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Love in the resources boom

By Robert Hiini IF you’ve ever wondered who is fighting the good fight in Catholic schools, wonder no more.

Tina Jack is one of 20 Loving for Life facilitators bringing the Catholic understanding of sexuality to students in Catholic high schools throughout Perth.

Her organisation has just released a new resource and DVD Life Begins on pregnancy and foetal development for use in the classroom and beyond.

“Our previous resources had valuable information, but were too lengthy, often related to American situations and were being perceived by the students as pushing an oldfashioned religious message,” Mrs Jack said.

The DVD, available at Loving for Life’s website, presents the scientific evidence on when the genetic code of each person is formed – at the point of fertilisation - through electron microscopy of chromosomes and dividing cells.

It uses 4D ultrasound and photography to show the development of the unborn child from conception to birth as well as animations of the male and female reproductive systems to explain the process of fertilisation.

“I was determined not to give up until we had a high quality, modern and effective DVD of our own. However, if I had known the time, effort and money required to produce a DVD, I probably would never have started,” Mrs Jack said.

The new Life Begins DVD follows on from the success of Loving for Life’s first DVD, When Life is not Planned.

The resources the organisation had been using up until recently had been outdated for many years,

A new resource and DVD Life Begins on pregnancy and foetal development for use in the classroom.

Mrs Jack told The Record. The original program was designed by Drs John and Lyn Billings, growing into the Loving in the Nineties before reaching WA in 1991.

When local presenters Trish Beale, Tina Jack and Carol Anne Norris revamped and expanded it, Loving For Life was born.

The program includes three modules: Towards Loving for Year 7 students and their parents; Choosing to Love for students in middle secondary; and Loving Forever for senior secondary school students.

The middle-school module is their most popular program, incorporating information on foetal development, fertility, sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy and the media, as well as discussions on relationships and dating.

Mrs Jack said each session encouraged students to use logic and reason to understand and embrace Catholic teaching on human sexuality.

Despite the travails of producing the Life Begins DVD, plans for

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“I have a long term vision for a Catholic media group that produces materials and resources,” Mrs Jack said. “(The resources will) assist teachers in Catholic schools to impart the wisdom of the Catholic Church to their students.”

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VATICAN - Praising the ecumenical commitment of the late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope Benedict XVI offered his condolences to Coptic Christians on the death of their patriarch. Pope Shenouda, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church for 41 years, died on March 17 at the age of 88. In a message released at the Vatican the next day, Pope Benedict said he wanted to express his condolences and “brotherly compassion” to the bishops, priests and faithful of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which includes about 10 percent of Egypt’s population of 82 million people. Coptic Pope Shenouda’s four decades as patriarch often involved standing up for the rights of the country’s Christian minority and working with the Muslim majority to promote human rights and the common good. CNS

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Sacred music directed by Order of Australia recipient Veronica Moylan will grace Mater Christi Church in Yangebup on Friday, March 30. The Wasimh Ladies Choir will sing during the parish’s Stations of the Cross from 7pm, followed by a Sacred Music Concert featuring works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and New Norcia’s Dom Stephen Moreno OSB (1889-1953). The choir will perform two works by Dom Moreno – an arrangement of his Stabat Mater and his Alma Redemptoris. Choir director Veronica Moylan was awarded the Order of Australia for her service to music in last year’s listings, having taught music at Aquinas and St Brigid’s. She was educated in music at the Victoria Square convent administered by the Sisters of Mercy.

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Sunday 25th - Violet 5TH SUNDAY OF LENT 1st Reading: Jer 31:31-34 A new covenant Responsorial Ps 50:3-4,12-15 Psalm A pure heart 2nd Reading: Heb 5:7-9 The source of salvation Gospel Reading: Jn 12:20-30 The hour has come Monday 26th - White THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD (SOLEMNITY) 1st Reading: Isa 7:10-14;8:10

God is with us Responsorial Ps 39:7-11 Psalm: An open ear 2nd Reading: Heb 10:4-10 No pleasure in sacrifices Gospel Reading: Lk 1:26-38

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Take up your son Responsorial Ps 16:1,6-8,15 Psalm: Hear my words Gospel Reading: Jn 11:1-45

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No worship of gods Responsorial Dan 3:52-56 Psalm: Glory and praise Gospel Reading: Jn 8:31-42

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My covenant with you Responsorial Ps 104:4-9 Psalms: Covenant recalled Gospel Reading: Jn 8:51-59

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Sing to the Lord Responsorial Ps 17:2-7 Psalm: God is my shield Gospel Reading: Jn 10:31-42

Jesus eludes arrest Saturday 31st - Violet 1st Reading: Ezek 37:21-28

I shall make them one Responsorial Jer 31:10-13 Psalms: I give gladness Gospel Reading: Jn 11:45-56

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Mental health is everybody’s business

By Robert Hiini LA SALLE College has become the first Catholic school to be associated with the Act Belong Commit mental health initiative.

La Salle joined 12 other schools in the State Government supported initiative and held a Festival Launch Day on March 9 to celebrate the partnership.

The festival featured stalls from groups such as Amnesty International, Youth Focus, the RSPCA, Young Vinnies, Youth Outreach Service and Murdoch University.

The school invited the groups to provide information on mental health, human rights, environmental awareness and local sporting and social activities.

ABC is a preventative program aimed at promoting mental health throughout whole communities, encouraging people to keep physically and mentally active (Act); to participate in community events (Belong); and to take on meaningful challenges and causes (Commit).

“For such a long time schools, the health system and even businesses have focused on a disease model and fixing what is wrong,” La Salle College Psychologist, Shannon Steven said.

“ABC is strength based and very positive. It shifts the focus from illness, and alerts us to simple things we can all do to promote our own mental health.”

For more information on Act Belong Commit, visit www.actbelongcommit.org.au.

La Salle College students and staff commit to staying active to promote mental health.

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Inflicting pain part of the manual

By Sarah Motherwell

La Salle College students visit the stalls at the College’s Festival Launch Day of Act Belong Commit.

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INSTRUCTIONS on how to “hit” and “strike” asylum seekers were included in a 2009/2010 training manual produced by Serco, the company contracted to run Australia’s detention centres.

Last week, the independent online news publication Crikey revealed the induction training document which shows how Serco officers are trained to “kick, punch and jab their fingers into detainee limbs and ‘pressure points’ to render them motionless”.

The document says control and restraint is to “be used safely, humanely and lawfully to control and restrain hostile detainees” and includes photographs demonstrating the techniques described. It explains the “expected effect” of the techniques is to create “medium to high level pain”.

Serco runs nine asylum outposts in Australia including Curtin detention centre in northern WA and Acacia, 60km east of Perth.

Its contract with the Gillard government is worth $1 billion.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship said the manual is not the current one Serco is using. “It is important to know that client service officers are not armed,” she said. “Any use of force in detention is strictly a last resort.”

Father Paul Crotty, 47, who ministers directly to the Port Augusta detention centre in SA said the staff are “well observed”.

“In the time we have seen the staff interact with detainees they seem to have a good relationship and rapport,” Fr Crotty said. “I have not seen any evidence of maltreatment and detainees have not mentioned any actions of violence or mistreatment towards them.”

Fr Crotty said the ministers have “a good working relationship with the staff ”.

“Those allegations are alarming and should rings bells in the Department of Immigration,” he said.

“What is the basis of such training, why are they training staff in those methods?”

Serco could not be reached for comment.

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Your Rite to know and love MORE than 160 aspiring Catholics presented themselves before Archbishop Barry Hickey and Bishop Donald Sproxton on March 1. The Rite of Election of Catechumens and Formal Recognition of Candidates took place at St Mary’s Cathedral. Here’s an edited version of what homilist Bishop Sproxton had to say: Sixteen hundred years ago, St Augustine was presiding over the Rite of Election, just as we are celebrating this evening.

It was a very large gathering of catechumens, too many for Augustine to know each one.

Some petitioned that their names be recorded for baptism because they had witnessed miracles of healing or experienced a great vision. The miracles of healing were not necessarily physical, for they included the miracles of inner healing that came from conversion and transformation, and the healing of relationships through a reconciliation.

The visions were the witness of love and care for others given by Christians the catechumens had encountered during their years of seeking the truth. Others made their petition simply because of Augustine’s impassioned appeal: “May our friendship be true and everlasting and unite us to one another, but also to the Lord himself.”

Augustine, being a good teacher, told his catechumens a story. It was about a country magistrate, Curma, who had fallen ill and been in a coma. While in this state, he had several visions: one of the dead, another of the living and finally one where he was led into paradise. As he arrived at the threshold of paradise, he was told to go back and be baptised if he wished to be in this place of the Blessed. So when he was fully recovered, he made the journey to Augustine’s city and took lodgings there for two months to

New digs for Catholic Women’s League

By Robert Hiini

Then Apostolic Administrator of Perth, Archbishop Barry Hickey, welcoming an RCIA candidate.

complete his preparation for baptism at the Great Vigil of Easter.

An author on the Catechumenate has described Lent as the Boot Camp for the Elect. It is a time of preparation through fasting, prayer and good works: a journey that takes us within ourselves. The discipline of Lent is the last phase. The time of the teaching for the mind is ended for the time being; this Lent especially is for the training of the heart for the vocation to love one another and Christ.

The Rite of Election is a liturgy and like every liturgy we expect Christ to pass in our midst. At Mass and the other celebrations of the Church we need to pose the ques-

tions: Do we notice Christ passing in our midst? Can we hear him speaking to our lives?

The Mass is a sacred gift where Christ is present and we are privi-

You may have heard a Word already which will produce a miracle of healing within. leged to encounter him. God’s choice was to endow the Church with this gift. The Mass does not need to be anything else, least of

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THE Catholic Women’s League of WA (CWLWA) has found a new home, buying premises on Bulwer Street in Mt Lawley.

The purchase comes in good time for the CWLWA’s 75th anniversary, with a special Mass to be celebrated at St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday, May 27.

The group sold their beloved “Downey House” in Vincent Street, North Perth last year. Declining membership numbers and the and resulting lower income had made it difficult to maintain. “(We) set about discovering what the membership wanted to do with the proceeds,” CWLWA state newsletter editor Maria Parkinson told The Record.

“Should we rent, should we buy, should we borrow? Do we need our own premises?”

When no suitable premises were found by December 2011, the state executive was happy to surrender its search and assumed “borrowing” the Legion of Mary premises in East Perth (“the Legion being most gracious and accommodating”).

In that same month, a real estate agent advised he had found the “perfect” home for CWL to purchase, and State President Karyn Kammann agreed “it ticked most of the boxes”.

Settlement occurred on January 13, 2012.

“After the purchase of the new CWLWA Headquarters, and with the remainder of the funds invested, the League is now in a prime position to conduct its business and good works and to promote membership,” Ms Parkinson said.

