The Record Newspaper 22 May 1986

Franciscan profession More than 700 people

came to witness the solemn profession

of

Brother

Kevin - the first in West-

er Australia -of a Fran-

ciscan Friar.

The ceremony, held in St Brigid's Church, Midland, was organised by Brother Robert Stewart 0FM of the friary, superbly backed by the Julian Singers, and the Mass concelebrated by friar Maurice West 0FM,

with 14 other priests from the friary and the diocese of Perth.

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May orders of priests, Brothers and Sisters attended and a large number of lMundaring parishioners, the home parish of Brother Kevin who grew

up in Glen Forrest.

Mr Clem Mulcahy, La Salle principal, and members of the staff and

student body turned out in

mmbers.

Brother Kevin is an erstudent of La Salle.

The homily, given by Father Jal» Boyd-Boland 0FM, formation director based i Victoria, dislarge

cussed the acceptance of

change and the need for tre val le sal change and conversiot was not a mot entary pl not - it was not about g a weekend radical, a seasonal rebel, a five year planer, or ttenda ata id-ser ester se

ce

long

in o's whole ife, words, deeds, ttitud nd actions tow ice, altruis ad

F

say: " anythin,

st mean

personal comversion -becoming peopie who are meek, peaceful, modest ad 'e. The the humility f our lives to ve to change the word." le sai "The call of the Gospel comes to s as directly and gently as it

came to Anthouy of Egrt or Francis of Assisi. It cor es to i a wrid of trouble, i the mi st of a century that has already earned itself a poor track

] record. "t is a call essentially to change as conversion "S we who are the follows of Jesus are called pon not sit ly to defend change, but to readily embrace and encourage l

Brother Sheehan

change: To accept the need both for personal coversion, and to move out as Jesus di to change the worid."

Personal change was both

painful and powerful.

PA l - because we have to work out what must be changed, and what must re ·an.

Powerful - because we ust turn our backs on the old securities, on what the world tells us is it portant and valuable, and turn to the Gospel.

"Tis is the lesson Francis of Assisi taught s, and this was to be the hallmark of those who would follow him," Father h n said.

Brother Kevin's parents, Bob and Mary Sheehan and relatives, joined with well wishers from M

The South African Bishops

tions and international help overcome

;

daring

ad Mi and parishes in a

get-together held in St

Brigid's all. lt also served as a farewell to Brother Kevin who is returning to Victoria to continue his stdies.

Father Ray Quirt 0FM (background) looks on as Father Maurice West 0FM celebrates Brother Kevin Sheela's profession at St Brigid's Midland last weekend.

A recent plenary session of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference to support outside economic sanctions was like a crucifixion between two points of view, accord ng to a South Afncan b shop

their only hope," said Bishop Wilfred Napier, vice president of the bishops' conference, who passed through Perth this week.

'We faced the d lemma to pacify those who feel threatened by our stand and the need to do something for those who feel we are

they nevertheless saw it as a prophetic step and the gi ing of moral guidance.

Bishop Napier said the South African bishops believed increasing economic sanctions were the

only non-violent way the

international community can bring pressure to bear

on the government

The alternative will be

escalating violence.

The bishops took advice of theologians that they could not impose their view as one

Bishop Napier said he was very aware of the hurt this stand would give the small two per cent of his Kosktad

science by Catholics but

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diocesan population of On the other hand he was obliged to be as moderate as

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_Both factions CAPE TOWN (NC): Several white South Africans walked out of Mass in a Johannesburg parish to protest a request from the country's Catholic bishops for lay views on the use of economic sanctions to end apartheid.

During the incidents in two consecutive Masses, people left singly and in twos and threes.

One man, walking out with his family, turned back as he reached the door and shouted he considered it disgusting such political issues were being raised at Mass.

Many in the congregation applauded him.

The bishops had invited the laity to share their views on controversial, non-violent methods for ending racial discrimination in South Africa in preparation for an April 29May 1 special bishops' meeting.

feeling a 'neglect' Being a "Coloured" person in a leadership role is a good position from which to reflect the insecurity and the rejection of both whites and blacks says Bishop Wilfred Napier one of only two "Coloured' (mixed race ) bishops in the South African hierarchy.

There are also 10 black bishops in the 32 member hierarchy I felt insecure among black people. I did not fit into their culture and

have not got a culture they would recognise,' says the bishop of Kok

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to be between. It is a difficult job because he gets caught the fire A: Frame iscan, Bishop Napier is hopeful that peace is possible

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support economic pressures against apartheid resulted from "one of the most diffi cult and agonising dis cussions that we had

apartheid and at t same time not wanti to increase the mis and distress of t people and therefo indirectly the in dents of violence the country. he sai

ever been involved in." says Archbishop Denis

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The bi»hop: decision upset many white Cathol i he d "But th blacks who are g from this tion say things are so bad they can only get better. Economic pressure is the only way forward

Asked whether the bishops were making themselves unpopular by their stand, he said this might be true of the 20 per cent white popula tion but the bishops ran the alternative risk of being unpopular with the 80 per cent black population who say they are not going far enough He said there ws no paral lel between South Africa and the recent peaceful transfer of power in the Philippines where Catholics are a large majority Although Catholicism is the fastest growing faith among the black population they are still only a minority The bishops' hope interna

tional intervention will at least curtail or minimise the violent revolution that is the alternative.

The Catholic Church in South Africa is only 10 per cent of the population and has suffered opposition first from the British and more recently from the Afrikaan ers who labelled them dur ing elections as the "Roman danger Thirty years a2go, Catholics largely conformed to what the law required and had segregated schools and hos pitals for blacks and whites, he explained

on Ev nylisation which prompted a local program Evangelisation in South

Africa today A real change came after the Soweto riots of 1976 when the bishops made a commitment to remove all traces of discrimination from the Catholic system This awakening. the bishop said, had occurred more among the bishops and some priests and less among lay Catholi

whites have had to lose their cocksure attitude that they were right and that the government also was right in its policy 'Today the government does not know where it is going and many whites are moving to the right politi cally because there they see things as black or white whereas the government is saying it is a compromise situation but at least moving in the right direction Bishop Napier said fear was the cause of resistance to the bishops' stand on economic

sanctions

One tactic of the media is to make out that the Catholic bishops' confer ence is being misled by its president, the outspoken Archbishop Hurley of Dur ban, who as an Oblate semi narian, later as a priest and for the past 38 years as bishop, has built up a repu tation of opposition to injus tice against blacks ·'Whatever reservations

have no reservati comes to the wh le

Bishop Napier defended the National African Congress where he heard the alterna tive to increased pressure by the international comm tiy was increasing violence.

Whatever change have

presen unemployment prospects the stem

his recent visit t

not disman Black

been made have come after

the application of pressure from abroad Asked about sporting boy cotts, the bishop said the issue was now pa st the question of desegregating sport in South Africa which had largely happened In his opinion sporting bovcotts were. like eco nomic sanction: ble to bring pressure from the international community It is one of the non-polit ical areas where the m ssage can be got across to the blacks. We support y

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Query Next century a d a t- e a b O Ut union f or A target date of the year 2000 for a Roman Catholic-Anglican reunion is premature and a solu-

tion which glosses over differences may not be in the best interests of either tradition.

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We have to think with our heads as well as our hearts in the matter of intercommunion and there may be implications we have not considered, Father Thornhill told a questioner in the ecumenical audience at St Denis church "Until the very recent past it was unthinkable to talk of intercommunion.

