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Tried to ban Xmas
by ARCHBISHOP W.J. Foley There is a deceptive simplicity
in
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theme of Christmas. In the celebration, I recognise the simplicity and the mystery of our Catholic faith. The charming simplicity of the familiar account of the human birth of the Divine Child in the gospel according to St Luke was soon followed by the theological reflections of the prologue of St John's gospel. Within the Church there has been a gradual deepening of its understanding of the Incarnation and of God's revelation in history. Individuals then throughout the Christian era have responded personally to that mystery and to the implications it has for their lives. In the simplicity of the Christmas event there continues to be unveiled the great mystery of God's love for our world and for each human being. In receiving the Word of God and the divinely guided tradition of the Church Catholics are invited to find and search for the light and strength to live their lives as a pilgrimage of faith with Christ. Inevitably there are some who are tempted to retreat into a fundamentalist type of attitude in their religious lives. Development and change are threatening. The inability to find in Church authority a clear ready-made guide for every circumstance of our ever-changing modem world is for them an unacceptable insecurity.
It is hard to believe, but at one time Christmas was banned by government order. During the Puritan regime in 17thcentury England, town criers went through the streets by order of Parliament a few days before Christmas reminding citizens "Christmas Day and all other superstitious festivals" must not be observed. People were told to go by FATHER JOHN about their usual busiGURRIERI ness and keep shops and NC News Service markets open. Christmas could never our cultural and really be banned or proh- manifest roots. ethnic ibited. Even if churches The Christmas card, were forced to close that originated in Vicwhich day, Christmas had torian England; the become so much a part of tree, which family and social life Christmas origins in mediefinds its there was no repressing use of Germany; the val it. holly, an Christmas is unlike any mistletoe and custom — all other feast in the liturgi- English testify to a these customs cal year. Even today, religious when Christmas has deeply felt that the understanding become a thing of shopthe blessed ping malls and depart- incarnation is which the ment stores, this feast is mystery by was given human race the joyous reason to bring family and friends another chance to live in paradise, Eden, where together. planted. It is a time of gift giving the tree of life is Christmas celebrates and a day marked by special famity and com- the birth of the Messiah, munity traditions which Cont page 2
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Cont page 10 Dr Peter Tannock
The Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia today welcomed the State Government's new recurrent funding package for all non-government schools. The new scheme provides for graduated increases in funding in real terms for all nongovernment schools over the next three years. Like the Commonwealth's Recurrent Funding Program, the new state program is weighted to provide greatest support for those schools in most need. by a The Commission noted Reporter pecial S that the State Government's new package reflected a policy based tion Commission said: "This new program, upon two principles: • the entitlement of all when taken in combinaschools to a reasonable tion with the parallel Commonwealth initiative, will basic grant. • and the provision of provide security, stability significant additional and modest growth for assistance for those Catholic schools over the next three years." schools in most need. Dr Peter Tannock, chairCont page 2 man of the Catholic Educa-
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If you've ever visited the sermon he was giving, by BISHOP very unique Catholic a fellow bishop HICKEY of Church in Mullewa Geraldton recently sent me a designed and built by the equally unique priest - every human being, little book he had and architect John Cyril the need for strong famquoted. Hawes, you might have ilies in a caring society. It is called "Murphy's noticed the bell there. Bishop Hickey The Church too can be Law" with the subtiIn the best tradition of an example of how peolives transformed by the bells it has a personal ple are to behave tle" and other reasons towards love of Christ if the mesname. "My name is John" one another in the why things go wrong." mut- sage is to be heard. it proclaims. ual love of her people as May your hearts be filled One dictionary explains Hawes, who gave his members of the Body of with the peace of Christ Murphy's Law as "the own name to the bell, Christ. this Christmas. principle that whatever was tempted to add "a The sad fact is in this of the Church to be real can possibly go wrong voice crying in the wil- wilderness, the voice of apostles in the world. will". derness" but refrained the Church is rarely We cannot leave it all to Is this an expression of from doing so out of heard. the Church leaders who pessimism, cynicism or repsect for the local peoWe tend to preach only may or may not be heard. realism? ple who might have taken to the converted, to Each one of us, in his or It would have to be it amiss. those who attend Mass, her life, must show, at pessimism if it resulted in The point, nevertheless, while the wilderness work, at home, in the one not bothering to is made. remains unaffected. neighbourhood, that we The voice of the We have withdrawn truly believe Jesus Christ, start anything new "because it's bound to Church, like the voice of from the market-place, born at Bethlehem, is our fail!" John the Baptist, is so affected perhaps by a Saviour, that he has Or because one took often a voice crying in the strange lack of self-confi- entrusted the work of the attitude of being so wilderness. dence as we see crowds saving the world to his totally cautious and thoA reporter asked me of people, even our own, Spirit-filled Church. rough everyone conrecently wasn't the looking in strange and By our own love, our cerned lost interest Church out of touch with bizarre places for the compassion, our moral before approval was modern thinking. truth. standards, and our given. Or if one could "Thank God," I said, "If The great challenge to unshakeable faith, we can only say there's no hope we were in touch with the Church, at this offer a powerful witness of changing, "things are much of modern think- Christmas and at any to the Truth of Bethlewhat they are" ing we would be untrue time, is for the members hem. to the teaching we have We need many bells received from Christ." proclaiming the good The modern world, in news, many voices cyring the name of personal in the wilderness, many freedom, has given us broken marriages and fragmented families, sexual exploitation and AIDS, billionaires and a dependent mendicant poor. The Church must still be a voice in this wilderness, reminding the world again of the simplicity of the stable in Bethlehem and the great love of God for the world — visible in his Divine Son. .., The Church must cry out loud in the wilderess about the dignity of The spires outlined against the sky behind the Priests' house at Mullewa.
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by BISHOP QUINN Bishop of Bunbury AndI suppose Murphy's Law is cynicism when our approach to ideas or proposals to us bring forth reactions such as "he would be only looking after himself- or "who does he think he is coming up with such smart ideas" or "how could you trust him to see that through". And perhaps Murphy's Law is realism when your attitude is "don't forget to do your homework first" or "fair enough but don't leave it to someone else to do the dirty work" or "it's only going to work if we all pull our weight" etc., All in all Murphy's philosophy is summed up "Smile — tomorrow will be worse!" It won't surprise you my dear readers if I say that Murphy's Law, like life itself is what you make of it. And what you make of it depends on what you see as your vision. Christmas is the time we try and line up our vision with that of Christ What was his coming all about? "As many as received Him to them, He gave power to become children of God" On 1) and, so St Paul remarks "if children then heirs also" (Rom 8). That's what it is all about, you and me and the other fellow called to be God's children. If we are that, then there is no room for pessimism or cynicism towards others, just a serious commitment to each other.
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The people of Christmas is a time for
remembering.
Even before the time of Christ, the People of
The Record, December 19 — 25, 1985
by BISHOP HEALY Auxiliary Bishop of Perth
God celebrated their feasts by remembering
— the special Masses on Christmas Day, the cribs in the churches and in God had done for the homes, the exchange them, especially on of gifts with family and the feast of the Pass- friends. The Christmas cards over. and gifts are the annual They also taught their manifestation of our appreciation and friendyoung people to ship towards all those remember the good- who are near and dear to us. ness of God to them. It is also a time when we youngest endeavour to help others The member of the gather- less fortunate than ourselves in whatever way ing asked what was we can. being celebrated and Christmas is the great the history of the cure for loss of memory and thank God for it. generosity of God was I really mean that word of thanks to God because recounted in reply. we would never In Christian times, we remember others at this follow that practice too time or be remembered andI would recall for you by them, had not God the remembering of the first remembered us. Passion, Resurrection We know that we are and Ascension of Christ the images of God and as happens in the Mass that our love for each after the bread and wine other is an image of the have been changed in the love of God for us. Body and Blood of Christ. We should be aware all At Christmas of course, the year round but espewe remember and celebrate the birth of Christ. cially at Christmas time It is so easy to forget the that all the blessings meaning of the feast even which we share here on with so many reminders earth have their origin in heaven. the good things that
From page 1 the Christ, and there is nothing more joyous in MI • human existence than From page 1 the birth of a child. The additional funding Catholic primary school The W.A. Catholic Com- selling Service for non- "Many of our schools lack No doubt this accounts schools the resources to provide for the popularity and provided by the W.A. (category 10-11) and of mission also expressed its government Government in 1986 will approximately $65 for satisfaction at the decision beginning in 1986, noting their students and their universal observance of mean an increase of each student enrolled in a of the State Government to that this is the first time any parents with the advice Christmas. approximately $37 for secondary school (cate- support the establishment state government in Aus- and support needed to The birth of the helpless of a Guidance and Coun- tralia has embarked upon make career and further but kingly child captures each student enrolled in a gory 10-11). education choices which the imagination like no this type of support. are so fundamental to their other festival. The estimated cost to the WA Govt per capita $ grants for Catholic Schools State Government to sup- future welfare," Dr Tan- An old North Carolina Christmas carol "I 1988* port this service in 1986 nock said. 1987* 1986 Category 239 will be $277,000. The Wonder as I Wander" 226 1-3 211 Pre-Primary Dr Tannock pointed out 245 230 4-5 215 funding will enable an perhaps sums up our that it is schools with the 252 6-7 236 220 additional eight officers to feelings about the child lowest resources and 258 240 224 8-9 be employed to provide Jesus: those in the country which 265 10-11 227 246 guidance and counselling If Jesus had wanted for have been most seriously 271 12 231 250 services to non-governany small thing deficient in this regard. ment schools, including A star in the sky or bird 1-3 384 410 434 Primary those in country areas. The Commission also on the wing 4-5 445 391 419 While based out of the noted with satisfaction the Or all of God's angels 6-7 456 398 427 Catholic Education Office, State Government's new in heaven to sing 8-9 405 466 436 10-11 413 445 478 this expanded service will policy in allowing non- He could sure have had 12 419 454 489 provide for other non- government schools to it 'cause he was the government schools as participate in the Depart- king. 684 1-3 606 646 Secondary well. Gifts are given on this ment of Education's bulk714 761 4-5 665 day because in the lowliDr Tannock said that the buying system. 782 6-7 678 731 ness of the Christ-child's provision of guidance and 802 747 8-9 692 counselling birth we find the generservices was a should be of great This 764 822 10-11 705 major development for the assistance to non-govern- osity of God toward all 842 12 718 781 Catholic education system ment schools in terms of his creatures. and for all non-govern- access to materials at modFamilies celebrate the ** EST * EST * Estimated at Schools Price Index 12490. SPI 130 ment schools in WA. 4* Estimated at Schools Price Index 13090. SPI 124 day with festive foods and erate cost. 2
A total I send you greetings from the Kimberieys Christmas as once approaches again. With Mary, the Mother of Jesus who waited for the birth of her Son with a heart full of gratitude we want to express our thanks to God for the total gift of Himself in the mystery of the Nativity. We have every reason also to give thanks that we are still living
Tried to ban Xmas
customs because somehow they know that in Jesus their families are made whole and united. Christmas is a festival uniting us to the best of our human hopes and aspirations. The folldore of Christmas testifies to human imagination, human possibilities and God's great love and affection for the human family. The Christ-child could demand - tribute from grateful humans 'cause he was the king. Instead he accepts the joy and happiness his birth causes in hearts and in homes. Clearly, there is no repressing or banning or prohibiting Christmas.
gift from God in mystery of Nativity
Let's give thanks by BISHOP JOBST of Broome ISAMS 12.3 "As fresh water brings joy to the thirsty, so God's people rejoice when He saves them."
in peace, and we pray the joyful message proclaimed to the
shepherds camped on the hillside, will be truly felt by all who thirst for peace. We give thanks to Him for coming to liberate us from sin and all that is evil; for transforming the meaning of suffering during this life, and for restoring human dig-
nity. "God's people rejoice when He saves them." We give thanks to all our friends who have indeed helped to bring "joy to the thirsty" through their support and never failing generosity for the needs of this parched land.
Bishop lobst
God celebrating...
'Seeking themes f or tour
Times to remember So may this Christmas renew our love and friendship for many people.
May we remember the sick. May we remember the families who are unhappy for whatever reason. May it be a happy and
May we remember the love of God for us. May we remember those who holy Christmas for all of live alone. us
Bishop Healy
Monsignor Pat O'Reilly WA director for the papal tour made two requests of the Diocesan Pastoral Council on his return from the second meeting of the National E xecutive in Melbourne. Although planning is still in the early stages for Pope John Paul's visit on November 30, Mons O'Reilly asked for prayer for the success of the visit, and for suggestions for a short theme to describe the pontiffs six-hour stay in WA. In undertaking a pas-
Noes O'Reilly
toral visit, the pope would be preaching the gospel to the people of Australia, he said. The occasion would mark an important development in the history of the Church in Australia and would provide a
Rush order for Bibles BONN: Printers in West Germany are rushing to get 10,000 Bibles delivered to Moscow before the end of the year, following a shipment from England of scarce thin paper. The Bibles will be transported by truck from East Germany to Russia, via Poland, on a two week journey. The Baptist Church has an official import permit for them. Production and transport costs have been mostly borne by the United Bible Societies, the
one agency outside the Soviet Union officially recognised as a supplier of scriptures to churches within the country. The Russian Orthodox Church printed 70,000 Bibles last year and Soviet authorities have given permission for 10,000 Bibles, 10,000 New Testaments and 10,000 hymn books to be printed each year. Most Christians are not able to get a Bible or New Testament if they want one, and there are still regular reports of active persecution of believers. Pope Paul VI in Sydney — Perth could see similar scenes.
This is a Christmas story about a country parish. There is a feeling of permanence and stability. But it was not always this way. A generation ago, this parish was only a community in the making. Its members had been looking for a place to gather for Mass and set down roots, but with no success. An offshoot of an older parish six miles away, they were looking for land but found none that was for sale to them. With the approach of Christmas they had not been able to find a place to celebrate their Midnight Mass. Then a local farmer, a Presbyterian, heard of the plight of this fledgling parish. With 1 1 4 /a strong sense of hos-
Welcome wanderers The Welcome Wanderers by FATHER DAVID K. O'ROURKE, OP NC News Service
pitality and an equally fine sense of biblical history, he offered them the use of his stable for Christmas Mass. In the midst of the animals, the community celebrated its first Christmas. St Luke's familiar words about the birth of Jesus were heard where the smell of sweet hay mixed with the pungent odours of the stalls, and iron shoes struck against the ground. Because of its ability to appeal to our hearts and the family tradi-
tions that we associate with it, Christmas is a celebration that we surround with custom. We give to its rituals, both in the church and in the home, a sense of permanence. We take tree ornaments and table decorations out of the boxes where they have lain stored and if they are beginning to show some of the wear of years it doesn't matter. They will go to their usual places because they have always gone there. We put the Christmas tree in the corner by the window because that's where the tree always goes. For a
society so much on the move, we manage, for a few weeks at least, to come up with some signs of permanence and stability. There is, of course, nothing wrong with this desire. Stability is a human need and God entered into human history so that our longing for permanence might be fulfilled. The tragedy of the modern world is that this desire is fulfilled for so few people. So many seem condemned to live as wanderers. • there are the many poor, who float on the margins of our
otherwise stable communities. • and there are the spiritual wanderers, many of them within our communities, who do not have the sense of purpose and direction that makes lives hold together. Perhaps one of the greatest gifts to be given the people in our world is a share in our own stability. Perhaps the Church's work of evangelisation would be more understandable if it were presented as a welcome to the wanderer. The first Christmas in Bethlehem took place in a setting that had little permanence or
stability. A young couple on the road was finally invited into a place of rest. A s members of a 2000-year-old Church, an institution seen today as the very symbol of permanence, we do well to remember our origins. We too were once wanderers, dependent on the kindness of others. Today we live in a world of wanderers, people who in one sense or another, have no home. Expressing hospitality to others in need can be a reminder of our origins. It is certainly a part of our heritage. The Record,
boost for a national renewal. There would be enormous repercussions for Western Australia, since an estimated world-wide audience of 700 million would see Perth on television. In terms of organisation the details were of mindboggling magnitude. The provision of tight security for John Paul II would alone involve months of preparation and detailed planning of routes, vehicles and venues before the Mass finally began at 2pm on November 30. In requesting prayers. Mons O'Reilly requested parishes include appropriate petitions in the Prayer of the Faithful each Sunday. Aids for the Sunday liturgy would be forthcoming as special matebeing were rials prepared in Melbourne for circulation through. out Australia. The descriptive theme needs to be accurate and pithy, able to be understood by the very young as well as the aged. Suggestions can be forwarded to Mons O'Reilly by no later than February 1 In another segment future diocesan strategies and pastoral planning were discussed. Father Brian Pitman outlined the new image of the Church which had been evolving since Vatican II. He used the concept of 'pluriformity to describe the way in which the Holy Spirit is working through community, a grassroots movement characterised by many programs. In seeking a pastoral strategy, there was a need for reflection to precede action, so the Church's vision for today's society would reflect true communion, he said. Archbishop Foley later addressed the topic in his talk to the council, stating a need for direction had been stressed by other bodies. including the Council of Priests and Major Religious Superiors. A meeting would he held probably on January 31 with visiting Passionist, Father Kevin Dance as facilitator.
Chairman Peter
Record Latin had an advantage, it was said, of being a dead language. Dead it may be but it won't lie down. Until the word Latin itself is expunged from the dictionary, it looks impossible to have any report of the Archbishop Lefebvre affair not say that it is about the "Latin" Mass. Priests can say Mass in Latin any day anywhere to their hearts' content. A few do. The majority don't see much reason to pray in a language that is no longer relevant to their congregation. Archbishop Lefebvre simply refuses to say the Mass authorised by Pope Paul VI in 1969. He was suspended, sacked, for his public disobedience. What more can a pope do, short of thundering excommunications, censures, prohibitions, interdicts or whatever still hides in the papal armoury? A language is not dead simply because its form is no longer subject to change. Latin took a long time to die while it was wrung dry by 1500 years of church usage. Its use is still far from obsolete in the Church. Who can say what language the 22nd century of Christendom will want to speak? A language is dead also when the listener can't hear the meaning. Archbishop Lefebvre stopped listening, not with his ear, but with his heart. Such deafness affects the pious, such as he, who believe they have nothing more to learn. It affects also the impious who can't see the point of listening at all. It is a communication problem that bedevils the Church, taking stock 20 years after Vatican II, and wondering why some Catholics, it is claimed, miss the message; why the world, it is obvious, has little interest in hearing it. That fine old Latin word Advent, for example, did not stand a chance. It was meant to conjure all the excitement, the pleading, the anguish, the waiting for Someone who was Coming. If the world no longer waits for anyone, then Advent disappears. The word is still in the English dictionary but it is written advent. The party begins before the Guest arrives. It has been a constant theme of Catholic teaching that Jesus of Nazareth, bom however in Bethlehem, was indeed the messianic herald who was awaited. The Jews since then have been given scant consideration for not recognising that fact. Vatican II and low key adjustments towards Jews and contacts since then have softened minimally the rift between the Old and New Testament of peoples of God. Last week's television segment on Jewish history showed no embarrassment in pointing out Jesus of Galilee was a messianic contender while the heel of oppression ground deeper into the people. The test of language, then, is the response to the word, not merely the word itself. Those who carry the title Christian so lightly or who bestow the description of Christian so easily on their own perspective of life, would be surprised to know they are talking Greek, that they are referring to no less than the Anointed One of God. A response to Christmas is the result of a response to Advent. The fulfilment of a season of celebration depends not on the name but on the expectations that have been built up. Scanning the horizons for a star is a futile exercise if one does not know where to look. Perth once gained a world-wide reputation because it turned on the lights so that spacemen could get their bearings from the down-town Hay Street Mall. The City of Lights, we exclaimed Last week the mayor of New York was one up on Perth. He intends to turn off that blazing mountain of light so that people will be able to have a clearer view of Halley's Comet. Lights have to be turned off so that better lights can be seen. The Father sent His Son into the world so that light would shine into the darkness. If the strobe lights of busy living flash too vigorously in life's disco it's hard to see what is light and what is darkness, what is reality and what is fantasy. Christians are not the only people searching for life's light. The Hindus of India celebrate the meaning of light about this time. Even Christians buried deep in the icy cold of Europe are celebrating a ritual feast of light and warmth as much as the Coming of the Lord. The Australian Christmas is still manipulated into looking back over its shoulder at snowflakes and Santa Claus. The decorations belong often to another world of make believe. The quality of Christmas is measured not by cash register spending, not by mountains of food, not by toys but by the fulfilment of the need for friendship and love. The English language lets us down. It has no word to describe the Birth of Christ. Instead we have borrowed Greek and Latin to speak of Christ Mass. What the word means depends not on the ear but the heart.