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Students tear up the streets

Budding brains get tips in leadership from Hockeyroo

Students and some of the speakers at Emmanuel Catholic College’s Catholic Schools Networking and Leadership Day. PHOTO: EMMANUEL CATHOLIC COLLEGE

By Emmanuel Catholic College

Catholic schools; everything from cyber bullying, to fundraising, to rubbish and the environment.

Many students said the day was a success: “We got to talk to other people who are in leadership positions, and it was really good to get to know them and share ideas,” Year 11 student Grace Peris from Iona Presentation College said.

Other special guests at the day included Mr Ron Dullard, Director of Catholic Education in Western Australia, Mr Logan Howlett (Mayor of Cockburn) and his wife, and the Hon Mr Nick Goiran MLC. All of these special guests addressed the students and congratulated them on their work throughout the day.

Mr Dullard was especially pleased with the concept of Catholic Student Leaders sharing their ideas and experiences and learning from each other.

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Students giving their all during the men’s sprint at UNDA’s West End Dash on March 14.

By Robert Hiini THE West End streets of Fremantle came to life on Wednesday, March 14, when The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Health Sciences held their West End Dash.

Students, staff and local business workers dressed in colourful costumes with tourists to Fremantle cheering on the athletes throughout a series of relays and sprints.

The event was coordinated by third year Health and Physical Education students as part of their ‘Sports Events Management for Teachers’ unit, and featured several novelty races, staff and student relays and the men’s and women’s 110m sprints.

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Lecturer Benjamin Piggott said the aim was for students to have a practical experience in planning, implementing and evaluating sporting events.

Relays, sprints and novelty races ... with tourists to Fremantle cheering on the hard working students.

“I was really pleased with the way the event ran. The students worked hard to plan and promote the Dash,” Mr Piggott said.

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“It was great to see a large crowd in attendance and students enjoying themselves and learning by practical experience.”

Danielle Calautti took out the women’s sprint while Stephen Snowdon ran past a strong field to claim the men’s crown.

Other events Notre Dame’s Health and Physical Education students will coordinate this year include a lightning sports carnival at Campbell Primary School in Canning Vale, the Bathers Beach Triathlon and the Fremantle Football Club Gala Day. For more information about courses on offer at the School of Health Sciences in Fremantle, please contact the Prospective Students Office on (08) 9433 0533.

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The day included team building games, discussions on current issues student leaders face and a presentation from Ms Jenn Morris – a two time Olympian gold medallist with the Hockeyroos.

Year eight Emmanuel Catholic College student Angela Fourie said that Ms Morris’ presentation was “very inspirational, and very entertaining.”

Twelve schools had leaders representing their school and taking part in the day. The day’s theme was Setting the Goals, Facing the Challenges.

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COSTELLOE INSTALLATION: Sixth Archbishop of Perth

Catholicism is nought The shepherd Pope Benedict XVI chose for the people of Perth

By Robert Hiini

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HILE a handful of archdiocesan organisers knew how Wednesday evening’s installation ceremony for Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB would unfold, almost noone realised in advance the effect his words would have on a packed congregation of well over 1,100 people with many hundreds more watching on giant TV screens in the grounds outside.

In a homily that left many commenting on his confidence and conviction, Archbishop Costelloe challenged himself, clergy, the faithful in parishes, church agencies, seminaries, universities and schools to once again put Christ at the centre of their being and mission.

“The greatest challenge facing the Church today is to return Christ

to the Church and the Church to Christ,” Archbishop Costelloe told those inside and outside the cathedral.

“Let yourselves be motivated by these words,” the Archbishop said.

“The greatest challenge facing my school or college, university or seminary, the greatest challenge facing me in my classroom or lecture hall, is to return this place to Christ and return Christ to his rightful place.”

It was the same challenge the Blessed John Paul II issued the Church in 2000, he said, and the same challenge his confrere, the Superior General of the Salesians, Fr Pascual Chávez issued to the leaders of religious congregations some years ago.

“At the risk of puzzling and even affronting people tonight I want to put the same challenge, to myself first of all, and then to all of us here,” Archbishop Costelloe said.

“I invite each one of you to continually ask yourself the question: “Where is Jesus in what I am doing?””

Archbishop Costelloe also took the opportunity to elaborate on his choice of Episcopal motto: Ego sum

in confusion, if we are a people of death rather than of life, how can we be, like the Good Shepherd in tonight’s Gospel, a people who feeds others and leads them to safe pastures?”

Around 24 bishops from both

The greatest challenge facing the Church today is to return Christ to the Church and the Church to Christ ... I invite each one of you to ask “Where is Jesus in what I am doing?”

Via, Veritas et Vita: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

“If we do not know Christ, who is the Truth, we will be plunged into confusion,” he said. “If we do not know Christ who is the Life we will be on a pathway to death. And if we have lost our way, if we are caught

the Roman and Eastern rites of the Church were there to witness the occasion with around 350 bishops, priests, deacons and seminarians present in total.

Distinguished civic and religious leaders were also there to welcome the Archbishop, including leaders

from Perth’s Jewish, Orthodox, and Protestant congregations as well as the Lord Mayor of Perth, Lisa Scaffidi.

Coming more than 20 years after the installation of Archbishop Barry James Hickey on August 27, 1991, the night was full of all the pomp and ceremony such an occasion demanded.

It began with Cathedral Dean, Mgr Michael Keating’s procession down the centre isle of the church, with key in hand, to open St Mary’s ceremonial door and welcome Archbishop Costelloe to his new Cathedral (see story Page 14).

The congregation gave the Archbishop a rousing entrance, enthusiastically singing Here I Am, Lord as he entered and processed down the isle, blessing the congregation with Holy Water while making his way to Our Lady’s Chapel.

There he knelt and prayed

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COSTELLOE INSTALLATION: Sixth Archbishop of Perth

without Christ is installed as our sixth Archbishop.

Passing of the crozier: Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and retired Archbishop Barry Hickey.

PHOTO: MICHAEL CONNELLY

Above left, Bishop Donald Sproxton displays the Papal Bull announcing Timothy Costelloe as Archbishop of Perth. Above, Cathedral Dean Mgr Michael Keating with the key to the ceremonial door of St Mary’s Cathedral. Left, Catholic school students greet the new Archbishop, a life-long teacher.

before vesting in preparation for Mass. A select group of bishops led Archbishop Costelloe to the altar where he received both mitre and crozier from Archbishop Barry Hickey and Papal representative, the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto.

In some of the only words he spoke that night, Perth’s retired Archbishop Barry Hickey declared that Archbishop Costelloe’s Papal letter of appointment would be read to the people, a task fulfilled

by Bishop Donald Sproxton.

In perhaps the most ceremonially significant moment of the installation, Archbishop Costelloe was then led by Archbishop Hickey and the Apostolic Nuncio to his cathedra or chair - the throne of the Archbishop in his diocese’ mother church.

Representatives spanning the diversity of Perth’s Catholic com-

munity – from families, the bishops, priests, schools, Indigenous communities and seminaries - were called up to the sanctuary to welcome Archbishop Costelloe.

They took turns approaching the Archbishop, with many shaking his hand, kneeling before him or kissing his Episcopal ring. At the conclusion of the Mass, Archbishop Costelloe praised and thanked Archbishop Hickey for the compassion and leadership he had shown over the past 21 years – a vote of thanks that received sustained applause.

Mgr Keating no doubt summed up the feelings of many in his welcoming remarks.

“Your appointment to Perth has been greeted with genuine joy here in the West. We recognise how fortunate we are,” Mgr Keating said.

“Archbishop Timothy, you have our full support and our loyalty.”

PHOTOS: MICHAEL CONNELLY

Archbishop Costelloe kneels in prayer before a statue of Our Lady in the Mary chapel of the cathedral, on opposite page. His coat of arms includes an emblem signifying his personal devotion to the Mother of Jesus.

“I’m looking forward to meeting the Archbishop and working with him to strengthen the Judeo-Christian values which sadly, in our society today, are being undermined. I look forward to working with him in that holy task.”

Rabbi Dovid Freilich Rabbi of the Perth Synagogue

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COSTELLOE INSTALLATION: Sixth Archbishop of Perth

Tonight we entrust Perth’s future to

CHRIST Months of anticipation were fulfilled when the Catholics of Perth got to greet their new shepherd, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB

“(We) congratulate the Most Reverend Timothy Costello, SDB, DD, on his appointment as Archbishop and welcome him to the Archdiocese of Perth.

We look forward to welcoming his appointment as Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy in due course.”

“I extend a warm welcome to the new Archbishop of Perth, Timothy Costelloe …

The City of Perth is committed to being a ‘caring’ city and looks forward to working with Archbishop Costelloe in whatever way it can to achieve that goal.”

Lisa Scaffidi Perth Lord Mayor

The newly installed Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB waving to members of the congregation during the recessional.

PHOTO: MICHAEL CONNELLY

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The first time Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB celebrated Mass as the new Archbishop of Perth, seen above incensing the gifts in preparation for the Eucharist.

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“It’s just a pleasure to extend a very warm welcome to Timothy Costelloe as the new Archbishop and we are looking forward to partnering with him in the cause of the Gospel.”

“We greet him with warm affection and look forward to working with him … We pray that our Churches may be held in the unity of the Blessed Trinity and may Mary, the Blessed Mother of our Lord Jesus, bless us in our desire to be servants of God in Christ.”

Archbishop Roger Herft, Anglican Archbishop of Perth

Around 24 bishops from East and West joined more than 1,000 lay people to greet Perth’s new Archbishop.

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Pastor Haydn Nelson, Riverview Church

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Flanked by Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, at left, Archbishop Barry Hickey, papal Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto and Bishop Donald Sproxton, newly installed Archbishop Timothy Costelloe con

"This is the task that is set before us as we begin this new chapter in the life of the Catholic Church here in the Archdiocese of Perth. Tonight I invite each one of you to continually

"As priests and religious seek to be the Good Shepherds that tonight’s gospel speaks about, is Jesus really the treasure for which you a

"As Catholic schools and colleges, universities and seminaries, move more fully into the academic year let yourselves be motivated by these words: The greatest challenge facing m

"As diocesan agencies review your programmes and evaluate your outreach ask if, in meeting you, the people with whom and for whom you

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WITH HIM, IN HIM

ncelebrates the Eucharist in St Mary's Cathedral on Wednesday evening, March 21. Over 1100 guests inside and many hundreds more outside the cathedral participated in the Mass.

y ask yourself the question, “Where is Jesus in what I am doing?” As parents and children live your family lives together, what room have you made in your daily lives for Jesus?"

are ready to give up everything else? As Parish Councils meet to plan the year ahead is Jesus really at the centre of all your planning?"

my school or college, university or seminary, the greatest challenge facing me in my classroom or lecture hall, is to return this place to Christ and return Christ to his rightful place."

u work are really meeting Christ. For once again, as Saint Paul reminds us, “We do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord.”