Communion in the eucharist was the

ultimate and supreme expression of unity in the Christian community," he said He pointed out since Vatican Il the Catholic Church had recognised a reappraisal might be called for in regard to peopl who were separated through no fault of their own As a result intercommunion can take place between Catholic and Orthodox church members where either is deprived of the eucharist We ve to keep in mind Catholics and Orthodox have recognised for

centur in f h.

the degree of unity they have

"Unity of t!

This was the reply of Sydney Marist theologian Father John Thornhill to a question at an ARCIC seminar in St Denis church last Sunday evening.

Father Thornhill and the other speaker at the seminar, Anglican Assistant Bishop Cameron are the Australian members of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.

"We have to live with the pain of our disunity and to set a date could mean we did not face the

issues as we should.

To have a solution to the

problem which glossed over the differences may not be in the end in the interests of either of our traditions ·That is the official view in our churches and I can see reasons for it."

would

and the person of the modern day Mary are treated with seriousness and respect.

the graces he will give, that he must give, and to which we must respond "If we are to find unity we must let us be open to "From a human point of view the steps are more complex than would allow such an early reunion." Father Thornhill said.

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SYDNEY: Archbishop Clancy said this week that the film, "Hail Mary," would be grossly offensive to the majority of people.

"I am satisfied that the film is blasphemous in fact, whatever the stated intentions of the writer and the

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"Making allowance for inflation, in real terms this means a drop of about 25%.

"The Catholic Diocesan Charities Appeal is the only

source of funding for mamy of

the Catholic organisations servicing the Church and the community.

Father Thornhill

(

Report

foster the further unity "It's really God's secret

Board's ruling

The minority considered that reference to the Biblical phenomenon of virgin birth,

Final

expression of unity and real fellowship, an expression of the communion we have and help

munion in those circumstances, Father Thorhi said

The majority said some

total," Archbishop Faulkner said this week.

commented. "that we are divided. and then united."

On the other hand the

have agreement that

We pray that God wl soon show

aspects of the film would disturb and offend some sections of the community who hold strong religious beliefs about the sanctity of the Virgin Mary.

"At the moment the income is down by 16% on last year's

the assumption that unity is a one step process, he

tical expressions of the unity that has already been achieved "If we can find a com mon affirmation of faith in the areas on which we

us f we have that unity in faith which we are stl testing judged by our leaders that it would be premature to have intercom

audiences) grading.

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F:thr Thornhill described as a theological idea" to use the eucharist the 'medicine for unity "Hi tonically we are beginning the process of discerning f we have that

five voted for an "M" (mature

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Six members of the Australian Film Censorship Board voted the film Mail Mary should be given an "R" (restricted) classification and

Questioned on his use of the phrase "family quarrel" in a press interview Father Thornhill said: ·We have to resolve the family quarrel. We have painful differences; we are divided. We have to find the way back to unity Setting a date of 2000 was unrealistic as it made

ARCIC

two had almost been

achieved at the Council of Lyons and Florence nd was prevented only in the owning of what was achieved "In ARCIC we are only beginning the pr which ha: reached a very advanced stage with the Orthodox church

uni

unity

Services maybe cut back

Satisfied it's blasphemy

director, and that it will be grossly offen-

sensational in publicising the fact that the Pope

sive to the majority of people," he said.

vigorously opposed the showing of the film in

port.

It is true film festivals are generally patronised mainly by the so-called film-buffs and professional critics

'The public reaction against it has been spontaneous, and has my sup-

I fear the end-result may simply be to give the film increased publicity "Nonetheless, the protest of the public will have gone on record, and

that has its own importance.

"It is to be noted that the organisers of the Film Festival have been delib-

erately provocative and

Rome.

"However, the films they favourably review

are normally given long runs in city and suburban theatres.

"Now is probably as good a time as any for the public to express their

outrage," the archbishop

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Priest says no to a a."Rome Monk's big order celebration

Optimists buoyed along by humanist hopes could claim that we now have a civilised climate in which the citizens can debate the merits of, and have a say in, the laws under which they

will live.

Pessimists with more than a theoretical experience of original sin may well say that discussion notwithstanding. the drift of law today is doing nothing to bolster the morale or the morality of personal and family life.

Whether so-called public debate is no more than a revised form of Roman bread and circuses to entertain the masses will be easily put to the test in the latest diversion into the proper drinking age for adolescents.

Like heads nodding approvingly about motherhood on Mothers Day most citizens will have chosen to nod approvingly at an Alcohol and Drug Authority report that crime of all sorts has jumped rapidly, that juveniles and drink feature largely in the picture.

But just as things get more complicated when it is asked if Mothers Day does anything for motherhood, so the question ceased being simple when it was hinted that one solution might be to raise the juvenile drinking age.

Catholic University of America theologian Father Charles E. Curran has formally refused Vatican demands to retract his views in areas where he dissents from Church teaching.

"In conscience at the present time I cannot and do not change the theological positions I have taken," Father Curran wrote to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's ConODD gregation for the Doctrine Those who are fortunate enough to be well of the Faith. past their drinking adolescence, and those who don't have to go round tipping the young drunks In his letter Father Curran out of the cavernous troughs still called hotels, said he still believed his would have no hesitation in notching up the dissent was "legitimate" legal age a year or two if it means their cars and household chattels are a touch safer. and said he remained The drinking teenagers and the young "quite disappointed" hopefuls being coached to drink, along with an industry that has a lot to lose if there is a cutback in escessive drinking, could predictably object to any deprivation of liberty in this day when the rights of the individual are apparently paramount.

Serious debaters may as well give up in the face of these easy options in public opinion-

He thanked the cardinal however, for "your explicit recognition (at a March 8 meeting in

indissolubility of mar riage, contraception direct sterilisation,

abortion, premarital intercourse, homosex ual acts and euthanas

LONDON: The longest-serving Benedictine monk in the world, Father Sylvester Mooney, has celebrated the first of three major anniversaries in a year Father Sylvester, Abbot of Douai Abbey in Berkshire from 1929 until 1969, celebrated Mass on Easter Sunday -- the 80th anniversary of has profess on to the order On June 14, he wil celebrate his 100th birthday, and, on July 30, the 75th jubilee of his ordination Athough he was born into a Lancashire Catholic family, Father Sylvester is the English Benedictines' last surviving link with the orde's French past He was a student at the Benedictine school in Douai in 1903 when the order was expelled by the French government and came to study at the then newly-established Douai Abbey in England His four decades in office make him the longest-serving Benedictine abbot since the Reformation

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dogmas or truths of the faith Last September Cardinal warned Ratzinger Father Curran if he

making.

Criminologists are making life too hard if they ask whether there are any more reasons for

increased juvenile crime other than obvious drinking.

Who wants to admit that today's offending juveniles are the products of broken homes, of greedy homes, of selfish and indulgent parents, of alcoholic parents, of a materialistic wasteland that no longer needs spirituality let alone religion?

The police who are attending the accidents and the surgeons who are trying to patch the broken and drunken bodies of the victims have a mountain of evidence on drinking, speed and the toll of human life. But who wants to give more than token respect to breathalyser tests, to road safety campaigns, to the prohibitive cost of casualty and disabled after care, when the freedom to drive fast cars, to booze as a matter of course and not conviviality, is the macho image of society?

could lose his 20-year post as a professor on the theology faculty of Catholic University

In March Father Curran was asked to give his "final written reply" so that the Vatican investi-

gation, begun in 1979, could be brought to a

close.

The doctrinal congreg tion has asked Father Curran to retract positions in which he dissents from Church

teachings in the areas of

than the world's Catholic population, accord

ing to the Vatican's statistical information

agency.