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Dr Peter Tannock in March became Chairman of the Western Australian Catholic Education Commission following the conclusion of six years as chairman of the Cornmonweatth Schools Commission, Canberra. Educated by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission at Mount Lawley and the Christian Brothers at Trinity College he continued at the University of Western Australia and John Hopkins University US. He was a teacher and senior master at Albany and Mount Lawley High Schools before rising to become professor of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Western Australia. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and the University of London and a consultant to the Ford Foundation, New York and the OECD, Paris. He is married with five children.
Dr Peter Tannock
The quality of the secular component of Catholic schooling today is higher than at any time in Australian history — but a challenge exists to maintain the spiritual quality of the teaching that must now be done largely by lay people. This is the view of Dr Peter Tannock, who since March 1 has been chairman of the WA Catholic Education Commission in succession to Mons James Nestor, and who offered the following thoughts for this Christmas edition of The Record. "Obviously I believe in what Catholic schools stand for and in what they are able to do and it is hard not to be optimistic about Catholic schools considering the resources they now have available. "Catholic education has been better resourced in Australian history than it is now, mainly from public sources, of course. "Within limits we can support a well paid teaching staff force, predominantly lay, and the quality of our buildings improves every year. "The standard of our schools, of the teachers, equipment and material resources is good and the secular results measured in public examinations seem to be good." Dr Tannock noted in past days the future of Catholic education would have been couched in terms of State Aid.
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Church system varies Dr Peter Tannock, chairman of the Catholic Education Commission rejects the notion he is some sort of director general of Catholic education. "We have a different sort of system to that of state schools. In our system a great deal of autonomy exists and rests with individual schools.
Lockridge Catholic Primary school is typical of the recent rapid expaesion of the Catholic school system. Principal Jim Smith had to teach the youngsters there were chores such as watering new trees.
-We do not hire or fire teachers but we have a mandate to represent the interests of the Church in education as a whole, and where necessary, on behalf Of bishops, to give direction to schools.
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Tannock discusses future of Catholic education
Schools' secular quality 'higher From page 4 Most of these problems in a minimal way have been solved. "I am not suggesting we are in a comfortable position, but we are at a more reasonable standard compared to others. "We are still behind but not far behind and we do rather well with what we've got. "I see a strong commitment to State Aid from all major political parties. "Public funding of nongovernment schools is o verwhelmingly accepted as reasonable in the community. "The State Aid battle has been fought and won during the past 100 years but especially in the past 30 of them. "There is public acceptance of the need and the justice involved in that policy. "For a government to reduce or eliminate or reduce support for nonschools government would be to close the system and you simply cannot close down the schools to which more than one quarter of the Australian people send their children. "The non-government schools cannot be closed down in practical terms even if it were contemplated in moral terms," he said. Dr Tannock, who was a secondary teacher himself at Albany and Mount Lawley High Schools before embarking on an academic career in education says much of his optimism springs from a comparison with what is being delivered today and conditions existing at the time of his own schooling. "The standards in our schools are good and we are able to recruit and hold good quality teachers who are delivering a good quality service. for our "Support schools comes not only. from Catholics but also from non-Catholics.
Dr Tannock considers the question of the spiritual quality of Catholic education to be a "crucial variablen is a much more complicated question — and there is nothing new about that — how we will pursue the central objective of the Catholic system of forming and shaping the young person in a particular faith culture, to give them a set of values, beliefs and attitudes that govern their behaviour. "ft is more complicated because we are relying overwhelmingly on lay teachers and lay principals, who are the new officers of the Church, to carry the burden. We are relying on these people to teach certain things, and to teach the teachings of the Church, to promote the values for which the Church stands "Moreover we are relying on then not only to be teachers of these values but to be models of them, to be witnesses themselves, in their lives and their inter-action between themselves and the students. -That is a tremendous agenda. "From what I have seen the people are tremendous who lead and teach in our schools but to maintain this side of our schools is a tremendous and constant challenge"
"I think the schools of today are better by and large than they were 20 or 30 years ago. "Very few of my generation at some time or other did not sit in a classroom of possibly 60 or more students. This would be inconceivable today. Cont page 19
Priorities for the Religious Apart from the traditional roles they play in Catholic education Religious have a number of further priorities in the opinion of Dr Tannock. "Some will want to continue doing the traditional work in schools, t hey love it and feel fulfilled in it, the community love it and in no w ay should that be impeded," he said. But the first of the special priorities Dr Tannock s ees for Rel igious is doing the tough and difficult jobs it is hard to get lay people to do.
DEE "Religious have always done that. That's why they came out here in many cases and to meet a great need that it was hard to see could be met f rom any other source." This could mean Religious helping to run a school in an isolated and environmentally and culturally difficult situation such as many Religious are doing quite heroically in the Kimberley, he e xplained. Religious c ould help start new schools in difficult circumstances.
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C.B.H.S. HIGHGATE — now St Mark's College celebrates its Golden Jubilee in 1986.
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From page 5 A second priority would be for Religious to help shape and develop lay teachers in their total mission. "A secondary teacher is more than just a teacher in mathematics. He or she is a teacher in a Catholic school. How are they to be shaped to think that way? "I think Religious, given their background, their knowledge, their education, their experience are ideally suited to make a major contribution to this work." A third priority, he said, would be giving leadership — not in authority, but side by side with the laity, with principals, in a Catholic education office, or regional offices such as at Bunbury, Geraldton or Broome. A fourth priority suited their background and f aith: helping in the development of the religious curriculum and in the teaching areas of the school.
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Festive season turns people's minds to little As people begin to make preparations for Christmas, our minds instinctively turn to the little town of Bethlehem and the wonderful things that happened there so very long ago. In imagination, we can see Mary and Joseph trudging the streets as homeless strangers. We picture the scene of our Saviour's birth in the cheerless cave on the bleak hillside, and listen to the voice of angels announcing his birth to the shepherds. If the truth were known, many of us have long cherished the desire to go to Bethlehem and see the place where it all hap: pened, but, so far, circumstances have forced us to postpone our visit indefinitely. However, as the pattern of life changes, and we notice many people travelling abroad, we realise there is no further reason why we should not go abroad ourselves, either this year or next, and what better place for a holiday than the Holy Land and Bethlehem at Christmas. We shall not be alone there for many will come
Visit Bethlehem for Christmas You, too, can visit the little town where so many wonders happened From Father Kenneth Cambpell, OFM. Commissary of the Holy Land from the ends of the earth to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ so that, -where the Son of God was homeless all the world is at home." Though Bethlehem has witnessed the continuity of human life for forty centuries, it remains a quiet country town on the edge of the desert. The site of Christ's birth was known to Christians,
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but it did not become a focus of pilgrimage till after the Emperor Constantine-the-Great had suppressed the cult of the pagan god Adonis and built the first Christian Church over the grotto of the Nativity, with the support of his Mother, St Helena. Among the earliest pilgrims was St Jerome who made his home on the spot where the Franciscan Friary now stands. It was there he produced the first complete Bible which is known as the -Vulgate Version-. The violence of doctrinal controversy at the time is illustrated by Jerome's concern for the fortification of his monastery against "marauding bands of angry theologians." A century after Jerome's death, the Constantinian Church was destroyed during a Samaritan uprising against Byzantine rule. The present Church which has withstood the ravishes of time for 14 centuries, was the gift of the Emperor Justinian and built in Basilica style. One would expect this church, which has wit-
nessed so much Christian history down the ages, to be the scene of our Midnight Mass, but that honour goes to the more much and modern smaller Catholic church of St Catherine. However, the ancient, Basilica will come into its own on January 6 and 7 Greek when the Orthodox, the Syrian and Coptic Churches celebrate Christmas, and again on January 18 and 19, when t he Armenian Church keeps the feast. Bethlehem really comes to life on Christmas Eve when pilgrims begin to arrive, among them, a great many priests and nuns from almost every country in the world. Manger Square is gaily festooned with the Christmas decorations. Coloured lights sparkle everywhere and a few Christmas trees appear on the scene. The town is crowded with journalists and press photographers, all jockeying for the best positions. Inside St Catherine's television church, camera-crews and engineers are fussing about, getting in the way of the Friars carrying out their normal duties. The excitement even spreads to Jerusalem where streets are cordoned off in part of the Christian quarter and crowds of pilgrims assemble at various points to wave to the Catholic Patriarch, Mons Bettritti, as he sets out for Bethlehem.
Accompanied by his received in liturgical clergy, the Patriarch pro- fashion by the Franciscan ceeds to the Jaffa Gate S uperior. area where cars are colThe procession then lected for the journey to enters St Catherine's Bethlehem. church to the subdued The procession proceeds sound of the great organ from the Citadel (Tower of at which the octogenaDavid), through Upper nurn. Baka'a, passes the ScotAugustine Lama, pretish Presbyterian Church sides as he has done for and then along the 60 years. Vespers are Road, Bethlehem sung in Latin and the escorted by two Israeli clergy then retire to the police cars. neighbouring Friary. From the ancient Greek In the early evening, as monastery of Mar Elias, many as five European the Patriarch is escorted choirs may assPmble in by four mounted Consta- Manger Square to provide bles and one Police Ser- music for the waiting geant. crowds. At the Tomb of Rachel he is welcomed by representatives of the Municipalities of Bethlehem and the Christian villages of Belt Jala and Beit Sahour. The procession enters Bethlehem by the old route along En Nymch St (Way of the Star) to Manger Square, through streets lined by Catholic Scouts and Girl Guides.
Between 8 and lOpm, a large group, usually accompanied by the Anglican Bishop, hold an English language Carol service in the Greek courtyard to the rear of the The Church doors open about 10.30 and entrance is only by ticket (available at the Christian Information Office, Jerusalem).
The music of the National Police band, accompanied by local bands, mingles with the voices of the assembled thousands as the Patriarch is officially received by the Jewish Military Governor and Police Commandant, the Arab Mayor and notables of Bethlehem.
The Christmas Eve liturgy begins with The Office of Readings (Matins), sung in Latin. This section ends with the Te Deum Laudamus sung by the clergy and the local Arab choir of over 100 voices. At the stroke of midnight, the Patriarch enters the Sanctuary accompanied Groups of Arab Semi- by visiting Bishops and a narians and vested priests seemingly endless line of pass through the famous vested concelebrants. low door of the Basilica Now, the first Mass of and into St Jerome's clois- Christmas begins in the ter while the Patriarch is presence of about 2,000
CCJP debaters. From Dermot DORGAN, Information officer, A ustralian Catholic Relief SIR. Several of your readers, in the debate on the CCJP Discussion Paper, Work For a Just Peace, have taken Australian Catholic Relief, or the bishops, to task for allowing Project Compassion money to be used to finance CCJP. Some suggestions have even been made that this practice is in some way deceitful. Let me set the record straight. For the past ten years or so, ACR has made it clear that its concern for the poor cannot be reduced to simply transferring money from Australia to the Third World. ACR's partner agencies in the Churches of the Third World have repeatedly reminded us that many of the roots of their poverty lie in our affluent society. Sending money overseas to aid the poor without asking whether we in Australia may not be involved in their exploitation is both dishonest and futile. Our participation in the arms race may be a case in point. These Churches have urged ACR to retain a proportion of its funds for helping Australians to understand this and act on it.
ACR has done this, with the blessing of the bishops, and has made no secret about it. Every Annual Report since 1973 has emphasised ACR's educational activities — and these reports go to every parish in Australia. The Lenten issue of ACR NEWS, 250,000 copies of which circulate to parishes throughout Australia, provides a complete list of ACR-funded projects, including expenditure for development education. Those who are unaware of this essential aspect of ACR's work, and of the fact that Project Compassion funds are used to finance it, have simply not read what was placed before them. CUP's funding does not come under ACR's jurisdiction. The Australian bishops have nonetheless decided to use Project Compassion funds for CCJP because they realise that ACR and CCJP are sister organisations, concerned with different aspects of the promotion of human development, justice and peace. The use of Project Compassion funds for such a purpose is eminently appropriate.
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people of even/ race and colour, crammed tightly into a church from which the benches have been r emoved. At the singing of the Gloria in Excelsis, the church bells ring out while the whole congregation joins in the familiar Latin chant. The lessons are sung in Arabic and the remainder of the Mass in Latin. A t the same time, Masses begin at the Grotto of the Manger, the Grotto of the Holy Innocents and other caves and grottos until 1.30 am. At the end of the Latin Pontifical Mass, the Patriarch and clergy accom- out all over Bethlehem on Christmas day should pany the foreign Consular and the villages beyond. attend the Patriarch's Corps in procession to the A fter this, Masses Mass in St Catherine's at Place of the Nativity where recommence in the Grot- 9 am. the Gospel is chanted a tos and go on through the By that time the crowds second time followed by night and the following have dispersed, the securthe Gloria in Excelsis and day. Anyone wishing to ity forces are not there to the Christmas bells ring attend a beautiful liturgy trouble people and no tickets are needed
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!Treasures in display
Record reporter, ROSLYN ROSS was in Melbourne this year for the opening of the unique exhibition, Treasures from Australian Churches which was on show at the National Gallery of Victoria.
The Treasures from Australian Churches exhibition was unique in that is was the first such museum display of church treasures in Australia.
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The pieces displayed came from churches throughout the nation and while most of the works are of Catholic or Anglican origin, there are some pieces on show from other churches, and also from private owners. The contribution from Catholic churches in Western Australia is small but St Dennis' Catholic Church at Joondanna is represented. Throughout its history, the Church has been one of the great patrons of Western art and the grand architectural imagery of the Church — the New Temple, House of God, Palace of the Virgin, call it what you will, has required an equally sumptuous decoration of the interior, says Patrick McCaughey, director of the National Gallery of Victoria.
A crozier in gold and myall wood was presented to Archbishop Roger Vaughan, Archbishop of Sydney in 1877. The gold head is of scrolling foliate design. The myall wood shaft is in three parts; the junctures and tip have applied leaf borders in gold.
RIGHT: This silver gift chalice loaned to the exibition by Dan Flynn of Kyneton, Victoria, has a cast stem and sex foil foot in the form of the figure of Christ crucified to a tree on rocky ground. It is inscribed "In memory of Ignatius and Mary Flynn and family, 1949." BELOW: This ciborium of silver-gilt, enamel, opals and agate is in the shape of a fish, its curved tail forming the stem and foot. The white enamel body is patterned with silver wire to simulate the scales.
A triptych, circa 1925, in silver, enamel, garnets and moonstones was loaned by the National Gallery of Victoria which purchased it in 1966.
A ciborium of silver, silvergilt, precious and semi-precious stones was lent by the Pius XII Provincial Seminary, Banyo, Queensland.
A 1928 chalice in gold, precious and semi-precious stones came from St Patrick's church, Brisbane.
This 1918 chalice and paten in silver, silver-gilt gold and precious stones was presented to Father O.S. Hayes for his ordination that year and also came from the Sanyo seminary.
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From page 1 schools will be pubOthers would want to lished. reject or ignore past reve- The Ecumenical Collation and tradition to lege of Divinity at Murfollow the latest popular doch University will trends of our society and open and the stage will be set for increased seek to justify it. The real call is to opportunities for adult accept the truth of education in faith. Christmas and the devel- In mid-year I am to oping understanding of launch a diocesan prothe mystery and to find its gramme to encourage implications for today. Catholics to join with The believing Catholic other Catholics in small remains faithful to revela- groups to share their tion and courageously understanding of their moves on within the journey in faith, to grow of the in awareness of their community Church. communion in the Next year offers us here Church and to see this in the archdiocese great community expressed promises for rich growth especially in the celebraas Church. tion of the Eucharist. The new Church Educa- I am excited about lxntre in [.cederthese developments. vile will draw together For now I pray that this various educational insti- Christmas we may gather tutions and facilitate the together in faith around further development of the Divine Child and education in faith at all agree to dialogue in truth levels. and love as we move The guidelines for reli- ahead in our shared pilgious educators in our grimage of faith. NEW YORK (NC) — When he heard robbers took $7,000 from St Patrick's Cathedral, Israeli philanthropist and self -described "peace crusader"' Abie Nathan gave a cheque to replace the stolen collection. Two gunmen had escaped with $7,000, donated in the collection plate, the poor box and for votive candles, after handcuffing four ushers and forcing two maintenance men at gunpoint to lie on a basement floor in the parish house, according to New York police. No injuries were reported in the robbery. Nathan said he donated the money because he was angry about the theft, which he called "absolutely terrible". Nathan, who has been involved in peace campaigns and relief efforts in various countries for 20 years, lives in Tel Aviv where he operates a radio station called Voice of
Books major step All in all, the release of the service book, both a full music edition as well as a people's book, represents a major step forward in the maturing of the liturgical life of the Australian Church. It has the potential to be m ade widely available, because bulk discounts could bring the price to below $7, which is what the throwaway missals will soon cost. The cost factor may encourage parishes to buy in bulk for their churches and have it permanently in the pews or available in racks so that people get accustomed to picking one up upon entering the church. They could still be availble for private ownership to encourage planning of the liturgy, though the full music edition with all its indexes would be more useful. It has had a gestation period of nearly ten years. What has been brought forth remains to be seen, as does the prospect of further offspring by way of further aids to utilise its potential. It may not be an instant solution to problems of participation nor a universal panacea to promote participation, but it certainly looks promising in its potential. Only time will tell how much of that potential is realised.
Peace.
The "Catholic Worship Book People's Book" published by Collins Liturgical Australia representing the culmination of a project going back nearly ten years, is impressive for its presentation with solid binding yet still of compact size for a volume of seven hundred pages. The interior of the book reveals something of its strengths and weaknesses. The style and range of its contents makes it a true service book or worship manual and not just a hymn book. Its editorial plan sets out to cover the whole range of ritual occasions and so it is not just a Mass book, though some people will lament the lack of any orations or readings.
Iturgical open up issues
The release of this book opens up many issues on a philosophical level about the role of the printed word and the place of authority in promoting liturgical aids. It raises questions about the function of Liturgical books, as well as the function of music in liturgy and the hoary old chestnut about a repertoire acceptable to all. There have been liturgical books from the beginning almost — some scholars claim that the composition of the Gospels gives reference to the pattern of reading according to local calendars. At any event, the scope for the presider to pray "as long as he was able", as St Justin described the Eucharistic Prayer C.150,
-We also have a clear obligation to monitor and accept some responsibility for underpinning the quality of our schools and the efficient use of resources. "Although we do not hire or fire, we are involved on behalf of the Church in matters relating to the conditions of teachers' employment. Dr Tartnock pointed out that some wanted the CEC to have more control, others less. There was no alternative to having a body such as the CEC to plan development and be responsible for the distribution of resources, he explained. "Without a body like the CEC half the schools would collapse because the local communities do not have the resources to support themselves. "I think it is better to have school boards and principals responsible for the conduct of school affairs and not to have a central body employing teachers. "My experience is parents are prepared to be vocal about the sort of teachers they want to teach in their schools and the circumstances in which they want the schools to operate. The proper medium for expressing that view is through the principal or the school board, or if there is a break-
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down, through the commission. "Pointing out the local hiring of teachers differed from places such as Sydney are teachers where appointed centrally, Dr Tannock said the WA method suited the geography of the state. "It also has the strength of getting the local community involved in their school. I think it is good for the person who signs the salary cheques to be the treasurer of the school board rather than the finance officer of the Catholic Education Office. "On the other hand the local community is not the sole source of finance for the school and many would close down if it were so. In WA we combine the best of the virtues of centralisation and decentralisation. "Whether the mix is right will fluctuate from time to time. "Less than 20 per cent of the operating budgets of our schools comes from private sources. "By and large the commonwealth and state governments are fairly trusting in the money they give us, and with good reason, for they get very good value for their dollar and we account for the dollars we spend. "I would think the average
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parent does not realise that the dollar that pays the teacher does not come from school fees. "I would not want to underplay the importance of private effort in our schools and now it is probably more important to be channelled into fundraising for capital funding than in the payment of school fees. "The capital funding we get from government is absolute peanuts compared to what we need and to what is available to the state system. "In recent times the commonwealth and state governments give approximately 65 per cent of the cost of educating a student, but in capital spending we would be lucky to get seven per cent of the cost. "There is a huge disproportion in capital between ourwhat and selves governments spend on government schools, so the onus falls back on parents to raise money to pay for buildings. "At the same time if we had to make a choice between recurrent costs or capital I would go for recurrent funding and look to the community to support the capital costs. "Having said that, we do not have, even with maximum support, the capital to do what needs to be done."
soon gave way to a movement away from freedom to fixed formulae. The eventual emergence of liturgical books reflected the variety of ministries needed in the communal celebration of the Eucharist or Hours. Only with the emergence of private masses and the growing clericalisation of the Eucharist did the pattern emerge whereby one book was needed for one celebrant to do all. The Missal and the Bre-
lifted about the turn of the twentieth century.