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OSTELLOE Up close and personal

WHAT drew you to the priesthood in the first place? You were studying a teaching course when you joined the Salesians ...

I FIRST started thinking of the priesthood when I was an altar server in my local parish. The assistant priest, Fr Joseph Browne, was a gentle and very kind man who impressed me by his commitment, his depth of faith and his enthusiasm for his priesthood. I began to think, “I would like to be like him when I grow up …”

WHAT drew you specifically to the Salesians? I’m guessing the calls to the priesthood and the Salesians came hand in hand ...

I WAS always drawn to religious life and never really considered becoming a diocesan priest. While I admired and liked the Salesian brothers and priests who taught me in secondary school, my first thought was to join the Franciscans (Saint John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians, also had a similar idea at one stage). However, I had also always wanted to be a teacher.

Former Record journalist Anthony Barich tracked down Archbishop-elect Timothy Costelloe SDB to find out what makes him tick.

While I was at Teachers’ College I realised that as a Salesian I could fulfil so many of my hopes: to be a religious, to be a teacher and to be a priest.

BEFORE you undertook a teacher training course you were employed in a variety of jobs. Can you give some examples, and did any of these plant a seed for the priesthood or was it your parents or family?

WHILE I was studying at Teachers’ College I worked part-time as a salesman in a variety of menswear stores. Prior to that I also worked for a year in the Public Service and had spent a year working full-time in a department store known as Ball and Welch. These various jobs were never able to fulfil me and the desire to be a religious and a priest grew stronger during this time.

My parents were supportive of my decision but, like most parents, were primarily concerned that I find a path in life that would make me happy.

I never felt pressured about my decision, though I was aware that

my parents wanted me to settle down to something!

I would say mine was a typical Catholic family in the 1950s and 1960s when I was growing up.

We were regular Massgoers and being Catholic just seemed quite natural to me, an essential but, in a way, unremarkable part of life.

My parents were not wealthy and made enormous sacrifices to make sure my brother and I received a Catholic education. Home, school

The best examples are happy priests and religious, and ‘vocation promotion’ is the work of every Catholic.

Parishes should make this a priority. and Church were the harmonious backdrop to my formative years. I was very lucky – or blessed.

YOU were Archbishop Hickey’s

theological adviser during the 1998 Synod for Oceania. Did this experience - or indeed your time since in Perth and Melbourne - teach you anything about the pressing needs of the Church in Australia?

THE experience of attending the Synod as Archbishop Hickey’s theological adviser was a profound one. I was privileged to see the Church at its very best and to have a role in such a significant ecclesial event, especially for the Church in Australia and Oceania. It was my first extended contact with bishops and I found it an encouraging and hopeful one.

As regards the pressing needs of the Church in Australia, I would say, in the words of Pope John Paul II, that we have an urgent need to “start afresh from Christ”. It is true that the Church in Australia, as in most parts of the world, faces many challenges but I am convinced the only way we can confront these challenges is by turning our gaze once again to Christ, listening to him, learning from him and allowing him, through the gift of his Holy Spirit, to help us to discern the way forward.

The succession of bishops appointed in Melbourne, Sydney and elsewhere have told me about the unique challenge the Church faces today in terms of prejudices against Christianity and the Catholic Church in particular, and in getting its voice heard in an increasingly secular world.

WHAT is your take on the challenge the Church faces today in a country like Australia, and how can it (all the baptised faithful) - and its senior bishops like yourself - address this?

POPE John Paul II used to speak often of the Church as “the community of the disciples of Christ”.

We must do all we can to recapture

the centrality of Christ in our lives as individual Christians and as Christian communities.

In terms of the challenge of an increasingly secularised world, I would suggest that we Catholics, and indeed all Christians, have a precious gift to offer to a world which is growing more affluent, more technologically proficient, but colder and harder in terms of its understanding of life and what it means to live in a truly human way.

Jesus proclaims himself as “the Way, the Truth and the Life”. This is the gift we have to offer. It is our task to be as faithful to that gift as possible to make sure we offer it in its richness and life-giving power to all who recognise the growing emptiness of their lives.

ARCHBISHOP Hickey has ordained the most priests of any currently serving bishop in Australia. While this no doubt has something to do with him reopening the local archdiocesan seminar y and opening a Neocatechumenal missionary seminary in Perth, he also had a reputation of attracting international students who were studying abroad, often in Rome, and fostering local vocations. How do you see the best way forward to source more vocations to the priesthood and religious life in modern Australia? Or does it all really start by helping empower families to foster holiness in their own ‘domestic church’?

MY OWN experience tells me one of the best “promoters” of a vocation to the priesthood or religious life is the example of happy priests, sisters and brothers whose happiness comes from doing their very best to live in fidelity to their vocation.

Having said that, I believe “vocation promotion” is the work of every Catholic. Parishes should make the promotion of vocations a

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The congregation applauds as Archbishop Costelloe, above, leaves the cathedral after the ceremonies. Earlier, his contemporaries in the episcopate looked on as he delivered his first homily as Archbishop.

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Coat of arms conveys a message

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rchbishop Costelloe’s coat of arms consists of a shield upon an archiepiscopal cross (a cross with two horizontal arms) surmounted by a green galero (a hat) with 10 green fiocchi (tassels) suspended on each side, indicating the coat of arms is that of an archbishop.

• The charges (emblems) on the left half of the shield represent the Archbishop’s See, the Archdiocese of Perth.

• These include the constellation of the Southern Cross, a symbol for Australia and a black swan on a gold background, the state emblem for Western Australia.

The charges on the right half are personal to Archbishop Costelloe.

• The gold star on the blue background represents Mary, the Mother of God. In Catholic tradition, Mary is often referred to as the Star of the Sea. She is the one whose prayer and whose presence in our lives leads us to safety.

• The three trees represent Saint John Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Congregation, to which the Archbishop belongs (Bosco, in Italian, means wood.)

• The three diamonds are taken from the Costelloe family crest. They may be understood to represent the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity.

• Archbishop Costelloe’s motto is: Via, Veritas, Vita (the Way, the Truth and the Life).

real priority and key people in the parish should be encouraged to be on the look out for young (and perhaps not so young) men and women who would seem to have

the qualities needed for such a way of life. We need to let such people know that we see those qualities in them and invite them to think about the possibility that God is

calling them. I would say the same for our Catholic schools, especially our secondary colleges.

And, of course, in both parish and school, we need to be as creative as we can in finding ways of engaging our young people in the life of the Church. The phenomenon of World Youth Days is a fine example of this creativity.

In the end, a response to God’s call is always a spiritual response.

We have to become a praying Church first of all, and then, as a consequence, a servant Church, one which is at the service of the deepest needs of the people of our time.

Prayer and active concern for others are the environment in which a vocation to the priesthood or religious life can take root and grow. And, of course, if this environment is not provided at home, it will be hard for young people to hear the call of the Lord, however it comes.

WHAT is unique about being a Salesian? What can modern Australia learn from the life and charism of Don Bosco? How has it served you in helping you carry out your task as a bishop thus far, or can do moving forward?

SAINT John Bosco is best known as the apostle of the young. Pope John Paul II officially proclaimed him in 1988 as the “Father and Teacher of

the Young”. He can remind everyone in the Church of the importance of having a heart that is open to young people, accepting of them, convinced of their goodness and potential, and ready to help them become the “good Christians and honest citizens” that God is calling them to be.

Don Bosco built his approach around the saying that “it is not enough that the young people be loved – they have to know they are loved”. He learnt this from Christ.

As you read the Gospels you realise that Christ responded to people in ways that could speak to them in the depths of their hearts so that they knew, in a deep and power-

I was also struck by the multicultural nature of the Church in Perth. In Australia, this is one of the Church’s greatest strengths. ful way, that they were loved and accepted.

Think of the woman caught in adultery, or Zacchaeus sitting up there in the tree, or Peter bowed down with shame at his betrayal of Jesus. And think of how Jesus

responded so uniquely to each of them. Love has to be real, and practical, and able to be experienced.

This is the gospel spirituality that Don Bosco followed: it is, I believe, his special gift to the whole Church.

WHAT was your experience of the life of the Church in Perth during your time here as theology lecturer at Notre Dame and parish priest at Victoria Park?

I HAVE many strong memories of my time in Perth in the 1990s but perhaps the clearest is my memory of the spirit of friendship and unity among the priests of the Archdiocese.

It seemed to me that there was a strong sense of solidarity and a real determination to work together as brothers for the good of the people they served.

I look forward to working with the priests to continue to build this spirit of communion.

I was also very struck by the multicultural nature of the Church in Perth. This was certainly the case at St Joachim’s in Victoria Park. I presume that this dimension of the life of the Church in Perth is even more pronounced now.

My experience of the Church in Melbourne convinced me that this multicultural nature of the Catholic Church in Australia is one of its greatest strengths.

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‘Return the Church to Christ’ This is Archbishop Timothy Costelloe’s homily. It speaks for itself...

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FEW moments ago Archbishop Hickey and Archbishop Lazzarotto led me to the Bishop’s chair, the Cathedra, from where I will preside as the Archbishop of Perth. In doing so Archbishop Hickey is representing not just the Archdiocese of Perth or the Church in Western Australia but, in a very real sense, the whole Church found in virtually every part of our great land. Archbishop Lazzarotto, the Apostolic Nuncio, represents the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, and for that reason he represents the universal Church spread throughout the whole world.

Tonight we are celebrating the fact that we are members of this One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. In a powerful way we are both expressing and experiencing our belonging to the Church which we love so much.

As we three bishops approached the Chair everyone sang together the beautiful hymn, “Christ be our Light”. We prayed that Christ would shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness, shine in his Church.

Tonight, as we celebrate the ongoing life and fruitfulness of our Church, and as I speak to you for the first time as your archbishop, I would like to invite you all to turn your gaze to Christ, to contemplate his face, to let his light shine in your hearts.

This was the invitation which Blessed Pope John Paul II gave to the whole Church when he wrote a letter to launch the Church into the adventure of the new millennium.

Twelve years later that invitation remains as important and as compelling as ever. “Isn’t it true,” wrote the Pope, that it is “the Church’s task to reflect the light of Christ in every historical period, to make his face shine also before the generations of the new millennium?”

In these simple words the Pope captured for us the essence of our vocation as Christians, as disciples of Jesus. We are witnesses to him, not as a figure from the past but as a living presence today. We are called and empowered to make his face shine for each other and all the people of our own time and place.

Here in the Archdiocese of Perth, as in every part of this country and in every part of the world, this is our task as Christians. Tonight I want to invite us all to re-commit ourselves once more to this urgent but privileged responsibility.

