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to Archbishop Barbarito who has Australia has its own hymn, with particularly Australian themes especially written for the visit of Pope John Paul in November.

The hymn, which is part of the official preparations for the papal visit, was written and composed by two Melbourne priests, Redemptorist Father Tony Kelly, and Jesuit Father Christopher Willcock.

It is entitled God Of Peace in keeping with the celebraton of 1986 as a year of peace.

The hymn will be published by Dove Communications, in April and is expected to be used throughout the country from April through to the visit.

The composors are well known in their respective fields. Father Kelly is president of the Yarra Theological Union, Box Hill, and president of the Melbourne College of Divinity.

He has received acclaim as a Christian poet especially for A Way of Wondering.

Father Willcock is a lecturer in liturgy and systematic theology at Jesuit Theological College, Parkville.

He has a bachelor of music in composition at Sydney University.

His psalms, Mass settings and songs are well-known in the Catholic Church in Australia.

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been transferreo

to England.

The new papal repre-

sentative to Australia is 65 and was ordained priest in his native diocese of Como, northern Italy in 1947.

After post graduate studies in Rome

he joined the Church's diplomatic service in 1942 and served in Honduras, Peru,

Ecuador,

and the US before returning to a Vat-

ican City post in

1967.

In 1970 he moved

overseas again as a pro-nuncio to Tanzania,

The Catholic school and college is a reflection of the goals and aims of the Church, Archbishop Foley told the assembly which saw him bless extensions worth $820,000 at Mercy College Koondoola last Sun-

day.

"The Church is not hierarchical Structure as some people paint it in rejection of authority. The Church a living reality.

It is a community of People which is reach-

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ing out to express their deep faith in individual human beings he said.

"They express this in their attitudes of reverence for human life and real freedom, in gratitude for the good things the world - and Australia in particular -- has given us, and in the development of a sense of responsibility and focus in the life of the young adult as they go out into society

Referring to the blessed crucifixes which he hung on the walls of the new building Archbishop Foley said.

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1.15pm Sunday March 23 St Mary's Cathedral "... How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace... "

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Peace Service organised by the Churches Peace Coalition Supported by the Catholic Social Justice Commission (Perth Archdiocese) Phone 325 1212

"Catholics should be in the first ranks of those preparing for peace."

(Pope John Paul II New Year's Day 1982).

Father John LEECH resignfrom Leederville ing through failing health to live privately, was born in County Westmeath, Ireland and following his ordination in Kilkenny in June, 1942 reached Australia six months later to commence at Midland parish, followed

by Bunbury in 1944 and chaplain to St John of God hospital in 1948 He became parish priest of Kondinin in 1948, Tambel lup in 1954, Cunderdin in 1956, York in 1957, first parish priest of Glendalough in 1959, Southern Cross in 1971 until his transfer to Leederville in 1976

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Father O'Dwyer Father Leech Father Gandini the Army Reserve and a Father John J. O'DWYER, in Italy with the Salesian member of the Archbishop who will live privately is Order which he entered in Gosnells parish, left vacant committee for ecumenism originally from Dublin and 1965 being ordained at after the death of Father At Claremont Father Ferdiarrived in Perth at the end of Allessandria, near Turin, in Tom PRENDIVILLE will be nand MARLOW SJ will tem1943 following his ordina 1976 filled by Father Thomas porarily be priest in charge He returned to Australia tion in St Mary's Cathedral, O'PREY, chaplain to the last July. following the resignation Kilkenny, in June that year.

Hollywood Repatriation Father Dario BRUNETTI through failing health of Following appointments at Hospital for the past four Father John J. O'DWYER Maylands, Leederville in who has resigned Kelmscott years while residing at CotFather Marlow entered the 1945 and Guildford in 1949 parish to live privately tesloe.

Society of Jesus in his native he became parish priest of comes from Nepi, north of Educated in his native IreBelgium in 1925, moving to Mount Barker in 1950, Cun- Rome where he was India in 1929 and being land at Salesian College, derdin in 1954, Toodyay in ordained in the Collegio Limerick, Mungret and All ordained priest there in 1956, Merredin in 1958, Leonino in 1935 He spent 10 years in AmerHallows Colleges he was 1938.

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At Highgate his involvement with Italian families At Kelmscott, Father John which he left in 1967 to led him to study Italian in GANDINI SDB is temporar- become parish priest of Florence. ily priest in charge since Kelmscott where he was He returned in 1974 to January 18, following the responsible for the enlargebecome the longest serving resignation of Father Dario ment of the church of the Father Peter WHITELY is assistant priest of Cottesloe BRUNETTI. Good Shepherd founding parish priest of the parish and where the golden Born in Subiaco and eduAt Joondanna, Father Frank new parish of Bateman as anniversary of his entering cated by the Brigidine Sis- CHRISTIE, OSM, formerly from April 5. the Jesuits was honoured ters and the Marist Brothers priest in charge has been Born in East Fremantle and last year. he completed his education confirmed as parish priest e(uctet t st Th0fnis gw% Claremont, Marist College Gentlemen's Clothing Wembley, St Charles' Seminary, Guildford and St FranTailoring & Footwear cis Xavier Seminary, Also Formal Hire Available Adelaide he was ordained in Come and see the large selection at September 1972.

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It is a sign of God's love for you and of God's vocation calling you to the fullness of life He wants us to have.

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that can be achieved without hatred, without violence without injustice, a fullness that can bring happiness and satisfaction to individuals, families and society at

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"I look to the young people both in primary and secondary classes to continue to come to terms with the reality of life, as enlightened by the word of God, to accept the strength you are offered and to achieve

the goals you yearn for."

Earlier the archbishop said it was not just bricks and mortar and not just new technology that would make life better for the new generation.

"It is people we are concerned with.

"With the all round development of people as they head towards the maturity that is the concern of anybody involved in education, certainly the concern of the Church "A person must be helped to reach that maturity on every level, physical and intellectual, but also emotional and spiritual, if they are going to be able to find happiness in their life and be able to contribute to the well-being of society at large" he said

The Premier Mr Burke has reaffirmed his government's commitment to the financial support of non-government schools on the basis of need.

Mr Burke was speaking at the opening of the extensions to Mercy College, Koondoola last Sunday.

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Mr Burke, whose children "I make no apologies for saying those schools most in attend the Koondoola need, which inevitably school, praised the Sisters of include the Catholic Mercy for their highly signifschools, are the ones to icant contribution to educwhich the attention of tion and to the community government should first be through the establishment ofMercy College turned," Mr Burke said The $720,000 extension The Premier noted the relationship between the includes three new seconCatholic school sector and dary science laboratories, governments had changed facilities for secondary dramatically in the past 15 home economics and art and craft, three primary years 'We now have a mature classrooms, library and and worthwhile relationship resource centre for primary which accepts and acknow- students, and additions to edges the role of the Church the primary school adminisand the Catholic education tration block

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It may do Christians no harm occasionally to hear the trite comment that they are their own worst enemies provided we can decide whether we would prefer to hear the truth from our WASHINGTON (NC). - Two leading US friends or our adversaries.

Church authorities have come out with The sad aspect of seeing ourselves as others demands for statements on abortion and see us is that it will have little to do with abortion reform. theology, mysteries of faith or the problems of Cardinal Jean Jerome Hamer in Washington human existence. Instead it will be over the has repeated Vatican demands US Relgious insane contradictions with which we are seen who signed a pro-choice abortion advertiseto act out what is supposed to be so sacred and ment in 1984 declare their support for Church precious to us. teaching on abortion.

A report from Brisbane last week described Archbishop Phillip Hannan, of New Orleans an ordeal in which a man spent hours in the river has called for a "clear and convincing with the ever present risk of being taken by a explanation" from US Catholic Conference shark. When asked how he spent the long hours attorneys who filed a legal brief in the US he replied that he continuously sang a song Supreme Court, which the archbishop says about Jesus that he had learnt as a young child. accepts a woman's right to abortion.

Just as the reader's chest began to swell with The archbishop, attacked the friend-of-thepride at this touching story of piety, the man court brief filed by USCC general counsel noted that he was not really a religious person Wilfred R. Caron in July in connection with an and could not explain why when circled by a abortion case from Pennsylvania shark he would spend the night singing a In the brief, Caron, assisted by Mark E religious song.

Chopko, USCC assistant general counsel, asked Perhaps some dedicated parent or catechist the High Court to uphold the Pennsylvania has taught him the rudiments of faith precisely Abortion Control Act, which attempted to so that on the day when he would need to pray, protect both women and unborn children in LONDON: Bishop Alexander of Clifton blessed the new abortion but was largely negated by a federal church of St Francis of Assisi in Nailsea, Avon. The the words would be at hand. Why do so many appeals court. building, which cost $560,000 has a sophisticated people today boast of their disinterest in religion partition to separate the sanctuary from the body of the when the slightest brush with death or a building, so the main area can be used for non-worship However, unlike a friend-of-the-court brief filed casualty ward or similar tragedy has them purposes. Another interesting feature is the set of 14 by the Reagan administration, the USCC document pouring out their soul to the media about how Stations of the Cross which were designed by children of did not ask the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 St Francis school. The Lady statue was sculpted by local much they prayed? abortion decision, Roe vs Wade. artist Sue Bachelor.