Since then we have some outstanding vernacular missals, notably the St Andrew's Missal, edited at the Benedictine Monastery of Bruges in Belgium, which have been major sources of formation and instruction in the modern liturgical movement of our era. In the contemporary world, some missals — such as the Glenstal Missal and the John XXIII Missal — are veritable Dr Tannock praised the encyclopaedias of woreffort that had gone into the DEE expansion of Catholic ship, Catholic doctrine schools in the past three or and formation, spiritualso years during which three viary originated in these ity and prayer. new secondary colleges and one-man-band collecSome countries have some half a dozen primary tions to enable the cleric had a great traditon of schools had been launched. or friar to celebrate on participation, especially He considered almost an his own. through singing, largely equal number of schools The advent of printing achieved by the universal could be opened if the accelerated this trend for use of a single Mass book. resources were available. the greater availability of "Among the principal chalIn Germany especially, lenges of such a task, the first printed books compared the influence of a comis a money challenge. to manuscript tomes mon book meant the meant that the Roman Deutsche Hoch Messe or "A tougher second chalMissal, Roman Breviary German High Mass lenge is whether we can find and Roman Pontifical became the trendsetter the teachers and people to lead schools with the right came to be seen as the in promoting the peoskills of knowledge and authentic source of ritual ple's singing at Mass in commitment. thus ending a tradition of the vernacular at a time "A third challenge is even pluralism of rites that had when the Solemn High tougher: How do we fit the lasted for 1400 years and Mass or Missa Cantata development of new schools was acknowledged even was the standard sung into the development of the the Council of Trent. by form. Church itself? The late Middle Ages "Our capacity to develop saw the development of Catholic schools is some the first manuals of devo- ODE ways greater than the capactions and doctrine. ity of the Church to develop Of more recent times in The emphasis on uniforits own parishes, partly America and Canada. mity carried through by because of the resources we the Congregation of Rites standard worship books can bring to bear, and partly after Trent and the used around the country because we are dependent on the liberal supply of laity. polemics of the Counter have become quite com"But for the parishes you Reformation era were mon, as well as helping need to have clergy. . . You the basis of a prohibition 'overcome the problems can't run a parish on the on the translation of the of the paper chase engenpresent model without Missal into the vernacu- dered by missalettes, leaclergy, but you can build a lar. flets or booklets. first class Catholic school Particularly in America, Amazingly, that denial without having a priest on of translations of the the publishers offer the the job. Missals text was only facility of embossing the
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The editors' selection has provided the Australian Church with a participation aid that encourages insightful planning and celebration. This is because the content is not just the slavish translation of a Latin "editio typica" but a manual for use in much the same way as the Pastoral Care of the Sick, prepared by the International Commission for English in the Liturgy (I.C.E.L.) is more than a simple translation of the Roman rite for anointing. The release of this book reflects the experience of nearly two decades of implementing the reforms initiated by Vatican II, an experience which grows out of the needs at grass root level in the parishes.
parish name and stamp or coat of arms on the front cover, which would be a definite discouragement to lightly-fingered souvenir hunters! Maybe the new publication will be able to achieve something of the same results in Australia. Time will tell. Such a role of unifying the pattern of worship would be questioned by some as a laudable objective. Flexibility, adaptability and spontaneity would be seen as values too important to compromise. In this context, it is interesting to reflect that the project of a national hymn book was rejected by the National Liturgical Commission in 1976, and
Australia's latest worship book raises the problem of interpreting the role of music in liturgy. As yet, there is not a universally accepted theology of church music. Rather, there is a focus just on individual songs and whether it fits within the parameters of liturgical legislation that may be hundreds of years old. It is interesting to note that Sister Miriam Therese ter, of the Medical Mission Sisters, who has published eleven albums of songs (at least one of which "God Give His People Strength" is in the collection) has recently completed doctoral studies in liturgy and published her dissertation Why Sing? Toward a Theology of Church Music (The Pastoral Press, Washington, DC, 1984). Locally, Sister Dierdre Browne, IBVM, who published several collections for children's liturgies in the early seventies, has just returned to Australia after
Up until now, some of the missals published in Australia under the aegis of the Episcopal Liturgical Commission through E.J. Dwyer, have been singularly lacking in their pastoral sensitivity, often being straight translations of the Latin texts. The success of the Brisbane Liturgy Commission's many publications, edited by Father Barry Copley, have shown that many people like a convenient vademecum for their own participation at Mass. The inherent danger in any editorial choice from among the options and flexibility that are characteristic of our Vatican II-era rites is the impression that the choice printed is an absolute and the only possible or even lawful text.
Designed to be more than a hymn book The book is deliberately structured to be more than a hymn book, and more than a mass book. It covers the whole range of the ritual occasions, even things such as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Religious Profession, Funerals ar: the Worship of the Eucharist outside Mass (13Enediction). It includes Respons-orial Psalms and Gospel Acclamations for every Sunday and Feast, as well as a repertoire of common psalms plus a selection of 260 hymns.
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It has nine full Mass settings of the Common, plus numrous selections of melodies for the Memorial Great A cclamations, Amens, General Intercessions, Alleluias and Gospel Acclamations. With such a range this c ould be the greatest possible benefit to come from t he whole project: to engender a revaluation of t he priorities people e xpress in choosing what to sing. The ideas of the liturgical r eform are far from being realised, arid hopefully this book can renew eniphasis on the correct liturgical principles in participation. There has been a degree of confusion between ritual, ministries and participation in the euphoria of the liturgical renewal. The ministry of reading has been almost universally accepted, whether the Order of Lectors or encouraging everyone or anyone to read.
Deliberate structure
Father Russell Hardiman A difficulty arises when the First and Second Readings are read by the same p erson, or even worse, w hen the Responsorial Psalm is treated as if it was a fourth scriptural reading. Perhaps singing the psalm with a true responserial participation by all the people can be facilitated by the wide range of tests, both common and proper.
The ministry of cantor could be used much more widely. Likewise, the tendency to seethe Gospel Acclamation as just another text to be r ecited could perhaps be overcome by the repertoire o f Gospel Acclamations that could be truly sung to accompany a real procession to venerate the Gospel book and minister of the G ospel. This principle could be carried over to the Eucharistic Prayer also, by emphasising the place of the Memorial Acclamations and the Great Amen. Some misguided objection claim that all this extra singing will add to the time Mass takes.
Actually, if one measures the number of lines of words or music involved in the current four-hymn parody of participation, it would normally be approximately 60-80 lines. To sing the appropriate and acclamations responses would be less than 60 lines of music, so time should not be the determining factor. tf the widespread adoption of the worship book promotes a better use of liturgical principles, then it will serve the Australian Church well. To become a houseto StOrd hold Record readers
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Problems of music completing an MA in Liturgy at Catholic University in Washington. Father Frank Anderson, MC, whose music is widely used, is in Rome to study liturgy at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Saint Anselmo. Perhaps such people can help truly blend liturgy and music together. The philosophical problems of music have only been touched on as regards liturgical use. One problem in the recent past has been the professional musician, who views worship occasions as a platform for an aesthetic experience regardless of function. The scarcely concealed disdain by some for folk music is challenged by the liturgists
who would claim that liturgical music in the folk idiom is not the same thing as folk music. Eugene Walsh has an interesting framework in which to judge the appropriateness of music. Using the analogy of the sacramental paradigm of matter, form and intention, he highlights the three criteria of musical quality, liturgical structure and pastoral situation as being of equal need, and a defect in any one "invalidates" that use. On a practical level, the statement of the American Bishops on music is the most worthwhile document available. It was first published in 1967 and was published in
parish. If it is to be truly national, then perhaps the consultation and editorial staff should have been truly national and not just Melbourne based. The claim of the temporary nature of modern church music could be open to challenge, as well as the presumption that only a hard back edition has any merit. its fourth edition in 1983 as "Music in Catholic Worship" by the Bishops' Committee on the Litury for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in US. Against the background of debate about the function of music and its role in liturgical celebration and participation, the problem of repertoire seems inevitable. There is never likely to be a selection that would suit everyone, precisely because the musical quality itself is very open to choice. While the liturgical function may be considered as common ground, the pastoral situation would obviously differ considerably. People who search through this latest book for their favourites may be disappointed, though this reviewer found every one he looked for. People may quibble about the quality of the melody, especially for some of the Responsorial Psalms, but personal competence may differ.
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Gerard (Gerry) Darwin, Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Western Australian resident since 1977, was born in Lancashire on June 10, 1928. He received his earlier education at Catholic schools in Lancashire and Derbyshire, studied philosophy as an aspirant to the priesthood for two years at Roosendall in Holland ad theology at St Joseph's College, the English mother house of the Mill Hill Fathers, where he realised he did not have a vocation and gave up his seminary studies. For two years he studied at St Mary's Teacher Training College at Strawberry Hill in Middlesex, where his flair for became sculpturing apparent as he concentrated on art teaching which was to be his main role at the Twelve Apostles Elementary School in West Leigh and St Mary's School in Choi-ley, both in Lancashire. Before becoming an art teacher he had done two
years' national service in the Royal Artillery of the British Army. Gerard had two periods as a lay missionary in Africa, the first shortly after he had married Agnes Heyes. daughter, Their Camilla, is now a lay missionary in Papua-New Guinea, and their son, Paul — a commercial pilot in the Kimberley — had a period flying voluntarily for the Kalumburu mission. Their other children are Christopher, now farming at Pingrup, David, currently in his second year at the Claremont Art College, and Tina (Mrs Casalegno), a teacher at St Mary's College in Scarborough. Gerard's sister, Sister Camille, a nun in the order of St Joseph of the Apparition, is matron of St Joseph's Hospital at Bicton. She was for many years Provincial of the order in Australia. His wife, Agnes, teaches at St Joachim's in Victoria Park and his recentlyordained nephew, Father Peter McGrail (son of Gerard's sister Margarey), is in England. Gerard and Agnes are A rmadale parishioners and Gerard is a member of the Armadale branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross.
Gerry Darwin jumped at the offer from the spiritual director of his seminary days, by then Bishop Hall of Kismu in Kenya. It came in 1960 and it was an invitation to start a course of art teaching at St Augustine's Teacher Training College at Eregi in Maragoli, Kenya. The 32-year -old art teacher's acceptance of the offer was the first link in a chain of events that has ultimately resulted in his impressive sculptures gracing many a church and religious institution in Western Australia. In Kenya he completed his first major piece of sculpture, a high-relief panel of St Monica and her son St Augustine for the facade of the chapel of St Augustine's College at Eregi. Cast in cement, it required the erection of special scaffolding.
DELI He also made a high-relief panel of St Joseph, commissioned by Bishop Hall. The rest of his art work in Kenya consisted of mural painting. The first of these projects was executed for a mission church at Cheptent in Nandi country in the north of Kenya where Gerry and his wife Agnes spent an extended holiday at the invitation of the parish priest, Father Kuhn. Each panel of the Stations of the Cross was on a colossal scale, the figures featured being of life size, and again special scaffolding was required because of their high position on the church walls.
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The second set of Stations he did, on a more normal scale, was painted at Kipchimchim in Kipsigis country south of Kisumu. The third set of Stations was painted as a parting gift for St Augustine's College. Gerry and Agnes found life in England hard to take after their exotic existence in Kenya. and they were determined to return to Africa one day. On their return to England, largely to cope with the educational requirements of the children, they bought and rennovated a 200-year-old stone cottage at Shevington in Lancashire. Gerry resumed art teaching, specialising in sculpture, at St comprehensive K evin's school at Kirkby near Liverpool and was eventually appointed head of the school's art department.
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St Kevin's had 2000 pupils, more than 100 teachers and an art department with seven specialist art teachers and five separate art studios. During his years of teaching at Kirkby, he continued with his spare-time sculpturing. His work included a four feet high statue of Our Lady carved in Bath stone and several busts, numbered among which was one of his sister Anne who is now a teaching nun in the Silesian order and principal of a school ouside Liverpool. He entered this bust, with several others, under the title Wigan Girl in the Lancashire artists' exhibition at Southport.
DOD The second major sparetime work of his Kirkby teaching period was the seven-feet high St Joseph and the Boy Christ for St Joseph's secondary school at Widnes. Executed in very high relief, it had to be fixed to the wall of the school hall. It was his first work in the then new material of fibreglass. "Since then, I've been 'stuck' with the material for my sins," he quips. His third and last major work of this period was a parting gift to St Kevin's in the form of a life-size figure of The Risen Christ Leaving the Tomb. At length the opportunity to return to Africa had arisen, after two more children had been born to the Darwins. G erry successfully responded to an advertisement in the education supplment of The Times for the post of art lecturer at the William Pitcher Teacher Training College at Manzini in Swaziland, Southern Africa. The position had been created under the auspices of the British Overseas Development Corporation in conjunction with the Swaziland Government.
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Gerry's role at the college was to inmate a primary art teaching course, and later a seconder/ course. By now he had become deeply involved in part-time sculpturing. He received several cornmissions including busts of important personalities, the most outstanding of whom was Queen Labotsibeni Gwamile, the grandmother of the then monarch of Swaziland, King Sobhuza II.
I I El The work was commissioned by the women of Swaziland in the International Women's year, 1975. The subject, a pioneer in the education of Swazi children, had been dead for many years and Gerry had to work from favourite photographs of her provided by the king. On completion the bust of the highly-revered lady was unveiled at a colourful ceremony, including dancing by 600 women, in the country's biggest stadium. Another of his major works in Swaziland was a life-sized two-figure group entitled Swazi Warrior and Maiden commissioned by the AngloAmerican Corporation. This impressive work now stands outside the council chambers in Manzini. Having once returned to England from Africa, Gerry was determined not to do so again — it was to be Australia or Canada for the Darwins. On completion of the Swaziland contract, the family came to Western Australia in 1 977 and Gerry was employed by the Audio-Visual Education Branch of the WA Education Department in the production of audio-visual teaching materials. In 1982 he retired from the branch to take up sculpturing as a career, initially supplementing his income by teaching for two days a week at St Brigid's secondary college at Lesmurdie. Commissions for religious work flowed in, so he had to
Patron saint of 'Xmas rush' Joseph quietly slid out of the makeshift bed he had arranged in a corner of the stable. He did not want to wake his wife, Mary, who had given birth to her first child just a few hours earlier. Brushing straw from his robe and rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Joseph was ready to begin his usual morning prayers. But today the schedule was altered. Today was special because, before he prayed. Joseph wanted to check on Jesus, the new addition to his family. The sturdy carpenter crouched beside the manger-turned-crib and with childlike wonder marveled at how the blankets barely moved with the soft breath of this tiny, newborn miracle. The workman's hand gently caressed the back of the infant as he said,
give up teaching to cope with them. Included among them are Christ the Teacher, at the church of Our Lady of Poland. Maylands, Queen of the Apostles, at the Queen of the apostles Church, Riverton; Christ Triumphant Over Death, at St Vincent's Hospital, Guildford. St Emilie de
Vialar, at De Viliar College. Hilton; Processional Cross, at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth; Christ Crucified, at Mazenod College, Lesmurdie, and the Monastery, C armelite Gelorup, Ecce Homo, at the Carmelite Monastery, Nedlands, Star of the Sea, at the Star of the Sea Church, Esperance; the Holy Family,
at Community for the Restoration of Family Trust (CROFT), Inglewood, and Mary and the Christ Child, at St Francis Xavier Church, Armadale, and St Brigid's Secondary College, Lesrnurdie. It has been said that Gerry's forte lies principally in portrait sculpture. Two important public works in WA are the bust of Sir Norman Brearley in the terminal building of Perth Airport and the bust of Sir Lawrence Brodie-Hall at the School of Mines in Kalgoorlie. Another comment on his work is that the sculptor's portraits go much deeper than being mere statements of the physical aspects of the srtter. The sensitivity of the modelling evokes in the viewer an awareness of the emotions of the model. "All my work now is in fibreglass," Gerry says, "not through choice but through reasons of cost to the client. "All the religious work is lifesize or three-squatter lifesize. If it were directly carved in wood or cast in bronze, the cost would be prohibitive. "I have also made limited editions of Mary and the Christ Child, The Crucified Christ and Our Lady Star of the Sea, thus enabling the purchase cost to be distributed. "When working in fibreglass. I impregnate the resin with pure metal powders such as bronze, copper and aluminium. "My intention is to get away from fibreglass in secular work and, in conjunction with a local potter, to fire terra cotta works...
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manger, Joseph said, "I only wish that you could be sleeping in the cradle (With all his last minute preparations and I made for you. It was the ruined plans, St Joesph is the perfect patron best I ever turned out of of those trapped in the Christmas rush. my shop. Facing an awesome task, Joseph kept his perspective and operated within his own "I planed and sanded personal limitations and the limitations that wood until it was so imposed by circumstances. Through it all, smooth," he chuckled. he remained a man of faith, in the end Looking at the child opening his arms and heart to the Saviour asleep in the hay, Joseph of the world.) apologised. "I was puttouches "Having a baby is a big ting the finishing that cradle when the on wanted I sibility. respon prepare everything for ours told me the your mum to have the neighb you back home. about this rumours first we "All that work helped proper food and then ensus. c something set to had most me through the "I sold your cradle to difficult days of my life. aside for the midwife and a donkey which buy need. See, I couldn't under- for the things you would make the trip here everything We had first Mary stand when to Bethlehem easier for told me about you. I still planned and ready," he mother." he said your don't understand, but wistfully recalled. with grim finality. the at down Looking I that mean doesn't that
have ever doubted my love for your mum or you "Welcome, my little fel- for onc minute. were there "Oh, low. I hardly had a minute to myself with you dreams. Sometimes they last night. Things were were reassuring but sometimes they became pretty hectic. "You're safe and warm more like nightmares. I and dry here." Joseph haven't slept as soundly as I did last night in whispered. "But this isn't what I months," Joseph conwanted for you. I tried so fided "No, there just hasn't hard and you end up in this stable! Your mother been much of a chance and I have waited for you for a good night's sleep for so long. It seemed like lately. I've been up at the an eternity but actually crack of dawn so I could those week.s and months get to work early." flew by as we tried to Joseph whispered.
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All stained glass windows consist of two major components — antique glass and lead. These windows contain a craftsmanship that dates back to 1220. "Antique" glass is all handmade, with the process little changed since medieval time. Molten glass is gathered on a blowing iron and a bubble is formed. This in turn is made into a cylinder about 15-20 inches long. Once cooled, the cylinder is cut down its length, reheated and in a semi-molten state made into a flat sheet. Stained glass artists exploit these varied handmade characteristics and only enhance them by added iron oxides. For details eg of hands, faces etc, this is termed "grizale" or line work. All this paint is applied with fine rigger brush strokes; Then a tone or "matting" is applied to give forms in folding of robes etc. This pigmentation is fired into each fragment of glass after it has been cut; 650-675 degrees C is normal. The glass can now be set into an "H" shape lead section, called a "came" of lead; each joint is soldered both sides. A special waterproofing "cement" is brushed between the glass and lead. Once set, the panel is strong enough to polish and instal.