Pope John Paul however goes on to issue a warning. “Our witness,” he says, “would be hopelessly inadequate if we had not first contemplated the face of Christ.” It is as if the Pope is asking us how we can possibly hope to be witnesses to Christ if we do not really know him. For my Episcopal motto as Archbishop of Perth I have chosen the three words which Jesus, in John’s Gospel, uses to describe himself. Ego sum Via, Veritas et Vita: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” If we do not know Christ who is the Way, we will lose our way. If we do not know Christ, who is the Truth, we will be plunged into confusion. If we do not know Christ who is the Life we will be on a pathway to death. And if we have lost our way, if we are caught in confusion, if we are a people of death rather than of life, how can we be, like the Good Shepherd in tonight’s Gospel, a people who feeds others and leads them to safe pastures?

In his Second Letter to the Corinthians Saint Paul expresses this powerfully when he insists that “we do not proclaim our-

Monsignor welcomes the new Shepherd The following welcome to St Mary’s Cathedral was given by its Dean, Monsignor Michael Keating.

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Archbishop Costelloe delivers his homily on Wednesday evening.

selves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your servants for Christ’s sake”. This is also the cry of the Church. We are not on about ourselves. We are on about Jesus, and the gift which he is for the whole world. Saint Paul was so in love with Christ that he could confidently though still humbly proclaim: “I no longer live for it is Christ who lives in me.” For Saint Paul it was Christ who stood at the very centre of his life, Christ who had claimed his heart, Christ who was the one treasure he desired above everything else. This is what it is to be a Christian: this is our vocation, and our glory. But is it our reality?

Many of you know that I belong to the Religious Congregation, the Salesians of Don Bosco. Some years ago, the Superior General of the Salesians, Fr Pascual Chavez, speaking as the President of the Union of Superiors General in Rome, made an extraordinary and confronting statement. “The greatest challenge facing Religious Life today“, he said, “is to return Christ to the Religious Life and to return the Religious Life to Christ.” I’m sure that when they first heard these words, the leaders of the many Religious Congregations present must have been puzzled and even affronted. Perhaps they asked themselves how anyone could pose such a question to a group of people who were vowed to a life of obedience, poverty and chastity within the Church. At the risk of puzzling and even affronting people tonight I want to put the same challenge, to myself first of all, and then to all of us here. The greatest challenge facing the Church today is to return Christ to the Church and to return the Church to Christ. The great-

est challenge facing each one of us today is to return Christ to our lives and return our lives to Christ. This is not a challenge to be something other than we are. It is a challenge to be more fully, more deeply and more openly what we already are.

The Second Vatican Council described the Church as a kind of sacrament, a living and effective sign, of the presence of Christ in the world as its healer, as its saviour.

Saint Paul for his part, in a simple yet very profound way, described the Church as the Body of Christ.

These two statements express both who we are and who we must become more and more each day.

If we do not know Christ, who is the Truth, we will be plunged into confusion, on a pathway to death.

The society in which we live has great need of the light of Christ. It is our privilege and our duty to offer this light, this gift, to the world.

This is the task that is set before us as we begin this new chapter in the life of the Catholic Church here in the Archdiocese of Perth.

Tonight I invite each one of you to continually ask yourself the question, “Where is Jesus in what I am doing?” As parents and children live your family lives together, what room have you made in your daily lives for Jesus? As priests and religious seek to be the Good Shepherds that tonight’s gospel speaks about, is Jesus really the treasure for which you are ready to give up everything else? As Parish Councils meet to

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plan the year ahead is Jesus really at the centre of all your planning?

As Catholic schools and Colleges, universities and seminaries, move more fully into the academic year let yourselves be motivated by these words: The greatest challenge facing my school or college, university or seminary, the greatest challenge facing me in my classroom or lecture hall, is to return this place to Christ and return Christ to his rightful place. As diocesan agencies review your programmes and evaluate your outreach ask if, in meeting you, the people with whom and for whom you work are really meeting Christ. For once again, as Saint Paul reminds us, “We do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord.”

Since my appointment as the Archbishop of Perth was announced many people have asked me what my priorities are. I have given a variety of answers but in the end I would want to say this: I hope and pray that, through my ministry of service and leadership in the Archdiocese, all of us, the people who together are the community of the disciples of Christ, might become more and more, as the first Letter of Saint Peter puts it, “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, so that we might proclaim the mighty deeds of him who has called us out of darkness into his own marvellous light”. That light is Jesus Christ. It is to him that we commit all that we have and all that we are. It is to him that we entrust the journey into the future which tonight we set out on together.

Christ be our Light. Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness.

Christ be our light, shine in your Church gathered today.

am delighted to welcome you all to our beautiful restored Cathedral of St Mary’s.

I warmly welcome you, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, as the ninth Bishop of Perth and its sixth Archbishop, to our and now your Cathedral. Your appointment to Perth has been greeted with genuine joy here in the West. We recognise how fortunate we are, and we are very grateful to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, for your Monsignor appointment.

As a salesian Michael Keating. son of the great Don Bosco, you are not our first Archbishop from a religious order. Our fourth Bishop, Patrick Joseph Clune who became our first Archbishop in 1913, was a Redemptorist. You will remember from your first time here, that there is a real closeness between priests of the religious orders and the diocesan priests of the Archdiocese.

You are known to many of us because of your Parish work at St Joachim’s Victoria Park and your teaching at Notre Dame University.

That wonderful University with our whole Catholic education system, is one of the jewels in the crown of the Archdiocese.

You have come to a wonderful local church built up by a series of outstanding Archbishops, including your immediate predecessor Archbishop Barry Hickey. Perth is a lovely city and I hope you will enjoy living in our lovely home opposite as much as we Cathedral priests do. More and more people are discovering that living in this city has many advantages.

Archbishop Timothy, you have our full support and our loyalty.

May Jesus Christ who, as your motto says, is ‘the way, the truth and life’, – Via, Verita, Vita – bless you with good health and joy as our leader. May his Blessed Mother, Mary, to whom our Cathedral is dedicated, protect you. Two of your predecessors, the Spanish Bishop Giver, the builder of our 1865 Cathedral and Bishop Gibney, who as Fr Gibney, is famous as the priest who gave the Church’s last rites to the bushranger, Ned Kelly, at Glenrowan, had as their mottos ‘Sub tuum Praesidium” – the beautiful prayer of the 3rd century asking for our Lay’s protection.

Many of us know this prayer as a beautiful chant.

We know that it is challenging for you to leave Melbourne and generous of Archbishop Denis Hart and the Melbourne Archdiocese to give you to us. We pray and hope that you will be very happy in Perth and in the years ahead grow to love us in this City and State as we grow to love you too.

Welcome.

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Last words: It’s all about love At an affectionate goodbye, Archbishop Barry Hickey shared some of the lessons he’s learned in a lifetime of ministry.

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ince I’ve been a priest and a bishop, difficulties for the Church have come and gone. The Church no longer has the privileged position it once had. I rejoice in that because Jesus himself told us we should not start out from any privileged position, simply doing God’s will.

So we rely entirely on the power of the risen Lord to be with us in our preaching, in our work and our ministry and we rely on the Holy Spirit to guide us.

I’ve sought to do that. I’ve sought many times to reflect on the Gospels and ask myself whether I could have been more authentic. Often, I had to revise things: attitudes to money, power, comfort, worldly acclaim and they haven’t been easy situations. You have to go back again and again to the Lord and ask him, ‘what do you do in this particular situation?’

So we can’t presume we’re going to have a comfortable, easy life; we simply follow the Lord and place ourselves in his hands.

When I look at the priests I see men chosen by Our Lord through the ministry of the Church, that complicated process that has brought us here.

I see men who have said yes to the Lord’s call. I see men who have been burdened at times by their own sinfulness and who have crashed and picked themselves up again and know that in the Lord’s eyes everything is forgiven and they can start again.

I’ve seen other priests who, through no fault of their own, have been crushed by circumstances that seem to be quite unfair and they too have got up, dusted themselves down, and tried again and I’ve encouraged them - those whom I know - to do exactly that because they’ve been chosen by Our Lord, they have a mission to fulfil, sometimes through pain and suffering, and they fulfil that mission for the good of the Church and the salvation of mankind.

So that’s some of the attitudes that have kept me going for all these years and have given me an enormous regard for the priests out there and the parishes and their special works. They have to deal with difficult situations and have to deal with themselves too because none of us is perfect.

It’s always been hard for me because, you know. I’m not expres-

Fr Sean Fernandez presents Archbishoip Barry Hickey with a token of esteem on behalf of the clergy of the Archdiocese at the special farewell function for clergy at St Thomas More College , Crawley on March 13.

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sive and haven’t shown much love, and you get caught up in your head and get caught up in efficiency and all those other things, but Jesus is going to examine us on love at the

Something happened to me. I wasn’t worried about what people thought any more.

Suddenly, I relaxed and I was able to love everyone. last judgement so that’s something I’ve had to work on over the years, so be people of love to your people.

They’ll forgive you all your faults and they’ll see in your face the image of Jesus Christ.

I matured slowly. I reached maturity at the age of 72. I mean

that. Something happened to me. I wasn’t worried about what people thought anymore, I wasn’t worried about whether I was doing the right thing or the wrong thing; all these ideas that fill up your mind and make you worry at night.

Suddenly, I relaxed and I was able to love women, love men, without any fear of eroticism one way or the other. It was a refreshing feeling and I think it was an act of grace just to keep me going for the last few years.

It took me that long, but by the time you’re 72 perhaps that will happen to you. Some of you naturally love others, some of you find it difficult because of childhood experiences, maybe, but there we have it – it is important for us to love, without fear of what people say - you just love.

And, if you love you, then the answers come, you know how to listen to people, you know how to deal with people and let them tell you what’s on their mind. So that

came to me late in life and it’s a great grace.

One thing I want to say on this pulpit … is about the Nyoongars, the Aboriginal people. Yes, they

The researchers found that 98 per cent of Aboriginal boys and 100 per cent of the girls had been sexually abused before puberty. I just tried to love them. came into my life because I was living in the city, in a big way. A lot were homeless there, so I befriended them and allowed them to sleep on my front verandah, bring them coffee in the morning. They insisted on the correct number of sugars that they had in their coffee – very

demanding. And I found … that I loved them, with all the smells, and the drugs, you know, they lived in utter misery. And I found out something. I tried to understand why they were homeless, why they were despised and the most abject of people. What had happened in their lives to make them like this?

Something had happened.

We might talk about land rights, or cultural dislocation and all those things that did happen, such as the break of the tribal ties, loss of language and so forth. There’s something more. And I heard it at a conference I went to about six or seven years ago where a couple of researchers, both women, told us that they did a study of Aboriginal young people coming into care of the government, and they found, after enquiries, that 98 per cent of the boys had been sexually abused before puberty and 100 per cent of the girls had been abused sexually before puberty. It was in the culture of poverty that they live that it had happened.