Equally disturbing were the sounds coming ·We need a clear and from the last week's parliamentary slanging la convincing explanation match. Media reports made much of a number from the legal counsel of the of personal epithets hurled abusively across the United States Catholic Conference, the corporate counchamber. Little surprise seemed to be taken at VATICAN: The pope indicated to the ITALY: Religious instruction in terpart to the National one exchange in which reportedly the Treasurer state schools is to become optional new Yugoslav ambassador to the Conference of Catholic talked of crucifying and being a crown of thorns this year.

Holy See that he would accept en Bishops, of his amicus Church and state officials have signed invitation to Yugoslavia. to his opponent. (friend-of-the-court) brief He said visits to other countries gave an agreement following guidelines laid A kind explanation might be to say that he which did not support the down by a 1984 concordat. "the comforting reassurance of a sense of brief of the administration was referring to Roman military punishment.

At present, religious instruction is given family". calling on the Supreme but Mr Keating is committed both to the Church He hoped the new ambassador's mission to all students unless a request for Court to reverse the 1973 and his Christian faith. Evan he would regret exemption is made. Now students or would contribute to the cause of religious Roe vs Wade decision which freedom in Yugoslavia. parents may choose. that in the heat of the moment his rage swung legalised abortion," the For those who opt out, an alternative on the very sentiments that are sacred, GLASGOW, (NO) -archbishop declared.

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Caron, when told of the especially during Lent.

A Catholic Church CACCRA (Ghana): Ghana's information archbishop's criticism, said What perviersity makes us take the things that commission in Scoministry has cancelled the publishing permit he had no immediate com1111111111111111111111111 we were so carefully taught to respect and tum tland has attacked a of the Catholic Standard, Ghana's national ment. them into outrageous insults? Why are the British government Catholic weekly newspaper.

Caron and Chopko, in the languages of once traditionally Catholic and dicussion paper which OTTAWA: Canada's bishops are brief, wrote that the PenUndersecretary of Information Kofi Totobu preparing for the 1987 Synod on the Quakyi, said the paper's writing had nsylvania case "presents an Christian Europe so littlered with profanities and proposes cutting out, Laity by distributing 4600 questionnaire to jeopardised the interests of Ghana and that important opportunity for sacrilegious obscenities? What has Jesus done reducing or redefining lay people asking about their religion. this court to clarify its precethe newspaper was "unpatriotic and that he should be abused universally in the pub, state social aid proQuestions range from their participation dents governing abortion determined to use its pages to undermine on the sportsground and wherever human grams. in parish organisations to their prayer life. the noble cause."

The brief, filed at the same Organisers hope that in addition to paving beings can't behave themselves? time as the administration's According to some observers, the governAffected would be the way to the Synod the survey will help ment cracked down on the newspaper brief, added in a footnote And there are finally the frivolous day social security, unemfuture pastoral planning, and that the "the moral teaching of the because it took up issues, such as human dreamers who mistake fantasy and faith. Buried ployment benefits, dioceses consulted will use it as "a rights, which other Ghanaian newspapers Catholic Church on the in a busy week news was the item that the rent relief and other springboard for other initiatives". avoided. obligation to protect life exceptionally low level of the Sea of Galilee had programs for the revealed a sunken fishing boat that could well underprivileged or lllllll 111111111111111 be some 2000 years old. disabled.

There was no need to hold one's breath The Church's social care MOSCOW: Patriarch Pimen of Moswaiting to hear reporters solemnly tell how they commission, in September cow and Al Russia has pledged the had phoned the Vatican, of all places, to enquire criticised the government Russian Orthodox Church to a continuing if some anonymous monsignor though the boat for "economic and ideologstruggle for nuclear disarmament. ical preconceptions which In his annual message for Christmas, could possibly belong to one of the apostles or divide the country into two celebrated by his Church on January 7, even Jesus Himsetf7 nations, the rich and the the Patriarch calls for "good-will negotiaWhy do the superficialities of the Bible, the poor." tions" and opposition to "the use of space A policy of "targeting" antics of religious visionaries or the oddities of for military purposes." outlined in the government self-proclaimed prophets hold a cynical fascinaHe also anticipates the 1000th anniverpaper - selecting some sary of the Baptism of Russia in 988, tion for a world which has little time for the needy groups as being more considered the official "birthday" of the message of sett-sacrifice, humility, detachment, needy than others -was Russian Orthodox Church. truth and justice that are the real message of the also criticised by the Catholic commission. gospel pages?

It said the policy meant Perhaps the blame lies with the religious 111111111111111111111 "robbing the poor to help purists, the zealots who want Christians to be the poorest." so perfect and holy right now that ordinary folk The policy shows an underVIENTIAN: Archbishop Nguyen Van are left wallowing and isolated from a faith they lying attitude that there are Binh of Ho Chi Minh City announced could never understand because they were the "deserving" and the recently in Rome that he had ordained four the poor, "undeserving" never taught that it would be the faith of people new priests for his diocese. commission said. who are weak, fallible and sinful, but who can This raises to 11 the number of new "The Church had looked achieve a lot when they give God a chance. priests ordained in Ho Chi Minh city with for a comprehensive review

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which would have met the needs of people suffering deprivation, especially in a tme of growing poverty as a result of the bigh levels.of

unemployment," the commission said.

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the authorisation of the communist government in the 10 years since the Vietnam War ended.

The Pope has again expressed disappointment that only three of the Vietnam's 39 bishops were allowed to make their ad limina visit to Rome.

LONDON: Sue Garner Jones taught herself to write again after a visit to Lourdes following a horrific car crash in which she was parabrsed, and recently she received her Master ofArts degree at Liverpool University. Sue, pictured with her mother and brother lark, plans to take n philosophy coarse

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SINGAPORE: An average of 50 to 60 babies were legally aborted

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These shocking figures were disclosed by Singapore's Archbishop Gregory Yong, in his sermon during the feast of the Holy Innocents' Mass.

Prayers for peace

LONDON (NC)

Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, England, said he welcomed Pope John Paul ll's

invitation to worldwide church leaders to join for a day of prayer for peace in Assisi, Italy.

"I have long believed Christian leaders and leaders of the great world religions have an important contribution to make towards reconciliation in a divided world," said Archbishop Runcie.

He said he did not envision the meeting offering political solutions to world problems, but that it would be "a sign of hope to the world that bridges can be built across the divides of race and culture, politics and creed."

The pope extended his invitation to the religious leaders during an ecumenical prayer service at Rome's Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls. from conception is well known. The conference's efforts to clarify this court's abortion decisions do not imply a willingness to compromise any aspect of that moral teaching."

The New Orleans archbishop questioned why the USCC attorneys had filed a brief at all.

"If for any reason they felt that they could not support the brief issued by the administration, they certainly should not have issued abrief at a time which could damage the president's brief," he wrote in the column.

He said "the explanation received so far" was that the USCC brief was in support of the Pennsylvania law as not "unduly burdening" to the woman's choice on abortion.

In Washington Cardinal Hamer repeated Vatican demands that US Religious who signed a pro-choice abortion advertisement last Year must declare their supDort for Church teaching on the topic Some women Religious involved have reportedly been cleared now on the issue The cardinal, who heads the Vatican Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, praised "the good will" of the Religious and their superiors involved in the controversy. He met with some of them at the

Vatican nunciature in Washington, a nunciature official said.

Cardinal Hamer's statement did not use the word 'retract'' or "recant" although the original letters from his office had demanded a public retraction by the Religious involved.

A nun in St Louis, Sacred Heart Sister Mary J. ByMes, reportedly said she was cleared without having had to recant on the advertisement.

Russell Shaw, a public affairs, spokesman for the US bishops, said he has been told that "several of the women Religious" who signed the advertisement "have reached a meeting of minds" with the Vatican congregation

Cattlemen object to meat idea NEW YORK, (NC) -- Some Kansas cattlemen

had a beef with the bishop when Bishop Stanley Schlarman of Dodge City suggested meatless Friday as a Catholic penitential practice for peace.

Bishop Schlarman made the suggestion in his 1985 Advent pastoral letter.

Later he said, "It was not my intention to add to the difficulties being experienced by our farmers and He said concerns were raised about the impact meatless Friday by Catholics would have "on those who depend upon the beef industry for their livelihood.'

DUBLIN: An Irish-speaking district created by the government of lreland 50 years ago recently opened its

first church.

The community, called Rath Cairn, was created a halfcentury ago by the lrish Land Commission as a district in which the lrish form of the ancient Gaelic language would be spoken.

The government brought a group of poor families from Irish-speaking areas of Connemara in western Ireland to settle the spot.

Rath Cairn is in northeastern lreland's County Meath

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A hymn for tour Hymn 1

Australia's hymn for the visit of Pope John Paul II has a chorus, three verses for congregations and a number of invocations with a refrain repeated by the people.

The following is the chorus and a selection of verses and invocations from the hymn: God Of Peace Choral stanza: Holy Church, home for all nations, living tempie of the Spirit: rejoice, rejoice!

One body, growing to God's glory for our world's peace: rejoice, rejoice!

One in Christ, one Spirit breathed, one glory of the God of all; Strangers no longer, enemies no more, people of the God of peace: rejoice, rejoice!

Rejoice in the prophets' word, rejoice in the apostles' witness, rejoice in the blood of martyrs, For the universal love, the bond of peace, has brought us together.

