a university graduate in 1916, then a chance reading of Teresa of Avila converted her to Christianity in 1922. Her mother was heart-
broken at what she saw as a betrayal of their Jewish faith. Edith entered a Carmelite Convent in 1933. She was arrested by the Nazis in 1942 as a reprisal for an outspoken pastoral of the Dutch Bishops condemning Nazi anti-semiticism. Edith Stein was deported to Auschwitz where she died in the gas chamber. Edith Stein's intellectual life was "the pursuit of truth" as a passion, a pursuit which sometimes caused pain to others, such as her mother. She spoke out as a lecturer in many topics including the vocation of women for the priesthood.
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PEACE MASS Divine Service on 6WN at 5.30 pm on Sunday. April 14 is a Mass concelebrated for Catholics for Peace by Fathers John Hart SJ, Geoff Aldous, Joseph Sobb SJ and Ted Miller in the chapel of St Thomas More College.
A public meeting to examine questions of justice arising from the Western Australian Aboriginal Land Bill will be held at St Mary's Catholic Parish Centre, Franklin Street, Leederville, Monday Apnl 15 at 7.45 pm. Guest speakers will be from the Aboriginal organisation, the Land Rights Support Group, as well as the Chamber of Mines and the lnterchurch Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. Here is an opportunity for Christians to hear and assess for themselves the Aboriginal and the mining companies' points of view on the Bill within a given framework of biblical justice as will be outlined by a speaker from the lnterchurch Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. For further information phone 330 1877.
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As the terrible persecution of the Jews increased, Edith saw her life of renunciation as an offering to God for the suffering Jewish people with whom she had never ceased to identify herself. Her story as philosopher and nun and as one who was killed because she was a Christian and a Jewess, is also the story of the nameless others who died with her.
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Our Lady will be a lighter load for the bearers at this year's Midland Marian festival on May 19 following the purchase of a new statue. A new hand -carved wooden statue of Our Lady Help of Christians will be blessed by Bishop Healy after Mass at 9.30 am in St Brigid's church on Sunday. April 28 before it is placed in a special Marian shrine in the church. A marble statue of Our Lady Help of Christians was purchased some years ago and placed in an outdoor shrine after being blessed by the Franciscan provincial superior Father Cormac Nagle OFM. The statue was carried in the May Marian procession in pouring rain in 1982 and again in 1983 and 1984. The weight of the marble statue and the risk of its being damaged in a fall persuaded the Marian festival committee to order a wooden statue that will be a lighter load for the bearers. All devotees of Our Lady are invited to the 1985 procession that will leave the church grounds at 3.30 pm on May 19, move through the streets of Midland and return to the church for Latin hymns and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Priest's return visit Father Robert Matthews OFM on leave from Singapore, returned to visit his old parish of Midland. Assistant parish priest at the Midland Friary from 1959 to 1965 and parish priest from 1975-1980, he then went overseas for a year, to study at the Heathrop College within London University. This resulted in a postgraduate degree in pastoral theology. He later completed a Franciscan renewal course at Franciscan CenKelmscott parish celebrates this Sunday the 50th tres in Italy. anniversary of the ordination in the chapel of the Collegio He returned to Australia in Leonino in Rome in 1935 of Father Dario Brunetti 1981 then transferred to followed by his first mass in Saint Marcello church the Singapore as parish priest following day. Superior for the St Mary of Father Brunetti, 72, was born in Nepi an old Etruscan the Angels Parish. capital 45krn north of Rome where his family were A t that stage there were merchants of cheese, meat and wine. only four people in the His secondary education and philosophy were at the community; now there are Servite College there followed by theology at the College twelve, seven of whom are of Saint Alessio in Rome. young men in formation, After ordination he was posted to the Republic of San plus Father Alban, also ex Marino for nine months, transferring then to the US Midland, who is the Forma where he served in Blue Island, Chicago and 10 years tor. in Denver. Among various activities, In August 1952 he arrived in Perth with the first the Franciscans with a Servite group to Australia, becoming first parish priest group of young Catholic of Wanneroo the following year and overseeing the adults, look after Vietnaconstruction of the priory and the extension of the mese refugees within the church. Singapore camp. Four years later he joined Perth archdiocese, This has a holding capacity becoming first parish priest of Maida Vale. In 1967 he of 3,000 with fluctuating became parish priest of Kelmscott and during that time numbers and currently has a new school has been built and the former church 500 occupants. enlarged. This caring group, spearMass at 10am on Sunday April 21 will be followed headed by the Friars, visits by a barbecue at Kelmscott show grounds. the people within the camp, For further information phone 390 6646. providing companionship, On Sunday, April 28 a jubilee Mass will be celebrated parties and clothing for at St Brigid's church, West Perth at 6.30pm followed those migrating to colder by a dinner at the Italian Club. Further information from climes. Father Nanni 328 6938 The results of all fundraising efforts, are directed to benefit camp residents. They also meet the "boat people" landing in Singapore and offer whatever asistance they can. During the good seasons, there is still a steady flow of people landing on Singapore shores, but this number decreases during the wet season when the South China Sea crossing is inhospitable with its rough waters. The fact that most interna- expressing interest in the In Singapore, the Catholic tional shipping will not pick Franciscan order. population is about four them up any more, is also a The Franciscans were prespercent and with converdeterrent. ent in Thailand 300 years sions to the faith, baptisms, From Singapore they are ago. and so on, it is evident this then sent on to other counThey are looking to Malaypercentage will steadily tries. sia as well and one young increase. The Franciscans are seek- man is expected from there ing to establish Singapore this year with interest The Cathecuminate as the Asian Franciscan expressed by other Malay(course run for adult conregional centre with provin- sian youths. verts) is going well and ces to be hopefully one day The parish of St Mary of operates within four differset up in Burma and Thai- the Angels is thriving and ent parishes currently. land. due to an expected increase One parish has 40 CatechThere are already existing of 130,000 new residents umans (Catholics in the provinces in India and in the almost completed making). Indonesia but no Francis- high rise Bukit Batok New While on leave, Father cans in Malaysia. Town housing complex Robert will holiday with his The Bishop of Thailand is within the parish area, there family in Victoria. hospitable and helpful and will be an anticipated extra they currently have a Thai 5,000 Catholics joining the COLLEEN HOWARD postulant with three others parish.
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