Now, the world knows the terrible consequences of being abused sexually and we know that even if that happens once, how it lasts for a lifetime, and the Church was slow in its response but we know better now; we’re aware of it, we’re aware of the consequences.

And these poor people had been abused again and again and again.

They didn’t talk about it. It was very difficult to get the information from them.

But that gave me an understanding of the things they’d been through and why they thought nothing of themselves, why they were suicidal, why they were on drugs, why they thought they were rubbish.

So I had to treat them – and did treat them – as though they were not rubbish. I had to try to see the face of Christ in every one of them. It was an experience for me that I pass on to you today, which is my last opportunity. So please be people of compassion and don’t judge.

Thank you very much for the example you’ve given me of people who really follow the Lord with their heart and soul and mind.

This is an edited copy of the speech given by Archbishop Barry Hickey at the farewell organised by the clergy of the Archdiocese of Perth at St Thomas More College on March 13.

Melbourne farewells Salesian son headed for Perth

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he Archdiocese of Melbourne farewelled Archbishop-elect Timothy Costelloe SDB on Tuesday evening, March 13, at a Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral.

Archbishop Costelloe, whose appointment as Archbishop of Perth was announced by Pope Benedict XVI on February 20, was principal celebrant at the Mass, with Archbishop Denis Hart attending in choir.

Auxiliary Bishops of Melbourne, Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv and Bishop Peter Elliott, concelebrated, with Melbourne’s Vicar General Mgr Greg Bennet, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral Fr John Salvano, Episcopal Vicars Fr Terence Curtin and Fr Martin Ashe and priests of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. Fr Binh Le was the Master of Ceremonies.

In his homily, Archbishop

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB concelebrates Mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral with Bishops Peter Elliott, at left, and Vincent Long OFM Conv on March 13.

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Costelloe drew on a prayer by Dom Alan Rees and encouraged those present to reflect on God’s guidance

and forgiveness. “God travels with us and his grace, if we open our hearts to it, can transform us from

what we are into what he is calling us and inviting us to be.”

He said the path along which the Lord leads us in the individual story of our own journey, is a path that leads to life.

Archbishop-elect Costelloe expressed his gratitude to Archbishop Hart, his brother bishops and priests. He also thanked parishioners, school principals and Religious Education co-ordinators, school staff, and all with whom he has worked in Melbourne.

“I have made many friends and been inspired and strengthened by the faith and commitment of so many people,” he said. “As you know, I was born and educated here and, apart from four years in Perth and two years in Rome, my whole life has been lived here. I love the city of Melbourne and the Church in Melbourne.”

Archbishop Costelloe said he was

taking up his new responsibilities as Archbishop of Perth with a sense of unworthiness and nervousness but also with a sense of excitement and hope.

“I ask you to pray that I may be open to this gift of the Holy Spirit in my life so I might lead the Church in Perth with compassion, courage and wisdom.”

Archbishop Hart acknowledged Archbishop Costelloe’s many achievements and said they were indicative of his total commitment to God and his people.

“Wherever he’s worked, he has shown a true spirit of priestly goodness, of prayer, of gifted ability as a teacher and writer and a readiness to engage with fruitfulness and energy in the mission of the Church, from the most public events to the more private accounts of personal assistance to so many people.”

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HE installation of our new Archbishop, Timothy Costelloe SDB, is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to reawaken in our otherwise busy minds the remarkable history of our Church and the story of our salvation. Archbishops and bishops, you see, are the direct successors of the 12 Apostles on whom Christ founded the Church.

The Apostles are the ones who accompanied Jesus as he spent three years teaching the Jewish people the true meaning of their history; the purpose of the lives of their great leaders and teachers like Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Moses; and the remarkable connection between God and their prophets. The Apostles are also the ones who believed Jesus in all that he said and did, even when they thought he was getting it all wrong and was going about things the wrong way – like letting the Jewish leaders kill him.

Who can forget the faith of the Apostles when almost everyone else left Jesus after he promised to give them his flesh to eat and his blood to drink for their eternal life? Turning to the 12, Jesus demanded, “And will you also leave me?” Peter answered for all of them, and they all stayed: “Where shall we go, Lord? You have the words of eternal life.”

That is a wonderful answer because what it really means is: “I don’t know what you are talking about … but I know who you are.” It is also a great answer for us when we can’t understand what is going on, when we don’t know why the Church teaches what she does, or why God allows life to be what it is: We don’t understand … but we know who you are.

These are the men to whom Jesus gave the power to consecrate the Blessed Eucharist, the power to forgive sins, the power to bring the Holy Spirit to others and the power to consecrate others like them to carry out his ministerial and sacramental role as priests. These are the men he commissioned to go into the whole world and preach the Gospel, teaching everything he had commanded them, and to whom he said, “He who hears you, hears me, and he who despises you despises me”, a message he repeated when he blinded Saul on the road to Damascus and asked him, “Why do you persecute me?” - not ‘my friends’ or ‘my Church’ but ‘me’. Days later, he reinforced the total unity between the Church and himself by sending the Church to heal Paul’s blindness, to teach him, and to baptise him.

The bishops of the Catholic Church are the successors of these remarkable men, called forth by the Lord to be teachers, governors and sanctifiers of the particular churches given into their care. They have the same weaknesses, the same strengths, the same uncertainties, and the same great faith that enables them to consecrate the Eucharist, to forgive sins, to proclaim the Gospel in its entirety, and to know that those who hear them hear Jesus, and those who ignore them ignore Jesus, and this last fact brings them great sorrow.

PO Box 3075 Not enough of us spend Adelaide Terrace enough time reading Church PERTH WA 6832 history, but those who do can recognise that Noah, Abraham, office@therecord.com.au Isaac, Moses, David, Solomon, Tel: (08) 9220 5900 Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah are Fax: (08) 9325 4580 forerunners of the Apostles and that the bishops of the Catholic Church are their successors.

They face the same infidelities and aggression as the prophets. They suffer the same apostasies that the Israelites inflicted on Moses and they watch the same failures of leadership in today’s world as the ancient Israelites suffered from their kings.

From the very earliest days of the Church, there have been individuals and groups trying to persuade the people that they know how to do God’s work better than the Church; that they know ‘what Jesus really meant’ better than the Apostles did. From the beginning, there were emperors and kings who persecuted them and their people, and others who decided that they could change the Church’s teachings to suit themselves. Henry the Eighth was a memorable example, but was far from being unique.

But none of this has diverted the Bishops of the Church and the Church herself from their task. As Bishop Costelloe reminded us this week: “The gift of faith in Christ … is a precious gift which we are called to offer to the people of our time.” That faith, so admirably expressed by the Apostles, has been the foundation of the vast works of mercy that the Church has introduced around the world over the last 2,000 years.

The faith of the Church has been the foundation of the remarkable sanctity we have seen in thousands upon thousands of Catholic saints on every continent on earth … many of them famous in their own time through their works, their teaching and their miracles … many of them unrecognised in their own lifetime, but whom God chose to reveal to us later. Sanctity (holiness, friendship with God) is one of the four marks of the Catholic Church, and to those who pay attention to it, sanctity is the most beautiful achievement of human history.

The installation of a new Archbishop in the world’s most isolated capital city is an enlightening and heart-warming reminder that we are deeply immersed in this wonderful story which is the meaning and purpose of humanity.

The Apostles are the ones who believed Jesus in all that he said and did, even when they thought he was getting it all wrong and going about things the wrong way.

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March 21, 2012, The Record

Out of Africa, to the mission fields of Western Australia The silent call to the priesthood that he experienced in Kenya brought Fr Shikokoti Cyprian Malongo to labour in the vineyards of Perth.

Name: Fr Shikokoti Cyprian Malongo Age: 29 Occupation: Assistant Parish Priest to Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Lesmurdie Parish and part-time Chaplain to Lumen Christi Catholic College in Martin as of February 24, 2012.

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was born and grew up in Kakamega, Western Kenya in the small village town of Eregi.

I had lots of friends, some with whom I played soccer and others whom I joined for school drama and dance. My parents are good Catholics. I very much admire my grandmother, Mama Mary Owendi, for her enthusiasm for prayer.

I still freshly remember those younger days when I visited her and she’ll call everyone to daily evening prayer. A time came when I didn’t even wait for her. I’d say, “It’s time for us to pray.” I don’t know how that happened. There was no particular moment when I decided to be a priest. Priesthood is a call that silently grew in me without even much notice of my own.

My grandparents and, later on, my mother showed me the path to the Blessed mother. The rosary has always been one of my prayers. I pray to Mary as mother of the ideal priest, Christ. I pray that she be my mother. She was always there for Christ and now that I am a priest for Christ’s Church, I pray that she will always be there to watch over me and intercede for me.

When I was about 15, I went to a local minor seminary in Kenya; pretty much to complete high school. I wasn’t thinking of going on to do further study at the major seminary but found myself writing to the different vocation directors.

They all responded positively.

During my studies for the religious life with the Mill Hill Missionaries, I met Archbishop Barry Hickey who was visiting Kenya at the time. The Archbishop had actually come to attend my uncle’s (Fr Kenneth Asaba) first home Mass in Kenya following his ordination here in Perth in 2005.

As a result of that meeting, he arranged for me to come here in 2006. I continued my priestly formation through St Charles’ Seminary, Guildford and studied at the University of Notre Dame

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Vocation as told to Debbie Warrier Australia in Fremantle. I finished my Bachelor of Theology in 2009 and have just completed a Master of Arts in Theological Studies and am due for graduation this July.

I was ordained to the Diaconate on August 20, 2010 and later ordained to the priesthood on March 4, 2011 at St Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop Hickey.

I have since been serving in my first appointment as a priest at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Kelmscott.

This appointment has come to an end as, in a very rare but exciting move, the Archbishop has appoint-

Many thought I would not live, but I kept reassuring myself that God was looking after me. I felt prepared. ed me assistant priest to our Lady of Lourdes, Lesmurdie parish and a part-time Chaplain to the Catholic College of Lumen Christi in Martin.

I call this a rare but exciting move because the parish of Lesmurdie is under the stewardship of Fr Kenneth Asaba who happens to be my uncle. Without Fr Ken, I would have just known Australia by name.

He broke the ground here later, making it possible for me to follow after the meeting with Archbishop Hickey.

As I move into Lesmurdie, I have all the confidence I can want as I am not only going to work with friends but with my family. I am still young in priesthood and this appointment couldn’t have come at a better time.

When I joined the Mill Hill Missionaries, my hope had been that in the future I would serve a people of a different nation, lan-

guage and culture as other missionaries from Ireland, Scotland and England had in Kenya. Today, I find myself a diocesan priest for the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth.

To this, I can only respond: ‘God’s ways are not our ways.’ However, I see myself as living my missionary dream given that I now serve and work with the people of Perth.