Figures show the worldwide number of major seminarians initially dropped from 72,991 in 1970 to a low of 60,142 in 1975

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Then the figures began rising in 1975 to an all

time high of 80,302 in 1984 However, the number of major seminarians has not matched total Catholic population

growth since 1970. In 1970 there were I11.5 major seminarians per one million Catholics and in 1984 there were 95.6 major seminarians

per one million Catholics

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from NC NEWS, Rome

The rise in seminarian

since 1975 has been

sharpest in several East ern European countri and in the Third World. It

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figure

per cent For the ce ment figur r cent and for Canada 8.4 per cent. In Western

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Europe, only Ireland and

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West Germanv had ratios above the minimum Poland's figure was 38.1 per cent and Yugoslavia's 18.6 per cent

The highest 1984 per

centages of seminarians in relation to priests wwre Nigeria, with 112.9 and South Korea, with

exstinguished.

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The reason is not merely a jeremiad of statistics proving that more alcohol is being consumed, that more crime is being committed, [ that tens of thousands of lives are lost on the roads.

These statistics are water splashing on a society that has lost all sensitivity to its own respect for life.

Large segments of society now care little for themselves or others. Life becomes cheap when its one redeeming feature - to be made in the image of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is

4

said

or

The drinking age can be raised, the pub patrols increased, the road penalties stiffened but they will all be today's battles being won in tomorrow's war that is progressively being lost.

The gospel adminition to do unto others as you would do to yourself was taught childishly to children so that adults could absolve their consciences. Today, some are putting it ruthlessly into practice and it is the Alcohol and Drug Authority that is telling us this truth, not the gospel of Christ.

has been least in the United State: Canada and Western Europe. said the nc Th ca ce

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DEMONSTRATION!

A demonstration in Santiago, Chile, hy relatives of "the disappeared. The bishops of England and Wales have protested to the Chilean government over the arrest of a doctor and a solicitor who helped a bystander wounded during a clash between civilians and police.

Poland also had the highest number of m: r seminarians, 7 727 in 1984, up from 4,100 in 1970

At Palace

John Paul displeased at actions

VATICAN CITY (NC) When Philippine Cardinal Jaime Sin said Pope John Paul II was "too con-

cerned" about the politi-

cal involvement of the bishops in the Philippines, he gave the first solid indication the pope did not like many actions of the bishops during the

ormer, at itain's new pronuncio, Archbishop Luigi Barbarito, presented his credentials to the Queen at Buckingham Place on Wednesday. The archbishop was driven the short journey

Asian country's post-elec-

from Archbishop's House, Westminster, to the Palace in a horse-drawn carriage from the royal mews and was accompanied by Lieutenant General Sir John Richards, marshal of the diplomatic corps. A reception in Archbishop's House was attended by representatives of the Foreign Office, ambassadors, and other guests.

• Pictured above Archbishop Barbarito (left) holding is credence letters, with Sir John Richards

tion crisis.

"The pope was really displeased. He felt some bishops went too far. They passed from the moral plane to that of immediate

with the pope during the Philippine crisis.

'This jump can't be done by the bishops. It must be done by the laity he said. "You can't say

that the Philippines

a good example of church involvement in politics, even though it turned out well, said the source.

moral guidelines; it's

another to get on

e

'rocks of

Ecd ton Catholic

Radio Veritas and tell people to take to the streets in support of government oppo nents, he said After meeting the pope in private, Cardinal Sin defended his actions as being within Church guidelines The pope 'is just too concerned' that the bishops 'are engaged n too much politics he said. 'I said it is not politics, but is a moral dimension Crdinal Sin s:id the actions bishops prevent helped bloodshed

state.

"We were obeying the First Commandment, " Draper told the court.

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Last sr +er the Ballinspittle state attracted crowds of p to 10,000 daily, following reports it had miraculously moved. In October the three Protestants attacked the

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DUBLIN (NC) Tree Protestant f lamentalists who destroyed a state of Mary believed miraculous by any Catholics have been acquitted by an lrish court.

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a1a1pa Story in words

The legend of the whaling ship the Catalpa, introduces us to romance and

adventure.

For those of us linked to the past through our Irish heritage it has an appeal; some were caught in the net through their political persuasions and some - Like John O'Reilly escaped and sought to bring his fellow compatriots, trapped and imprisoned in the Australian convict colony, to the freedom of the new world America.

How he achieved this ls well documented today and will soon be the subject of a television series.

The ill-fated uprising of the Fenians took place in Dublin, 1858.

But their epic saga of betrayal, capture, deportation and Imprisonment in convict gangs in Australa and their ultimate rescue by the crew of

the Catalpa, due to

the determination of their fellow Fenian

John O'Reilly, lives on

to excite the imagi-

nation of men to this

The story of an escape from the world's remotest prison, planned from a country half a world away is the core subject of George Russo's latest book.

In 'Race for the Catalpa' he recalls in dramatic form and flowing prose the rescue of six Irish political prisoners from the Western Australian

coast I10 years ago.

The 'Hougoumont', the last penal ship to carry convicts to W.A, included 62 Fenians.

This was in 1868.

Within three years all but the six military Fenians had been released.

The thought of being forgotten 'in one of the darkest corners of the earth' sorely dispirited these six men.

Hope was reborn when one of their number, Wilson, smuggled a letter to the American Fenians.

He suggested they organise a ship, especially a whaler, to deliver them from their misery.

The three years it took to bring any form of relief were ones of agony for Wilson and his fellow prisoners -- Hogan, Hassett,Harrington, Darragh and Cranston Unknown to them, during those years the American Fenians under the leadership ofJohn Devoy had collected $25,000, purchased and fitted a whaler, hired a crew and chosen John Anthony as captain They also selected John

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very day.

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music.

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padded wallet to act as coordinator and decoy at Fremantle and Bunbury Breslin became "John Collins" and whilst pos ing is an entrepreneur secretly planned details of the escape Collins charmed all he met and talked of mining pastoral and business interests.

Unfortunately, the plan ning of the escape took much longer than he had expected

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desire for freedom and of unflagging faith They were not coarse ruffians; they included men of literary ability, of refinement, virtue and a sense of vocation to promote the cause of liberty In this section of his book Russo has imply

piqued our curiosity to know more. He points the way to an area o

THE RACE OR THE CATALPA

discoursed, people's interest in them began to pall Suspicion became a threat. The tension grew Finally, on Easter Mon day, 1876 John Collins plan for the escape swung into action. Russo has the reader on tenter hooks in developing the story Time was short and the margin for error slender The escape wis com pounded of secret sig nals, disguises, a wild buggy ride, arms at the ready the ppearance of an inquisitive stranger at a crucial moment and finally 28 hours of bat ling the open sea in a small rowing boat to reach the 'Catalpa' As they boarded her the armed steamer from Fre mantle, 'Georgette', was heading for the whaler Her captain challenged

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smooth prose styie, his rhythms suggesting the lilt of the seas over which

the Fenians fled There is a gentle rise and fall that speak of hope when hope seems lost Even in the events packed with excitement he never resorts to staccato phrasing or unfinished sentences Here we see finesse in writing masked with a deceptive simplicity.

This presents an area of study to encourage the student of literature.

The story is unfolded by Russo in the fonn of a Radio Feature.

For this reason it can be recommended not only for the general reader but also for students of English and history.

In training colleges and

schools students could devise sound effects to heighten the narrative and record the event for their own profit and for udience enjoyment A whole class could cas ily be involved with min im.I resources and become absorbed by the whole exercise.