Verses:

1. Lord of life and Lord of nations, Giving peace, you make us one: Heart of flesh for heart of stone, Break the walls of all divisions.

Your Kingdom come, with this its sign: Our song, this prayer: let peace now reign!

2. Lengths of love beyond all measure, Heights of love which

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Knights chosen to organise tour appeal said.

He said it would be an additional challenge to the Knights to arrange collection in those places where KSC branch did not exist and where committee members would work through parish representatives.

Each parish will be asked to appoint a co-ordinator for the appeal and to arrange for either the parish priest or selected lay speakers to speak at all Masses delivering a standard national message that will be used throughout Australia on the appeal day.

The Knights have been asked to obtain the envelopes at little or no cost and to have those envelopes distributed to all Mass-goers on the two appeal days.

After their appeal they will organise the collection of the envelopes, the counting of the money and its banking with the ANZ Bank which is the official bank for the papal tour administration.

The Knights of the Southern Cross have been paid a great compliment by being asked to conduct the two national appeals for the papal tour, national vice-president Mr Laurie Phillips said this week.

Two appeals will be made nationally in all Catholic churches on April 13 and September 14.

'When the Melbourne director Monsignor Walsh was looking for a lay organisation to handle the appeal it turned out that the Knights were the only group ready with the organisation, the discipline and the resources to carry out the projects," he said.

Mr Phillips heads the Knights' WA state committee for the papal tour. At the next level, the Knights have committees in each of the dioceses of Perth, Sunbury and Geraldton.

"Tere is area«v a great eat of enthusiasm tor the para! tour in the state and diocesan committees and we are looking forward to that spreading to all the branches," Mr Phillips

now do call, Breadth of love as room for all, Depths of love where hides the treasure: Through Christ, our Way, we find true peace, A world made whole in God's embrace.

3. Visions new and ancient dreaming See the love beyond all death, New the heavens, new the earth, Promise of the Kingdom coming.

Through Christ, wounds of all world In God's own peace will then be healed.

Refrain: Lord Jesus, you give the peace that none can take away: Give our world your Natonal KSC vice chairman Mr Laurie Phillips who is also state KSC papal tour chairman, and KSC chaplain Father John peace today!

Orzanski discuss details of the appeals to be organised by the Knights for the papal tour, with the WA director Monsignor Invocations: Pat O'Reilly.

I. In all the beauties of poor: hills and desert, of we ask you, God of peace. beach and ocean and 5. Fruit of our earth, grain bushland song: and grape from we praise you, God of Australian soil; work of our hands, bread peace. and wine of our country's 2. For all this vast land, for toil: its riches and its history, for all its accept these, God of peace. peoples, both old and new: 6. Strengthen us with J a we thank you, God of food and drink transformed by your Spirpeace. from MARGARET AND it's power; PETER LAUNDY, Wembley 3. The Southern Cross, SIR, Although the CCJP has the glory of our sky, become for us the bread working of this body was I can assure Father Cross I a right to its opinion on the from J.F. HARDING, the colours of our land that will not stale, thoroughly explained to the also, and very obviously many Dianella peace issue, it does not have and the sunlight of the wine that will not laity by the bishops SIR: The solution to Father many Australians, some of the right to put the future our days: sour: Instead, this body has security of Australia in jeo- Robert Cross' anxiety (The whom are not of our faith, are involved itself in questions of they praise you, God of we thank you, God of pa rdy by promoting the Record, February 20) is very also deeply hurt and disillusinational and international break-down of the US simple: prevent the manipu- oned by the mishandling of peace. peace. security with a document alliance. lation of the truth and the assault on Compassion Project 4. Give us strength to 7. Peace for our country, which is an affront to one's The US alliance is an inte- offerings by political opera- one's intelligence shown work for justice, help peace for each nation, natural intelligence and fairfrom the outset of the congral component of our tors. us peace in our world, defence strategy. Without it mindedness, while the The involvement of those troversy. banish war; there may peace through all we are easy prey for Soviet entrenched within the The attack upon the family seminar held late last year expansionism.

Catholic Commission for Jus- by the infamous Family Law was designed to inhibit any wounds be healed; creation: open discussion on Work for The generous donations to tice and Peace in matters Act; the proposed Bill of here be room for the we ask you, God of peace.

''Because of its importance and because all other forms of catechesis are oriented in some way to it, the catechesis of adults must have high priority at all levels of the Church. The success of programs for children and youth depends to a significant extent upon the words, attitudes, and actions of the adult community, especially parents, family and guardians."

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Right to opinion

"Project Compassion" should not be wasted by financing the CCJP, but should be hastily sent to the needy in the Third World.

St Francis

conference from BERNADETTE KNUCKEY, Mt Hawthorn SIR: I was pleased to see advertised (The Record February 13), a conference on St Francis of Assisi by Father Max Mizzi. In January of this year I had the privilege of meeting Father Mazin Assisi, where he has lived for many

years.

I was very impressed by this unassuming man whose peacefulness and depth of spirituality reminded me of the saint whom he loves and knows intimately.

It goes without saying that I'm looking forward to meeting him again and hearing him speak at the conference.

A solution for priest's anxiety

affecting Australia's national security is a sorry and even tragic example of the lack of oversight by those charged with that authority. ft has thrown a totally unnecessary veil of suspicion over a very worthy fund which will not simply go away.

Rights; the swamping of the nation with pornographic material; the gross overtaxation of a depleted work force; and the refusal to permit the splitting of income of single income earners, are all matters that the CCJP could have involved itself in after the

A.C.R.bound to suffer in funds ... from B.G. HARRISON, Carlisle

ft seems that the Australian bishops' continued support for the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, when that body IS so obviously biased, will ultimately achieve two objectives.

It will affect the amount of money given to Project Compassion for the poor and needy, and secondly it will cause anxiety and division

amongst .Catholics in their loyalty to the bishops.

I will not give one cent to Project Compassion whilst it continues to fund the Commission for Justice and Peace - regardless of what any bishop says. My political views are entirely my own prerogative and I object to being told that I should financially Support something as divisive as the Commission.

a Just Peace.

Resignation of Bishop from LLOYD EVANS, Mount Claremont

SIR: The resignation of Bishop Mayne from the Bishops' Committee for Development and Peace (The Record February 6) because he did not approve of the CCJP's direction confirms the urgent need to separate Pro ject Compassion from the controversy over CCJP fund ing.

The CCJP does not ment any consideration for a share of this money raised for the

poor. f it has qualified under the pretext of development edu

cation, then it is a gra8 injustice to the poor.

The CCJP has incurred the anger of many because of its one sided viewpoint and anti-American attitude.

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ROME (NC) -- Nica"popular ragua's church" --organised Catholic support for the Sandinista government is not necesa sarily good expression of liberation theology, said Peruvian Father Gustavo Gutierrez, one of Latin Americas leading liberation theologians.

"I do not doubt that the the theology of liberation could have contributed to making Christians in Nicaragua feel more clearly the need to commit themselves to the fight for the liberation of their people," he said in an Italian magazine interview.

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causes of poverty in Latin America.

"But it cannot be said that using two, three or four Marxist notions is the equi"But I do not think it can valent of using the Marxist analysis as such," he said. be maintained that which In 1984 the Vatican issued cam eafter in Nicaragua is a major document warning the result of the theology theologians against uncritiof liberation," Father cal use of Marxist concepts Gutierrez said. because they are rooted in The "popular Church" has an atheistic world outlook.

Father Gutierrez also said been critised by Pope John Paul II for not accepting the • he disagrees with some of authority of the bishops. The the many branches of liberNicaraguan bishops have SAN SALVADOR (NO) -said it is an effort to form a Archbishop Arturo Rivera pro-government Church Damas of San Salvador has Supporters and critics of the "popular church" have criticised the Salvadoran army for what he described said it is an effort to apply as the harassment of Salvadliberation theology in Nicaoran peace demonstrators. ragua One man was arrested and Father Gutierrez defended the demonstrators were theologians who use aspects turned back from their ofMarxist social thought to identify the structural

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The WACA ground and Subiaco Oval have limited @pacities and a ceiling would have to be put on attendance, whereas the Belmont Park venue offers as many as Possile b the unrestricted possibility to attend if they wish.

0y the time he reaches Perth, Pope John Paul will be ed to the smell of horses In at least four capital cities, papal Mass will be celebrated at Australia's top @cecourses. Pope Paul VI appears to have suffered no ill effects from the Randwick racecourse Mass in 1970.

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• willingness of priests to live and work together.

• what the archdiocese might be like in the year 2000.

And the first Thursday in

each following month

Sowing the seeds of a better life.

• Pope John Paul II has a "very important weight" in Latin America because of his sensitivity to the problems of workers and the poor.

Father Gutierrez added he has not received any official communication from the Vatican criticising or questioning his work, nor has he been formally asked to discuss his views with Vatican officials

While emergency aid is still needed, and the Church is active in its selective distribution, tile larger task of long-term development has now begun in earnest.

Projects such as dams, wells, agriculture, health care and nutrition are those for which Project Compassion now needs your help.

Together we can help Ethiopians work toward a stable future.

Life has never been easy in Ethiopia. But when the 1984 drought finally brought Ethiopia to our television screens, it brought Ethiopia to its knees.

World-wide emergency aid provided much relief and saved many lives. The Ethiopian Catholic Church. with its network of parishes and schools played a vital and major role in distribution of urgent food supplies and medical care.