I have had a pretty ‘normal’ past albeit when I had to battle an illness in 1996. I then developed three painful boils on my back waistline that joined up into one enormous boil that almost rendered me disabled.

I was often in agony, day and night, for months during and after the illness.

Many people who visited me at the time went away shaking their heads and fearing that I might not live to see the next day.

Amazingly, in the days leading up to the illness I had been to my local priest and received the Sacrament of Reconciliation on my own accord. As family and friends prayed for me, I kept reassuring myself that God was taking care of me and, should death come, I felt prepared for heaven. Thankfully, I pulled through pretty well and, now, each day is a reminder for me that I owe God. All my family is in Kenya: mum, dad, two brothers now and two sisters. I had three brothers until I lost one, Edwin Murula Usete in October 2008 due to a doctor’s error of judgement. My brother was diagnosed with appendicitis but, for some reason, the doctor postponed his operation to two days later.

The appendix burst in the body and my brother died hours prior to his operation in hospital on October 6, 2008.

I advised my parents not to sue the doctor since the guilt of negligence was sufficient to teach him the lesson not to cause another person and family the same ordeal.

As a family, we’ve commended my brother Edwin to God’s care and embarked on a healing process which, I need not say, will take us a lifetime. Thanks to the faith in God! My being happy and content is a continued confirmation that priesthood was what God intended for me. My prayer is that God will get me better at what I do best, to love priesthood and its demands of me.

On optimism and hope

Hope is a theological virtue. Optimism is not, writes Fr George Rutler.

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n March of 1938, when the naive among his contemporaries still thought they might cut a deal with the Nazis, Winston Churchill saw his country “descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.”

A gulf beckons today, and no amount of forced optimism or self-conscious jollity will stop the descent. There is nothing inevitable about what lies ahead, but providence will overcome fatalism only if people absorb what Pope Benedict XVI said last January: “... it is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the US come to realise the grave threats to the Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.”

Those words would probably

confuse the man who objected to me about a prayer that mentioned “enemies of the Faith.” “There are no enemies anymore,” he said, unaware that somewhere around 200 million Christians live under daily threat in 197 countries. Last year, nearly 100,000 Christians were killed because of their Christianity, in lands from North Korea and China, to Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Laos and Sudan.

The man who saw no enemies might plead with good reason that the media have, to put it mildly, inadequately publicised these persecutions. That kind of plea, however, can no longer be sustained when elements of the US government have declared war on the Church, and persecution both subtle and blatant has gone domestic.

Catholics have not been prepared to deal with this, and some have even

been compliant. Pope Benedict spoke of “a worrying tendency to reduce religious freedom to mere freedom of worship without guarantees of respect for freedom of conscience.” It is not possible to look through stained glass windows, so the man who saw no enemies outside his airconditioned and centrally heated church will be surprised if he tries to visit a Catholic hospital two years from now and finds that there is none.

Hope is a theological virtue.

Optimism is not. The wise have warned that pessimists are unhappy fools and optimists are happy fools.

But the hopeful are not foolish.

Christ began his war with a fortyday battle in a desert filled with wild beasts but, as they prowled about, He could hear angels.

This article first appeared on: www.catholiceducation.org

March 21, 2012, The Record

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St Joseph: patron, guardian, real estate agent

Little is known about St Joseph, yet he embodies the whole attitude we should have to the trials and tribulations of life.

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’VE always loved St Joseph, foster-father of Jesus and protector of the Holy Family.

Not only is he the patron of husbands, fathers and workers, but he is also the namesakepatron of my husband (Daniel Joseph) as well as my country’s (Canada’s) patron saint. As his feast was approaching this month, I remembered a time of particular need when our family felt the intercession and holy example of St Joseph sustaining us.

For the first 12 years of my husband’s agricultural research career, he worked a series of shortterm private contracts. Being selfemployed had some advantages, but it also made life stressful at times.

Whenever his contract expiration dates drew near, the tension in our household increased. We were unable to buy a home; without the security of long-term employment, no bank would approve a mortgage.

Nevertheless, we were grateful for many blessings: Dan’s contracts always overlapped, so he never suffered a single day of unemployment.

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We had four healthy children, good friends, a comfortable rental home, a kind and generous landlord. We had also managed to purchase a small amount of land near Dan’s childhood home, a century-old homestead, where his brother now lived and farmed.

Dan also farmed part-time, not only to supplement his income, but also to ‘get back to the land.’ That his research job was 300km from the family farm complicated matters. During the busy farming seasons, he would be away for up to a week at a time. I could never decide which I liked less: being left alone with four small children, or packing up, travelling, and imposing on relatives. We prayed for a job and a home near the farm.

Near the end of yet another contract, a permanent position opened up at a research facility close to our farmland. Dan applied for the job, and we prayed a novena to St Joseph, requesting his help. No sooner had we completed the nine days of prayer, than Dan came home from work with good news. His boss had

We found a small home we liked only to have our hopes crushed when the couple phoned back four days later to say they had changed their minds. secured further research grants, and could guarantee Dan several more years of work. The question of the farm-commute remained unresolved but, at the very least, we now had enough security to buy a

house. We felt God had answered our prayers.

The following weeks brought more news: Dan was offered the permanent job, but this thrill was soon doused by the cold reality that we now had just weeks to pack up our possessions, bid farewell to all we’d known for 12 years, and find a house in our new town. We continued to pray to St Joseph. Our faith was tested as we fruitlessly searched in a small and limited housing market. We found a home we liked, only to have our hopes crushed when the couple phoned back four days later to say they had changed their minds about selling.

I reminded myself: God is in charge. Don’t panic, just trust.

There was the example of St Joseph to consider. How bewildered he was to discover Mary was with child, but he believed and trusted when God sent the dream-messenger.

God saw Mary and Joseph safely to Bethlehem; God provided shelter for the birth of Jesus; He ensured his Son’s safety when Herod went on the rampage. It meant a detour

to Egypt, but Joseph had learned that God’s ways are not our ways.

The next day, the couple called to say they had changed their minds yet again: we held our breath until the deal was finalised. Almost miraculously, they gave us possession two weeks later, which allowed us to be relatively settled before Dan started his new job. From the day we began our novena until the day we had a new job and a new home, less than two months had elapsed.

St Joseph continues to watch over us. Exploring the history of our area, I learned that our town was one of a cluster of communities comprising a German Catholic pioneer settlement called St Joseph’s Colony. There was once a Catholic parish in our village, but declining population caused the church to be closed in the mid 1980s. We now attend Mass in a neighbouring town. The old church sits across the street from our home, and I had often wondered who its patron saint had been. I was delighted, but somehow not surprised, to find that it was — who else — St Joseph.

Ejecting faith from the public square Banning employees from wearing Christian symbols reveals an official effort to eradicate Christianity, writes Guy Crouchback.

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NE grows numbed by the endless parade of shocking stories emerging from the rubble of Britain’s cultural ruin. In many ways, the present government, nominally a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, but largely controlled by the far-left Liberal Democrats, is actually proving worse than the Labor Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

The latest outrageous act by the Liberal Democrat Minister for Equalities (a real title), Lynne Featherstone, has been to order Government lawyers to oppose the right of Christian workers to wear a crucifix.

Until now, such prohibitions have been enforced by various local council jobsworths and judges, but this is the first time Christianity has been specifically attacked by the national government.

The silence of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the matter, suggests he either supports Featherstone’s behaviour or at least does not oppose it. Featherstone and Cameron are already in conflict with the Christian Churches over their personal support for homosexual marriage, which Cameron believes will show the Tories in a “caring” light.

Government lawyers have been ordered to call on European human rights judges to dismiss the claims of Christian workers who have been banned from displaying the symbol of their faith at work.

This takes the matter to a level far beyond such things as the antiGod insults of atheism professor Richard Dawkins. That is to say, it takes it beyond the level of debate in which truth may emerge, to the simple and naked application of State power.

This is not part of a general secularist attack on religion, but a specific targeting of Christianity.

Satanisn is dealt with far more tenderly. Satanist convicts in prisons are allowed nude “prayer” meetings, and to have hoods, wine and wands supplied in prison for use as paraphernalia for Satanic rites.

A few years ago, a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Cumberland, was forced to install a special chapel

Where will it all end? Wearing a crucifix, or even a simple cross, has led to British employees being banned from workplaces and it seems worse is to come, writes Record columnist Guy Crouchback.

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to accommodate the proclivities of a Satanist crewman. Christopher (the name means “Christ Carrier”) Cranmer. By way of contrast, visiting a British warship many years ago, I was moved to read in large,

Commission, is to argue before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that workers should have legal protection if they wish to display a token of their religious faith at work.

to remove the cross she wore. Mrs Chaplin, 56, a nurse, was barred from working on the wards of her hospital in Exeter after she refused to remove or hide the cross she wore on her necklace chain. Yet,

The claims of both women that they have a right to wear a cross under European human rights rules have been rejected by British courts. brightly-burnished brass letters on the official rum puncheon, the stark exhortation: FEAR GOD. HONOUR THE QUEEN. Another Government body, the Equality and Human Rights

The Strasbourg court is scheduled to consider the cases of British Christians Nadia Eweida and Shirley Chaplin. Mrs Eweida, a British Airways check-in clerk, was suspended from work for refusing

quite obviously, wearing a small crucifix does not harm anyone.

The claims of both women that they have a right to wear a cross – under European human rights rules which guarantee the right to mani-

fest belief – have been rejected by British courts.

Other pending cases involve a registrar sacked by her council for declining to conduct civil partnership ceremonies for homosexuals, and a relationships counsellor sacked after he said he would not give sex advice to homosexual couples.

TV cook Delia Smith spoke of a threat to believers from “devout secularists” in a Lent Appeal on her website. She wrote: “I am, as you may or may not know, a passionate believer but of late we are somewhat under the cosh. There is a running battle going on in the press, and militant neo-atheists and devout secularists are busting a gut to drive us off the radar and try to convince us that we hardly exist.”

Featherstone is reported to have said that “in neither case is there any suggestion that the wearing of a visible cross or crucifix was a generally recognised form of practising the Christian faith, still less one that is regarded as a requirement of the faith”. To try to separate the cross from Christianity by government decree, especially a government that makes all sorts of obeisance to “human rights” is simply bizarre, and looks like the thin end of a very nasty wedge.

A former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, who, unlike the present incumbent of Saint Augustine’s see, has been an outspoken defender of Christian values, said: “The irony is that when governments and courts dictate to Christians that the cross is a matter of insignificance, it becomes an even more important symbol and expression of our faith.”

The faith has thrived on persecution, and this undeniable evidence of real persecution in Britain might lead - who knows? – to a reawakening and in a way refreshing, sense among Britain’s generally lethargic Christian community that it is in a real fight.

Is it wholly fanciful to foresee a not-too-distant future in which Christians in some Western counties, subject to a pincer-attack by militant Islam on one side and militant atheism on the other, are obliged to fight, and not merely in the courts either?