The following description of Ken Wildy's windows at the Church of the Holy Angels and St Marys, Singapore, appeared in a book about the church: The over-all theme of these three panels is The Christian Life, so the three panels, the various aspects of Christian life represented in the glass, while separate, all flow into the one main theme. In the left panel (facing the altar), we have creation pictured for us in some basic elements — the sky, sun, moon, stars, rainbow, plant life, birds and a reptile. This attractive scene draws our vision into the central and main panel — the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist. The Spirit of God is represented by the dove overhead above Jesus. The place is the Jordan River on the banks of which the Baptism of Jesus occurred.
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The detail of a design of circa 1460 of the Flight Into Egypt and which Ken Wildy is preparing for a private commission.
'here the voice of God the Father was heard to say, "This is my Beloved Son; my favour rests on Him". The shaft of light coming from the dove draws us right through into the third panel on the right. At the top of this panel is a hand (of God). From the hand comes a stream of water pouring over the head of a Christian — it is the life-giving grace of God coming to each of us. On either side of the Christian's head, there are letters — the a (alpha) on the left and the . . . (omega) on the other. These letters, like our A and Z, are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet; they indicate Christ is for all people the beginning and the end of all things. The stream over the head flows down and spreads into a seven-fold of seven symbols; they are symbols of the seven Sacraments. Central is the cross super-imposed on a host (the Eucharist which is the centre of our life as Chritians). Then looking from the top left-hand symbol and moving anti-clockwise is the symbol of Baptism (blue and white streams of water). Then comes ConfirmaKen Wildy at work on the design for a window in the new church at Willetton. Ken has been tion (the dove), then a stained glass artist for more than 16 years and is a Master Glass Painter. He received a Penance (the crossed Churchill Fellowship to continue his studies overseas. keys — always represent-
New stained glass windows in Singapore executed by WA artist Ken Wildy.
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ing the power of binding and loosing given to priests, as if doors of mercy and forgiveness are always at the ready for being opened to us). Then comes the symbol of the Sacrament of Anointing (the olive branch, because olive oil is the basic element blessed for anointing us). Holy Orders is pictured in symbol by the priest's ritual (of sacraments and blessings) and the priestly stole which is the sign of a priest performing with authority his ministerial functions. Finally matrimony is shown by the wedding rings entwined with the sign of Christ, the X and P together. The latter two letters are again derived from the Greek letters which spell out "CHR", the first three letters of the name of Christ. The entire triptych in stained glass, which shows us the source and power of our Christian life stands significantly behind the Baptismal font. The position of these three stained glass panels dictates their over-all theme — Eucharist. In the central window panel, the coat of arms of the Franciscan order is at the top. The bare arm of Christ is crossed with the arm in brown habit of St Francis; above them both and centralised between the two human arms is the cross itself. A little lower we see a chalice and host, clear signs of the Eucharist; these are surrounded by shafts of wheat, the raw material for bread. The presence of fishes has two meanings:
1. They remind us of Jesus multiplying loaves and fishes for the multitude before he promised to give Himself in the eucharistic bread; 2. Early Christians used the sign of a fish to symbolise Christ our Lord because the Greek letters which spell the word "fish" form the first letters of the words "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour". In the left panel the beautifully strong features and colours of Jesus, the Risen Saviour, appeal to the viewer. Still clearly visible is the form of a cross behind Jesus. Kneeling in front of Jesus is St Francis who presents to Him a model of the church and a palm branch of peace. St Francis aimed always to bring peace to all people and to bring all people to Jesus. The right hand panel of glass is a magnificent picture of our Lady of the Angels. The mother-church of the Franciscan Order in Assisi bears the title of
Our Lady of the Angels; the mother-church is pictured at the bottom right corner of this panel. Our Lady too has the figure of the cross before her in red. She is accompanied by two angels. The angel on the left side has the book of Sacred Scripture open as if announcing to Mary God's wish for her to be the mother of God: The Word would become flesh. Over the open pages of the Bible are again the letters X and P together: they stand for Christ. On Mary's right stands an angel with a censer for incense in his hand. The rising smoke of burning incense is a symbol of prayer ascending as a pleasing fragrance in God's sight. This angel indicates the prayerfulness of Mary; she prays for us now and at the hour of our death. Take notice of Mary facing towards her son; yet she stands well aware of our presence, and is leading us to Jesus.
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METRO MASS TIMETABLE Highgate: 7.30, 9, 10 (It) Redcliffe: 7.30, 9 a.m. a.m., 5.30 p.m.(Viet); Sat Riverton: 7.30, 9 a.m., 7 6 p.m. p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Hilton: 7.30, 9 a.m.; 5.30 Rivervale: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.; p.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Sat. 7 p.m. Armadale: 7.30, 9.30 Sat. 7 p.m., 7 p.m.; Sat 6.30 Hollywood Repat: 7 a.m. Rockingham: 8, 9.30 a.m., p.m. 7 p.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. Rossmoyne Mission: 7.30, 9 a.m. a.m. Balcatta: 7.30, 9, 10.30 Inglewood: 9 Rottnest: 8 a.m.: Sat. 7 p.m., 7 ( Italian) 6 p.m., ( Croatian), Sats 6.30 p.m. (See also Gwelup.) Jarrandale: 10 a.m. 1st Sundays. Scarborough: 7.30, 9.30 Balga: 8, 9.30 a.m., 6 p.m.: Sat. 6.30 p.m. Joondanna: 7.30, 9 a.m.; a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. St Catherine Laboure, North Balga (Majella Bedford Ave., 8.30 a.m. School): 9 a.m. Serpentine: 10 a.m. 3rd Bassendean: 7, 9, 10.30 Sundays. a.m. Kalamunda: 7.30, 9 a.m.; Shenton Park: 7.30, 10 Bayswater: 7.30, 9.30 a.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. a.m.: Sat. 7 p.m. Sat 7 p.m, Karragullen: 9.30 a.m. Beaconsfield: 8.30, 10 K arrinyup: 7.30 and 9.30 South Perth: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.: Sat. 7 p.m. a.m., (Portugese 7, 11.30 a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. a.m.), 7 p.m.; Sat 6.30 7.30. 9. 10.30 Spearwood: 6 a.m., K elmscott: 8, 10 p.m. a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. p.m.; Sat. 7.30 p.m. Bedford Park: 8, 10.15 Cathedral: (See a.m. 5 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 K ensington: 7.30, 9.30 St Mary's Perth). a.m. p.m. 7.30. 10 a.m.: Belmont: 10 a.m., Sat. 7 K envvick: 9. 10.30 a.m., 5 Subiaco: p.m. (See Sat. 6.30 p.m. 7 Sat p.m.: P.m. Thornlie) Swanbourne: 8.30 a.m.; Bellevue: 7.30 a.m., 9.30 Sat 6.30 p.m. a.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Bentley: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Leederville: 7. 8, 9. 15 (Ital- Thornlie: 7.30 a.m. ian). 10.30 a.m.: Sat. 7 Brentwood: 9, 1 1. a.m. p.m. (See Willetton) Victoria Park: 8, 9 (ItalTower Street: 6 p.m. Pearce Bullsbrook: ian), 10 a.m.; Sat, 7 p.m. RAAF: 9.30 a.m. Gingin Lesmurdie: 8, 9.30 a.m., 5.30 p.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Lockridge: 8. 9.30 a.m.; Wanneroo: 7.30, 9 a.m.*. Sat 7 p.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Lynwood: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.: Wembley: 7, 9.30 a.m.. Carilla: 8.15 a.m. Sat 6.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Carlisle: 8, 9.30 a.m.; Sat. Wembley Downs: 8. 9.30 6.30 p.m. a.m., 7 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 Carmel Monastery: 1 1 p.m. Maddington: 7 (after a.m. Easter 7.30). 9 a.m.; Sa. West Perth: 8, 9.30 a.m.. Chidlow: 7.45 a.m. 6.30 p.m. 10.30 a.m. (Italian). Claremont: 7.30, 9 a.m.. 7 Maida Vale: 9 a.m.; Hos1 1.30 a.m. (Polish). P.m. pital 6 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 Whitfords: 8, 9.30, 1 1 a.m.. p.m. Cloverdale: 8, 9.30 a.m.. Sat. 7 p.m. Sat. 7.30 p.m. Manning: 7.30, 9 a.m.; Sat. Willagee: 7, 9 a.m.. 7.15 6.30 p.m. Coolbellup: 10 a.m. p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Como: 7.30, 9 a.m. Sat Maylands: 7.15. 8.30, 10 Wilson: 9.30 a.m.: Sat. 7 a.m.; (Susan Street) Sat. 6.30 p.m. p.m. 6.30 p.m. Cottesloe: 8. 10 a.m.. 5 Medina: 8, 9.30 a.m.. Sat. p.m. 7 p.m. Y anchep: Noon, Club Crawley:(St. Thos. More): 1st, a.m. 9 Valley: Hope C apricorn. 7.15 Sat p.m.; noon, 5.45 3rd. 5th Sundays. pmWattelup: 9 a.m., 2nd,
Applecross: 7.30, 9.30 a.m., 6 p.m.; Sat. 7 p.m. Attadale: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.; 7
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4th Sunday. DEAF MIMS Windsor St. 5 p.m. last Sun. 7.30 a.m.. 9.30 Melville: Darlington: 8.30 a.m. a.m.: Sat. 7 p.m. 10.45 9.30 7.30, Dianella: * Midland: 7. 9.30. 1 1 (It) a.m., 7 p.m.: Sat 6.30 ITALIAN Mass: a.m., 10 8. Doubleview: p.m. Balcatta: 10.30 a.m.: 5.30 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. Hamilton Hill: (2nd. Monastery: 7, 9, 10.30 Dwellingup: 9.30 a.m. a.m., 6 p.m. Sun.). 10 a.m.; Fremantle: 8, 10 a.m.; West 15 10. 9. 7.30. Morley: * Perth: 10 a.m.: Highgate: a.m.. 6.00 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 East Cannington: 9 a.m.; 10 a.m.; Leedenille: 9. 15 p.m. Sat 6.30 p.m. a.m.; Bassendean: (1st. a.m.. Mosman: 7.30, 9.30 Sun.) 7.30 p.m. Midland: East Fret antle: 7.30, 9.30 Sat 6.30 p.m. 1 1 a.m. Osborne Park: 10 a.m.; Vic. Park: 9 a.m. Mt. Lawley: 8. 9.30 a.m., East Perth: 9.30 a.m. Sat. 6 p.m. * East Victoria Park: 7.30, 8, 10 a.m., Yoki Mt. 9.30 a.m.: Sat. 6.30 p.m. Mass: UKRAINIAN Sat. 6.30ne:p.m. Maylands: 10 a.m. Embleton: 7.30. 9 a.m., 9 a.m.; Sat. 7 ri Mundang: Sat. 7 p.m. p.m. (see Chidlow. Glen * Forrest). * LITHUANIAN Mass: East Perth: 1 1.30 a.m. Floreat Park: 8.30 a.m., 10 * a.m.; 6 p.m. Sat. 6.30 * Nedlands: 8, 9.30 a.m.; p.m. Mass:: POLISH Ma Sat. 6.30 p.m. Fremantle: 7, 8 (Italian). 9, Midland: 8.15 1st. Sun. 10 (Italian), 1 1 a.m., 5 North Beach: 8, 9.30 a.m.. West Perth: 11.30 a.m.; p.m. 6.30 p.m.; Sat. 6.30 Sat. 7 p.m. Fremantle: (1st. Sun.) North Doubleview: 7.30 noon. * a.m., 9.30 a.m., 7 p.m.; * G51e.zd) apl.oinu.g:hs:a7t..360..390 ap..mm.., NorthS m.antle: 8 a.m. at. 7Fpre.m MALTESE Mass: Bassendean: 2nd Sun. 6 Glen Forrest: 6 p.m. * p.m. Girrawheen: 8, 9.30 a.m.: Osborne Park: 8.30, 10 Sat 6.30 p.m. * a.m., 10 a.m. (Italian), 7 Gosnells: 7.30, 9.30 a.m.. p.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. PORTUGUESE Mass: Sat. 6.30 p.m. Beaconsfield: 7, 1 1.30 a.m. * Guildford: 7.30, 9.30 a.m. * Palmyra: 7.30, 9.45 a.m.; Sat 6.30 p.m. Sat. 6.30 p.m. Gwelup: 11 a.m. VIETNAMESE Mass: Perth: (Cathedral): 7.30.9, Highgate 5.30 p.m. * 10,11 a.m., 5 p.m.; Sat. 7 * p.m. Hamersley: 7.30, 9, 10.30 CROATIAN Mass: a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. * North Fremantle: 10 a.m. Hamilton Hill: 9.30 a.m., 5 Queens Park: 7.30. 8.15 Bassendean: lst Sun. 4 Sat. 7.30 p.m. p.m.; 9.30 a.m.; Sat. 6.30 p.m. p.m. Balcatta 7 p.m. Hampton: 8.30 a.m. Midland, 4.30 p.m. 2nd Sun. Herne Hill: 8 a.m.
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By Katharine Bird
—The whole ecumenical scene has changed its colour" thanks in large part to the efforts of Cardinal Augustin Bea at Vatican II, said Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, director of priesthood candidates for the Paulist Fathers. For Catholics today, Cardinal Bea's work shows up most in the mutual understanding and respect Catholics and Protestants have for each other, Father Stransky said. They treat each other "as brothers and sisters in Christ".
A German Jesuit who shared an interest in ecubecame a biblical scholar, menical matters. Cardinal Bea also had been Cardinal Bea "was my boss Pope Pius XII's confessor. for eight years until his When the Vatican Secreta- death" in November 1968, riat for Promoting Christian Father Stransky said. A Unity was founded in 1960, "young, energetic priest Pope John XXIII asked Car- then," Father Stransky dinal Bea to serve as its first served as liaison between president. Putting the new the secretariat and the secretariat in the change of world's Protestant churches "a respected biblical scholar and groups. meant that it gained respect Recalling the excitement quickly," Father Stransky and tension of the council said. Cardinal Bea had era, Father Stransky admitserved as rector of the pres- ted he "was a little intimitigious Pontifical Biblical dated about working" for Institute from 1930-1949. Cardinal Elea at first. But the Father Stransky added that cardinal was "patient and Cardinal Bea was a confidant kind and never treated me of Pope John XXIII. Both like some flunky," he said. men were the same age and The cardinal "knew how to
handle staff and to remain calm in a crisis." In promoting causes dear to his heart, Cardinal Bea was very skillful, Father Stransky stated. "In all the people I ever met I've never known anyone with a better sense of timing, of when to push for what." Asked what led Cardinal Bea to take a personal interest in ecumenical relationships, Father Stransky said it developed gradually over his lifetime. Born of poor parents in a small Catholic German town, as a young Jesuit student he attended the University of Berlin. Here he mingled with Protestant faculty and students. Some of his Protestant "peers became great scripture scholars," Father Stransky added.
The cardinal's promotion of ecumenical relationships and Christian unity grew "from the biblical side" as he pursued his career, Father Stransky said. The cardinal's work often brought him into contact with Protestant scholars. Before World War H, for instance, he sought for and obtained permission from the pope to participate in an international Bible congress that was usually attended only by Protestants, the Paulist priest said. Cardinal Be-a also was "the main drafter" of the papal encyclical titled "Divino Afflante Spiritu," which opened the world of modern biblical scholarship to Catholic scholars, Father Stransky reported Then, in the 1950s, the cardinal was the Vatican's consultor on ecumenical affairs.
At the council, during his many addresses, Cardinal Bea made it his business to point out "the ecumenical impact" of documents under consideration, and to discuss whether they reflected Scripture faithfully, Father Stransky said Cardinal Bea PIJS the presenter and defender of the documents on ecumenism and on the relationship of the church with non-Christian religions.
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New dialogue When members of the same family hid.mg to sqtrarated Christian cp.'rezinurriorst they get a firstba"4 gh,,npse onus: bow vital the uurk for ( ,m-istian unity is. That was PopeJohn Paul ll's thought in MS 1985 letter to BiahopJae- es Crumley Jr , president of the Luthe .in Church in America !lie pope said members of the same family wto belong to separated C.hristian i.orrimunions must "live in boiv and iterk for the unity that should etr.
When Tuesday afternoon rolls around and it's time for religious' education class, my children head for the Jewish synagogue. I think they get a fine grounding in religion there.