And when rains began to fall, Church personnel were ready with seeds and tools to help broken people rebuild their lives.

try in support of an international march for peace in Central America.

The caravan was also stopped frequently at army roadblocks on the return trip, said participants "I believe every government has the right to say what can be, what is permitted, and what isn't," he said

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from PHILLIP PENDAL MLC, Parliament House.

SIR, I make no apology to Jenni York (The Record, February 6) or anyone else for advertising my candidacy in The Record prior to the state election spend a considerable part of my parliamentary year receiving representation from Christians concerned about

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from Vincenzo VALENTI, Bayswater.

SIR: They made the wrong choice in selecting the Belmont Park race course (The Record February 13) for the Papal Mass.

It smells of manure. Why didn't they choose Subiaco Oval or the WACA ground which are much clearer places?

EJ[JC The Holy Father should be given a more respectful venue, not necessarily the largest. I suggest they Why then should I not be eep Belmont Park for horses and gamblers with entitled to appeal to Catholic Door souls and not for our Pope.

EDITOR: The WA Director of the papal tour avises the elmont Park racecourse was chosen as the best venue after wide consultation with the police, transport and other

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Television a teaching tool Is television a bad influence on chidren?

Many think so, citing scenes of sex, violence and blatant commercialism. But Lillian Black thinks television can be a teaching tool "which parents can use to reinforce the Christian family's values."

Even negative aspects of the medium can be used for good if parents take the time to talk with their children about them, she

Alexander the Great, at age 23,set out to fulfil a dream. Convinced

Greek culture represented the height of human achievement,

he wanted to share it with the whole world. Unfortunately,

this involved military conquest.

Undaunted, he marched all the way from Macedon (Greece)

to India, carving out a vast empire.

When he finished, the whole known world was Greek. The international language was Greek, and Greek ideas were part of everyday life. When Alexander died at age 33, his empire was split among hi genefails.

One named Seleucus, and his successors, eventually controlled Palestine. And one of those successors was an emotionally unstable despot called Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Only one people at that time refused to adopt Greek ways: the Jews Oh, many Jews turned away from their heritage

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Can media presentations work in subtle and not-sosubtle ways at home to undermine values? This week we continue our expo-

ration of the effects of the

modern media, especially television. Our writers ask what can happen when TV viewers adopt an overly passive attitude toward the programs they watch.

Monica Clark interviews an educator who believes that much good can be drawn by children from television if parents reflect well on their approach to the medium.

Clark is associate editor of The Catholic Voice in Oakland, California. Mer article

world tinued to cherish their values, at great

By Father John Castelot

cost. This shows how

However, many continued to pursue their Jewish values. That infuriated Antiochus.

He launched a vicious persecution that drew the lines clearly. Now there could be no question of compromise. People who refused to offer sacrifices to pagan gods, who had their boys

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and the people around them But it is a heritage that

Christians

uneasy when cultural forces pose genuinely opposing values. The problem usually

e combinat rt forms," sys Mary Megee, produc ter for the new PBS series "O Tele But, despite its inherent power ism, she says, the television es way into most American y is often unimaginative,

comes not from overt

its

persecution, but from a subtle infiltration of value systems. This is hard to deal with precisely because it is so subtle so apparently attractive and reasonable.

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What is remarkable is that the Jews con-

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for tele watchers

Acts of violence occur six times per hour in prime-time television; 25 times per hour on children's weekend daytime pro-

against the message of churches." Members want to "alert churches on the need to educate on TV

watching." he added He

gramming.

• blue-collar workers make up 60 percent of the U.S population but only 10 per cent of characters on televi-

sion.

men outnumber women on television three to one • young people on television are one-third of their true proportion in U.S society; the elderly are oneifth ¢ of 300 personalities on screen weekly, 44 are in law enforcement, 21 are crimi nals Television seems to mirror the real lives of viewers but does it really? That is the sort of question that Michael

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Warren, who provided the statistics, thinks viewers need to ask to become knowledgeable consumers of television.

For two years, Warren has served on the National Council of Churches Com mission on Television and the Electronic Media The commission came

about. Warren said. because

of "a growing concern in the churches that here is a major social influence capturing people and often going

around the world?" she asks.

The programming must match the child's maturity level. "We don't give children books beyond their level of comprehension. Likewise, TV show selection has to take the says. stage of development Ms Black, a seasoned into account," she says school Catholic 2. Talk with children teacher, principal and about TV programs what they watch now co-ordinator for they've watched Ms Black suggests "barA child needs help in curriculum and pera parent sits gaining" discerning what values sonnel services helps down with the child to are being communtparents develop an plan a balanced viewing cated. She suggests askapproach to TV viewschedule. "Let the child ing some key questions: 1ng make selections for the e "If you were in that We have to come to month, but say it must situation, what would include one or two cultugrips with the fact that you do? we can't isolate our ral events, one newscast e "How do you think children from the influand perhaps a sport not those people got to be How? ence of television," she watched before the way they are?

She offered several sugbelieves. "What we can "How else can most e Who in that situation do is get involved in gestions. families afford concerts, do you admire? Would I. Help children make athletic events, live theaturning that influence to you like to be like that positive choices about tre and trips to places good." person? ·What is that program [The larger our media grow, the more or commercial trying to tell you? How does that important traditional communication make you feel?" becomes. It is an essential countermeasure in Such conversation gives parents opportunities to this age of passive media consumerism." clarify values and to dis(Margareta lnglestam in Media and Values: A cover what is going on inside their child."There Quarterly Review of Media Issues and Trends.) can be wonderful surprises," Ms Black says It is important to help children differentiate between what is real and what is fiction. "We can't assume children are able to do that," she says when Particularly shows include violence, it is important for children to understand in real life violence hurts people.

She cautions parents against becoming numb to TV violence and consequently not recognis-

Clark

Christians to care very much for the world

makes

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the society around them, as if it were altogether evil. In fact, this heritage causes

zPrime time viewing circumcised or who

But many Jews refused to capitulate. The two books of the Maccabees in the Old Testament contain numerous stories of includes specific sagesthe truly heroic reftions for parents on how to usal to forget the guide children's viewing. values they held dear Katherine Bird, associate Under the Maccabees' editor of the NC Religious leaderhip the Jews Education Package, asks fought against trewhat happens when viewers mendous odds for look t6 TY programs for those values. Eventumirror images of real life. ally they won out.

Often life as it appears on the screen is unreal in many It was not that Greek culture was all that ways, her article suggests.

For viewers, an understandbad; Thousands of ig of this reality is part of Jews lived throughout what media literacy is al the empire as good about. citizens and still And Father John Castelot's remained faithful scripture article recalls a Jews situation in biblical times when lews had to make a But when it came to being forced to make choice between values being a choice - either an imposed on them and the alien value system or vales of their heritage, which they cherished. The values of the essence choice they made led to their for Jewish identity persecution. there was no ques-

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deeply convinced the Jews were of the importance of their religious values. The Jews had a thorough knowledge of their own history and were justifiably proud of their way of life.

So it was with the Jews then and so it is today.

So with the first Christians and with Christians of all ages. Proud of their Christian heritage, they have handed it on to their children It is not a heritge that leads them to oppose

Influence n our kids ...

quoted George Gerbner, of the University of Pennsylvania's school of communications, as saying "Children used to grow up in homes where parents told most of the stories most of the time. Today television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time."

That has enormous significance from the Christian

perspective because our vision is based on a story, an image of what life is, as

imagined by Jesus," Warren

said

What is happening with television is that someone we never see "is imagining our world for us," Warren continued. Too often the

story presented "runs quite counter to the image of human life Jesus proposes and that Christian tradition

represents."

Think of scenes from the Gospel, Warren suggested

the curing of the man born blind or the stories of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan

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"Contrast those with the kind of scenario on popular shows like "Dallas" which

celebrate

'nastiness," Warren added. "In the Good Samaritan compassion is celebrated."

Warren, while serving on the church commission, has become increasingly aware "of how arbitrary the mate-

rial produced on television is and how little it is attentive to the needs of people."

Television 'is controlled by

advertising copy, the need to

sell," he said, pointing out that advertisers will p

ing its potential effects

$100,00o for a 15-second] slot" on a program. The] willingness of advertisers to]

on children When this happens, she said, parents often fail to

spend that kind of money] indicates they believe the] medium has an impact on] viewers. Warren noted

talk frequently enough with their impressionable children about the

But, he cautioned, no one]

violence.

knows yet how much power!

She urges parents to

television has to shape peo pie's minds and values. It is a "huge question debated]

back and forth," he said

Working on the topic

take the initiative, not

waiting for a child to bring up questions about the violence or sex they've seen on televison 3.Respect the fact that achild's tastes will differ from your own.

Letting a child watch

"]

said.] he interesting. "because no one is claiming] a hard and fast connection]

between TV viewing and]

certain behaviour." Instead people say "it may do this, if may do that "Television is so new we don't know the long-range]

consequences," Warren] i

programs that a parent

Mary think television is a bad influence on children, hurt Lillian Black, co-ordinator for curriculum and personnel services for the Diocese of Oakland, California, believes television can be a teaching tool "which parents can use to reinforce the family's Christian values." t is important to help children differentiate between

doesn't enjoy does not mean a parent is relin

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When Nedlands historian Carolyn Polizotto began researching the life of one of Perth's most renowned artists, Elise Blumann she realised it was a story which begged to be written ... so she changed her mind and went ahead with an application for a special Commonwealth New Writers' Assistance Grant. The grant enabled her to complete her book on the artist, which has now become a talking point for Perth's art world..