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PANORAMA NEXT WEEK SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Inner Healing Retreat (Live-in) 7.30pm at St John of God Retreat Centre, 47 Gloucester Cr, Shoalwater. A time to be healed and renewed. The retreat is led by the Vincentian Fathers. Registration and enq: Melanie 0410 605 743 or vincetiansperth@yahoo.com.

Latin Mass 2pm at Good Shepherd Parish, 45 Streich Ave, Kelmscott. Enq: John 9390 6646.

School Reunion - Sacred Heart High School, Highgate 2-5pm at Sacred Heart Primary School new hall, Highgate. To protect the floor of the building, guests are asked not to wear high heels. Please enter through Harold St gate. Parking limited.

Registration office, 79 Seventh Ave, Maylands, or phone 9271 0597 or rndmsecaus@olm.org.au.

Human Experience Film 6.30pm at St Paul’s Primary School, cnr Learoyd and Rookwood Sts, Mt Lawley. Entry by donation.

Enq: Tina 0415 382 541.

Acies Ceremony 2pm at St Jerome’s Parish, Troode St, Munster. We invite all active and auxiliary members and friends of the Legion to the ceremony.

TUESDAY, MARCH 27 The Archdiocesan Retreat 10am at the Holy Rosary Parish Hall, cnr Thomas and Elizabeth Sts, Nedlands. Followed with Mass celebrated at 11.30 followed by a light luncheon.

Retreat will be conducted by Fr Paschal Kearney.

Lenten Preparation 7-8pm at St Benedict’s School Hall, Alness St, Applecross. Spirituality and The Sunday Gospels, Make this Lent a time of growth and preparation for an outpouring of grace this Easter. Presenter: Norma Woodcock. There will be a collection.

Accredited - CEO - Faith Formation for ongoing renewal - $10 reg. Enq: 9487 1772 or www. normawoodcock.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30 Medjugorje Evening Prayer 7-9pm with Our Lady Queen of Peace at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish, 77 Seventh Ave, Maylands. Evening consists of Eucharistic adoration, rosary, benediction and holy Mass. Free DVDs given on night of conversion of Fr Calloway. For pilgrimages to Medjugorje see classified. Enq: Eileen 9402 2480 or 0407 471 256 or medjugorje@ y7mail.com.

Sacred Music Concert 7pm at Mater Christi Parish, 340 Yangebup Rd, Yangebup. Stations of the Cross with Stabat Mater sung followed by concert performed by Wasimh Ladies Choir, directed by Veronica Moylan.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30 AND SATURDAY, MARCH 31

What’s on around the Archdiocese of Perth, where and when

THURSDAY, APRIL 12 Life in the Spirit Seminar 7.30pm at The Good Shepherd Parish, cnr Morley Dr and Altone Rd, Lockridge. The seminar will run for seven weeks every Thursday. Enq: Colleen on 9377 5133 or Shirley on 9279 9165.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13 There Be Dragons Movie Screening Unfortunately, this screening has been cancelled.

SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Divine Mercy Novena 2.30pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Confession. 3-4pm divine mercy chaplet and novena, preaching on divine mercy, prayers for healing. Enq: 9493 1703.

St Padre Pio Prayer Day 8.30am at St Anne’s Parish. 13 Hehir St, Belmont.

St Padre Pio DVD in parish centre. 10am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, rosary, divine mercy, silent adoration and benediction. 11am Latin Rite Mass, St Padre Pio Liturgy, Confession available.

12pm Bring a plate for a shared lunch, tea and coffee supplied. (Next Padre Pio Prayer Day - May 12: St Lawrence Parish Balcatta. June 16: St Mary’s Cathedral, Padre Pio’s canonisation 10th anniversary.) Enq: Des 6278 1540.

SUNDAY, APRIL 15 Divine Mercy 1.30pm at St Mary’s Cathedral. The Feast of Divine Mercy will be celebrated with reconciliation, holy rosary and chaplet of divine mercy, followed by holy Mass at 2.30pm. The main celebrant and homilist for the afternoon will be Bishop Don Sproxton and other priests are invited to celebrate.

After holy Mass, benediction will be offered by Fr Tizano Bogoni and concludes with veneration of two first class relics of St Faustina Kowalska. Tea and coffee available at parish centre. Enq John 9457 7771.

4th Annual Celebration of the Feast of Divine Mercy 2-3pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Confession, 3-5pm procession with divine mercy icon, Eucharistic adoration. Enq: 9493 1703.

Devotion to Divine Mercy 2.30pm at All Saints Parish, Greenwood. There will be exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by divine mercy novena at 3pm and Mass. Enq: Charles 0416 22 6943.

Divine Mercy 3pm at St Bernadette Parish, Glendalough. 49 Jugan St, Mount Hawthorn. Divine mercy chaplet, sung litany of divine mercy. 3.30pm celebrated Mass with veneration of divine mercy image.

Mass celebrant Fr Ronan Murphy. 4.30pm rite of benediction and veneration of sacred relic of St Faustina. (Please go to Confession prior to feast day.) Enq: 9444 6131.

SATURDAY, 21 AND SUNDAY, APRIL 22

Seminar on Life in a New Century Living a contemplative life in the 21st century as a mother of a large family or as a single person, as a CEO or a truckdriver, etc. For young adults: Friday eve, March 30, 7.30am-9pm and Saturday, March 31, 10am-4pm. Fr Anthony OP 0438 208 952.

Catholic Faith Renewal Retreat 9am-6pm at James Neston Hall, 50 Ruislip St, West Leederville. Fr Gino Henriques will lead a retreat on “God’s life giving covenant of love in marriage and family life”. Enq: Kathy 9295 0913 or Ann 0412 16 6164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

Love Ministry Healing After the 6.30pm Mass at St Brigid Parish, 69 Morrison Rd, Midland. The Love Ministry healing team includes Fr Nishan and Fr David Watt. All welcome, come and be prayed over, healed from the past or present issues or stand in for a loved one who may be ill or facing problems at this time. Enq: Gilbert 0431 570 322 or Fr David Watt on 9376 1734.

75th Anniversary 10am Mass at St Francis Xavier Church, Quairading followed by lunch. Celebrating the anniversary of the blessing and opening of the parish. Enq: Boyle (08) 9645 1513 or Box 163, Quairading 6383.

UPCOMING SUNDAY, APRIL 1 Goliath Music Festival Perth Catholic Youth Ministry will be hosting an original Catholic music festival and we’re seeking local musicians and songwriters to get involved.

Open mic nights will be held fortnightly from Wed, February 15 after CYM Holy Hours to feature original Catholic music. Enq: admin@cym.com.au or 9422 7912.

MONDAY, APRIL 2 Open Day at La Salle College 9.30-11.30am and 1.40pm at La Salle College, open day tours. 5 La Salle Ave, Middle Swan. View our extensive facilities. Register preferred tour time via events@lasalle.wa.edu.au or mail to: events@lasalle.wa.edu.au or 9274 6266.

SUNDAY, MAY 6 2012 Busselton May Rosary Pilgrimage in Honour of Our Lady 2.30pm at Queen of the Holy Rosary Shrine, Bove’s Farm, Roy Rd, Jindong, Busselton. Begins with hymn singing and concelebrated Mass led by Fr Tony at 1pm. Followed by rosary procession, benediction and afternoon tea. Note: Roy Rd runs off Bussell Hwy, approx halfway between Busselton and Margaret River. Enq and bus bookings: Francis 0404 893 877 or 9459 3873.

SUNDAY, MAY 27 Taizé Prayer Evening 7-8pm at St Lawrence Parish, Balcatta. Spend an hour listening to simple music (canons), short readings from the Scriptures and intercession prayer. Reflect on the mercy of God in silence. Enq: Fr Irek Czech SDS or parish office Tues - Thur, 9am2.30pm 9344 7066.

REGULAR EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 6

EVERY SUNDAY

Divine Mercy Novena 2.30pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Confession. 3-4pm divine mercy chaplet and novena, preaching on divine mercy, prayers for healing. Enq: 9493 1703.

Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio Join the Franciscans of the Immaculate from 7.309pm on Radio Fremantle 107.9FM for Catholic radio broadcast of EWTN and our own live shows. Enq: radio@ausmaria.com.

Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook.

Commencing with rosary followed by benediction.

Reconciliation is available before every celebration.

Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292.

EVERY FIRST SUNDAY St Mary’s Cathedral Youth Group – Fellowship with Pizza 5pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth.

Begins with youth Mass followed by fellowship downstairs in parish centre. Bring a plate to share.

Enq: Bradley on youthfromsmc@gmail.com.

EVERY SECOND SUNDAY Healing Hour 7-8pm at St Lawrence Parish, Balcatta. Join us for songs of praise and worship, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and prayers for the sick (except Easter Sunday). Enq: Fr Irek Czech SDS or parish office Tues - Thur, 9am-2.30pm 9344 7066.

EVERY THIRD SUNDAY

EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY Holy Hour Prayer for Priests 7.30-8.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.

Novena to St Mary of the Cross MacKillop 7-7.45pm at Blessed Mary MacKillop Parish, cnr Cassowary Dr and Pelican Pde, Ballajura. Begins with Mass, novena prayers and benediction.

Followed by healing prayers and anointing of the sick. Enq: Madi 9249 9093 or Gerry 0417 187 240.

EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY Chaplets of the Divine Mercy 7.30pm at St Thomas More Parish, Dean Rd, Bateman. A beautiful, prayerful, sung devotion.

Includes exposition followed by benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 or 9325 2010 (w).

EVERY THURSDAY Divine Mercy 11am at Ss John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the rosary and chaplet of divine mercy and for the consecrated life, especially here in John Paul Parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Please do come and join us in prayer. Enq: John 9457 7771.

Oblates of St Benedict – Meeting 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth.

For all interested in studying the Rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople: Vespers and afternoon tea afterwards. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758.

St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting 7.45pm every Thursday at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes praise, song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@flameministries.org.

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EVERY FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life 2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. The hour includes exposition of the blessed Eucharist, silent prayer, scripture and prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations can hear clearly God’s call.

Prayer in Style of Taize 7.30-8.30pm at Our Lady of Grace Parish, 3 Kitchener St, North Beach. Includes prayer, song and silence in candlelight – symbol of Christ the light of the world. Taize info: www.taize.fr. Enq: secretary 9448 4888 or 9448 4457.

Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 12pm at St Bridgid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St. Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass.

Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.

EVERY LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH Filipino Mass 3pm at Notre Dame Church, cnr Daley and Wright Sts, Cloverdale. Please bring a plate to share for socialisation after the Mass. Enq: Fr Nelson Po 0410 843 412, Elsa 0404 03 8483.