They could learn from personal experience that radio is unmatched for firing the imagination and building tension and dramatic interest Indeed. radio s an edu cational tool for teaching literature probably out strips television, as expe rience in England has shown The text of the feature is constructed to facilitate production First, Russo has chosen an interesting form by alternating narrative and character-spoken pas

sages The narrator gives the historical detail and essential emphasis, while the characters involved

produce the immediacy of the escape as it occurs Each form brings out the excitement in its own

way It is a device that sus

tains interest from beginning to end Secondly, the text contains directions for sound effects that were written

by Tony Evans, an expert ABC prducer.

These are clearly designed to help those interested in assembling the story as a radio feature - with due regard for copyright As Australia approaches its bicentenary stories like 'Race for the Catalpa need to be publicised and studied The 'Catalpa' escape was an astonishing event, one that Western Australian can appreciate and exult in, one which Thomas Keneally describes as the best story in Australian history Long before Perth became the 'City of Lights', Fremantle and Rockingham were talked

about in Boston and

other parts of America Russo, in his quest for significant happenings in local history has highligh ted this precious cameo The play is prefaced by an introduction giving the historical perspee trve

From the bx kground sketches of the partici pants we

learn that they

were men of patriotic sentiment with a strong

historical potential research linking Austra lia, America and Ireland The whole i tory wwuld d

much thicker than he has w small book may interest in some historian to co and complete h ing work Th preface Evans reveals h m for the ra

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Catalpa, (the Waters family of Willetton, is a delightful, warm family musical group, with

a blend of homey professionalism. Min Mrs Waters, makes lovely Irish soda bread and th home speaks of all things Irish The Catalpa group comprises Ormon senior, and his two sons Ormonde Og und Adnan Ormonde brought his

young family -- Mina his wife, two sons and a

daughter - to Western Australia from Laytown County Meath, Ireland, in

1967

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by COLLEEN HOWARD

bury Folk Cub, the Worsley

Ormonde Og play the Irish tin whistle, concertina, the Uilleann pipes (an elbow-blown Irish bag pipe), and also teaches

the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society and a past president of the Bun bury Historical Society. a founder member of the Bun

Folk Den. the Perth branch of An Comhaltas Ceoltoiri

Eireann and was chairman of

the Fleadh 85 Committee The Waters trio started their musical career eight years ago and through the medium of the Rabbits Ears Bush Band 1978 1982, The Pure Drop 1982-1984 and the current family group

Catalpa, the Waters trio has promoted Irish traditional music

The Catalpa plays at a variety of social venues for dances, concerts, weddings, parties and general social

engagements Catalpa, acclaimed by one

reviewist as "Perth's leading Irish Traditional Group,' plays jigs, reels, slides mazurkas and hornpipes Ormonde plays the bodh ran (a single-sided goat skin drum) and signs in Gaelic and English

music.

Adrian plays the mandolin tenor banjo and fiddle.

Ormonde is the writer of two manuscripts (for which he is currently seeking pub-

lication) This explains his naming of the group. The name Catalpa symbolises the historical link between Ireland and Western Australia -- it was the name of the American whaler sent to rescue nine Fenians imprisoned in the Australian colony The sum of 25,000 was raised by an American Irish group. at the urging of John O'Reilly. one of the 61 Feni

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Fourth week of a 13.eek series on laity in the Church What is lay spirituality? This is

pengining to others, especialy to the clergy and Reli9ios. In his article, Gibson ex/ores some common characteristics of lay spirituality. He is editor of NC's 'el jious Education Package.

ton Theological Union. A person's spirituality moves through stages and is closely tied to the lifestyle of each individual, the theologian says. For example, living in a family setting will have ramifications for the kind of spirituality a person develops.

a question that may well be discussed during the 1987 world Synod of Bishops on the laity.

There is no commonly accepted definition of lay spirituality, writes David Gib- Kathrine Bird, associate editor son. For some lay people, he of te NC Religious Education adds, spirituality has the Pao age, interviews Dr. Eliza- Dolores Leckey talks about the special ring of a subject bet Dreyer of the Washingparticular way lay people live

out their spirituality in the twin arenas of family and work. The great themes of the spiritual life are already present in the patterns of lay life, even if one hasn't consciously thought of it that way, she says. Mrs. Leckey is director of the US bishops' Laity Secretariat.

A subject pertaining to others

For many lay people, the word "spirituality" has the ring of a subject pertaining to others: priests, members of religious orders, perhaps a few of the laity That's part of the problem with spirituality and a reason why some conversations about it have a way of ending almost before they've

begun Perhaps a person closely associates spirituality with "prayer"; perhaps prayer is understood to mean "saying prayers" When the biblical exhortation to "pray always" is heard, a person is likely to think: "Impossible. I won't be able to pray enough to call what I do a spirituality."

As theologian Lawrence Cunningham puts it in "The Catholic Experience" (Crossroad ) "In the harried life most of us live there is precious little time for periods of prayer, withdrawal and meditation even if there were a taste for such a There is far too thing little focus on the spiritual Life of prayer as it relates to the ordinary

-

experience of people."

In spite of any risk that the conversation might end before it begins, the Vat can's wnod Secretariat proposed Lary spirituality as one

"For lay people, the call to holiness is lived out in "the very web'' of existence," the uS bisops said in "Called and Gifted: The Catholic laity."

The metaphor of a web suggsts not only that the spirituality of lay people is complex, but'.nat it possesses unity as well.

The bishops' insight in their 980 pastoral reflections on the laity was that lay men and wwnen experience God's holiness not in flight from the world, bu n engagement with the people, events and even crises that fi their existence.

But what does this really mean? How is it that

people experience God

in the midst of the world?

Three major arenas in which lay people live out the measure of their davs are family, the workplace and civic life With husband. wife. child ren, parents, friends and co workers, the meaning of the cross and the meaning of hope are learned through experence Even in the strongest of

marriages, for example estrangement and withdra wal occur; some pain and darkness result. As wife and husband learn to be with cach other in the darkness the depths of the Crucifix ion have new and immediate meaning for them. When intimacy returns, saving love again fills the crevices of family life We know that trust is one of the fundamentals of the spiritual life. To align the human spirit with the Crea tor and Sustainer of the human spirit means to grow somehow, in trust that God

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by DOLORES; dwells in both the peaks valleys met in the coure human life Parenthood is a comm crucible for learning trust. Children grow up

n

are not the choices ' would make. Parents ind ably move deeper # deeper into trust as d realise that loving S' means letting go The cycle of creation, I redemption, suffering joy is the very stuff of fan life And those are not f pious-sounding words fact is for many people" great themes of the spin" life are already very alive in the web of theird

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The laity. by and large not spend the major pa4" their lives in church

san

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the ways people exp nenoe God and "each person answers this dif ferenty," says Dr Eli beth Dreyer a theologian teaching the history of spirituality "Lifestyle

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become men and woman their own right, graced" the freedom to choo Often the choices they

Maturing with good Grace ...

halls. For most of their waking hours, they are at work in offices, in board rooms, in shops and schools

The workplace. and work itself, has long been recog nrsed as a place of encounter with God. Dominican Father Johann Tauler. a 14th cen ury Rhineland mystic, Jesuit

Father Pierre Teilhard de

Chardin and Pope John Paul

ll all speak of the human person's work as the vehicle for knowing, loving and ring God