It is no secret that Catholic biblical scholarship has changed since the Second Vatican Council. But perhaps it is more accurate to say that since the council people have become increasingly aware of the developments in biblical scholarship. For these developments preceded the council. In many ways they were responsible for the attitudes marking that historic assembly. All through the 19th century and into the 20th, intensive studies were carried on in both the Old and New Testaments. But these studies were regarded with suspicion in the church. Then, in 1943, a landmark papal encyclical titled "Divino Afflante Spiritu" exploded on the scene Pope Pius XII urged church
The late Cardinal Augustin Bea, right, a Jesuit biblical scholar whom Pope John XXIII chose to be the first head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, had a great deal to do with the mutual respect and understanding Catholics and Protestants have for each other today
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dhism and Confucianism; and told Moslem youth that Moslems and Christians "have many things in common as believers and as human beings." • And the pope has met often with Jewish groups and leaders. To the Jewish community in Mainz, West Germany, in 1980, the pope said that "Jewish-Christian dialogue can be a sign to the world of belief in the one ineffable God who calls to
By Joe Michael Fiest
But is ecumenism a subject No, it's not what you think for church leaders only? Is it just It's Jewish. not We're a strictly theological and that our parish facilities intellectual exercise? don't yet include classNot at all. Though seemrooms. Since the synagogue ingly hidden at times, pracis next door, pastor and tical effects and examples of rabbi worked out an agreeecumenism at the grassment to use synagogue rooms for Catholic religious instruction. The cardinal, who always It's a pragmatic arrangespoke and wrote tactfully, ment, of course. But it is also ..,;...mbers of these _families, &meter, was quite persuasive on the an outgrowth of the ecuecperience the. am.fusion or council floor, Father -MaY menical atmosphere prompStransky recalls. Hearing the even allination that can a 'one when young adult." Her trainted by Vatican II. cardinal, people usually con. ir duaLs in one family confess ing as a Journalist and Catholic involvement in eluded that "he had thought dil.4-rent, even conflicting, lieu's of subsequent employment movement the ecumenical things out and wasn't taking Cielstitur faith." said the pope Such gave her opportunities to snowballed after Vatican II sides. He was a reconciler" sa.eltions lead to "personal ausareness" interact with people of documents referred to other who could get things '• ecumenical movement's diverse religious and ethChristians as "our separated accomplished. bre • ..-tance. thepope' indicated nic backgrounds. brethren" and also said the There are times when the ecumenical But it WAS her appointnothing of church "rejects in. • ',tent seems distant from most ment to the San Francisco what is true and holy" in "s daily lives. News reports record pe Conference on Religion, other world religions. the 1, ,;rk ofprofessional theologians on Race and Social ConSince the mid-1960s the bre rtant issues of history andfaith. cerns that thrust her into Catholic Church has set up marry ecumenical concerns bit an ever-increasing number It happened one Christ- a position of helping forborne today: taxa to tell scholars to catch up in the The impact on Vatican II v.-as of dialogue commissions mas season in the early mulate bow Catholics and children about the faith of other field of biblical scholarship. immeasurable! churches. In other faith with respect the 1960s, recalled Rita Jeu's would interact in Chridian groups; bow to He encouraged scholars to It is not C2Sy to change or recent months and years: Sextet. Her two young light of the council docu0:bers while not giving up respect for o f utilise the methods of litert o question long-held one., ,wra tradition: how to unite the • Roman Catholic represendaughters were invited by ment. ary and historical research assumptions. One feels Today she is the confertatives have reached subCatholic neighbours to • ies of divided Christians for the which had produced such threatened not only intellectheological help decorate their tree. ence's coordinator and a stantial social action in local .sak,' fruitful results in the undertually but emotionally. member of the board of agreements with Anglicans In turn, the Seinel chiki(tiros standing of Scripture. When I began teaching in on such issues as the nature ren asked their playmates directors of Catholic rerat many people bate, by nou. Perhaps the single most 1949, fortified by long years atweded a wedding in which ministers of the Eucharist, ministry to join them for their Social Services, in addiimportant point was the of hard preparation, the of n,,re than one church were present as and ordination, and salva- family's lighting of the tion to her position as changes in biblical scholar- part'; !Pants in the ceremony. practical recognition that, associate director of the tion. Hanukkah candles. while the sacred books of ship were lust making them• Talks between Roman Holiday excitement per- local Jewish Community Andpapier know of the efforts today the Bible were indeed God's selves felt in the United — a; funerals, for example — to make Catholics and Eastern meated both households. Relations Council word, they were the word of States. For a while I was members of other religious traditions In the first years after churches have clarified disThen the Sernels' phone God coming through the flabbergasted. Gradually I feel comfortable and weloome in our agreements on Christ's rang. Their Catholic the councilMrs ,Semel saw words of humans. One came to appreciate the bases cburvires. In such cases, the irnifX3C1 of the human nature. neighbour was calling to the ecumenical climate needed to go back to the of the new movement. • Catholic and Lutheran say her pastor bad change in the direction of earr'enical movement is felt close to thought world and the literOnce Ihad done that. I was harm' representatives in the Uniopposed this sharing in greater collaboration. ary world of the biblical With Catholic colleagues able to understand that the ted States have agreed that theJewish festir'aL In his letter to Lutheran Bishop authors, trying to grasp what new approach was not neg- Cirumley. PopeJohn Paid recognised that any differences over how A feu' .years later Mrs she spearheaded an they wanted to communi- ative. Far from being threat- one uay the needfor the ecumenical people are saved, differenSeine' received another annual Catholic-Jewish cate. ening. it was liberating. call, again from the Thanksgiving service, mor,ement bits home is when a sense of ces that contributed to the Permission now was given But having experienced -anguish Reformation, "need not be Catholic mother, She was elereloped an interfaith experienced 'because full to translate the biblical the trauma of change. I am unity has not been achieved." Often this church-dividing." asking whether the Seder hosted by her synbooks from their original in a position to emphathise ham& s 4,e the local 1eoe4 he observe& • In a recent exchange of Hanukkah invitation was agogue and advocated languages. This was a giant numerous social Justice with people going through letters, the pope and a Luthstill open. I " know that at the local keel step. Up to that time, all the same experience. Like members of Catholic parishes and those eran bishop in the United Mrs Seine/ said that merit agendas. Catholic translations were many biblical scholars. today of other Christian communities in Today she says: "Hardly States pledged continued is her most poignant made on the basis of St I am deluged with requests neighbourboods experience the pressures efforts toward full unity. memory of developments a week goes by when the Jerome's fourth-century to give courses in parishes. of disunity since they do red yet confess • Dialogue continues in Christian-Jewish rela- Jewish community isn't translation, the Latin VulThe response from people is In the fidlneSs of unity the same faith between Catholics and tions after the Second cooperating with Catholgate. thrilling. Baptist, of members Vatican Council, espe- ics on some issue — inteand therefore cannot takepart in the Reformed, Methodist and cially its Declaration on gration, hunger, famine The changes in biblical fullness of cburth life together." All this was quite revolu-for Pentecostal churches, and the Relation of the relief in Ethiopia, aid How bave you experiencedfirsthand tionary and took time to be scolarship have been a great various accords have been Church to Non-Cbristian our city's homeless." implemented. When I stu- ecumenical plus too. I fre- the impact of the ecumenical "When something comes Religions. died at the Pontifical Biblical quently conduct classes not movement, Wiry is it vital that the quest reached. • Pope John Paul II has Mrs Semel grew up in up," she explained, "my Institute from 1948-1949, as only in Catholic parishes, for fuller unity among C.bristians prayed with the Anglican New York City. She says immediate response is to I now recall, the encyclical but Lutheran and Presbyter- continue' archbishop of Canterbury; she is "one of thefewJesis call the arcbdiocesan had little observable effect ian parishes as well. What I praised the "reverence for who can honestly say I ecumenical officer. He on the courses I took. But discover is that God's word life and nature, the quest for never experienced anti- does the same toward gradually its effect on now is seen as a unifying, not truth and harmony" of BudSemitism as a child or Catholic scholarship grew. a divisive, force.
Historic assembly By Father John Castelot
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Where is the impact of Vatican II seen today? For many people, it is seen in the different relationship with people who are Protestants or Jews. Monica Clark writes about Rita Semel, associate director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in the San Francisco area. Mrs Semel tells of working with Catholics on a number of social justice issues. Katharine Bird interviews Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, director of priesthood candidates for the Paulist Fathers. He recalls his association with
Cardinal Augustin Bea, first president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. The cardinal's influence is felt today, Father Stransky says, in the changed ecumenical climate. Joe Michael Feist, associate editor of the NC religious education package, points to some practical areas where Catholics. Protestants and Jews co-operate today. The impact of ecumenism is visible not only in the theological dialogues betweenprofessional theologians, but in renewed
An opportunity for sharing
By Monica Clark
approaches to the needs of couples in mixed marriages, he writes. Changing long-held assumptions about the Bible is not easy, Father John Castelot writes. He recalls that his biblical training needed updating after the promolgation of the landmark encyclical on biblical scholarship, "Divino Afflante Spiritu." Father Castelot says the memory of the adjustment he had to make serves him well today in the many lectures and seminars he gives to people who want to know more about the Bible.
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Focusing on the liturgy vital part of Advent By Father David O 'Rourke
Like many a pastor I have faced the Advent season by focusing on the liturgy tninking about how to celebrate the liturgies with thought and sensitivitY•
And I've sought ways to draw on the community's spontaneity and creativity. This is especially possible in Advent because we can draw on the popular traditions that are so much a part of the weeks before Christmas. Approaching these days of preparation and anticipation inventively can make for a creative time in parish life. But how? Where do you go after the Advent wreath and "0 Come, 0 Come, Emmanuel?" I have two answers. One was our parish's attempt to bring Advent-focused creativity into the home through an Advent workshop. It involves some planning. The other is a much simpler approach, possible in any home where there is a Christmas tree. Parents of school-age children organised the Advent workshop, set for the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Our goal was to prepare items for the church and for during Advent. ‘ 1 47mes .
The workshop group prepared a particularly eyecatching green shoot that came from an apparently lifeless redwood stump. Under the careful eye of a man with a good sense of theatre, this shoot grew larger and more flourishing each week. Advent is becoming a festival of anticipation. In many homes Christmas trees go up well before Christmas Day. It is perhaps the only time of the year when the life of the world meshes with Christian religious observances. Rather than complain. I children to use in creating find it productive to build as stories about the journey of solidly as possible on this the kings, aroused by the practice of using the Advent first glimmerings of the star. weeks as an anticipation of setting out from their homes Christmas. to follow it. Using the Advent symboSome of the stories that lism of the Light to come came from the youngsters into the world. I prepared a might have raised a few blessing for the Christmas eyebrows among the scrip- tree. Parishioners used it ture scholars but were when the tree was first charming to us. decorated and lighted. I also One family kept the figures distributed a form listing a on the dining room table Mass prayer for each day and before supper each before Christmas. night their young children People could use these took turns recounting the each evening when the tree events of the day's imagined lights were turned on, or as a prayer before meals. Any journey.
Some parents and children dyed candles for their Advent wreaths, and wove the wreaths from greens collected outside town. Other groups created little clay figures of the wise men and the shepherds, but walking figures rather than kneeling ones found so often around the Christmas crib. These figures were for
Another group of parents and children prepared a Jesse tree. The prophet Isaiah, in speaking of the Messiah, told how from the descendants offesse a leader would come to bring great vitality to the people. In his own poetic way, Isaiah speaks of the green shoot that will grow from the dormant root of Jesse. This image is recalled in the Advent liturgy.
missal and many missalettes contain these same prayers Advent is a time of preparation for Christmas Our culture has taken the theme and anticipation of reworked it in very human and popular forms. Some can be adapted for religious use at home, especially with children. Such informal household festivals enrich our anticipation of the celebration to come.
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GERALDTON Evening Masses DIOCESE SATURDAY
SUNDAY MASS TIMETABLE Continued from page 15
THE DIOCESE OF BUNBURY A LBANY
1 st 2nd rd 4th Sundays: 7.30, 9, 10.30 a.m. Saturdays 7 p.m.
A UGUSTA
Sundays 7 p.m.
BALINGUP
Sundays 9.30 a.m.
BODD1NGTON
1 1.00 a.m.
BOYANUP
Sundays 10.15 a.m.
BOYUP BROOK BROOMEHILL BRUNSWICK
Sundays: 9 a.m. 8 a.m.
8.00 a.m.
Sundays: 9 a.m.; Saturdays 7.30p.m. Sundays: 8, 10 a.m., 7 p.m.; Saturdays: 7 p.m.
BUNBURY (St. Mary's)
Sundays: 9 a.m.
BUNBURY (Carey Park)
Sundays: 8.30 a.m.
BUSSELTON
Sundays: 9.30 a.m. (Jan. add. 7 p.m.); Saturdays 7 P.m.
CAPEL
10 a.m. 8.30a.m. 8.30a.m. 8.30a.m. Sundays: 10 a.m., 7 p.m., Saturdays 7 p.m.
COLLIE CONDINGUP COOMALBIDGUP CRANBROOK
7.00 p.m. Sat
DARDANUP
Sat 6 p.m. Sat 6 p.m. 8 a.m. Sundays 9 a.m. Saturdays 7 p.m.
DARK AN
9 a.m.
DONNYBROOK
8.30a.m.
10a.m. Sat 6 p.m.
9 a.m.
DONNELLY MILL
5.30 p.m. 8.30a.m.
5.30 p.m.
10a.m.
DUDININ
10a.m.
7.30 p.m. Sat.
DUMBLEYUNG
8.30 a.m.
DUNSBOROUGH
Sundays: 8 a.m.
10a.m.
10a.m.
10.00 a.m.
8.00 a.m.
8.30 a.m.
DWELLINGUP
8 a.m.
ESPERANCE FRANKLAND RIVER
Sundays: 7.9 a.m.; (June-Aug: 8,10) Saturdays: 6.30 p.m.
GAIRDNER RIVER
10.30 a.m.
GNOWANGERUP GRASS PATCH
10.00 a.m.
GREENBUSHES
Weekly: 10.30 a.m. Sundays: 9a.m. (Jun-Sep: 10 a.m.), 7.30 p.m.
H ARVEY JERRAMUNGUP
10.30 a.m.
6 p.m. 8.30 a.m.
9.00 a.m.
10.00 a.m.
10.30 a.m.
1 1.00 a.m.
K ATANNING
Sundays: 9.30 a.m. Saturdays 6 p.m. Saturdays 7.30 p.m.
KUKERIN
10.45 a.m. 8.30 a.m. Sat. 7.00 p.m8.00 a.m.
LAKE GRACE LAKE KING
8.00 a.m.
LOCKYER
Sundays: 8.30 a.m. Summer 8.00 a.m.)
MANDURAH MANJIMUP MARGARET RIVER MOUNT BARKER
10.45 a.m.
8.30 a.m.
9 a.m.
7.00 p.m.
10.00 a.m.
9.00 a.m.
7p.m. (Suns 1.5. Sats 2.3.4.5.) 8 a.m. (Sun. 4), 10 a.m. (Sun. 2.3.)
Sundays. 9.30 a.m.; Saturdays 7p.m.. Sundays: 8.30, a.m.; every Saturday: 7.30 p.m. Sundays: 10 a.m.; Saturdays 7 p.m. 9.30 a.m.
8 a.m.
MUNGLINGUP
9.30 a.m.
Weekly: 7 p.m. Sat.
NARROGIN NEWDEGATE
Sundays 9.30 a.m.; Saturdays: 7 p.m.
N YABING/PINGRUP
(alternate months)
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c. Adam d. God 2. Which one does the better job in giving us information about the magi? a. Matthew b. Luke c. They both really do a good job. 3. Which one does the better job in giving us information about the shepherds? a. Matthew b. Luke c. Both do a good job on this one too. 4. What was the profession of the magi? a. Kings b. Prophets c. Shepherds d. Wise men S. Flow many magi were there? a_ Three b. Five c. We don't really now. 6. What gifts did the magi present to Jesus? a. Gold, frankincense and myrrh b. They didn't leave any gifts c. They didn't give the gifts to Jesus. They gave thorn to Mary. 7. Jesus' first trip after his birth was to: a. Nazareth b. Jerusalem c. Egypt d. Jericho 8. What was the name of the donkey that carried Jesus on this trip? Was it the same donkey that Joseph used to take Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem before Jesus was born? Yes 9. Jesus' first visit to the temple was: a_ When he was 12 years old b. Shortly after his circumcision c. When he was 1 year old d. He did not visit the temple as a child because it was not the custom at the time to bring children there. 10. What was the name of Jesus' hometown? a. Bethlehem b. Jerusalem c. Nazareth d. Jericho .3 01 aM )nq 'auo URI) aJoky g Tic '6 p pauonuauf •spiaydays ay) 57 A,9Yu0P CN-1 )11C1 .A-12 93.1N 8 )noqe sn so) ayn7/quo q •I 4453 Ibetu acp inoqe 01 maypekv pue tualesniar Si sol maynekV Atli° e o) diii ism' sly 6unteui snsar iP) P0D set' ayn-i 3 pue q (pog •L ()) ayn-i wegepv 01 re() .e 9 snsar saaen maquew 1 alaiti alai) •SH3MSNV Auetu mot) mouy Meal
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b. Present him with gifts c. Find out for themselves if Jesus was really the son of God d. Fulfil a vow that they had made to God 14. The magi found Jesus a. With Mary in a house b. Lying in a manger c. In a house with Mary and Joseph d. In a stable 15. The magi were warned not to return to Herod by a. Mary b. Joseph c. A dream d. An angel
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From page 5 "When I went to school the subject range was limited; today it is enormous - some would say too great. "The range of educational experience is much more comprehensive than when I was at school or when I was teaching because there are more resources to finance them. "It is now fairly standard for provision to be made for the inservice training of teachers, either replacing them or providing special programs needed in a school. "In the schools I attended a replacement
was unheard of for a teacher who was away let alone at an inservice program. "Maybe some things during my schooling were better, but also maybe a reflection of a different age. a different place, a different church, a different set of expectations and a different set of outcomes," he said. Dr Tannock cited a recent graduation at John XXIII College that saw 130 students receiving awards in Year 12. When he was at school, he noted, there would have been 130 students in Year 8 but about only 29 completing Year 12.
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The fear of withdrawal stops many from trying
Giving up cigarettes is harder than giving up heroin, says Gay Baldry. She should know, she has given up both. The heroin some eight years ago and her 50-a-day habit, a few months back. As Education Officer for Cyrenian House, a drug rehabilitation centre, she is keen to dispel the myth that heroin withdrawal is a horror that few people can face. Since the centre opened in 1981 it has established a high rate of success in weaning people away from drug addiction. "Withdrawal from heroin is nowhere near as bad as people think . . . it is the fear of it that creates the worst symptoms," she said. "In fact, withdrawal has the same effect on the body as anxiety and when you have a combination of both, of course the experience is greatly traumatised. 'The people who come to Cyrenian House go 'cold turkey', and most of them say that they 'are 20
not as sick as tney thought they would be'. The reason for that is that they are not anxious. We support them all the way through and without the fear the experience is certainly bearable. "Giving up alcohol or barbiturates is much worse. . . you can die withdrawing from those. but you can't die from heroin withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal is especially horrific because they have hallucinations and physical symptoms like their skin crawling. . . and even giving up cigarettes is awful because of the anxiety symptoms that you experience." It is fear of withdrawal, she adds, that stops many people from trying to kick the habit. Once that fear is removed they are halfway there. Cyrenian House was established by Mr Richard Hammersley after his daughter had died of a drug overdose. He wanted to offer an alternative to the methadone program and the drug lifestyle for people who wanted to get off drugs. Gay Baldry was
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brought from Sydney to set the program up. She had previously worked with the Health Commission and had been involved in voluntary drug rehabilitation programs both in the community and in women's prisons. She began with little more than enthusiasm and two phones on the floor in an old house in Northbridge. Barely four
The catchcry of Cyrenian House is: "If you want to use drugs, that's your business. "If you want to stop, that's our business." The program, which is based on Narcotics Anonymous (a similar scheme to Alcoholics Anonymous) caters for males and females aged between 18 and 35 years. After assessment and the
first started but now we are seeing older people, most of whom are middle class," Gay said. "You have to bear in mind that when you get a 30 year old drug addict, that person has probably been using for 15 years and therefore has grown up without ever having experienced what we would call a 'normal' life. That affects the way they see the world, their rela-
admission, residents are expected to complete a three to six month program. This includes individual counselling, yoga, drug education addiction groups, relaxation sessions, urinalysis tests, meditation, sports activities and an introduction to the Narcotics Anonymous program. Despite public opinion many of those who come to Cyrenian House are not teenage, hippie dropouts. "Iwould have to say that there was a tendency toward that when we
tionships with those around them and their attitudes. "Coming here is a bit like coming to another planet. It takes some getting used to and most of our people come here twice. It's almost as if once they have learned a little they have to go back out again and test it. They want to see if they can 'cope' with the people and the situations in their old lives." Cyrenian House caters for 10 people at a time and already has a long waiting list. Some 450
'Giving up cigarettes harder than heroin'
steps from her front door is busy Newcastle Street and the sound of traffic has been a constant companion throughout the four years she has been with Cyrenian House. For the first six months she lived and worked in the house and slowly put a program together. Now, four years on, the phones have found their way onto desks and Cyrenian House has been simply, but comfortably furnished through a variety of charity funding bodies and the efforts of Rotary International.
people have passed "If you are poor or through the program working class you are since it began and others prepared to go have been catered for in further. . . you are more an outpatient program likely to end up walking which includes individ- the streets or to land in ual counselling on a gaol for stealing. Middle weekly basis, urinalysis class people are less testing twice weekly, one likely to go so far. It's not life-skills groups per a matter of conditioning week and assistance in so much as it is of resourlearning to cope with ces. . . the simple fact is everyday living situa- that middle class people tions. are likely to have resourAnd the people, says ces for much longer and Gay, are more likely to when they do reach their come from Cottesloe and limit, they have been Peppermint Grove than trained to seek help anyfrom Locicridge. Most of way. them will be aged "We find a lot of the between 22 and 30 and people here have come will be good looking, from families where they intelligent, educated . . . lack for nothing in a and in desperate need for material sense, but mum help. and dad are always too "In the main they have busy with their own come from middle class lives. . . with making families and have gone to more money. So the kids the best schools," Gay have enormous material said. input but next to no Part of the reason for emotional input. They this, she adds, is that never get the unspoken middle class pctip!e are message that 'you are more conditioned to ask special'. for help and will draw the line sooner than those Cont page 2 1 from a working class background.