Nedlands author traces colourful

Germany's loss our gan

The farmhouse had outbuildings to the rear on either side. forming a horseshoe shape which enclosed a muddy yard There was a cobblestone path through this to the rear entrance " but the smell of manure was terrible! tf you went round the front. to the proper entrance. the smell was absent. and that I preferred .

"My earliest memory? My earliest memory is of when we moved to Schwerin. I was so sad that I was sick with a high fever for a week: I, who was never ill Imagine, that homesickness could so affect a small child! I remember saying to my mother, We can go back, the cooking stove is still there; and Tante Luise, she is there! We can stay at her house she will look after us!"

Elise Blumann was born at Parchim in 1897. Now in East Germany, it was then part of Mecklenburg. as was Schwerin where her fat her was transferred when she was still very young When she speaks of her early childhood, it is the turn of the century that she recalls Even her memories of adolescence predate the First World War There have been many changes in her life but the times, too, have changed For that reason. as much as for their own sake, her recollections compel our attention. Her memories of "former times" as she calls them, restore to life a sedate and ordered world very foreign to our own "At the top there was the Emperor After him came the dukes And at the head of our family stood my father" Formerly a cavalry officer, her father took up a post in the army administration during their time in Schwerin. They did not move again until he was transferred to Hamburg. by which time Elise was already at high school. Thus, for her memories of childhood, it is to Schwerin that she chiefly returns But on one occasion her mother stopped the maid and gave the beggar five marks instead. Five marks was a considerable sum "She had seen it in his face, you see, the kind of man he was. My mother had little formal learning but still she was so wise! She told the man. who was not a normal beggar. that he could come back when the money was finished and she would give him more. But he never came back. (This she told me much later.)"

And when the maid warned Elise that the old, bent women whom she saw on the edge of the forest collecting firewood were witches. her mother intervened again. Though Elise was not to go near them, and emphatically never to speak to them, they were not witches. Their faces were ugly from deprivation, not witchcraft. and the huge bundles of sticks on their backs were their only livelihood. They were, said her mother. the very poor. "We are to be thankful," she told Elise, " 'that we are not like them'."

Sometimes these memories come back to her in dreams For Elise now is eighty-eighty; and to her it is an unlooked for reward

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It was third time lucky for Nedlands historian Carolyn Polizotto when she applied for an assistance grant from the Australian Council.

After two rejections she had decided her Christmas present for 1985 would be the luxury of not applying in '86. Luckily for all concerned she changed her mind.

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The $8000 New Writers' Assistance Grant, which was approved in November, will make it possible for her to complete a biography of one of Perth's most renowned painters, Elise Blumann. t is a story, says Carolyn, which begged to be wntten and one which has fascinated her for the past two years While her main field is 17th century history and she has an honorary research fellowship at the University of Western Australia, she has turned to writing because believes there is a need for a contemporary interest But what began as a search for a "contemporary interest" has resulted in a wealth of information that will ultimately delight the reading pubhc and long-deserved recognition for a most remarkable woman For Carolyn Polizotto's subject is no ordinary painter.

Elise Blumann IS now 88 and it is only in the last 10 years that she has received artistic recognrtion Elise Blumann continued to paint without encouragement - she cont nued to believe in herself despite the attrtudes of the world at large.

She had the courage to paint in her own style... very often nudes of both men and women .. despite the disapproval of local art circles in the 1930s Not only that, she would continue to paint in her own style until the rest of the world caught up with her.

German-born Mrs Blumann had migrated to Perth in 1938. It would take nearly 40 years for Australian art circles to recognise her worth "She was very much a woman ahead of her time, particularly in her desire to pursue a career in her own right," said Dr Polizotto.

But if fame has come late, Elise Blumann is consoled by the knowledge that rt has come Her works are now worth thousands of dollars and seven of them hang in the National Gallery in Canberra.

One of her landscapes hangs in the Art Gallery of Western Australia and three paintings, Summer Nude, On The Swan and Rottnest Island Lighthouse are held by the University of Western Australia Art Gallery An exhibition was prepared

[Elise Blumann, as a young woman soon after her marriage.

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[With my parents, naturally, we spoke always high German. But at my grandparents' farm near Parchim, I would hear low German spoken. I remember once when we were staying there, my mother asked me what I had been doing. l said, 'We took the ducks to the Back' [i.e., as though to be cooked], using the low German, when in fact we had taken them to the Bach: to the brook! I remember that! And my mother of course corrected me."

of our talks that they prompt her to dream more of the distant past The happiness of her childhood sometimes spills over into the day and her face, recalling it, will be alight with remembered joy "[ne day in winter my mother said, We shall go skating' The Duke's men had cleared a path on the lake and we could go on the ice." And so they skated in halfcircles, and Elise behind on a rein "She had told me that if I stayed completely upright and kept my feet together, I would be all right, and I was." Then suddenly her mother saw the Duke and Duchess approaching, accompanied by courtiers, and she drew Elise aside to let them pass. As they did so. "My mother said, Curtsey!' Well, as you can imagine, having been brought up in military cirlces, I could curtsey before I could blow my nose. So, like my mother, I sank in full curtsey to the ground except that hers was successful. I fell flat to the ice! The Duchess came over to me and extended her hand to help me up and .... whoops!

Suddenly were there two of us on the ice!"

It was a day worth dreaming of.

Elise and her mother were invited to join the Ouke and Duchess for coffee in the restaurant on the Kaninchenwerder, an island in the middle of the lake. To Elise then. this honour mattered less than the torte which the owners of the restaurant produced ('They must have telephoned for it They would not normally have had it.") Torten were a source of endless torment for she had been taught never to accept a second slice. "Other things could be eaten up. yes - biscuits and small cakes - but never could 4

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you have a second slice of the special cake, the torte." So when the Duchess pressed her to take more. she cast her eyes downwards and declined " 'Is it not nice? " the Duchess asked "Oh yes!" Elise said explosively. not looking up. And then wonder of wonders. she looked across to her mother, who nodded, and lo! for the first and only time in her childhood, the rule was broken. It was the one occasion, too, on which she dined with persons of such high rank When in later years. because of her background, she would be considered highly desirable as a potential convert to the Sparta cist movement, the irony amused her. Had her radical friends only known it, her only real contact with the aristocracy had been, as she puts it, two slices of torte As we talk the stones are told and re-told. Their location is not always the same We may be not in Schwerin but in Eutin, even further north. where her father was transferred next after Hamburg Or Parchim may be remembered not from when she lived there with her family, but from later visits to her beloved Tante Luise.

"Did I tell you of Karl Ludwig. the forester's son, and how we kissed one another with our hands over our eyes so that no one would see?" An early memory, certainly, and identifiable with Parchim, but is Elise three or is she nearer five? On occasion a new moral is pointed, a fresh connexion made between this recollection and that. She maps for me the layout of each loved house, and her memories, too, are friendly and accommo-

dating. Familiar, eager to oblige, they inhabit sometimes one setting, sometimes another.

But through all the telling the delight of each experience remains unchanged. Clear, lapidary, untrammelled, these memories pierce the air like the sleighbells of Schwerin. "When you say 'Schwerin' to me, in my mind there is always the jingling of those bells."

The note of celebration is unmistakeable. These memories come to Elise. as to us. from a foreign country. For within a few years she was to make the decision which would ultimately

banish her from the world of her childhood. It is because of this, I would say, that her earliest memories have been preserved in all their original clarity and precision. They were not, in the event, to be overlain by a sparkling courtship and marriage in the same milieu. 'Talking to you makes me realise what changes there have been in my life! Not only I: the world, too, has changed."

Elise's world changed forever when in her late teens she made the decision to pursue her gift for painting at all costs. The war had by then begun and she was m

Eutin, having completed her secondary education in Lubeck By virtue of her upbringing she should have been patiently waiting out the war in the magnificent house which had been six months in the building, that was the best of all her parents' houses As tradition had it, she should have taken walks with her father by the lakes near the forest, sketched a little in ladylike fashion and devoted herself, as her mother did, to packing interminable parcels for the soldiers in her brothers' compan-

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" Dear So-and-so. I am the sister of your commanding officer. I hope that the enclosed will be found suitable. Yours sincerely' " She tried it all, with undoubted good will, but remained unsatisfied. Two years into the war, on the advice of her earliest mentor, she was off to Berlin: there to study, unknown to her parents, at the Berlin Academy of Arts Ironically, perhaps -but then again, perhaps not-it was her mother who showed Elise the way. Staunch upholder of the system into which her daughter had been born, she nevertheless

history of renowned West Australian painter

Change of mind led to great sory

by the Centre for Fine Arts at UWA in 1984 and displayed some 100 of her works There are many paintings which are held by members of the family and Mrs Blumann continues to paint When Carolyn Polizotto was introduced to Elise Blumann in 1982 she found her endlessly fascinating."

"I remember she was aghast that she had achieved sufficient fame to be the subject of a book but she was also pleased that her artistic efforts had received the attention she craved," she said.

