Develop missionary spirit says Archbishop
PERTH, WA: July 17, 1986
Number 2488
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VOCATIONS US Bishops pinpoint priest shortage cause
and other vocations, stories pages 6 and 7
OP MOTHER Top WA mother owes
a lot to Brigidine sisters' training, see story and picture page 6
READERS' REACTIONS Pathways' writers working on the 13-week series about
Archbishop Foley said he was alarmed when he heard people say the greatest need in the Church is for more priests. He said that the local Church needed to develop a missionary spirit as a source of vocations.
laity in the Church receive a big mail reaction from read-
ers. See pages 8 and 9
Speaking in St Mary's Cathedral he said he was launching a campaign for vocations that will extend over the next few years but will influence the Church for many years to come. He said the campaign was one of prayer,
PROFESSOR
awareness of the place of priests and religious
Senior WAIT lecturer
in the local Church and a ready support for the
is a 'learned refugee'.
work of Christ in the local community.
See COLLEEN HOWAR D'S story, pages
people what was the greatest need in the Church
10 and 11
he was alarmed when they replied "more
Archbishop Foley said that when he asked
Archbishop Foley
priests"
A faithful friend and pastor I See I Monsignor O'Reilly
was a faithful friend
and most of all a faithful pastor to the thousands who got to know him so well in the Cathedral, Como and Nedlands parishes. Archbishop Goody paid this tribute before a congregation which packed St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday for the funeral Mass. The congregation included Mr Terry Burke
MLA representing the
Premier and Mr Phil Pendal representing the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hassell.
The Commissioner of Police Mr Brian Bull, the Inspector of Commonwealth Police Mr Frank Pimm also were in the congregation. Sir Charles Court attended the cemetery ceremony.
Knights of the Southern
Cross acted as ushers and formed a guard of
honour.
The Anglican and Uniting Churches sent official representatives.
Archbishop Goody called Monsignor O'Reilly an administrator of great capacity and zest, an authoritative master of ceremonies who knew what was to be done and how to get it done. Referring to his 15 years
as Archbishop of Perth
during which Monsignor O'Reilly was for 13 years secretary and for two years dean of the cathedral, he said: "He helped
and advised me in pri-
vate, he was my admonitor in cricket -- also in
private, but in both public and private there was no one more loyal, more faithful in his work." Noting that Monsignor O'Reilly had "gone in the best years of his maturity", Archbishop Goody said that the 23rd anniversary of Monsignor O'Reilly's first Mass, in Ireland in 1963, was a fitting fulfilment of the words of St John "he who eats my flesh will live in me and I in Him."
also page 2
Premier's tribute page 12
"They are aware of the statistics and so are we but what the Church of Perth needs is for each one of us to know Christ better, not just about Him. to know Him as a
person acting on our lives.
0a ·Without that awareness of Christ there will not be the possibility for people to respond to the call to the priesthood and religious life." Turning to the priesthood the archbishop said that we cannot leave things to happen, they are part of the local community.
See page 6