Of help or drug addicts From page 2 0 "Sure, they live comfor- they don't have love they table lives but it is never feel unworthy." It was Gay herself, at the enough to make up for the hole in the gut. That's age of 23, who decided it why kids stick needles in was time to set her own t hemselves . . . they boundaries and to learn don't feel good about to love herself She was six and a half stone and a themselves. series of crises had made escape," an also "It's says Gay. "Heroin more her realise that she tad than anything makes you to do something about sleep . . . it stops you her habit.' "Quite simply it meant feeling. It becomes your friend in fact, your mate, stop or die," she said. the one thing you can "Not that dying scared rely on." me, I just chose NOT to For Gay, brought up in die. I had never had any a Sydney girls home, value for life and thereheroin was a 'way out' fore it wasn't important and a way of 'making a to me if host it . . . but statement'. She and her I decided I wanted to two sisters were placed live." in the home after their It is making that simple mother left and their decision that sets so father was unable to care many on the road to for them. Gay was four Cyrenian House. For the first two weeks years old. She began drinking when she was after admittance there 13 and honestly admits are no phone calls, visthat she started simply itors or letters. "We like them to sit because she 'wanted to'. "Icould spin you a story with themselves," Gay about all the terrible said. "They need time to things I felt and why I let things catch up. It's a started drinking and tak- retreat in a way and it ing drugs, that would gives them the opportunreally break you up." she ity to decide if the decisaid. "But the simple sion was theirs or truth is that at the time I someone else's. simply `wanted' to do it. "It's hard during that She was 15 and had just time to sit and look at left school when she yourself, especially if you began taking heroin. have blocked out a lot of While she wasn't con- the truth. You have to scious at the time of 'not face alot of things about feeling good about her- yourself that you don't self,' at 31 she can now like." recognise that those feelDuring the next two ings were most likely weeks phone calls are
A lot of those who come lack nothing in a material sense "Giving up anything requires a grieving process," Gay says, -whether it is something you want to give up or not" In the second and third months of the program members are slowly reintroduced to responsibility. "They are allowed out on weekends as long as we know who they are with and where," Gay said. They are also encouraged to help new people to settle in. "The most important factor in giving up any drug or addiction is keeping an open mind and being prepared to change. They need to learn to be honest with themselves and with others and to be able to establish and maintain support systems. "We have a 32 per cent success rate here and that's high compared to most other organisations in Australia," she said.
sided for family, relatives and friends . . . all important factors in the addiction syndrome. Like alcoholism, drug addiction is a 'family problem', says Gay. "I might be addicted to
heroin, but my father might be addicted to my problem," she adds. "If you help the addict, and his or her family then you have a far better chance of success." Counsellors from Cyr-
enian House also participate in an education program in a bid to promote drug awareness throughout the community. They lecture at public seminars, in schools and also talk to
professionals working in the welfare field, probation and parole officers and prison officers in training. Enquiries may be directed to Cyrenian House, 328 9200.
'It's hard during that time to sit and look at yourself. . . you have to face a lot' very present at a subconscious level. It was an age, she adds, when she had no rules or borders to her life and no-one to answer to. The Home had been strict, too strict in fact, so much so that it became impersonal. It was hard, in those conditions, she says, to feel that anyone really cared about `you' as a person. She firmly believes that children need to be raised with defined borders and recognisable rules. They need love as well as rules and they need the rules along with the love. "Too many of the people we see here have had the love without the rules or rules without the love,- she said. "If you don't have boundaries then kids feel lost. . . if
Residents of Cyrenian allowed and visitors . . . although the latter are House do not automatiscreened by Cyrenian cally leave after three staff The staff comprise months. The longest stay five full-time people is six months, but that. including one night says Gay, is rare. "If they say they are not supervisor, one weekend supervisor, an adminis- ready to leave then we trator, education officer keep them," she said. A Halfway House was and co-ordinator. The staff is a combination of recently established at ex-addict and profes- premises in Vincent sional staff and it is Street which helps resiimportant, Gay says, that dents to make the gradthe ratio of ex-addict staff ual move from Cyrenian House, back into the be higher. "That's not to say that outside world. "Residents don't autoprofessional staff are no good," she adds. "It's just matically go to the halfthat no-one will under- way house," Gay said, "it stand where you are has really been set up for really at unless they have those who have nowhere 'been there' themselves." else to go after leaving Going throught with- here but their old envirdrawal, she says, is akin to onment . . . and that's a grief process and there- not good at all, they fore involves the denial, would just start using anger, bargaining, and again." Counselling is also proother similar phases.
Gay Baldry . . . working through Cyrenian House to help others beat drug addiction.
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hildren's Story Hour Long ago there was a ing. Isaiah began to meant. But they knew great man named feel what God wanted his message was about hope — God would Isaiah. People called him to say. God is going to send send someone to help him a prophet. They believed be spoke to us someone who will them. them in God's name bring justice and I saiah told them what and was very close to peace back to our peo- to expect from the one ple," be mused. "Ibare God u,o:dd send. "He God. to give the people a will judge the poor Isaiah knew the people were waiting for message of hope." with justice and will So Isaiah went out choose rightly for him to speak to them. He wasn't sure just into the streets of the those who are sufferwhat God wanted him city and stood up to ing." to say. So be .spent speak. Soon a large "When be comes." some time by himself crowd of people suradded, "the I saiah thinking and praying. rounded him, eager to be a guest of will wolf He trusted that God bear God's great the lamb. the leopard would let him know prophet. willlie down beside the what to say. "A new king will the calf and lion goat, As Isaiah began to come," be began. "a will graze together. think about what was descendant of King Then there shall be no happening to God's David and bis father. or ruin among harm spirit people be became Jesse. The Lord's God's people." angry. "Everywhere I will be upon him, a look," be thought to spirit of wisdom and The people were a excited by Isaiah's himself, "I see people understanding, being hurt by unjust spirit of counsel and words. But they knew practices. Rulers make strength, a spirit of they would have to laws that oppress peo- knowledge and of fear change their ways as ple. Judges are deny- of the Lord." they waitedfor the one ingjustice to the needy The people were not Isaiah said was to and are robbing the sure just what Isaiah Come. poor of their rights. People are getting rich by taking advantage of Teddy Horsley Books for Young Chnsuans the poorest, weakest FOR THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING' people, the widows and orphans." I saiah was beginning to see what God wanted him to say. But there was more to think about. An enemy was at war with God's Todits, Maw., people. The Assyrians THE PRESENT were attacking towns, LIGHTS robbing homes and Leslie J. Francis and Nicola M. Slee killing people. Illustrated by Ferelith Eccles Williams "There is so much suffering andpain all Christmas and Epiphany come alive through simple story lines over the land," Isaiah and bright, vivid pictures. thought. "Our enemies These two new books join four other successful Teddy Bear are destroying us books in this series: while our own people keep cheating and The Windy Day, The Picnic fighting with one The Song The Sunny Morning another. Why can't $1.95 each there be peace?" A VAILABLE NOW FROM YOUR BOOKSELLER After struggling with Collins Liturgical Publications his anger at so much 55 Clarence Street. Sydney 2000 injustice and his sadness at so much suffer-
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Teddy Bears, A Celebration through to its curtion, by Mary Hillier, pub- rent popularity as a lishedby Methuen, $21.95. collectable item. I f you still yearn for This highly entertaining your old teddy bear, left pageant of Teddies from behind long ago with • over the world 'up to your childhood, then this every trick in the book' is the book for you. (and then some), conIt is a nostalgic, enter- tains a fabulous array of taining and informative photographs and early history of the world's graphics drawn from the favourite toy. In her world's most unique collively. yet fact-filled text, lections of Teddy Bear supported by a wealth of memorabilia. glorious, full-colour illusThis joyous Journey into trations, eminent toy his- the world of Teddy Bear torian Mary Hillier provides bugs and bugs examines the world of the of bears for arctopbUes toy bear —from its ina-en- of any age.
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captures beauty with a camera On a return visit to Europe landscape is very flat and A ustralia, The Untamed Land, a col- he took the time to buy a rarely is it possible to move lection of Richard camera . "just like any to a 'high point' to gain a Woldendorp's photo- tourist," he adds. It was new perspective. graphs, published by 1956 and he was travelling "Most landscapes are vertiReader's Digest, $35. by ship. It took five weeks to cal," he said. "They come Reviewed by Roslyn get the results of his first out of a horizontal plane. We Ross. photographic efforts but don't have the mountains in
when he did he knew he had Australia to provide the found a new way to express variables." himself artistically. Some of the photographs "It seemed to me straight for this, his seventh and away that here was medium latest book, were displayed I could use instead of paint- at an exhibition in Sydney ing," he said. "I saw it as a and he is now planning for tool to express myself." an exhibition of his work in His first thoughts had been America. In January 1984 he merely to record his trip but was one of a number of once he realised the poten- photographers who took tial for this new craft he part in an aerial photography made up his mind to finish exhibition held at The PhoThere are few parts of with house painting and to tographer's Gallery in LonAustralia that Richard Wol- become a professional pho- don. dendorp has not seen, and tographer instead. There are some 320 photomany of those that he has, Back in Perth Richard Wol- graphs in the book, the are depicted in this beautiful dendorp set about learning result of thousands of book. his new trade. In those days kilometres, hundreds of flyWoldendorp is not just a there was little in the way of ing hours and countless rolls photographer, he is an artist. instruction apart from the of film. He gave up painting some local camera club. It took For Richard Woldendo rp years ago to concentrate on him four years to gain the the goal is to create beautiful photography, but the artist's expertise that he needed images ... "something taken eye and the artist's touch and by that time he was 34. from a particular point of continue to be dramatically It was a late start but he has view which reveals artistic expressed through the never looked back, and now, merit." medium of film. some 24 years on, with a It is important, he says, not And his haunting photo- number of books to his to alter the character of the graphs of the Australian credit and a successful corn- landscape. countryside, betray another "I feel I must be true to it, secret ... Richard WoldenI don't need to change it to dorp is in love with this land, make an impression," he with its sea and its skies, its said. "You can express yourearth and its flowers. It is a self or you can impress love affair that began when others ... there is a big he first landed in Perth some difference." 34 years ago. Nature, he adds, provides The land that he saw, its endless variations on any flowers and its trees were theme so there is always unlike anything he had seen something new to be found. in his native Europe. Unlike "It is all there in nature," he the earlier explorers who said. "Whereas man is usupined for home amidst the mercial photography busially predictable. Something emptiness, the openness and ness he delights in being manmade will always lack the isolation, Woldendorp able to work at what he loves the element of surprise that was entranced. and to love his work. nature offers." At that time he was 24 with He likes to specialise in It is precisely that element dreams of becoming a land- aerial photography and the of "surprise," that "somescape painter. Instead he photographs in Australia, thing new", which makes became a house painter The Untamed Land are brilRichard Woldendorfs pho( earning a living being his liantly representative of this tographs so special. They first priority). He painted medium. make quite a team, this man houses for five years and From the air, he says, one who "paints" with a camera "earned a lot of money," he has an entirely different and his colleague, Mother says. perspective. The Australian Nature.
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In Madeleine's Kitchen, A personal interpretation of the modern French cuisine, by Madeleine Kamman, published by Methuen Australia, $37.95. Born in Paris and educated in modern languages at the Sorbonne, Madeleine Kamman, as a young woman, spent a great deal of time working at her aunt's Michelin-starred restaurant in the Loire valley. In 1960 she married in the United States and became involved in the teaching of her native cuisine. She has written two other books, The Making of a Cook and When French Women Cook and contributes frequently to numerous food magazines. In this latest volume she takes a long, close look at French cuisine .... where it began and what it has become. Steeped in the tradition of good food handed down by French women from generation to generation; educated in the
4,44 history of gastronomy and the chemistry of cooking, Madeleine Kamman combines her technical expertise with hands-on knowledge lovingly absorbed in the kitchens of her native France to produce classical dishes skillfully adapted to modern tastes. Mrs Kamman does not simply offer a collection of recipes; she teaches, analyses, and explains, so that following her instructions not only produces a flawless result but educates the cook. This book is certain to become a classic and while it has been prepared with the American market in mind it still has much to offer the Australian cook, and anyone in fact, who enjoys French cuisine.
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A Taste for Travel, by JohnJulius Norwich, published by MacMillan, $29.95. The easier it becomes to travel, the harder it is to be a traveller. Even 50 years ago there was real romance and adventure to be found sailing to Sumatra in a Pacific schooner or rattling through the Balkans aboard the Orient Express.
Learn to Paint, with watercolours, oils, pastels and acrylics, by Alwyn Crawthaw, Peter John Garrani and John Blockley, published by William Collins, $19.95.
highly successful Learn to Paint series are presented here together, offering in one volume all the information the amateur artist needs to know about the most common media — watercolours, oils, pastels and acrylics, The only qualifications required for learning to paint are a desire and a willingness to try, and perhaps a little patience. Even as a complete novice you can express yourself in paint in an individual way and it is never too late to start. For some people painting becomes a relaxing hobby; for others it is a means of expressing their innermost thoughts and feelings, and for many it offers an enjoyable escape from everyday pressures, resulting in a creative work of art. Whatever the reasons this book will provide an invaluable aid.
Today it is all too easy to be a mere tourist, and our pleasure In the excitement, the challenge and the endless fascination of the unknown (unless we are very determined), must come from the recorded experiences of others. A Taste For Travel is an anthology of extracts from the huge diversity of travel literature, written mainly in the English language. The writers have been chosen by JohnJulius Norwich, himThis beautiful hardcover self a life-long traveller, will provide a Christmas as the most interesting delight for the artist in your and amusing of companfamily. ions; among them such as Whether a complete Wilfred Thesiger, Freya beginner or an artist with Stark, Sir Richard Burton, some experience in one Dervla Murphy, Fynes medium but anxious to Moryson, Eric Newby, Isaexperiment with others, this bella Bird, Jan Morris, Chaucer, Patrick Leigh Something to buy? Fermor, Herodotus, Something to sell? Daniels Defoe and Paul Theroux. Lord Norwich Use links their pieces and sets RECORD the scene. CLAS
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Queen Elizabeth: The story of her life and reign Her Majesty, The Queen, by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, published by William Collins, $27.95. The Queen celebrates her sixtieth birthday next year and to commemorate this milestone, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, has written an absorbing account of
the life and reign of the world's best known monarch. This beautifully presented volume is crammed with superb colour photographs and provides an impressive record of her life and her reign. The author, an acknowledged authority on the monarchy, looks at familiar
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pect of becoming Queen, yet her expression had that faintly imperious intensity reminiscent of her grandmother Queen Mary (whom the Queen resembles far more than the Queen Mother). George VI and his wife and children were thrust without any warning from the wings onto centrestage when Edward VIII abdicated and the 10-year old Princess Elizabeth found herself heir presumptive to the throne. Needless to say, since that time she has risen grandly to the call and has taken the reins of monarchy firmly in her hands and held them securely throughout the years. She stands as evidence of the vital role that the monarchy can play in the modern world. But this book talks not just about the Queen as a public figure . . . the author looks long and hard at the Queen as a private person. This beautiful book will delight all and will be especially precious for those devout 'Royalists' in our ranks.
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From Me To You, Making and Giving Memorable Gifts, published by William Collins, $24.95. This unique and imaginative book has been especially designed to help you develop a flair for giving. It will appeal to professional and amateur alike and makes it possible for even the 'least artistic' of us to make something that will delight The most memorable gifts are, often as not, the most appropriate, though not necessarily the most expensive — they are gifts on which a lot of thought. rather than money has been expended. If you have ever pondered how to wrap a car and a house. . . the advice is here. You can also find out how to make the world's best brownies, how to turn your homemade jams, jellies and pickles into delightful gifts, how to make cosmetics and bath oils and how to assemble hampers of goodies that will keep your friends talking for months.
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The Day The Grog Ran Out Book to explain to his son whose false teeth'd drop out The Fairy World of Ida illustrations alone and will The Day The Grog and Other Stories from the why Christmas Day is not if you asked them to have Rentoul Outhusate, by Mar- fascinate adult and child Ran Out and Other Big Book brings a touch of called Santa Claus Day. shandy". cieMuir andRobert Holden. alike Stories from the Big humour hack into religion He's a likeable Australian He's puzzled though and published by Craftsman The authors have none a Book, by Keith Mur- and is an attempt to express with an open mind. wants He's to find out why peoh ouse. .139.95. fine_lob in bringing the Miry ray, published by the story of Jesus in ordinary been to church three times ple have celebrated ChristAfter some years of neglect world of Ida Rentoul OuthDove Communica- Australian idiom. in his life and didn't make it mas for nearly 2000 years. As thefairypictures andbooks waite from the dusty shelf tions, $7.95. The storyteller is an Aus- to Sunday School. He's got he puts it, "Jesus started off of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite of thepast andplacing it so (Cassette tape tralian fisherman. ("I'm a nothing against Church, but in a cave and ended in a cave. have found a new peak of brilliantly on view in the $15.95.) trawlerman; no lines on my from where he stands "it's Why, then, didn't he just popularity. Admirers of her 1980's, for all to see. boat.") He takes out the Big really for old fuddv-duddics disappear into history?" exquisite uatercolours and decorative pen and ink drauings seek out her pictures or the books she illuspriceless lesson about the first attack hits her at the trated, in eager competition. comes up with the wrong will to lire. Although in the 1920's age of 14, she IS loaded with ones anyua)'); and that our Rusty has been wrongly when her fame was at its drugs (ultimatel)' to the true saltation lies within diagnosed... she has been in point where she becomes height, her name uvis a ourselves and through the and out of mental hospital household word throughtoxic) and subsequently love we havefor each other. forfiveyears ... she is 19 and finds herself in a mental out Australia, very little is For anyone whose life is has epilepsy. known about her today. hospitalbecause herparents touched by an "incurable" When Carol goes to nurse Five of her charming books "cannot cope." disease, either directly or at the Saltation Nursing were published in fine ediindirectly, the story ofRusty atrue story Home for the elderly she is tions in London in the will have even greater wrongly diagnosed astonished by this slight, 1920's, fashionable people meaning. For it is Rusty's blonde nursing aide, who flocked to her exhibitions, Despite the horror, Rusty ability to laugh and to love, in and out of can soothe and comfort the the Queen herself bought learned to love humanity despite the fear and the mental hospital most difficult of patients. one of her pictures, the and to beat the system and pain, that gives her story she isr The two girls become firm Melbourne Herald printed when she comes to live with such special meaning. and has epilepsy friends, and Carol learns of two of her illustrations as a Carol she brings a new life Rusty's past history; Rusty supplement to the paper, to the family. Carol also has severe epilepsy and has learns that medicine does and yet those who have From Rusty too comes the Carol Gino rediscovered her work with Rusty, by Carol Gino, publearned the hard way about not provide all the answers message that every bunion.. delight can find out little lished by William Collins, how to care. and is no substitute for bow often hate we beard of being always deserves the about this talented Austral$22.95. Reviewed by Roslyn caring. the heart attack or stroke l renefit of the doubt", for DOD ian. Ross. Rusty's story is a true one victim left to die because none of us, no matter bow Rusty is Carol Gino's This book tells of her MelBecause of misdiagnosis and as such it teaches us well trained or well everyone "thought" be was bourne background and account of the extraonliand inadequate facilities that things are rarely what i nformed we are can ever drunk? childhoo4 of her successful nary life of a young Amer- for severe epileptics, Rusty they seem to he (and neither It is too easy to jump to know what causes the truly career in Australia and ican woman she undertook has taken the full brunt of are people); that the mediconclusions, says Rusty. It is behaviour of another In to help; a woman who overseas. It is a delight, an insensitive medical syscal system does not hair all Rusty's case far better to respond uith her epilepsy was simply for the whimsical ended up by teaching her a tern. Told nothing when the the answers (and often diagnosed as "madness"; trust and to offer lois-
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The Affirmation of God, A World Treasury of Quotations About the Meaning of the Divine, by David Manning White, published by MacMillan, $60. The Affirmation of God and its companion volume, The Search for God, are as invaluable as Bartlett's for spiritual and religious reference. The spiritual journey began with The Search for God, the first volume in Professor White's t wo-part anthology. Now, in The Affirmation of God, Professor David Manning White shows how the God Seekers of all ages arrive at their ultimate destination through communion with the Divine. Drawing on the thoughts of a vast range of God Seekers, Dr White finds common threads from which a universal moral fabric is woven that unites all religions and all people in a common Grace. The Affirmation of God covers finding God, the gifts of God, God's love, Union with God, God and ethics, God's golden r ule, and Whatever name they give to God. Each chapter begins with an interpretive essay that shows the universality of the God Seeker's wisdom.