EVERY MONDAY Evening Adoration and Mass 7pm at St Thomas Parish, Claremont, cnr Melville St and College Rd. Eucharistic adoration, reconciliation, evening prayer and benediction, followed by Mass and night prayer at 8pm. Enq: Kim on 9384 0598 or email to claremont@perthcatholic.org.au.

The Life and Mission of St Mary MacKillop 9.30-11.30am at Infant Jesus Parish Centre, cnr Wellington Rd and Smith St, Morley. Cost: $15.

Enq: Shelley 9276 8500.

LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH Be Still in His Presence – Ecumenical Christian Programme 7.30-8.45pm at St Swithun Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie St, Lesmurdie (hall behind church).

Begins with songs of praise and worship, silent time, lectio divina, small group sharing and a cuppa at the end. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 043 5252 941.

EVERY TUESDAY Bible Teaching with a Difference 7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Victoria Park.

Exciting revelations with meaningful applications that will change your life. Bring Bible, a notebook and a friend. Enq: Jan 9284 1662.

Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 6pm at Pater Noster Church, Marmion and Evershed Sts, Myaree. Mass at 5.30pm followed by benediction. Enq: John 040 8952 194.

EVERY FIRST TUESDAY Short MMP Cenacle for Priests 2pm at Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Fr Watt 9376 1734.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Holy Spirit of Freedom Community 7.30pm at The Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We are delighted to welcome everyone to attend our Holy Spirit of Freedom praise meeting.

Enq: 042 3907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com.

Bible Study at Cathedral 6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth.

Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy Scripture by Fr Jean-Noel. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: Marie 9223 1372.

Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry CYM is back in 2012, followed by $5 supper and fellowship. Mass at 5.30pm and Holy Hour (adoration) at 6.30pm at the Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Enq: www.cym.com or 9422 7912.

Group Fifty – Charismatic Renewal Group 7.30pm at the Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass. Enq: Elaine 9440 3661.

EVERY FIRST FRIDAY Healing Mass 7pm at St Peter’s Parish, Inglewood. Praise and worship, exposition and Eucharistic adoration, benediction and anointing of the sick, followed by holy Mass and fellowship. Celebrants Fr Dat and invited priests. 6.45pm Reconciliation. Enq: Mary Ann 0409 672 304, Prescilla 043 3457 352 and Catherine 043 3923 083.

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life 7pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Mass followed by adoration with Fr Doug Harris. All welcome. Refreshments provided.

Healing and Anointing Mass 8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree.

Begins with reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189.

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Healing Mass 12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader Fr Waddell.

Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org. au.

EVERY LAST SATURDAY Novena Devotions – Our Lady Vailankanni of Good Health 5pm at Holy Trinity Parish, 8 Burnett St, Embleton.

Followed by Mass at 6pm. Enq: George 9272 1379.

GENERAL Free Divine Mercy Image for Parishes High quality oil painting and glossy print – Divine Mercy Promotions. Images are of very high quality.

For any parish willing to accept and place inside the church. Oil paintings - 160 x 90cm and glossy print - 100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 9417 3267 (w).

Sacred Heart Pioneers Is there anyone out there who would like to know more about the Sacred Heart pioneers? If so, please contact Spiritual Director Fr Doug Harris 9444 6131 or John 9457 7771.

St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Drive, Malaga. Mass of the day: Monday 6.45am. Vigil Masses: Mon-Fri 4.45pm. Enq: Fr David 9376 1734.

Mary MacKillop Merchandise Available for sale from the Mary MacKillop Centre.

Enq: Sr Maree 041 4683 926 or 08 9334 0933.

Financially Disadvantaged People Requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement The Little Sisters of the Poor community - set in beautiful gardens in the suburb of Glendalough.

“Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Registration and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155.

Resource Centre for Personal Development The Holistic Health Seminar “The Instinct to Heal’’, every Tuesday 3-4.30pm; and RCPD2 “Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills” every Tuesday 4.30-6.30pm, 197 High St, Fremantle - Tuesdays 3-4.30pm. Beginning 21 Feb. Enq: Eva 0409 405 585. Bookings are essential.

Courses held at The Faith Centre in 2012 450 Hay St, Perth 1. RCPD2 - Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills This course provides knowledge of principles that, if applied, will improve all relationships. Skills of self-analysis are taught as well as communication skills. Mondays: 5-7pm, from 20 Feb–10 Dec. For enquiries or bookings ph Paul 0402 222 578.

2. RCPD4 – Increase Personal and Spiritual Awareness and Improve Relationships This course promotes self-awareness and spiritual growth. Emotional development is explained in order to improve understanding between persons. Study of Psychology and Theology. Mondays: 10am–12.30pm, from 20 Feb–10 Dec. For enquiries or bookings ph Eva 0409 405 585.

3. Higher Certificate in Biblical Studies The Higher Certificate of Biblical Studies is a distance education programme that can be followed in your own home at your own pace with periodic face-to-face contact workshops. Tutorial assistance is available as required. It is equivalent to a one-year tertiary course, although it is recommended that you aim to complete it in two years.

For enquiries and enrolment, ph The Faith Centre on 6140 2420.

Is your son or daughter unsure of what to do this year?

Suggest a Certificate IV course to discern God’s purpose for their life. They will also learn more about the Catholic faith and develop skills in communication and leadership. Acts 2 College of Mission & Evangelisation (National Code 51452).

Enq: Jane 9202 6859.

AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA 3253 5666.

Saints and Sacred Relics Apostolate Invite SSRA, Perth invites interested parties, parish priests, leaders of religious communities, lay associations, to organise relic visitations to their own parishes, communities, etc. We have available authenticated relics, mostly first-class, of Catholic saints and blesseds including Sts Mary Mackillop, Padre Pio, Anthony of Padua, Therese of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe and Simon Stock and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Free of charge and all welcome. Enq: Giovanny 0478 201 092 or ssra-perth@ catholic.org.

40 Days For Life Campaign Pray to end abortion. Take part in the world-wide, pro-life campaign to pray for mothers and their unborn children, as well as all those involved in the abortion industry. Runs from Wednesday, 22 February to Sunday, 1 April. Join the 40 day challenge: www.40daysforlife.com/PerthWA. Enq: Helen 9402 0349 or Tina 0415 382 541.

A Different Lenten Programme WAVN (Western Australian Vocations Network) - short Lenten program to reflect on the significance of the psalms in Christian worship. Sundays: 6-7.30pm. Dates: March 18 and 25; April 1. Venue: Archbishop Clune Lecture Theatre, Newman Siena Centre, 33 Williamstown Rd, Doubleview. Enq: Kathy 0418 926 590.

Scholarships, Year 7, 2013 - Closing March 31, 2012 La Salle College invites applications for Year 7, 2013 Academic Scholarships. The scholarship offers successful applicants full tuition through to Year 10. The examination will take place at La Salle College on Saturday, March 31, 2012. Closing date for registration is March 20. No late applications will be accepted. The Scholarship Selection Test is run by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and incurs a fee. To register, visit the college website at www.lasalle.wa.edu.au and view Scholarships under Parent Resources.

Enq: Angela 9274 6266.

Aboriginal Scholarships, Year 7, 2013 – Closing April 27, 2012 As a commitment to working with Aboriginal people to enhance life choices and help further career opportunities for Aboriginal youth, La Salle College offers Aboriginal Scholarships each year.

This scholarship entitles the recipients to full/ partial tuition. Applications close April 27, 2012.

An application form can be downloaded from the college website at www.lasalle.wa.edu.au by viewing Scholarships under Parent Resources.

Enrolments, Year 7, 2014 La Salle College is now accepting enrolments for Year 7, 2014. For a prospectus and enrolment form please contact college reception on 9274 6266 or email lasalle@lasalle.wa.edu.au.

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By appointment only. Ph Vickii on 9402 1318, 0409 114 093 or kinlar.vestments@gmail.com.

MISSION ACTIVITIES LEARN HOW TO MAKE ROSARY BEADS for the missions and special rosaries for family and friends. Phone: (02) 6822 1474 or visit our website: OurLadysRosaryMakers.org.au.

MISSIO IMMACULATAE THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE IMMACULATE MARIAN CATECHETICAL MAGAZINE $36 for six issues. Ph 08 9437 2792 or ffimunster@gmail.com.

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BOOK BINDING NEW BOOK BINDING, general book repairs; rebinding; new ribbons; old leather bindings restored. Tydewi Bindery 0422 968 572.

RENT ROOM FOR RENT Secure, luxury house – Midland. Owner/ good cook - motivated person required. 0419 968 051.

FURNITURE REMOVAL ALL AREAS. Competitive rates.

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OPTION 1: 25 DAYS: PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY LAND, ROME, COLLAVALENZA, DUBLIN (IRELAND FOR EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS), KNOCK AND MEDJUGORJE Departing May 22, from $7,790, includes flight transfers, bed, breakfast, evening meals, guide, taxes. Spiritual Director Fr Ronan Murphy.

Leader Yolanda Nardizzi. Tel: 9245 2222, Mob 0413 707 707.

OPTION 2: 19 DAYS: PILGRIMAGE TO ROME, COLLAVALENZA, DUBLIN (IRELAND FOR EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS), KNOCK AND MEDJUGORJE. Departing May 29, from $5,990, includes flight transfers, bed, breakfast, evening meals, guide, taxes. Spiritual Director Fr Ronan Murphy. Leader Yolanda Nardizzi. Tel: 9245 2222, Mob 0413 707 707.

PILGRIMAGE DEPART PERTH APRIL 30, RETURN MAY 17/18 (early hours) for Paris (3 nights) visit Lisieux (St Therese), Notre Dame for Relics of The Passion, Sacre Coeur, Miraculous Medal Shrine, St Vincent De Paul. Flight to Lourdes 5 nights stay, flight to Split 7 nights stay in Medjugorje.

Spiritual Director Fr Bogoni.

Costs $5,395: includes flight transfers, bed, breakfast, evening meals, guide, tipping and taxes.

Contact: Eileen 9402 2480 Mob 0407 471 256, or medjugorje@ y7mail.com.

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POSITION AVAILABLE ELECTRICIAN WANTED Robmar Electrical Service (EC007003). Apply to Rob Mazone 9306 5773 or 0417 95 7329.

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We offer reasonable fees, excellent service and no hidden costs.

Ring Excel on 9481 4499 for a quote. Check our web site on www.excelsettlements.com.au.

TRADE SERVICES BRENDAN HANDYMAN SERVICES Home, building maintenance, repairs and renovations. NOR. Ph 0427 539 588.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Your handyperson. No job too small. SOR. Jim 0413 309 821.

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LAWNMOWING AND WEED SPRAYING Garden clean ups and rubbish removal. Get rid of bindii, jojo and other unsightly weeds. Based in Tuart Hill. Enq: 9443 9243 or 0402 326 637.

NOVENA NOVENA TO SAINT JUDE Thank you for favours granted.

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