And Mother Teresa of Cal cutta, asked by a group of laity if it should be their work to care for the dying as he does, replied that cach Person has a particular

work. What is important, she said, is that each does this work with honesty and love The Christian as St Thomas More noted. is a citizen of two worlds heaven and earth. Earthly citizenship -showing concern for the

common good and civic participation to achieve the common good is Ye! another most important spiritual path. To desire and work for the good of the community ts to move beyond self interest. Such movement is the heart of the spiritual life Lay spirituality is very much about life, abundant life, with all its pain and its glory It is about life with and for others

is

a distir-

guithing characteristic" in the lind of spirituality individuals develop, she sys God is revealed "in daily life and the kind of spiritual life l have depends on how F'rm living" "Spirituality is tied up with who and what one is"she sys, explaining why she distinguishes betweens spirituality for laity and for clergy and Religious, The experienoe of s celibate priest or Religious living in a

single-sex community

will be different fromn those ofa married person with children in helping people with spiritual direction, Ms Dreyer says she may asle "Wart does it mean to be holy?" Becoming holy includes learning to be other-centered, aware of God's pres6noe. able to love well and to be loved well"in

return, she exp#ans "Whatever in life brings a person in this direction,

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by KATHARINE BIRD

that's spirituality, where you'l experience God," Ms Dreyer empt For married persons, the family setting is a key

element in spirituality Looking at the circurn$tan0es of their lives. married persons ofter sry they experience God "i a love relationship," specially with«spouse

or children For many coupes. their bodily union is a pert of their experienoe of«pr rtualirty. Married people can find that "s powerful place of experiencing God is in their sexual union," the theologian adds In spiritual direction, the theologian reminds people not to let their spiritual life become stagnant, stuck in the same routines of prying and viewing God yoar after yer "Our spiritual life is lile a favourite roomn in d home."she sys, bor rowing the ooronion fromn Jesuit Father Ml lien Connolly. t is a

person "lows being in" because it is painted in a favourite moor

colour and furnished with favourite belong+0gs

Then one morning the person "woles up and the room is all wrong." he say She tells people not to panic at this point. The sense something is wrong with one's spirit uel life is lile "an invite

ton to rearrange a room." ft is a call to move more deeply into a relationship with God Another comparison she likes to ue 0ores

from Trappist Father Thomas Merton Me pointed out maturing spiritually involves working

through different

stags

"Moving into a deeper stage is like going through adolescence," Ms Dreyer reports. As in adolescenoe, it means experiencing "discornfort, a lack of identity and awwordiness an indrvidual searches fors new, more oornfortable wary of relating with God, sys Ms Dreyer. Though this is painful for people, the prooessleds to growth She thins when po-

possible topic to discus during the 198 world Synod of Bishops on the

laity The secretariat asked hat elements need to be underlined as essential and significant in the spirituality that is proper too the laity

There is no commonly

accepted definition of lay

spirituality" So the secret riats question is wide open The fact is, numerous spirit ualities are pursued by lay people But there are some widely accepted characteristics of lry spirituality Cunningham suggested one. spealing of spiritual life related to peopie's ordinary experience Closely tied to that is another characteristic of much lay spirituality: learn ing to recognise Jesus in the

faces and voices of other people This dimension of Christian life was succinctly stated by Cleveland's Aul iary

Bishop James Lyke, who

said in a I96 speech on racism " The dread failure of our fasting and our prayers is not that we fail to recognise

pie approach her for help with their spiritual life, it is often because one thing has happened such as a doth or a major appointment

A college student might

Corne when he dis0overs

a career he'd drearned

about is not going to be possible for hirn The event "upsets their view of life," Ms Dreyer explains. Feeling they

"hrve lost their way

leads people to ask ques tions about life that they haven't asked before" This can be an opportunity for an ndividual to i

move on to« new, more satisfying lind of rele tionship with God Ms

Dreyer sys

Christ as our God, but that we cannot see our God as man" Knowing "the bond between Christ and every creature" is a "conversion moment," said Bishop Lyle

Lay

spirituality

also is a

response to God's call to

holiness" heard in "the very web" of one's existence, as the US bishops put it in their 980 pastoral reflection, Called and Gifted The Catholic Laity."

They added The laity hear the call to holiness in and through the events of the word the pluralism of mod

ern living. the complex decisions and conflicting values they must struggle with, the richness and fragil-

ity of sexual relationships,

the delicate balance between activity and stillness, presence and privacy,

love and lo

You get the impression in such a discussion that what is at stale is more than saying prayers, essential a that is Spirituality is a wary of

life

The actions of daily life

public

worship.

group

reflection, quiet preer all

serve as responses to God's

call heard in the very web" of fc Already mentioned was the problem when people per ceive spirituality as some

thing only other people pursue. But once the desire

develops for a spirituality there is an added problem the support needed for it No one's spirituality is ever a finished product Thar's good news for those who welcome an ongoing explo ration of life's meaning It may be troublesome news fo some who don't know where to turn for help in giving form to the desire to

grow as Christians Spiritual directors, Mar rage Encounters and Cursil los, books, parish renewal groups, retreat centers lay people have turned to all those for support in their spirituality Because so many turn to parishes for this support, the US bishops urged parishes to become like homes where the laity "come together with their leaders for mutual spiritual enrichment Interest among the laity in God's call to holiness presents "a challenge to the parish," said the bishops a challenge that will be rewarded One obvious reward will be found in liturgical cele boations, they explained For "the quality of (parish) worship depends in great measure on the spiritual life of all present"

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9

Kath French of Cottesloe, gives a great deal of herself, not only to the family {and that she believes is a must), but also the community at large.

Appointed to the National Women's Advisory Council between 1980-1982, she has been on the WA Women's Advisory Council as of last year (it's a two year term), and is on the state council of Girl Guides.

Kath, co-convenor of the 3L Club, is a life member of the Ryder Cheshire Foundation for the Relief of Suffering, is deputy convenor of the WA Children's Week Committee and is now co-convenor of the WA Advisory Council to the ABC. She is chairman of the Salvado Christos Homes for the Aged and also chairman of the Catholic Education Commission's BiCentennial Committee.

"WA Week Mothers' Award was promoted as a result of

talking with women's groups the throughout community, when I was a member of the WA Women's Advisory Council. women who were full tire mothers at home; they spoke of their low

self-esteem and the

low-esteem put on that role by the com munity in general "Athough I was working for the promotion of working women and equal opportunity legislation," Kath said, "I could see a need to boost women in the role of mother". Often

women made the comment "T am only a mother," Kath said.

women in the com-

by COLLEEN HOWARD

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'At most meetings there seemed to be

She gives herself to the community munity who not only thought of their own families but looked beyond and answered

the

communities'

needs "From what I have seen

of the nominations this

and it struck her what a low value they and the community put on that

Women should give thernselves a higher rating and if they don't lift their own selfesteem," Kath said. 'how could they expect society to?"

She approached differ

ent people in govern ment at the time (this was sore years ago). and in many cases "T was laughed at."

"How can you have an award for mother?" they said

"I wanted it to be a non

fund raising event," said Kath "so througt the YWCA and recognising the need for this. we initiated the first award last year, sponsored by the RR & I Bank and under the auspices of the WA Week Council

We called for nomina

tions throughout the state and last year had

dual winners "The superb standard of motherhood was very impressive, which made the selection

very difficult

"I recognised the dedication and unselfish

nss of so many

year," 'there

said are

Kath, some

superb entries."

What Kath found incredible, was that so often

you find such apathy in the community, which makes it very difficult. she said, to get people spurred on to nomni nate women The award is not only for women at home but for wording women as well who have the dual role to play The award was launched by Mrs Sue Burke and the presen tation of the award will take place during WA Week by the Governor on June 5

Fremantle CBC teacher For something approaching 90 years, port residents have

been keen followers of either the East Fremantle or South Fremantle football sides. The partnership is intense and in many cases endures from the cradle to the grave.

You support the blue-and-whites or the red-and-whites or you are a nothing.