"T found her endlessly fascinating... one of those rare people whom one can talk to and leave feeling somehow enriched "And there was that enormously appealing contradiction between a fragile-looking exterior and the tough-asold-boots determination within."

The following year Dr Polizotto began her research.

She would meet Mrs Blumann at her home once a week, for two or three hours, to talk.

"I didn't take notes," Dr Polizotto said. "We would just talk and then I would go home and write up what she had told me.

"I suppose because of that the book will be very much about my perceptions of her, but then the style of the book has been a changing thing all

along.

"When I started I thought

we would begin at the begining and go through to the end but I found that people

don't remember in that way.

"Memories come when

they will and when those demonstrated to Elise, on one memorable occasion, that its values were not absolute. It was easy to deceive her parents about Berlin, Elise tells me one day.

After all, her own mother had aught her to lie. And with these ald words, she introduces the pisode which she recalls as laving affected her more pro0undly than any other in her hildhood. "I have told you, aven't I, that I learned early to

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As a little girl, Elise had been ery much in her mother's care hough later her father would ke charge of her schooling. for ample, at this stage it was her

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memories go back 87 years it can be difficult to ensure that they are perfectly in order.

"My main goal in writing the book is to make her recognisable and yet, at the same time, avoiding doing anything she wouldn't be comfortable with," Dr Polizotto said. t is in the pieces of the past that the writer finds her subject . . Elise Blumann, the daughter, the painter, the woman, the wife and the mother.

She was born in 1897, at Parchim, into the welcoming arms of an upper-class military family.

Educated at Ladies Academies her goal in life, like others of her kind, was to marry an officer.

The pictures which remain clear and captivating on the canvas of her mind are faithfully transformed into type by her biographer.

"Her memories of 'former times,' as she calls them, restore life to a sedate and ordered world very foreign to our own," Dr Polizotto said "At the top there was the Emperor "After him came the dukes.

And at the head of our family stood my father."

Formerly a cavalry officer, her father took up a post in the army administration during their time in Schwerin.

They did not move again until he was transferred to Hamburg, by which time Elise was already at high school.

But Elise Blumann has rarely done the expected ... instead she went on to study art in Berlin during the First World War, without the knowledge of her family and later married a prominent research chemist who was much removed from her family's social circle.

The portrait of the person comes together in the pictures from the past, and the essence of times long gone.

When Elise Blumann offers her memones of life in upperclass Germany at the turn of the century, she does so with the critical eye of the artist.

'Then I appeared holding it in my outstretched hands My father was smiling.

"He said, 'let her be dressed!' (I was still in my nightgown.) And it was done as he had commanded.

"He took me up before him on his horse and I rode with him into the forest. We saw

mother who made most decisions. "At first I attended a little school in the neighbourhood where we lived. It was close by and therefore convenient But one day I cam home and asked my mother the questions which my schoolfellows had begun asking me. Why did we live in such a fine, big house? Did I need a fresh pinafore every day? And why did my mother and I drive into town in the afternoon in our carriage? My mother decided it was high time I left! And I was transferred to a better school in the town."

The purpose of the carnage rides at which the local children

poked fun was to pay social calls.

These calls were the bane of Elise's young life. "One took coffee - not tea, as in England - and one was not to speak unless spoken to." Now eating and talking were her two great loves. Barred from her fill of either on these occasions for the rule about torten was never waived here -she hated them.

If addressed by her elders and better, she was to reply. her mother emphasised, as briefly as possible. She was not to rattle on In Eutin in her teens, this was still the case. She remained under her mother's tutelage and would do so, she knew, until she was

Thus for her memories, says Dr Polizotto, it IS to Schwerin that she chiefly returns. "I remember one morning my father could not find his whip.

'The household was in an uproar, the servants running... No one could find it.

the deer being fed with chestnuts, I remember.

"It was wonderful to see

that."

The youngest of three children, said Dr Polizotto, and the only daughter, Elise had been delicate at birth and was not expected to live.

As a result, though she grew into a robust child who was never ill, she was, she says, extremely spoiled.

At the dinner table, the children had all to remain standing until her mother entered and sat down: all but Elise who, being the little one was exempt.

And she had special presents. "A miniature sleigh was made for me, a copy of the big, and in it I would ride, wrapped in furs," she told Dr Polizotto.

"At Christmas, however, the miniature sleigh was piled high with presents for the poor: it being her task, and her brothers' to distribute them. For if their status brought its privileges, it also entailed certain responsibili-

ties."

Sometimes her memories come back to her in dreams, Dr Polizotto said.

eighteen But on the day. always to be remembered, she saw her mother break a cardinal rule.

Where we lived outside Eutin there was on the one side a great park and on the other the Duke's forest, where my father had the right to hunt. (Behind our house was a lake, where my brothers and I would swim naked in secret.) When I took walks with my mother, we could not go in the forest, obviously, and so we walked through parkland in the direction of Duke's residence One day we met the Duke (He was also out walking; and in our direction.) We stopped to greet him but my mother then would

She vividly recalls the day she went skating with her mother and slipped on the ice while curtseying to the Duke and Duchess Not only that, the Duchess slipped too while trying to help her up Then It really was a day of dreams for Ehse as she and her mother were invited to join the Duke and Duchess for coffee in the restaurant on an rsland in the middle of the lake The

young

Elise

was

pressed to have a second slice of torten, the special

cake, restricted usually to just one slice.

She has provided her biographer with a wealth of vivid memories about a way of life long since gone.

"The hard part," said Dr Polizotto, "is deciding how I shall write it all."

It is in trying to capture a most remarkable person and a very talented painter that Dr Polizotto is on the way to providing a biography to delight both subject and readers alike.

"She has such a joy in life," Dr Polizotto said.

not stop talking! The Duke was her social superior and yet she told him what he ought to do.

That she could talk so: and to a duke!"

Elise was deeply embarrassed by her mother's outlandish behaviour but agog, nonetheless, at this gratuitous insight into her character. "I thought,'My mother can lie!' " The lesson she learned, however had as much to do with her mother's purpose as with her wonderful disregard for convention. For the subject on which Frau Frieda Schlie lectured the Duke was his peasants: or rather, his neglect of them. He had no idea, she told him, of the cramped

Schwe

conditions in which they lived Her house was near his bailiff's; and she knew Was he aware. she inquired, that his peasants had no bedding and were sleeping on straw? "And she told him what he ought to do."

Elise draws attention not only to her mother's outspokenness but also to her bravery Others would not have dared, she says. to speak so. even had they enjoyed much higher status than did her parents Through her mother's influence Elise was alert to the plight of the Duke's peasants as she had been to that of the old women and the beggar. When she noticed the driver of her sleigh, exposed to the bitter northern cold while she sat below, snug in her furs. she saw him with her mother's eyes. So the student friends in Berlin who would try -unsuccessfully, as it turned out - to convert her to the Spartacist cause did not entirely miss their mark. But they might have found an unexpected ally in her mother.

What got Elise to Berlin in the first place, though, was the knowledge that the rules by which she had been taught to live could be broken. "Did I tell you that I learned early to lie? To her parents, the Berlin Academy of Arts would have been no place for

their delicately nurtured daughter. "At that time, in the circles in which we moved, once you knew a person's family, you knew also that person."

For Elise to associate with students of indeterminate family in faraway Berlin was out of the question. Berlin in wartime was even more to be feared. "And at the Academy, with nude models!" To Elise, on the other hand, Berlin meant freedom. Her mother's social conscience had obliged her momentarily to set aside the code of manners by which she lived. Spurred on by a sense of her own artistic destiny.

Elise abandoned that code with far greater thoroughness and, it must also be said, some considerable gusto.

For the next few years she would continue to move back and forth between her two worlds. '1t was like the high and th low German At the Academy I spoke one language and, with my parents. another." When she returned home each holidays, her life resumed its former course. "T would go back to being a good gird again," she says. But the admiring young men of Euton noticed a change .. 'You are more beautiful now than you were!, they said. Because I had begun to use make-up!" The real break with her former life had come

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Archbishop appeals for help Archbishop Foley has asked youth groups for help for the first time.

All youth movements recently received notice from Archbishop Foley asking for help in a consultation process in preparation for the 1987 Rome synod on the Laity.

The archbishop hopes for a great response from young people.

Archbishop Foley

Early in 1987 there will be in Rome a synod of Bishops on the roll of Laity in the Church and the world.

Australia will be sending two Bishops to that synod.

It is hoped they will go armed with the views of Australian youth and in particular the youth of WA.

Young people are asked to contribute their vision, their experience and their hope for the future of the Church.

This is a wonderful opportunity for youth groups to tackle"some of the serious business" of life.

The archbishop is asking individuals and groups, to see this exercise as part of a Lenten response.

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Members of the CPY review team are (from left) Peter Vanderkuast, Claive Pauliwovich, Lisa-Marie Haig, Margaret McVeigh,

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When these ingredients are present young people will put aside the table tennis bat, darts or what ever else is the basis of fun.

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Often the "real" family concerns are shared only behind the bedroom doors or once the children have gone to bed.

Emotions are sometimes bottled up and only occasionally pour forth when caught unawares by the unexpected.

On television the story line as a rule does not include people sitting around trying to solve the world's or personal problems.

Instead, the hero or heroine bears all the burden without flinching, or showing emotion and charges forth with or without a space age chariot to destroy the restrictive or evil forces.

