The Record Newspaper 30 October 1986

Doubleview Parish tarts a concentrated program of prayer, discussions, co tact and reconciliation in preparation for the visit of Pope Joh Pau II on ovember 30. See page 2.

If the one-time Legio of Mary envoy o Africa, Ede Quinn, is ever canoni by the Church she ill be an example o the many ay p pie w are oming committ to he Church.

This was sai by Arch ishop Foley after he less the E I Qu · nn Centre in Wi d r Street at will beco e perma n hea uarters for t e Legion of Mary in Perth.

"She exemplifies for the church t e lay person who hro h discipleship beco s a rrussio ary i he life of the C rch.

"In the arc diocese of Perth an increasin n mber of people are icating hemselves to full time service in the Church in the fields of education, parish pa oral ministry, social justice and other areas.

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Doubleview parish of Our· Lady of The Rosary is up and running in preparation for the'visit of Pope John Paul with vigi s of prayer, parish discussions and a special message to all Catholic families in the paris .

Two Friday night vigils of prayer from 8 pm o 8 am have already been held and t ey will continue until the w ekend of the pope's arrival in Perth.

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The Prime inister Mr Ha e ls pictured last wee making an award to the ational Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace for its work in human riqhts, the lopment of peop es and social justi ce in Australia and overseas. e award was received by Bis op William Brennan of Wa ga, presiden of e commission and r Jeff ·1 chairman of e cornmissio .

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ATICAN CllY: A full enquiry into security at the Vatican has been ordered by the pope following a dramatic robbery attempt.

Thre men in a maroon Ford ona managed to get past the u ing fal e ecurity po t

In anticipation of Pope John gathering with religious heads at Assisi to pray for peace.

"Violence does not have the last word" UNo Christian, indeed, no human being who believes in God, creator of the world and lord of history, can remain indifferent in the face of a problem which touches so closely the present and future of humanity. It is necessary that everyone be mobilised to make his comribinion to the cause of peace. War can be decided by a few, peace requires the combined efforts of II." - Pope John Paul II, pes ing on peace in his homily at the Besilic« of St Paul, outside the walls in Rome, for the closing of the Week for Christian Unity.

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The boy who was to become pope was a lively, cheeky youngster. He used to mimic teachers when they turned their backs, was a noted joketeller among his friends, and was annoyingly keen on soccer.

One writer has told how Karol Wojtyla and a friend used to spend hours kicking a ball against the wall of the church in the market town of Wadowice.

"An exasperated priest would rush out and cuff the MIO boys, threatening terrible punishments if they didn't go somewhere else to play," she records.

Young Lolelc got into mischief more dangerous than that Once he was with his friend Boguslaw whose parents owned a small basement cafe across the street

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In the cash drawer they found a pistol left there for safe keeping by the local policeman.

While Boguslaw was playing with it he pointed the barrel at his friend and bangl Off rt went The bullet is said to have missed the future pope by centimetres.

His outgoing ways probably resulted partly from being spctled by his mother. That is not surpriSlng as he was the baby of the family (his brother ec;...erd was 14 years his senlOf).

Karol junlOf's birth was a consolation for his mother, who had lost her only daughter three �rs before, a day after she was born.

Also, as Mrs Emilia Wojtyta was 40 when he came

into the IIIIOOd it seemed likely that he would be her last child.

"She used to fuss over him as though he was a young prince," Mrs Helen Sczepanska, a former neighbour, recalled sewral years ago.

"I used to VIIOOder what would become of a boy who received such adulation. Surely he would grow up to be terribly selfish."

But he did not turn out that way, partly because of his basic cheerfulness and partly because of his father's common sense.

There was another reason - the dramatic removal of the maternal care lalllshed on him. When his mother was 49 she died gMng birth to her second daughter, who was stillborn.

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Mrs WC>jlyta had long suffered from bad health which was not improved by the added burden of menial work.

A teacher in her younger days, she W3li reduced to taking in sewing for payment to help the family get by. Her husband, formerly a staff offioer in the AustroHungarian army, ci'ew a lowty salary for his desk job at the regional draft board.

There was lrttle affluenoe in Poland in the decade of Western IIIIOOd called the Roaring Twenties, a time of flappers, jazz and the booming movie in<iJslry.

Poland, during Lolek's young days, has been described as a countJy "three-quarters subsistence farmers, one-quarter quarrelling minorities."

It had been a battleground during the Gr&at War • and had set out on a shaky independence resulting from its surprise cavalry defeat of Russian forces in

1919.

At No. 7 Koscielna Street. behind the big. oniondomed church where Lolek had been baptised, the family lived in a first floor flat. There was no bathroom, the toilet in the hall',wy was shared by all tenants but the block of flats had running water - a �rative luxury in Poland.

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Karol Wojtyla with his father, Karol.

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Although struggling to make ends meet. the boy's mother found time to instruct him in the faith. Also, she made a small altar and white tunic for him so he could play at say,ng Mass.

Despite his rnou-'s co11ce110 a tad attention on him, Pope John Paul has said that his memories of her are vague. Still, he told distinguished French Catholic writer, Andre Frossard, several years ago, he did remember feeling deprived when she trallelled to Cracollv Without him, piobabfy to consult doctors.

Yet from adole9CElt1Ce, a few years after her death just before he turned nine, he began to feel "the cruel loss of her absence."