Therefore there would be nothing unusual, you might surmise, for a teacher at CBC Fremantle to declaim from hg full height of a shade under 6ft Sin (196cm) to a class of 13 year-olds: "Those of you who barrack for East Fremantle w get good grades -followers of South Fremantle will get poo grades."

Especially when the teacher happens to be coach of Eas Fremantle. But consider the following.

Ron Alexander has issued the edict in fun - and the pupil know it. They appreciate a teacher with a sense of humour. h makes both his and their tasks easier .

The rapport between

the two parties that is the path to satisfactory learning has been established

The students gather

quickly, too, that the

big fellow is qurte cap-

able of instilling in the classroom the disci pline he has learnt as a successfull leader of

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Ronald lames Alexander, coach of the

East Fr~mantle league football side and

Year 8 teacher at Fremantle CBS, was born in St Anne's Hospital at Mt Lawley on

December 10, 1950.

Educated at the Sacred Heart Primary

School and CBNS (now a camps of St Mart's at Highgate), he went to work in 1965 as a clerk with the WA Transport

Commission.

His burgeoning football career paralleled his educational progress as he completed a Bachelor of Education degree, first at the Nedlands camps of the CAE and later at Rsden College -part of Monash University in Melbourne.

He taught at Mt Scops College, a lewish seat of learning in Melbourne, and in WA at Clontarf and now at CBC Fremantle.

Ron has played a total of 307 games of league football -98 with East Perth, 76 with East Fremantle and 133 with Fitzroy in the VFL He represented WA 12 times and Victoria twice. He won East Perth's fairest and best wrd in 1974, Fitzroy's in 1981 and has been captain of each of the three league clubs in two states for which he has played.

He started as coach of East Fremantle in 1982 ad took them progressively from a position out of the final four very rare in the club's long history to fourth, then second and to the premiership in 1985.

Ron and his wife Marilyn (nee Proctor), Manning parishioners, have two daughters and a son -Nikki (13), who is a pupil at Santa Maria College, Sheree (12) and Brad

(8) who both attend the St Pius I School in Manning.

Ron is a nephew of former state Premier,

Ray O'Connor.

He wa Cont

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funding But he teach at CBC Fremantle wher "things at geared t the kids, and the Brother always, continue to d the night thing Ron's love of foott' goes back for almost long as he can remembd He played at C8!

Highgate, where he as enjoyed just about e other form of sport actrvrty

The rungs in his cir up the football lad were the East Pe Highgate side in Royal junior comp tion, the East Ped Fourths. Thirds Reserves and fina league team for the

of the 1971 season His league debut made in the first game" that season against S Districts at Bassended'

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Women's other • service from Patricia FARQUHAR, Attadale

Sir, Hugh McLernom, (The Record, May 15) in advocating priesthood for women states: "If Christ walked the world today, I feel little doubt but that women would be

numbered among His chosen

disciples."

Were there no women among Christ's early followers? We know that there were many and that He did not call them to the priesthood He cal ed them to a different kind of service, but a very necessary and important

eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and advocated turning

the other cheek and carrying the oppressor's pack twice as far as he tells you to He told us that what was impossible for man was easy

for God

or even think, is not always the best basis for action That is why we have the Pope and the magisterium of the Church to gude us and prevent us from falling into error

Jesus' radical

choice from Jean PURBRRIC Belmont

Sir, Hugh Mclernon's theory (The Record May 15) that Jesus blanched at choosing woman apostles for fear of offending the social sensibilities of the times is utter

nonsense.

Jesus was not a conformist he was a radical. He wined and dined with sinners le conversed with Samaritans; He proclaimed himself master of the sabbath; He overrode the law by healing on the sabbath, by forgiving sins, by discounting the ritual

from Father W.J. Uren, S.4

Diector, r Goody Centre for Bioethics

Does that sound Ike a man

who would balk at appointing woman if wanted to, simply,

because it was not the done thing in the society of the time?

Jesus freely chose women as his friends, Mary Magdalene, Mary and Martha of Bethany etc. but he Just as freely chose only men as his apostles

Women's social graces

one

Neither human nature nor God's plan for our salvation has changed What we feel

Theological • • opinions or magisterium?

From Paul Donelly, Claremont Sir - Women dominate as lectors and Parish councillors almost to the exclusion of men at St Thomas, Claremont, subject to the proviso that matrimony was no longer a bar to ordination access to the priesthood for pious women would undoubtedly make up for the lack of male vocations; but it

would probably be better to consider first the admittance of married men to holy orders.

Women desirous of takeovers of male roles should however consider carefully the overfull day of the Valiant Woman of Proverbs 31 1031

the good woman ran home, family, farm and factory leaving her husband at

leisure to consort with his men friends in the city gate Holy Church characterised her as "A holy woman, not a

martyr"T There is one of the former

orders, albeit a very minor one, in which women would have excelled. It is that of porter, or keeper of the door, sometimes called sidesmen,

collectors and showers to

pews.

Here the social graces of

Sir, once again we have a letter from Mr Mitter (The Recor May 15) breathtaking in its theological simplicity.

I cannot pass over his attempt to equate the private theological opinions of Monsignor Caffarra and Cardine Razinger with the magisterial teaching authority of the Church The conditions laid down for infallible pronouncements are very closely defined by Vatican I. Those for the exercise of the ordinary magisterium are less closely regulated, but no theologian has ever suggested that the remarks of a cardinal even those of the Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, in a holiday interview with an Italian journalist

should be construed as in any sense magisterial It is worth noting, too, that Pope John Paul Il took care to characterise these theological opinions of the Cardinal as purely personal, and to dissociate himself from the gloomy diagnosis of the state of the Church since Vatican II which is expounded in the interview The extremism of these views is also evident in the much more open and positive assessments of the state of the Church made by the various presidents of national episcopa conferences (including Archbishop Rush of Brisbane) at the recent Extraordinary Synod in Rome

Mr Mitter, however, essays an even more breathtaking equation in the citation he introduces from Monsignor Caffarra (VF, we now learn, is "true abortion properly so called"1

This is hardly credible. A necessary condition for "abortion property so called is the intentional destruction of embryos and foetuses

In VF, as indeed in nature intercourse, t! re foreseen loss of embryos, but to say either of these borton is to fail to take account of the very important moral di tinction ind one that constantly invoked in Catholic mor theology in the socalled principle of double effect) between what intended and what is foreseen In IVF, as in natural intercourse (even in the case of the woman who constantly or even always mi ) rt is clear that the intention to blrsh not -as in abortion in the morally objectionable 'ft f mere loss of embryos werr to be tt ining moral factor. would Mr Mitter accept the implication that those women who constantly or always mi rry should have recourse to VF (with its higher success rates) than to natural intercourse? n Church's We should be grateful that the Austr consideration of VF has been more theology 'sophisticated than that advanced by Mr Mitter and appar ntty by Monsignor Caffarra acqu tance witt Perhaps is it because Italy has as yeti of VF that they re unable the scientific complexrtit apparently to unravel the theological complexti ?