DELI The Affirmation of God demonstrates that Jews and Hindus, Catholics and Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists share a deep and abiding kinship. The quest for the affirmation of God spans the centuries from the religious thinking of the ancient authors of the Rig-Veda to the spiritual philosophy of Martin Buber and Simone Weil. Perhaps today, more than ever, is a propitious time for The Affirmation of God. Professor White argues that, living in an age of moral confusion in which countless cults and lifestyles compete for our devotion, we are ultimately left floating free in a lonely crowd. And, moreover, Professor White implores in The Affirmation of God that we must look to the wisdom of the God Seekers to return us from the brink of Armageddon to the true meaning of life.
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the puffs up to 2 hours before you wish to serve. Makes 30 to 35 For the filling 170 g (6 oz) smoked salmon pieces or trimmings 455 g (1 lb) cream cheese
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STILTON NIBBLES Hand round these cheesy savoury biscuits with drinks at the start of your Christmas Day celebrations. Makes about 30 110 g (4 oz) butter. chilled and diced 110 g (4 oz) stilton, crumbled 110 g (4 oz) plain flour 110 g (4 ox) fine4' chopped walnuts Beaten egg to glaze A 5-cm (2-in) star cutter Put all the ingredients into a food processor and 4 teaspoons lemon fitted with a1 2 / -in plain mix them until a soft juice tube. Pipe 2.5-cm (1-in) dough is formed. Black pepper to taste rounds on to the baking To make by hand, work Watercress sprigs to sheets, leaving plenty of the butter and cheese garnish (optional) space between the into the flour and nuts, as For the cboux pastry rounds. if making shortbread. 85g (3 oz) plain flour Brush with egg glaze, Wrap the dough then Pinch cayenne pepper and bake for about 25 chill well. Set the oven at Pinch mustard minutes until crisp and 180 degrees C. Grease powder golden. Remove from the two baking sheets. Pinch salt oven, make a small hole Roll out the dough to Vs- 60 g (2 oz) butter in the side of each puff for inch thick on a floured 21 2 / eggs. beaten the steam to escape, then work-surface. Cut out 20 g (1 4 / oz) grated turn off the oven and star shapes using a star parmesan cheese return the puffs to the cutter, rerolling the pas- 60 g (2 ox) smoked cooling oven to dry out try as necessary. Place on salmon pieces or trimfor 5 minutes. Cool on a baking sheets. Chill for mings, finely chopped wire rack The puffs can 10 minutes in refrigera- 1 2 / egg to glaze be frozen at this point, or tor, then brush with Piping bag fitted with stored in the refrigerator beaten egg. Bake in the 11 2 / -in plain tube in an airtight container heated oven for about 15 To make the filling, for three days. minutes until golden and which can be prepared firm. two days in advance and Cool on the tray for a refrigerated, first finely minute, then transfer to a chop the smoked salmon. wire rack. Freeze or store Beat in the remaining in an airtight container. ingredients. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Cover and chill. For the choux puffs, begin by setting the oven at 220 degrees C. Grease two baking sheets. Sift the flour twice with the cayenne, mustard powder and salt. To assemble, spoon the Heat the butter and 140 ml (1 4 / pint) water until prepared filling into a the butter dissolves. piping hag fitted with a 2 / -in plain tube. Halve the SMOKED SALMON Quickly bring to a boil, 1 PUFFS then tip in the flour. puffs. Pipe filling into The savoury choux can Remove from the heat, puffs and sandwich be made ahead and fro- and heat well until the halves together. Chill for zen, while the filling can mixture leaves the sides up to 2 hours. Garnish be made 48 hours in of the pan. Beat over low with watercress just before serving. advance, then piped into heat for 1 minute.
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A light,
fresh start SALADE ST NICHOLAS A laht, fresh start to a rich meal Serves 8 4 pink grapefruit 340 g (12 oz) black grapes 230 g (8 oz) frozen prawns, thawed 1 teaspoon chopped stem ginger Vinaigrette dressing 3 tablespoons reserved grapefruit juice 8 tablespoons safflower of sunflower oil 1 tablespoon ginger syrup (from stern ginger) Salt and pepper to taste Peel and segment the grapefruit. Reserve the Nice from the fruit to make the dressing. Halve and seed the grapes. Mix the grapefruit with the grapes, prawns and ginger. Put all the dressing ingredients into a screwtopped jar. Fasten the top and shake well to emulsify. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Mix into the fruit. Cover and chill until needed — up to 12 hours ahead. Spoon the salad into glass dishes or glasses to serve.
This stuffing with a continental flavour is good with chicken or goose. Serves 8 to 10 8 to 10 lb chicken or goose Salt andpepper For the stuffing 1 cooking apple, peeled, cored and chopped I large onion, peeled and chopped 1 tablespoon oil The liver from the chicken or goose 230 g (8 oz) cooked. drained spinach chopped 340 g (12 oz) Ricotta cheese 2 eggs, beaten 230 g (8 oz) turkey escalopes Salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste 60 g (2 oz) breadcrumbs 2 tablespoons oil or melted butter (for chicken) For the grary 140 nu'(1 2 /p)dry white uirse 570 ml (1 pt) poultry stock, preferably made from the carcase Salt and pepper to taste.
possible, and cut off the heated oven for 45 minparson's nose. Sprinkle utes, basting frequently. the flesh with a little salt Then reduce the oven to and pepper. ( If wished, 170 degrees C, and cook use carcase and bones to for a further 2 hours make stock for the Remove from the tin gray,) and take out all strings. Set the oven at 220 The bird can either be degrees C. Then prepare served at this point, or the filling. Cook the allowed to cool, then apple and onion in the oil wrapped and frozen for until golden and soft. up to a month. Chop the liver from the Make the gravy by pourbird, and add to the mix- ing off all excess fat in the ture. Stir-fry for a minute, roasting tin. Add the then remove pan from wine and stir well over a the heat. Stir in the spin- medium heat to dissolve ach, cheese, eggs, and all the juices from the breadcrubs. Beat well. bird, then stir in the Season to taste and leave stock. Bring to a boil and to cool. simmer until slightly
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Begin by boning the chicken or goose: wipe and dry the bird then, using a sharp knife or poultry scissors, chop off the wings at the elbow joint. Turn the bird upside down, so that it is resting on its breast. Using( small, sharp knife, slit the skin along each side of the backbone, working from the neck to the parson's nose. Keeping the knife close to the carcase, ease the flesh from the bones. Loosen the wings at the shoulder joints, and the legs at the thigh joints, then loosen the flesh towards the carcase, not the skin. Take great care not to pierce the skin when cutting the breast bone away from the flesh. Lift out the carcase. Scrape the flesh from leg bones, and any white ligaments. Repeat this process with the wing bones. Trim off as much excess fat as
Put the turkey escalopes between two pieces of cling film and gently beat to flatten. Season lightly. Spread a third of the spinach stuffing on to the bird. Cover with a layer of turkey escalopes. Evenly spread another portion of stuffing on top of the turkey meat. Cover with remaining turkey escalopes. Finally spread over the last portion of stuffing. Tuck in the ends of the bird, then bring the sides together to meet in the centre. Sew securely using a trussing needle and fine string. Tie the bird with string at 5-cm ( 2-in) intervals to make a cylinder shape. Place the bird seam side down in a roasting tin. Prick well, if using a goose, or rub with a little oil or butter if using a capon. Season the bird with a little salt and pepper. Roast in the
reduced and well-flavoured. Season to taste. (If you like a thickened gravy, mix a couple of teaspoons of cornflour or arrowroot to a paste with a little water then gradually whisk into the boiling liquid to reach preferred consistency.) Cool, then freeze the gravy. To reheat and serve Festive Ballottine, defrost the cooked, stuffed bird for at least 24 hours in the refrigerator. Heat the oven to 190 degrees C. Place the bird in a roasting tin and loosely cover with foil. Reheat for 11/4-11 2 / hours, or until a meat thermometer inserted into the middle of the bird reads 80 degrees C. Allow to stand for a few moments before slicing. Reheat the gravy and, if you wish, additionally serve apple sauce, bread sauce or cranberry sauce with the bird.
Delicious dishes to delight the diners on Christmas day and in the New Year . . .
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STUFFED APPLE SALAD A delightfully fresh and crunchy salad to serve with the main dish, or as an alternative first course. Serves 8 8 red eating apples, Discovery or Cox's celery, sticks 3 chopped 85 g (3 oz) chopped walnuts 1 4 / of a white cabbage, finely shredded 2 medium carrots, peeled and grated 4 / po mayon140 ml (1 naise Salt, pepper andlemon juice to taste To garnish Celery tops Wipe the apples, then cut off the tops and reserve. Scoop out the inside of each apple, keeping the skin intact. Discard the core, and dice the flesh. Mix the diced apple with the remaining ingredients, taste and adjust the seasoning, then spoon mixture into the hollowed Out apples. Cover with the reserved apple lid, seal with plastic film wrap and chill for up to 2 hours before serving, garnished with celery tops.
FAN POTATOES Very different yet easy to prepare. Serves 8 31 2 / lb medium-sized potatoes, peeled Oil or dripping for roasting Salt for sprinkling Trim the potatoes into neat egg shapes with the flat bases, so they stand
straight. Make a series of vertical slits 4 mm inch) apart, three-quarters of the way through the potatoes, so the slices are joined at the base, rather like a letter rack. Cover with cold water overnight.
The next day, set the oven at 190 degrees C. Drain the potatoes, and dry thoroughly. Heat the oil in a roasting pan. When hot enough to be almost smoking, add potatoes, flat side down. Baste them well. Roast in the heated oven for 5/4-1 hour, basting frequently, until crisp and golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Sprinlde the potatoes with salt and serve immediately. GRATIN OF BRUSSELS SPROUTS Even children will eat
sprouts cooked in this tempting way. The dish can be prepared a day ahead and chilled. Serves 8 2 lb brussels sprouts For the sauce 1pint milk 1 small onion, sliced 1 small carrot, sliced A bouquet garni 30 g (1 oz) butter or margarine 30 g (1 oz) plain flour 140 ml (1 4 / pt) chicken stock 4 tablespoons single cream 110 g (4 oz) grated Gruyere or Cheddar cheese Salt, pepper and grated nutmeg to taste Greased ovenproof gratin dish Topping 3 tablespoons dried breadcrumbs 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese 2 / oz) butter or 15 g (1 margarine Trim the brussel sprouts, and cook in boiling salted water until tender. Rinse them with cold water, then drain thoroughly.
To make the sauce, first heat the milk to scalding point with the onion, carrot and bouquet garni. Remove from the heat, cover and leave to infuse for 30 minutes. Strain, and discard the vegeta-
bles. Melt the butter or margarine, stir in the flour, then add the milk. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly to make a smooth sauce. Stir in the stock, and simmer very gently for 30 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in the cream and the cheese. Add the brussels sprouts, and season to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Spoon into a greased ovenproof gratin dish and leave to cool. Sprinkle with the breadcrumbs mixed with the parmesan. Dot with the butter or margarine Cover and chill overnight, or until needed. Heat the oven to 190 degrees C, then bake the gratin for 20 to 30 minutes, until brown and bubbling.
Set the oven at 190 degrees C. Blanch the carrots in boiling salted water for 2 minutes. Rinse with cold water and drain thoroughly. Heat the butter in a large pan. Add the carrots, courgettes, salt and pepper to taste and caraway seeds. Fry for a minute, stirring well. Tip into a greased ovenproof dish. Cover and bake in the heated oven for 30 minutes, or until tender.
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CHRISTMAS PUDDING Breadcrumbs make this pudding very light, while the apples and nuts make it less rich and more digestible than traditional Christmas puddings. Makes two 900 g (2 11b)
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Carrots, courgettes and caraway CARROT AND COURGEI 1E BOULANGERE The vegetables can be prepared 12 hours in advance, then baked with the brume' sprouts and potatoes. Serves 8 11 2 / lb carrots, peeled and sliced 60 g (2 oz) unsalted butter 1lb courgettes, sliced Salt and pepper to taste 1 teaspoon caraway seeds, or to taste Greased ovenproof gratin dish
230 g (8 oz) almonds, chopped
110 g (4 oz) pine kernels 230 g (8 oz) seedless raisins 110 g (4 oz) currants 110 g (4 oz) sultanas 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced 110 g (4 oz) candied peel, chopped 110 g (4 oz) candied pineapple, chopped
mix well. Spoon into the basins, cover with greaseproof paper and foil and tie securely with string. Steam for 3 hours. Cool, cover with fresh greaseproof paper and foil, and store in a cool, dry place. Steam for 2-21 2 / hours before serving, accompanied by Orange Cream. Flame with a little extra brandy if wished.
110 g (4 oz) soft dark brown sugar 230 g (8 oz) crustless white breadcrumbs 11 2 / teaspoons mixed spice 110 g (4 oz) softened butter 110 g (4 oz) honey 3 eggs. beaton 2 tablespoons brandy Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon the together Mix almonds, pine kernels. raisins, currants, sultanas, apples, peel, pineapple, sugar, breadcrumbs, and spice. In another bowl, beat the butter with the honey until smooth. Gradually beat in the eggs. Stir into the fruit mixture with the brandy, lemon rind and juice, and
ORANGE CREAM Instead of brandy butter, serve this deliciously light and slightly wicked cream — flavoured with Cointreau. Serves 8 1 2 / pt double cream Grated rind of 2 oranges 6 tablespoons icing sugar (or to taste) 3 tablespoons Cointreau Whisk the cream with the remaining ingredients until very thick and light. Spoon into a serving bowl. Cover and chill until ready to serve. The cream will keep for up to 24 hours in the refrigerator.
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So this "SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS" "So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one's just begun." These words from John Lennon's song come to mind each year as Christmas comes around. What have I done, to bring Christ's message to the world? Well, for CPY it's been a good year, one of learning, fun and hard work Being International Youth Year we began with the Catholic Youth Council Conference; four days spent with 250 incredible young catholics, from all over the state. You really felt part of the Body of Christ! The Rivercruise early in the year! What a night! We ended up with so many people that we had to get a bigger boat. Over 800 happy raging young people had an incredible time, onc that will never he forgotten. The overload of people was partly due to the conference. Knock! Knock! Who's there? Hello I'm collecting for Youth Appeal ... Does t hat sound familiar? Yes, many people will remember s(kIden shoes from water t hat happened to be falling from the sky, wet and cold
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Hundreds of young people visit the Catholic Youth Offices each month to stay in touch with the different movements that cater for students, workers and unemployed. In 1985 the smiling f aces at the Cardijn Youth Centre in North Perth were:(BACK ROW) Mrs Val Slater (Chaplain's p/t Secretary), Cohn Caunce (Gardner) Mrs Marj Downie (Chaplain's Secretary) Benny Mazzullo, (YCW F/T) Gemma Wooltorton ( YCW F/T) Frank
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The year 1985 has been one of growth and consolidation for the New Young Christian Students Movement. It has been a year of hard work for everyone involved. Seven new groups were established at St Brigid's, Lesmurdie, Corpus Christi, Bateman, North Beach parish, Newman College, Mercedes, CBC Fremantle and Santa Maria The full time workers. Anne McNulty, Malcolm Dix and myself reckon we set a new record for school visitation. The CYSS events held during the year included dances, picnics, open office days, regional meetings. three introductory camps, and two leadership camps. Most events were organised by the student members and as many as 280 attended centrally organised camps. The Perth movement sent six delegates to the January Student Study session held in Melbourne. Margaret Sefton and I attended the Australian YCS Executive meeting and had
The year of growth were the tertiary fulltimer's course and the Australian fulltimers meeting in Adelaide. Anne McNulty and Malcolm Dix established and maintained contact with the Geraldton YCS groups from Stella Mans and St Patrick's c ollege.
the opportunity of hearing Don Helder Camara speak to youth in Melbourne. Father Laurence Murphy succeeded Father John Dwyer as our diocesan chaplain in 1985. Two learning experiences for the Perth YCS full timers
Fulltimer Malcolm Dix will continue for another 12 months with two new workers Kathryn Butler and Katrina Alilovic who will replace Anne and myself. Next year promises to be an exciting year for YCS. Two camps are planned for January 7-9 and 20-22. We hope for a visit from the International full time worker, Paolo Fontes either before or after the World YCS Council to take place in West Germany in May.
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hods from the strong southerlies blowing. But all in all it was a good day and CPY collected just over 11000 from generous givers all over town — and some not so generous. Guitars were tuned and voices were raised when we came together for our CPY Music in liturgy Day. Many new ideas came out and a special prayerfulness was felt by all. CPY has been hu.s-y with a lot of "group building" time spent on leadership training through formation programs in the parishes of Joondanna. Wanneroo,
North Beach, Cloverdale, Osborne Park and Doubleslew. Other parish groups have been Steaming along like Queens Park, Locicridge
and Willetton. Joining us on the fulltimer's team are Michael McAllistar and Margaret McVeigh and we look forward to a new and challenging year next year. Don't forget that Christmas is a time for rejoicing and giving ... God gave us the gilt of His Son, so in our giving of gifts let us remember that we give of our goodness and not because we have to. but bccaiise we want to. Julie Della Franca CPY Movement
Wisdom often comes from the mouth of little children. I recently heard of a family who observed a special tradition when it came to the distribution of presents from under the christmas tree. This special task of reading out the labels and handing out the gifts w as reserved for the youngest member — but on one condition. The youngest child was given this responsibility in the year that they learnt to read. This particular year, young lacquie had given everyone their present but was still looking for another gift about the t ree. Looking up the Father asked her what she was looking for — back came the reply, "I w as looking for a gift for Jesus, the teacher told us it was His birthday and we seem to have forgotten Him!" Advent and Christmas reminds me to search my heart and find the best possible gift for God and the people in my life. Material gifts are not always the best one can give to others. Often, the
Wisdom from little children best, is the unseen and invisible to the eye. Christmas is about giving gifts to God, family and friends. A recent headline newspaper announced, "Love is better than toys, say children" The article from Adelaide reported a survey of 400 children who were asked what gave them m ost pleasure. Their answer was not more toys but more time with mum and dad. "The most favourite thing I would like my dad to do is colour in with me" said one child. A boy of six said; "I like the whole f amily having tea
together because you don't have to worry about e ach other because there all y ou're together." The research showed children's chief priority was the family unit and t ogetherness was of paramount importance. While children enjoy receiving gifts and surprises it seems that what they really want is our time. I've experienced this when visiting the homes of families with little children. The children will usually "go and play" or "go to bed" once you
have given them some undivided attention. Christmas reminds me God did not forget us. He did not abandon us to our own sinfulness and weakness. He came to us with the very best gift. He had already given us an abundance of gifts and He crowned all His giving with the gift of Himself. He gave us not just 33 short years, but rather, to the hearts who believe He has given Himself for all eternity and forever. At Christmas we consider our great and wonderful God giving Himself to us. What is so wonder-
Youth Year opportunity on issues International Youth Year, given
1985 has youth a chance to speak out on important issues, concerning themselves and their world. Recently a group of young Catholics were asked the following question: What are your deepest concerns about life, family, the world, the church? They were also asked to give their ideas on what they would like to see changed and what could they do to bring about these changes? Sandy had this to say: "There is so much emphasis placed on achieving higher education today, that sometimes I fear failure itself, so I continually strive to achieve and succeed, with the hope that at the end of my studies, I may be blessed with obtaining full employment. concern "My with regards to the world, is that the crime rate is continuing to increase rapidly and also fear the world will be caught up in materialistic things and continue to 'waste' money on nuclear weaponry instead of looking after the thousands of starving people who really need it. I also fear unemployment and how this may con-
"With the divorce rate increasing, I worry about my family, with increased demands made upon my parents, I am concerned that they may grow away from their christian faith, unless the link of family life and remains church strong. "My biggest concern with regards to the Church, is that more
people are losing interest in it, which is in fact very important in the Christian faith. Irma of Kalamunda had these comments: "At the moment I am aiming to become closer to God because this would help me to become a better person. "My deepest concerns about life are that I'm unsure about my future, not sure where I'm heading. It's a little scary because it's hard to make decisions involving my future.
"The Church is one place where I have some stability and I feel safe. I believe that it is important that more people become involved in the Church and this can only be done if we let them know more about it. David of Kalamunda writes: "In my life I want to be successful hut to obtain this goal fairly. I want peace of mind and my family to remain well and live comfortably.Iwant to remain an active member of the Church.