Where human relationships are the stuff of TV shows, most problems are solved between the second and third advertisement break and all ends happily.

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Yet without a trusting relationship the response to issues like family, marriage, vocation-career, nuclear war, sexuality will bring one liners, shrugs or seemingly disinterest.

From a youth group leader or adult point of view the trust and the right atmosphere does not come in an instant package available at the supermarket. It takes many weeks of of meeting and living.

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Most successful weekly youth meetings will be sprinkled with sufficient "serious business" without expecting to solve all the problems in the 30 minute discussion or necessarily getting too "deep and meaningful".

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Under Nehemiah's leadership the walls of Jerusalem were rebuitt in 52 days. The people were now safe from attack.

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'Why are you so sad?" the king asked.

He had never seen Nehemiah sad. "Are you sick? What istroubling you?"

lived in the palace of the Persian king, Artaxerxes. Nerhemiah had a good job, waiting on the king at mealtime. [[[ He saw that the food was properly pre"My friends and rel pared and selected the best wine. As the atives in Jerusalem king's cupbearer, are suffering very Nehemiah was in much,'' Nehemiah charge of serving told the king. "the wine to the king and walls of the city have been broken down.I guests.

One day Nehemi- want to go there to ah's brother visited help the people, to him and brought sad rebuild Jerusalem. news. "The walls of The king and his Jerusalem are queen agreed tosend broken down. The Nehemiah home to city gates have been direct the rebuilding destroyed by fire. of Jerusalem and its Our fellowJews there defences. The king are suffering much." named Nehemiah Nehemiah began to governor of Judah. cry. He fasted and Nehemiah was prayed for the peohappy again. He ple he loved in Jerus- soon left Persia and alem. As he poured travelled to Jerusathe king's wine that lem. After resting for evening, Nehemiah's three he days, face was sad. His eyes secretly inspected were still red from the city walls. With crying. just a few men he

walked all around the city to see how great was the damage. As yet no one knew he had been sent by the king.

Nehemiah drew up a plan and called together the leaders of God's people in He Jerusalem. how he explained heard God's call to him to rebuild the city. He showed them the official letters from the king.

Nehemiah said to the leaders: 'The walls and gates of Jerusalem have been destroyed. Come, let us rebuild them. We need to be able to defend ourselves."

Nehemiah shared his plans. "We will do as you say,"the Israelites replied. "Let's go to work. We'll rebuild the walls and the city."

Hundreds of workers were organised. Most citizens were excited at the plans and joined in

hildren's Story Hour the work. A few laughed at the workers and made fun of Nehemiah. [[[ Others decided to take advantage of the poorer people by charging huge interest on loans. It made Nehemiah angry. He told the rich money lenders, "What you are doing is not good. I lend money to the needy at no interest. I ask you today to return all you have taken from your poorer brothers and sisters."' They agreed.

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Church St., Sandwich, is lined with medieval houses.

Norman trail 'intriguing' In 1070 Lanfranc was appointed to the See of Canterbury and one of his first priorities was to build a cathedral. Some drawings of his monastic drains are still preserved at Trinity College, Cambridge The next 100 years was a busy time for building churches in that area. Keen on replacing old Anglo-Saxon timber churches, the Normans found out there wasn't much good local building material in the area, only chalk and flint, so they brought over stone from Caen That was much sir pler than carting material from English quarries further to the west Unfortunately, 1174 Lanfranc's new Cathedral was gutted by fire; William of Sens was brought over to rebuild it, but before he got very far he fell off some scaffolding and was replaced by William the Englishman. But both the Williams built in the very latest style, and their ideas caught on. As, for example, in Barfreston

Pauline McKinnon, a Melbourne housewife and a mother of four children, laboured for eight years with a distressing and inhibiting phobia which stifled her social life, limited her enjoyment of pursuits outside the home and resulted in a stranglehold of fear, defying her determined struggles to break free.

Agoraphobics - fear of leaving the safety of the home. It is suggested as many as 1,200,000 Australians suffer from it, the majority of whom are women.

Agorphobics fear open space, social contact and suffering an attack -- a sudden unexplained panic which can happen any time on public transport, at a party or in a supermarket.

Pauline's first attack happened 19 years ago when out in the car with her two young children. "I was driving along on a hot steamy afternoon in heavy traffic, when I experienced a feeling of unreality. Giddy and nauseated, head pounding

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blurred vision and my heart thumping in my throat, I was convinced I was dying." said Pauline Her life became one of avoidance from social functions, other people's homes, shopping (she thereon

ordered by 'phone) and a dread of going anywhere without her husband. But she recovered and has written a book to help others identify with this crippling and perplexing fear -- to show the way and let them see the light at the end of the tunnel which awaits those, it is proposed, who follow this meditation and relaxation course.

In this book (the author being the ex-sufferer), there is no conjecture about the phobia but rather the inside story, starting from the onset, through the stages of misery it brings to those entangled in its web. And the many endeavours through various means to understand and break free.

There are negative results in many cases with the bewilderment that comes through not knowing what "it" is and wherefrom comes the cure. But finally the breakthrough and the elation! The discovery and an almost immediate relief (within four weeks).

A release from its hold heralds a return to the world outside the home, for Pauline, with new self-esteem and confidence, secure that she is no longer the victim - but rather the victor.

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That was in 1974. Since then Pauline has returned to her singing career and conducts meditation classes along the lines of Dr Ainslie Meares' (leading Victorian Psychiatrist - methods of relaxation and meditation) Dr Meares, himself an author of several recommended books in this area "Relief Without Drugs", ·The Wealth Within" and "A Way of Doctoring" has written the foreword of this easy to read and most ehlightening book.

He states in part. "I have not read a better account of the symptoms of agoraphobia than this story, beautiful in its simplicity and penetrating in its clinical accuracy."

The 11th-century church of St Nicholas at Barfreston is an extraordinary find. Why such a marvellous church in an otherwise unimportant place?

It is the carvings that are so exuberant. Over 100 of them, 'anging from Christ to a seated Bishop, from a dog playing a harp to a monkey riding a goat with a rabbit over his shoulder.

There is no tower at Barfreston, so worshippers are summoned to services by a bell hanging on a yew tree in the churchyard The Normans used to ship their Caen stone to Fordwich, once the port for Canterbury. Monks used to own the quays in the town, which was so important that it had its own Mayor right up to 1883 Ihe parish church at Fordwich dates from Saxon days and it is said that the body of Saint Augustine once lay there Tradition claims that the early 13th-century stained glass in St Mary's at Nackington came from Canterbury Cathedral. Whether, or not that is true, the glass is beautiful and includes the top of a Jesse Tree showing Our Lady. a figure of St Thomas Becket, and the Marriage Feast at Cana. (The old high altar from Canterbury Cathedral is in Adisham church.)

At Barnsole, near Staple, is Gander Court which is thought to have been built in 1450 by a Bishop from Canterbury as a rest home for pilgrims

declares his dependency on God in There Had To Be You I found the title cut to be most memorable. No More Night is a song of joy and hope in the glory to come.

String arrangements by Bergen White and the swelling voices of Woodmont Baptist Choir capture the import of the lyrical content If you have enjoyed any of Glen's diverse musical offerings during the past two decades, No More Night is another Campbell album to add to the collection

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The church in Staple was begun by the Normans. but Its most remarkable feature is its font which dates from about 1480. It was built by craftsmen who came from Suffolk and it is covered with memorials of Christ's Passion and figures of the Trinity and the four Evangelists St Mary the Virgin at Wingham was largely rebuilt in the 13thcentury when a College of Priests was established there. Rebuilding started for a second tune in the 16th century, but came o an abrupt halt when a brewer from Canterbury embezzled all the funds.

The streets of Sandwich are narrow, winding and somewhat Incommodius. Park where you can, cross your fingers and hope that you eventually wind your way back to the car Sandwich is probably the best preserved medieval town in fngland. Once a Cinque Port, it began to silt up in the 17th century -a process accelerated when a large ship belonging to the Pope sunk in the Channel Today, Sandwich stands highish and dryish on the south bank of the Stour at a point where the nver bends sharply to the north ht is surrounded by the river and by its old walls: one of the best walks round the town follows these ramparts

Sandwich is steeped in history, and its traditions run back as far as the days of Hengist and Horsa. Saint Wilfrid of York landed ere in 665; Richard the Lionheart stepped ashore after his Imprisonment in Austria; Richard Ill launched his French and lemish campaigns from Sandwich; the town was often subjected to attack from foreigners.

by SHARON MARSHALL Christian music stands rarely lack the easy listening album.

Evie, Dion DiMucci, Joni Eareckson and Don Francisco are but a few of the artists who grace our shelves.

Happily, two more artists have recently added to the variety available. The first of these is Glen Campbell with his debut Christian album, No More Night (Word Records) Glen has a voice and a face that America loves. He's an international star.

But despite this success, Glen has held another musical goal for a long time to make an album of songs about his faith No More Night is the realisation of that dream.

Glen shares openly about his

relationship with the Lord m the contents of the album. He takes a look at the beginnings of his faith in You Ask Me, and

Some critics believe the most soulful music being made today is not happening in the mainstream rhythm and blues but in the black Gospel music field.

This school of thought may have more cause for support following the release of He Is The Light by Al Green (A&M Records).