Finally, a word on Mr Mitter's recommendation that what required of us is "humble submission and uncompromising allegince

May I commend to him in turn Cardinal Newman's truly (n

technically) magisterial essay. On consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine'for a wider vision of the role of the People

Wanted: house parent washing before eating. women in meeting. greeting of God. Even its title is enough to suggest a much more vital for Hosanna House. a He told Jews who were re 4 nd home for mildly intellectuar getting to know would Church than the one Mr Miter seems to have in m ind forbidden to consume blood MooooY ebb4 reek the no4 to resoe tr need to And if, as I suspect he wil he does require a magisteal n adults ally handicapped help in this missionary that if they wanted eternal life welcome visitors spoken of by (in the technical sense) warrant to endorse the cardinal's vision work of the Church. If you they had to eat his flesh and Father O'Shea, as we are so may I further direct him to paragraph 12 of the Dogmate are a caring person you drink his blood. traditionally bad at welcomConstitution on the Church where the importance oft the may care to join us for a He opposed the law of an ing the stranger at our gates. "sensus fidelium' in developing doctrine is carefully detailed few months or even longs=an W Live-in for at least part of ■-

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Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now & forever. Grateful thanks, W.D.B. 0 St Martha I resort to thee and to thy petition and faith I offer up to thee this light which I shall burn every Tuesday for nine Tuesdays. Comfort me in all my difficulties through the favour you enjoyed when the Saviour lodged in your house.

I beseech you to have definite pity in regard to the favour I ask. Intercede for my family that we may always be provided for in all our necessities Overcome the Dragon which you did cast at your feet. Say one Our Father, 3 Hail Marys one Glory Be and light a candle every Tuesday and make known this prayer.

Thanks also to the Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, St Joseph. St Jude, St Therese of the Little Flower.

Infant of Prague, Blessed Titus Brandsma, Father Kentencih.

Mother McKillop. Gratitude always. Colleen and Olaf Schmidt.

Brief

Prayer & human growth "It is useful to see prayer understood at its most fun damental level. as linked to the development of what it means to be a full human

The good use of leisure time is often the first thing to go by the wayside when people feel crowded for time, Cindy Liebhart writes this week. Could the same be said for prayer? Is prayer frequently linked in people's minds with leisure time or periods of relaxation -and readily dispensed with when things get busy?

Like leisure time, prayer contributes to human growth. One writer who took note of that recently is

tion of every spiritual writer of this generation," says

ningham

religious studies. He writes

theologian Lawrence Cun-

Smart people keep

their names in ] front of the best ] people when they l

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person," writes Cun ningham in "The Catholic Experience" (Crossroad Publishers, 370 Lexington Ave. New York, NY 10017 1985)

That praying can bring

healing and reconciliation

has been 'the clear convic-

Cunningham, professor of

To pray is to affirm, how ever indistinctly, the potentialities of human life Prayer often begins with an instinctive response, Cun ningham says. For instance, when he puts his small

daughter to bed "with her But Christians gr' blanket and current favour through the experien ite doll, I almost impulsively because praying helps th touch her head and wish for move from concern her a happy untroubled with themselves to conccd for the wider community night Other times we ma life of prayer 'sho encounter God fleetingly in expand the human horind beauty or in a moment of of those who pray to a mo" intense emotion. For Cun Catholic sense of missi ningham, "those privileged and purpose, Cunningb moments flash for us that wntes Often, he adds, td sense of the awesome mys tery against which our lives happens in quite ordin are worked out ways. People, strengthen' It is in prayer that Chris by prayer, discover th" tians come to grips with want to be more lovini themselves in relationship toward a family member with God's infinite mystery less indifferent to a neig' Prayer leads individuals to "a bour or more helpful to' sense of God's presence in needy person our life and at the deepest Prayer. Do you think " level of our personal exist really could be a factor " ence," Cunningham con- one's growth as a perso tinues faith? why?

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Youth camp guest

If you keep fish you will be able to relate to my experience. During the past four weeks at the Cardijn Youth Centre in North Perth, I was a student observer of youth activities.

My name is Toni Catena and I live in the parish of Osborne Park. In mid-Febru ary of this year I began a full time course in youth studies at Claremont College.

After only six weeks of study all students were sent on a four week practical placement at a youth agency to be My placement w; with the Catholic Youth offices The aim of the initial place ment is to give students a first hand kn« tedg f the an day to day runnir agency and the involved During my p a lot of the As Cardijn Youth Cent PY YC

DANCE North Perth Town Hall View Street Friday, May 30 8-12 pm BYO Drinks Soft available

being "Who Am I gave everyone the opportunity to reflect and think about who and why they are It is a question many of us do not often consider, but should be considered because unless we know who we are, how will we know what we are and what w really want out of life?

Amanda De Kauwe and SteThe course in youth studies owledgeable phen Adams chat with youth is designed to prepare youth de possible worker student Toni Catena and community workers the Cardijn (rigtt) with a sound conceptual and practical understanding of gee.f the issues, skills and resources necessary to be effective in working with young people

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When Freddy was 11 years old in 1 888 he read about a priest of the Vincentian religious order who went to China as a missionary about 50 years earlier. The priest Peking in March 1901.

Father Jean Gabriel, was He was surprised to find killed there because he the church in China very was a Christian. much like the church in A few days later, France. He thought it Freddy told his family, "1 would be more Chinese. am going to join the Few of the French mise spoke or read Vincentians, go to China sionaris and become a martyr."

Chinese. They did not Seven years later he even eat with the Chijoied n the Vincentians. nese priests.

He changed his name to Vincent believed that Vincent because he the only way China wanted to be like St. would become Christian Vincent de Paul. was for the Christians to He was happy in the become more Chinese. seminary. But hi shealth We only get to know n one was not good. His super- people by becomig iors told him he could with them," he wrote. never go to China.

So he worked hard at One night an elderly learning the Chinese lann his French missionary gage and contiued bishop from China seminary studies. He stayed at the seminary was ordained a priest where Vincent lived. and sent to a rural parish Let me go back with outside the city of Pekn Vincent ing. you to Chia," begged.

There he dressed lik a The bishop convinced poor Chinese man. He Vincent's superirs o to let wore a pigtail and beard him go and he arrived i n and lived liked his pari-

hildren's Story Hour shioners. He reached out to those who were poor and needy.

But his superiors were upset with Father Lebbe's approach. Many European missionaries also disagreed with it.

More than once he was removed from his miswork. He always sinary o obeyed.

But over the next years Father Lebbe, by word and example. and as a journalist, pursued his belief that the Catholic Church in China should become more Chinese.

He thought that bishops in the country should be selected from among the Chinese priests.

Then in 1920 Pope Benedict XV called Father Lebbe to visit him and told him that he too believed bishops in China should be Chinese. After 25 years of struggle, Father Lebbe

watched Pope Pisu ordain six Chinese bishops in St Peter, Basilica i nRome.

Father Lebbe returned to China and continu his work. Finally, wom out by work and sick. ness, he died June 24, 1940. It was the fe day of the priest-m Father Jean Gabriel whose life he read whe he was 11 years old.

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Catholic faith in today's world

The albums to look for are Power Trax 1986 and lnspirational Hits '86. Both have been released through A & M records.

Power Trax '86 thunders

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music types available to those who may not be

entirely clued up on the music scene.

Power Trax 1986 and Inspirational Hits '86 are

available at your nearest record store, and if you can't find them on the

stands, just ask. They're a nice price too $9.99 each.

David Meece appeared at

the Perth Concert Hall this week.

JAMIE OWENS-COLLINS, supported by On The Rock appears at Wesley College on Thursday, May 29 at 7.30 pm.

Tickets are available through Perth Youth For Christ and the Gospel Film Ministry.

Czechoslovakia in 1969 after the Soviet invasion in 1968 Hi first record was still issued that year in the CSSR, and it contained the song that made him famous dur ing the days of the invasion

record was issued while in

exile, and it was called Rakovina' ( 'Cancer")

Jesus and Community, Gerbard Lobfink, translated byJobn P. Galvin, Paulist Press. For tress Press, $9.95 Subtitled The Social Dimension of Christian Faith. views the Church as a community of those ready to live in the people God gathered by Jesus and sane tified by his death by

Enemies and How to Love Tbem, by Gerard Vanderbaar,

at a Time album.