ElA dawn Mass will be one of highlights of the the tertiary conference on January 7. The conference will give young people the chance to reflect on the place that God has in the student world. Pictured below
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tribute to future crime through young people not having anything to do, having no real purpose in their lives.
ful is that every generation experiences the true presence of God through the church. In the sacraments and in scripture God gives Himself. All we need do is give Him a few minutes of our time and our undivided attention. I wish all the readers of this page and supporters at the youth apostolate God's blessing for Christmas and the new year. May peace and happiness fill you home during these festive days and may contentment fill your h eart throughout the coming years. Thank you f or your prayers, your time and financial support of youth projects.
are Helen Hastie and Francis Lynch.
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YOUNG WEST AUSTRALIANS Children and their changing attitude toward their parents Every parent realises children go through different stages in their attitude toward Mum and Dad, as represented by the statements below: Age 4: "My parents can do anything." Age 8: 'There might be one or two things they don't know." Age 12: "Naturally, my parents don't understand." Age 14: "I never realised how hopelessly old fashioned they are!" Age 21: "You would expect them to feel that way. They're outof-date." Age 25: 'They come up with a good idea now and then." Age 30: "I wonder what Mum and Dad think I should do." Age 40: "Let's be patient until we discuss it with our parents." Age 50: 'What would Mum or Dad have thought about it?" Age 60: "I wish I could talk it over with them one more time."
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A project with a South Perth children's choir has blossomed into a one hour special Christmas program sponsored by the ChrisDivine Service: 6WN 11am Teilhard de Chardin: God and tian Television Association of WA that will be A Festival of Carols Science 6WN 10am screened on Channel 9 at 11 am on Christ- The Sydney University Musi- A feature on the life DEATHS rrITIrrnurrrir 0111111=1111 and cal Society's annual festival of teachings of a 20th-century mas Day. Dearly Vera: FOLEY: P AINTING quality Novena to the most The children's choir sing songs about the Lessons and Carols for Christ- prophet who sought to harmowork at the right price. Sacred Heart. Most loved wife of Mark, who mas from the Great Hall of nise the certainties of science November away on meaning of Christmas and the constant need John Freakley. 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According to Stan was able to tell the story of the thinking until he died in 1955 you I have recourse from 1985. We urge you to keep Stewart some songs are birth of Christ. the depths of my heart up your caring in 1986. Television Association, the deliberatel y designed to The program tells the story of Rev. Wesley Hartley (minand humbly beg you to Group convenor Ann Christmas his life, from the small boy with whom God has given McCrumm 459 2380. ister of Trinity Uniting "crap-proof' children. By an obsession for rocks, through such great power to come Day Church) passed a copy of this he means to debunk U PHOLSTERER to my assistance. Help SPECIAL THANKS to student days in England and prevailing notions which the recording to Channel 9 retired professional is me now in my present the Holy Spirit, St Joseph Joy To The World 6WF the horrors of World War I, create obstacles to faith interested in occasional and urgent need and and the Virgin Mary. The and suggested that it could 6 30am through his international and church small repairs and light involvement future looks brighter much A form the basis of a 30 grant my earnest petiFeast of carolling through career as geologist and recovering work phone tion. In return I promise now. JVW. minute Christmas special. for children and parents. the centuries. A joyous start to palaeontologist, his excava341 3995. t o make your name SPECIAL THANKS to Channel 9 officials were For instance, some songs Christmas Day tions in China, where he played known and cause you to the Sacred Heart of Jesus encouraged an important role in the discovby the quality challenge the notion that 0T_\ be invoked. Say three for my nieces recovery to ery of Peking Man, to his final Our Fathers, Hail Marys health. Please protect her of the material and agreed "Church is boring" and Encounter 6WF 8am The Sacred Carol'' Cook wanted for a com- and Glorias. St Jude pray dear Jesus, and may your to mount the project. exile in New York, where he other songs help children munity of six Brothers, for all who honour and name be praised and gloA look at one of the best loved died Experts from the world of Due to the generous see that quiet prayerful weekdays only for break- invoke your aid. Pub- ried forever. V.G. features of the Western-style physics, psychology, philofast and evening meal. lished as promised in PRAISE and thanks to the assistance of STVV 9, the times can be enjoyable. All Christmas, the carol sophy and religion give their Contact 458 9444. thanks for answering my Sacred Heart and Holy finished program is a one- of the songs protray the Once thought too frivolous to opinions of Teilhard's imporSpirit for many favours hour special. prayers. Y.M.L. local church as a family to be spiritual, the carol was in tance Friends and colleagues received. L. Willetton. The featured soloist is which children can medieval times a dance, but recall the man SACRED GRATEFUL THANKS MOST Kerry Cleaver from Como belong. today it is a Christmas hymn, RECORD to Our Lady, Sacred Heart HEART of Jesus, may though still enjoyed as often Christmas in Switzerland and the host is Pauline o f Jesus, St Jude and your name be praised and C LASSIFIEDS The songs are easy to outside churches as within ABC FM 3pm Infant Jesus for special glorified throughout the Stewart. The songs have close noon learn and most popular them Noel Valaisan -. the story of world and now forever, been written by Stan and favour granted. Please Wednesda) continue with your help A men. Thanks also to Pauline Stewart from the with children from 3 to 13 The program explores the Nativity interpreted by rural folk •••••-•-••••• . 4 Christ of the Wounded years. They are suitable for history of a number of individ- from Heremence in the Canton and last request. JBS. Shoulder, Our Lady of South Perth Uniting Parish use in Scripture in school, ual carols, with each one of Valais and Shirley MacKenzie, of Mount Carmel, Saint catec hetical classes and played by the classical guitarist Joseph and Saint Anthony Dunedin in New Zealand. Simply Christmas ABC FM James Sundquist for answering my prayers. Stan and Pauline Stewart clubs. 4Prn They include both familiar I.W. are enthusiasts for ministry "Your Heart Has Eyes" ones, such as Silent Night and Uninterrupted songs and Most Sacred Heart of Jesus with children. Their work cassette, music book and The First Nowell, and a few of music from many countries may your name be praised and in this area takes them word books are now avail- the lesser -known, such as I celebrating the season classiglorified throughout the annually to USA and New able from the Stewarts, 70 Wonder as I Wander, from cally. w orld now and forever. North Carolina's Appalachian A Festival of Lessons and Thank you Our Lady St Zealand where they work McDonald St, Como, 6152. Mountains Joseph, St Jude and St Fran- for all of the major denom- The posted cost of the Is required to work with groups in Parishes located south of Carols ABC FM 9 05pm cis. Joy. inations. They are well cassette is $12.00; the the river. By the Choir of King's College, Sacred Music 6WN llam The successful applicant will be aged around 20-45 years and Cambridge music book $7.00 and the A number of Australia's forehave some understanding of and a commitment to the Lay words only book $3.50 — most liturgical artists and com- The magnificent chapel of Apostolate. there is a discount for posers contribute one of their King's College, Cambridge, is Further details and application forms may be obtained by quantity. It is expected favourite Christmas music one of the last and finest contacting The Catholic Social Apostolate PO Box 194. 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HAVE YOUR SAY IC privilege from Herman DORLANDT, A shfield Sir, I have had the privilege to participate in an ARCIC discussion group. It is my hopeful prayer that these "conversations'. between Anglican and Roman Catholic laity will be seen as an Advent to unity of two great traditions. We are nearing the end of Advent leading to Christmas, the birth of Christ and Christianity. There are many things I hope for in this wonderful act of ecumenism: participation in each other's eucharist celebration, recognition of each other's ordained ministers, and the realisation by the laity of both traditions that they have a ministry to fulfil within the Christian Body. Most of all I would like to suggest a rethink about labels. Why must we insist on being called Roman Catholics, Anglican or any other denomina non? We are all followers of Christ and therefore are, biblically speaking, ''CHRIST1ANS". . and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians" Acts chi 1 v26.) If we must wear labels, let us write CHRISTIAN in large bold print, and our denomination in small pont. May ARCIC Advent soon be replaced by the unity that Jesus prayed for at the Last Supper (John ch17 v23.)
More about adoptions from ADOPTING PARENT who is required by law to remain anonymous. Sir, After reading Roslyn Ross's article "Forced to give up her baby" (The Record of December 5), any woman relinquishing her baby without guitt or suffering (and they do exist as a result of their faith) must surely be suffering now along with women like myself who adopted a child. What terrible people we are. May I remind Ms Ross that the system of adoption, no matter how antiquated has brought great happiness and joy to countless adoptive parents and adoptees through the work of many wonderful Catholic doctors, solicitors and nuns. It has also brought great comfort to some relinquishing mothers and has provided so many children with loving secure parents and families, not to mention the joy of a child to childless couples. This "in vogue" article along with so many I have read lacks the sensitivity the situation requires. For instance the "adoption triangle" refers to natural parents, adoptive parents and the child. What of the brothers and sisters of the adoptive child? Not every adopted child is an only child. It is an offence in law for adoptive parents to bring publicity of the adoption onto the child. How then can this so called triangle be properly aired if the adoptive parents cannot speak? I agree that to relinquish a child must be one of life's greatest tragedies, however, the situation involves more than just the mother and father of the child. The relinquishers and their parents did what they thought was best at that time taking into consideration attitudes of society. To state they were forced either by society or those caring for them is to broad a generalisation. Many girls relinquished their babies to loving parents who could provide good homes for the sake of the child and do not regret doing so. It may come as a surprise to some that adoptive parents actually pray for the relinquishing mother and thank God every night for his gift of a child. I know of none who do not.
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These articles do nothing but rake over old sores. Recently our child admitted to having nightmares after watching a T.V. show regarding the triangle of adoption which was of course biased towards the relinquishing mother. Apparently these nightmares have been regular of late (in keeping with the stepping up of media coverage of this subject) and always "someone is coming to take me away." These children can read. So can their brothers and sisters. I never thought I would have to hide a copy of the "Record" in my home. Pressure is being placed now on these children to look for their natural parents — it is becoming the norm. Respect of privacy has long been forgotten. I feel sure that any adopted child wishing to locate the natural mother would be encouraged by the adopting parents to do so discreetly and when they are mature enough to cope. This pressure through the media can only deter this action and cause distress to the child and the adoptive family. Should not the relinquishing mother think again of what is best for the child? The statement that "95% of adoptees do not wish to make contact" heartens me. The publicised search for participants in a Masters degree in psychology concerns me. Would not the space provided be more beneficial if used to encourage people to show love and support to relinquishing mothers and all those involved in this very sensitive issue? The child after all is the meat in the sandwich. I assure you they are no different to other children but if this media pressure continues their emotional stability will be at risk. In keeping with the season of Christmas, was not the Infant Jesus adopted by Joseph? It was not his doubts that made him holy. It was his faith.
From G.J. Hogan, Woodlands The Record December 5 includes comment by Father Andrew Greeley of America on issues facing the Church. Having had the misfortune of reading one of his novels I found myself wondering
lanterns accompanying it on either side.
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Through the years of persecution the cross was kept hidden, but, no one knows how, it came to be put on a boat that braved storms and pirates to traverse the Mediterranean. Whatever the truth of the voyage, the cross was cer-
whether the story typified the acceptance of low moral standards among American clergy, and if so, what useful purpose could be served by Its presentation to the general public. In any case such publications under the name of a priest could cause grave harm to those of weak faith and provide
good ammunition to those anxious to attack the Catholic Church. It seems evident that Father Greeley wishes to do away with the Seventh Commandment and if so it is questionable whether he should receive space in a Catholic publication unless in criticism.
negotiate some obstacle. Once the cross has reached its haven the cathedral will begin to fill with the great congregation that followed. The first-comers will need to be patient. For the flags have only just left St Frediano! At Luni great dispute arose as to who should have the crucifix. It was resolved by placing it on an ox-cart to which two untrained oxen were hitched and left to go their own way. They took the road to Lucca.
covering all the walls and the massive piers, an incredible quantity of material. The crucified Christ is garbed in cloth of gold, crowned with a crown of pure gold and decorated with ornaments of gold and jewels, the offerings of the faithful over the centuries. There was a time when the holy cross itself was drawn through the streets on an ox-cart, just as it had first come to Lucca from Lunt. But it became too precious to move, and now it stays in the gilded temple built for it in 1484 in Lucc,a's cathedral of St Martin. The floral cross leads the procession instead. The procession of the Luminara begins at St Frediano and ends at the cathedral, the Duomo, which is at the opposite side of the city. It thus commemorates the original translation. And it is not only all of Lucca who line the streets and take part, but also the people from the whole of the ancient widespread territory of the former duchy. Every village and every parish send their contingents. Behind the floral cross they follow, men and women, boys and girls, four or more abreast, each bearing a candle. And on the tall candle of the leader of each group is hung the name of the parish. And the names are of all the villages of the mountains and the plain. Spaced at intervals in the column are the village bands. Every large village and
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tainly carved in the Holy Land, the face of Christ is semitic as one would expect, and there is no question that it arrived at Luni, the old Roman port near La Spezia, towards the end of the 8th century. New bands approach, this time in medieval costume, followed by magnificently costumed lords and ladies of times past, with their men-at-arms bearing
from Phil Moran, Beckenham
Sir, J.F. Harding's claim (The Record, December 51 -That the CCJP is funded from part of the intake from Project Compassion without the laity having been informed is reprehensible and no attempt to explain away this alleged over -sight will suffice" is quite untrue. The Statement of Receipts and Payment, January 1 to December 31, 1982 of Australian Catholic Relief incorporating the Overseas Aid Fund Account which is funded by Project Compassion showed that $154,424 was funded to CCJP out of total payments of $4,483,829. (P14 ACR Statement.) About 40 lay people were commissioned to promote ACR through Project Compassion in 1983. My wife and I were two of those people and we were provided with the above information and so was every other lay person commissioned. Each parish priest was also provided with the same information. We were all informed about the grant then Any arguments about future funding to the CCJP should have been brought forward before the 1984 Project Compassion Appeal. There was no over -sight on ACR's or Project Compassion's part. The oversight is in the laity's court. The information was provided and the laity failed to grasp it.
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the narrow street, hemmed in by vast crowds. It is dusk. There are no street lamps and the shops have extinguished their lights. But the cross is illuminated by a myriad night-lights framing every window and every doorway, and by the light of candles and swinging
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A cross, 10h high, of white, yellow and russet gold chrysanthemums, its weight divided between three bearers, moves slowly down
Behind the cross stretches a seemingly unending procession of men, women and children, each bearing a tall candle. But this is only the beginning. It will be nearly an hour and half before the flagbearers who bring up the rear of this tremendous cartage reach the spot the cross is now passing. The place is Lucca in Tuscany, where Julius Caesar was once pro-consul, and the date September 13 of every year for the past 12 centuries. The 12th centenary was in fact just two years ago. The occasion is the Luminara, the Feast of Light, which commemorates the arrival in Lucca of the miraculous Holy Cross, the Volta Santo. The legend is that Nicodemus, who helped take Christ down from the cross, carved the life-size figure. He had difficulty with the face, and one night angels came down and finished it for him.
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shields and weapons and pages holding banners, coats of arms and other badges and insignia of ancient civic glory. Only the cities can put on such displays of colorful and evocative pageantry. To close all come the costumed flag-jugglers who display their prowess whenever the columns halt briefly as a mile away in front the floral cross has to
At that time the principal church of the city was St Frediano, named after an Irish bishop Ferdia or Ferdian, who had done wonderful things in Lucca like diverting the Serchto river with a rake to stop it flooding. The cross was placed in a chapel of his church, and immediately miracles were ascribed to it. Centuries later its fame had spread throughout Christendom and made Lucca a great place of pilgrimage. The favourite sacred oath of the Norman king William R ufus was per Voltum Sanctum di Lucca. When the city's new cathedral was built, the holy cross was moved to it from St Frediano. On the day following the Lumtnara, the Feast of the Holy Cross, the cathedral is hung with crimson velvet,
town has one, sometimes with as many as 100 players, with drums and horns and clarionettes. So the music and the lights combine to enhance the wonder of this manifestation of faith and reverence and pride. For their Votto Santo is the oldest crucifix in the world. After the lay folk with their bands have passed there follow the priests of each parish church with their acolytes. These bear swinging lanterns, monstrances, holy banners and other treasures of the churches. The street now looks like a moving forest with all those poles, each topped with its sacred regalia. The convents too have sent their monks and nuns, whose singing replaces the music of the bands — "Evviva la Croce — la Croce evviva — e chi la esatto". Then to the joyous peal of the bells of St Frediano, overtopping the singing and the music of the bands, come with mitre and crozier the bishops of Lucca and of Pescia. They are flanked by two captains of carabinieri, splendid in faultless traditional costume, belted tailcoats, cocked hats, white gloves and swords. The civic representatives follow, the mayors and their officers, preceded by the banners and the coats of arms of their towns and villages. Last of these are the brilliant blue banners of the Lucchese (as the people from Lucca are called) living abroad. So, oddly after all the Italian village names we see Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans and the names of European cities as well.
The Record, December 19— 25, 1985
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TENNIS
The Western Australian tennis teams to compete in the annual carnival to be held in Perth this year have been selected. The teams am: Women: Joanne Johnson, Kathy Williams. Geraldine Alderman, Kerry Messer, Cathy Dowsett, Sharon Gordon and Alison Thomas. Men: Damian Messer, Danny Bowen, Peter Quain, Randy Raux, Greg Quain, R on Smith and Kevin Quain. The tennis at the carnival should be of a very high standard and spectators are welcome. Hensman Park Tennis Club will be the venue for the tennis which will be played from December 27 — 31, beginning each day at 9.00 am. Bring along your own tennis gear if you wish as there will be social tennis each day as well. Tickets to the various social functions are selling fast and sales will close this Sunday December 22. The total price for the six functions is $140 which considering that the price includes all food, drinks and entertainment is terrific value. Tickets to individual functions are also being sold.
WHAT'S ON The functions am: 1. WELCOME NIGHT — Thursday December 26 Cocktail Party at the Westos Hotel to meet our Eastern States visitors — $20. 2. WILD WEST NIGHT — Friday December 27 Square dancing, pig and lamb on a spit at Pignatelli Tennis Club — $20. 3. QUEEN QUEST DINNER — Saturday December 28 Dinner dance and crowning of Miss ACLTA at the Merlin Hotel — $35. 4. CARNIVAL PICNIC — Sunday December 29 The carnival Mass followed by picnic lunch, the carnival games and a barbeque tee at Aquinas College — $20. 5. RESTAURANT NIGHT — Monday December 30 Casual night at Ciceros in Northbridge — $20. 6. NEW YEARS EVE BALL — Tuesday December 31 New Years Eve Ball and supper at the Belmont R acecourse Ballroom — $30. For further information on any of the above contact Greg Pearce on 447 4950 or your club delegate. On behalf of the Executive of the WACLTA may I wish you all a happy and holy
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DOGS' RACE ONE: Tidi Level 1. Brass Razoo 2, Temolock's Star 3. RACE TWO: Supreme Wish 1, Tarmac Time 2, Petstop Alert 3. RACE THREE: Weston Boss 1, Icy Trella 2, Matt's Marauda 3. RACE FOUR: Tanjoba 1, Riviera Teviot 2, Pether Road 3. RACE FIVE: Boundary Rider 1, Montreal Chief 2, Black Anchor 3.
BUNBURY HEALING MASS Some 200 people, many sick and elderly, attended a special Healing Mass organised by Sister Christopher, a parish pastoral worker, at St Mary's church South Bunbury. Father Bernie Hammond pointed out during the Mass that not only the sick and elderly need healing but many of those — the young included — who carry hurts which can be healed and who have problems that will be solved only if people bring them to Our Lord in the Eucharist and ask His help. After Mass the group was entertained to morning tea prepared by the Catholic Women's League. A concert was presented by children from St Mary's pre-pnmary and lower primary school who supplied ten angels, animals, St Joseph, Mary and the Child Jesus all in appropriate costume. Lower primary grades led the singing of Christmas carols and then each child presented one of the guests with a Christmas card each had made. — Pat Hay
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