SEEK JOY IN THE TRUTH

• Read wllh us Documents of the Church, Scripture, Theology • Examine Appearances of Mary and current issues in the Church • Arrange group visits or talks on Shroud.

• Explore the Rome-Holy Land Pilgrimage Centre at St Peter's Devonshire St, Surry Hills (Marian Centre).

• Borrow.

• Correspondence possible monthly • Weekly sessions start 10th March. Basic cost per year $20.

• Details: Rev P. Uttle S J. Box 670, North Sydney 2060.

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Green was one of the most popular vocalists of the seventies, selling more than 20 million records His albums contain only religious songs now, in a style that mixes Memphis soul with gospel. Subdued horns and strings backed by simple beats ride smoothly under Green's unleashed vocals.

The same formula is applied to He Is The Light. The overall tone is smooth and easy-cut, although Green lifts the pace on You Brought The Sunshine Lovers of the traditional handclapping, chorus-answering songs will enjoy the movement of Be With Me Jesus.

Just a touch of the contemporary flavour provides the musical balance to satisfy today's standards of the seemingly mandatory use of the synthesizer.

Adult soul-lovers will appreciate this praise album, especially with the following cuts: He ls The Light, Power, Building Up

art Francis' example and way The Way Of St Francis, by Murray Bodo, published by Fontana;

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We too can tread the way of the saint who has inspired millions for over eight centuries. This is a book which challenges the reader with a renewed understanding of St Francis; a Francis who shows us a way of life both stimulating and troubling who asks us to look again at the possibilities within us and around us Father Bodo sees St Francis' life and example as a way of reconciling the opposites in ourselves and in the world - a world that must be recognised and embraced before we can be transformed and renewed spirit-

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TENNIS

A Tennis Association social tennis day has been arranged for Sunday March 16 at the Trinity College Tennis courts, Manning Road, Manning.

All Association clubs, their members and friends are welcome to play.

Play will commence at 1.30 pm and matches will be of 20 minutes each. Self handicapping and other novelty rules will be used throughout the afternoon 1D give all players a chance of taking home the trophy.

There are 12 courts available so everyone is assured of playing plenty of tennis.

Unfortunately there are no tea making facilities therefore players are asked to provide their own refreshments.

PENNANTS: Pennants begin on Saturday April 12.

This season is a mixed pennant and each team

consists of two women and four men.

Get a team together and enter.

Teams are graded into A, B and C divisions.

Entry forms are available from club secretaries and Jock Eastcott on 328 6860.

The closing date for entries is Friday March 14.

You do not have to be a member of a Catholic club to enter a team.

The next Association meeting will be held on Tuesday March 4 at the home of Greg and Jenny Pearce, 22 Thomhill Way, Greenwood at 7.45 pm.

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THE MANDORLA CENTRE OF INNER PEACE

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION in the CATHOLIC TRADITION Directed by FATHER CHRIS ROSS OSM Monday 3rd March The Servite Priory, 2 Morgans Street, Tuart Hill.

7.30 pm to 9 pm Workshop on the GOSPEL DYNAMICS. using Yoga, Meditation, reflexology, music.

Directed by FATHER REG SMITH. Saturday 12th April 9 am to 5 pm Sisters of Mercy Retreat House, 10 Scholl Ave, North Beach.

Telephone Contact: Evenings only

385 9950, 277 4860, 362 6993.

Tapes for sale: Father Laurence Freeman OSB: Christian Meditation in the Ancient Tradition.

Father Placid Spearritt. OSB: Listen, GOD is speaking (2 tapes) Norma Woodcock: Healing (2 tapes).

Father Francis Vanderwall SJ.: Water in the Wilderness (4 tapes) s5 each.

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CATTAUNI JUBILEE

Bruno and Emilia Cattalini celebrated their 5Oth Wedding Anniver-

sary at East Fremantle last Saturday.

In 1937 Bruno Cattalini preceded his wife to W.A. from Sondrio Italy, and opened limestone quarry in Spearwood.

The Cattalini's lived also in East Fremantle and now in Beaconsfield.

These days the secret of 5O years marriage, according to Bruno is "hard work and keeping the family together."

After eight children and 29 grandchildren the Cattalini's have become a household word in Fremantle.

Over 150 family and friends were at the jubilee Mass celebrated at Immaculate Conceptum Church by the Cattalini's parish priest Fr O'Donovan SM A

CHARISMATIC CONFERENCE

An ecumenical conference on the ministry and charisms of St Francis of Assisi will be held in Perth this weekend.

Presented by the Bethel Covenant Community it will feature Fr Max Mizzi OFM, a Franciscan priest who lives in Assisi and who has been involved in many ecumenical charismatic conferences. He has been described as a man of great insight in the ways of God. He is responsible for the ecumenical centre of the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi and is the secretary for ecumenism in the diocese of Assisi.

The theme of the conference, to be held at Newman Siena College on February 28 to March 2 is Rebuild My Church.

Workshops will be held on March 1 and 2 and a healing Mass will be held at the Holy Rosary Church in Doubleview at 7.30pm on March 2.

For further inquiries phone 381 1700 during office hours or Frank Carr (381 2516), Pat Callahan (381 1856) or Peter Dudley (4476335). Child minding facilities will be available.

EMMANUEL NEEDS HELP

While Emmanuel Centre is bursting at the seams with people its store of household furniture looks more like Mother Hubbard's cupboard -bare.

The need of its shared housing programme has enabled yet another house to be opened in Highgate. The three young women in the house are desperately seeking furniture, cutlery, kitchen ware, tablecloths, teatowels, lounge suite, dressing tables, dinner sets, etc.

Any donations can be made to Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St., East Perth, 6000. Tel. 09-3288113. Pick up can be arranged.

WORLD PRAYER DAY

Our Lady of Victories church Wembley is host for the Women's World Day of Prayer for the Wembley, Floreat, and City Beach area. The ecumenical service will be held on Friday March 7 to be followed by morning tea in the parish centre.

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CATHOLIC NURSES

The next meeting of the Catholic Nurses Guild of WA will take place on Tuesday March 18 at 6.30 pm at 11 Ellesmere Road, Mount Lawley. The guest speaker will be Sister Bernardine Daly speaking on "Catholic Nurses and the Poor of Christ".

For further information or enquiries contact Nancy Edwards on 350 5996 or 106 Watling Avenue, Parkwood, 6155.

HEALING MASS A healing service and Mass has been arranged by the Group 50 Prayer Group of Catholic Charismatic Renewal at the Redemptorist Monastery, Vincent St, North Perth for 7.30pm, Thursday, March 6.

Similar services will be held in future on the first Thursday of each month.

DARDANUP HEALING

The Pastoral and Matrimonal

Renewal Centre will conduct a Parish

Healing weekend at the Prayer House, Dardanup, on March 14-16.

This will be the first Parish Healing Weekend in the Bunbury diocese and priests and laity are invited to attend or send parish representation.

During the Healing weekend participants are guided through exercises to examine the hurts they have suffered in close personal relationships and the effect on their present behaviour, and finally to seek healing of their hurts.

Each exercise follows the format used on the Parish Renewal Weekend and includes prayer, patron saint, scripture, reflection, a talk, small and large group sharing.

For further information contact Rita and Bert Murphy at the Prayer House, Dardanup 097-281 148 or Peter and Veronica Dymond in Perth 367 9870.

WOMEN'S RETREAT

A weekend retreat for women will be held at the Redemptorist Retreat House on the weekend March 14-16.

The retreat is one of several sponsored by Majellans but is open to an interested lady.

Sister Concepta OP will lead the retreat.

For bookings, send a deposit of $20 to Nola Kennode 173 Morley Drive, Nollamara 6061.

LITURGICAL DANCE

One of the world's foremost exponents of Christian Dance, Martin Blogg. will begin a series of five lectures, both practical and theoretical, which he has called "Forms of Knowing in the Performing Arts" in the hall of Saint George's Cathedral, The Burt Hall, in St George's Terrace on Fridays at 8 pm.

They are free and open to all who are interested. No pre-knowledge of dance or movement is required.

ONE DAY RETREATS: These are reflection days with a

theme centred around aspects of the Lenten season.

March 4: Lesmurdie Parish, Lesmurdie Road.

March 11: Rockingham Parish, Swinstone Road.

March 18th: Balcatta Parish Centre, Albert Street.

March 25th: Redemptorist Retreat Centre.

Please bring own lunch: 9.30am2.30pm ENQUIRIES: Mrs Jenny Waller,

444 0064

BEACONSFIELD MISSION The first mission for 25 years will be

held at Christ the King Church, Beaconsfield between March 1 and

21.

MEDITATION

A meditation in the Christian Tradition will be held Every Wednesday evening, 7.30 pm-9.00 pm in St. Joachins High School Hall, 15 Duncan Street, Victoria

Park.

A meditation weekend will be held 7.30 pm Friday 14 March to 4 pm Sunday 16 March at St John of God Retreat House Safety Bay. Cost $46. Enquiries: Michael Hennessy 361 8980 (w) 332 7191 (H) Phil Carrier 277 3068.

SHROUD SOCIETY The presentation of Dr Ron Jenkin's public lecture at the University of WA for ANZAAS has come at the same time as the formation of The Holy Shroud of Turin Society of WA Further enquiries can be made through the society's secretariat at Mardon House, 35 Archer Street, Carlisle, 6101 (telephone 362 3677).