Kr! left his native home of

his original songs

Karel is the most famous of the Czech singers and composers who wrote their own songs in the new wave of

popular songwriters in the 1960's

Further LP records folas: Maskary ('Masks") -- 1970, "Carmina Ressurectionis 1973 Karel is also recognised as a poet and his books published in Czechoslovakia in 197274 77 78are now all out of print. In 1982 he published a bibliographic book with poems and illusrations titled Amoresky lowed such

C"Love Songs")

In 1978 in Cologne, West Germany he published a book in German called Lieder gegen panzer

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Don Francisco's One Heart

Forty-two year old Karel

("Songs against Tanks"), which also contains five of

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newtitles, new titles, new titles, new titles "Catholic Sisters in Transition," by Sister

llave two new albums to ring to your attention this week.

Eh contains 16big slabs of top quality ministry from the cream of the Christian muso crop. Amy Grant, Petr, David Meece, Teri e Sario -- the list goes on. fch is a great collection of the top rock and inspirational hits of the year.

The local musicians are Dagmar and Benny Hampton, who will appear with Kry! at his concerts on Friday and Sunday.

Karel's next long playing

substances such as tobacco - a permanent distaste is created

Two concerts for 'artist . exile 71J .., In

week.

This song was titled 'Bra tricku, zavirej vratka" which translates to "My brother better close the gate

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TENNIS

The B grade pennant ten-

nis competition well and truly came alive as a result of scores in this week's

matches.

St George who two weeks ago looked as though they would go through the season undefeated, suffered their second loss in succession, this time at the hands of Pignatelli No. 2.

Pignatelli No. 2 gained an early ascendancy and held on to it throughout the day to win nine sets 71 games to three sets 37 games.

Willetton continued to improve their game by defeating St Benedicts seven sets 59 games to five sets 45 games.

St Benedicts were unable to play as consistently as they had the previous week when they defeated St George.

Greenwood finally broke the ice this week defeating Pignatelli No. 1 10 sets 67 games to two sets 41

games.

There are now four teams

on equal points in the A grade with only a four set margin separating the top team and the fourth team.

The next four weeks should be very tough for the tearns as one loss could be the difference between playing or not playing in the

final.

In the A grade competition

Oueens Park No. 1 stopped Queens Park No. 2's winning run by winning six sets 59 games to six sets 55

games lay was extremely close all day with neither team able to gain the ascendancy.

With two sets to play each team had won five.

The close result was consistent with scores recorded throughout the season so far.

In fact Queens Park No. 2 have now played in four matches in which the winning team has won on games only.

In a season which has been running only for six matches you could not have wished for a more even competition.

In the other A grade match

Pignatelli defeated Dianella nine sets 64 games to three sets 42 games.

Pennant tables after week six of competition are as

A GRADE

Queens Park No. 2 Queens Park No. 1 Pignatelli Dianella

10 8 4 2

St Thomas Aquinas College has held an open afternoon on their Bedford campus showing their facilities, displays and activities; a highlight of the day being the multicultural dancing put on by some of the students Topics covered a wide range including mathematics, English, computer, Religion, drama food and nutrition, clothing

B GRADE

Pignatelli No. 2 St George

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and fabrics, art, technical drawing. business education, science, physics and

Association members and friends are invited to the square dance organised by the Oueens Park Club It will be held on Saturday June 7 at the Higgins Park Tennis Club hall The entry fee is $6 for adults and $3 for school

social science

Tricia Walsh, honorary PR officer for the college, said the facilities there were such that girls could develop their skills to ensure maximum possibilities of achieving professional standards in the work force.

MANDORLA WORKSHOP

A workshop on Gospel Dynamics using Yoga. meditation, reflexology and music will be directed by Father Reg Smith on Saturday June 7, 9am to 4 pm at Sisters of Mercy Retreat House, 10 School Avenue North Beach. Further information

children.

The entrance fee covers a chicken supper and drinks are 8YO.

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CHANCE ...

RACE ONE: Lady Kiwi1,

Behind Bars 2, Dashing Domino 3.

RACE TWO: Barmill 1, Flintstone 2, Delta Kid 3.

RACE THREE: Janarlce Tiger 1, Timely Parade 2, Brendon Glider 3.

RACE FOUR: Royal Dyna 1, Ballarat Tiger 2, Lady Temlock 3.

RACE FIVE: Riviera

Teviot 1, Coheen 2, Daybreak 3.

JUNE 1 Enquiry Day at St Charles Seminary. Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Willetton. Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Oueens Park. Archbishop Foley.

3-4 Clergy Meeting North Perth.

5 RCIA meeting. Bishop Healy.

6 St John of God graduation. Archbishop Foley.

7 Confirmation, Hamersley. Archbishop Foley.

8 WA Week Thanksgiving Service.

Bishop Healy.

RACE SIX: Oyster Lady I, Supreme Road 2, Tanjo Fern 3.

RACE SEVEN: Lamborghini 1, Curo's Gem

2, Endless Quest 3

RACE EIGHT: Rydah's Son 1, One More Night 2, Anita Mac 3 RA CF. NINE: Harry Hooter 1, Vinaka 2, Tivessa Pride 3.

RACE TEN: Ain't Saying 1, Fiery Ryan 2, White Peak 3

ALTOS NEEDED

The West Australian Girts' Choir has been busy this year with rehearsals and engagements. The new madrigal and guitar groups, and the recorder ensemble have been working together for the past few weeks. The new repertoire being introduced for the choir has proved very

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Golden Jubilee of Mother Veronica.

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This year nearly all the new members are sopranos, so the need is for altos over

16 to fll the few vacancies left.

Interested girls are asked to telephone the Musical Director, Daniel Girling on 387 4287 (anytime) or the Hon Secretary, Roberta Chapman on 293 1518.

If you're breathless call on St Thomas Aquinas girls Nicole Bailey, Darlene Francis and Melissa Contrusceri showing their cardio pulmonary resuscitation on a dummy.

INDIAN BISHOP

Sponsored by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Group 50 Prayer Group Bishop Valerian D'Souza of Bombay wild give two rallies and workshops on May 26-27 at 7.30 pm each night. For further information contact Margaret Kenny 381 9259.

READING THE BIBLE SOME BASICS

The Sunday Gospels For June & July 1986, from St Luke - a study of the text.

'No previous experience necessary' if you are interested, just bring a bible.

Wednesdays (from June 4) 8.00 pm (for one hour) St. Thomas More College Chapel Mounts Bay Road,

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KENSINGTON CONVERTS

At Kensington church last Saturday.

Jan Choules and her daughters Natalie and Davina received their mission crosses in the next step in a year long program that included their baptism at Easter.

They bring to 21 the number of people who have entered the Church in the Kensington RCIA program commenced in

1982.

During the Pentecost ceremony, Father Frank O'Dea urged the new Catholics to be witnesses to others of the power of the Holy Spirit just as they had been drawn to the Church by the example of others.

Jan said that her decision was influenced by her daughters' experience at Mercedes College where Natalie was a

student and Davina is still studying.

Mercedes fellow students accompanied the converts to Sunday morning discussions on the readings of the Mass.

Jan was also impressed by her Catholic neighbours whose peace and happiness she envied as well as their willingness to talk about their religion.

For last Saturday's ceremony the group were presented by their sponsors Kay Jones and Margaret and Brian Short and wore stoles they had made for their baptism. After lighting candles from the paschal candle, they were given wooden mission crosses made by a Kensington

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