'There comes a moment when boys brought up by their father - no matter how well and tel m1y painfully discover they haw been� of a mocta-," he said.

Three years later he and his father were to reel under another blow: Edward died from scarlet feller which he caught from a patient at a ho&prtal where he had begun to wonc as a doctor.

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"My mother's death made a deep impress,on on my memory," he told M. Frossard, "and my brother's perhaps a still deeper one because of the dramatic oircumstances in which it occurred and because I was more mature."

He was 12, had lost his mother and brother and MIO sisters he had � known. But his father had alreactv proved to be lolling and attenwe, a reliable rock of a man - but stern, according to one of Karol's boyhood friends.

"The program never changed," he recalled of the years following Mrs Wojtyta's death. "It was early Mass every morning, followed by school, a meal, an hour's free tJme then horne'M>rk.

"If Lolek was caught playing 1n the street after the prescnbed time he was hauled back immediately."

The pope's memories are much warmer than that arid are suffused with gratitude.

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who was commiuiooed bJ Tlte Adrocate in Melbourne to write about the life and auomplishmfflts of Karol WojtJ/a, Pope John Paul II, in preparwoo for his risit to Australia at the end of tbe montll,

Mother knew he would be Pope

The greatness was to take shape 30 kilometres to the north,..-!. in Cracow. He was to become archbishop of that ancient university city, for centuries the centre of Poland's Catholicism.

Sadly, Mrs Emilia Wojtyta did not live to see her dream and rer son's destiny realised: she died when he was only eight.

But even at that age it seems that the boy, nicknamed Lolek, knew about rer basic hope for him - one of status in such a deeply religious country.

"She wanted one son a doctor and the ott- a priest." Karol Wojtyta told an inteMellller five years ago.

"My brother was a doctor and in spite of everything, I have become a priest.''

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"My father was admirable and almost all the memories of my childhood and adolescence are connected wrth him," he told M. Frossard.

"The VIOience of the blows which had struck him had opened up immense spiritual depths in him. His grief found Its outlet in prayer.

"The mere fact of seeing him on his knees had a decisive influence on my early years. He was so hard on himself that he had no need to be hard on his son. His example alone was suff1C1ent 1D inculcate d1sc1pllne and a sense of duty. He was an exceptJonal

A major issue can be mentioned

The sb eogth of character built up over the years was to be tested and deepened after the Nazi invasion when he was taken far from his books and acting and huried into the wond of labouring men.

Also there were the influences mentioned by writer George Blazynski in his book John Paul II: A Man from Cracow.

"There are four landmarics of

enthusiasm for the theatre, an enthusiasm so strong that it

seemed likely his future would

lie in the acting p,ofessioo.

One of his high school teachers, Father Edward Zacher, has

told of one time when that prospect

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no less than the Archbishop of Cracow.

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I ne'Mlat young Karol's mother-who had been so to guiding him towards Holy Orders said about that attitude if she had been

.1 deepiy Catholic Poland pnests gaya religK>us

" 1he State educatJon system. Still, 1n his early ry ICliool years, there was no indication that the letic. studious and arnstic Wojtyta had any

lowards the cloth.

He became renowned for reciting lengthy sectJons from Homer's Odyssey and speeches from the Aeneid

by Virgil.

He could sing, too, and dance spectacularly from a wide repertotre of Strauss waltms and the mazunais and other traditional Pol!Sh dances.

But it was in theatre that his true talents and

ambitions lay.

grew up and worked," he says.

within the single An:hdioce.

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human hope and tragedy under whose shadows Wojtyle

the school in 1938 and Karol

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divert him from a religious vocation. That was his

But there was plenty of fun in the boy's Irle. Sport was taking up more and more of his time and he was turning into a skilful and daring soccer goalkeeper.

He also took advantage of the swimming months in that generally cold climate and there's a tale (probably exaggerated) that when the River Skawa rose young Karol Woj!y1a would be out there surfing m the floodwaters.

He was fond of canoeing and hockey, k>O, but he began to develop a fondness for the Tatra mountains not far out of WSOONice. The boy from the foothills found not only a sporting challenge in the rugged heights but friendship with the spirited, independent Goral mountain people. And he found peace.

on the youth - and others that were soon to press on him.

The "everything" that happeoed in the years between his mou-'s exptessed wish and his ordination will be spelled out in a later chapter.

now, however, because it was the one that seemed likely to

person."

"Throughout his life the Tatras have remained a refuge, a place for reflection and for taking stock in times of crisis," according to biographer Mary Craig.

All this exercise was building a sturdy body. A photograph of him aged 10 on an outing with his class shows a solidly built lad with steactv gaze and the round, but strong features still stamped on the pope today.

The interests of the sports-mad boy began 1D widen the next �r when he started at high school.

His father sent him there because the feas IIIIElre. less than at the MIO Catholic schools and It had a fine staff and a solid reputation.

There was a third reason: the Pallo!!Jne and Carmelrte teachers tended to pressure the pupils to become prMISIS. Mr Wojtyta, delipite his convictions. wanted his

"You will see," the pope's mother used to say when he was only a baby, "my son will grow up to be a great man."

A neighbour of the Wojtyla family has recalled that prediction being made as the pram containing little Karol was wheeled through a park in the town of Wadowice.

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"A great pity - he would make a good one."

The prelate and the priest might not haw so readily dol.bted the chance of a vocation if they had known about the many influences which W9l8 at work

was, and still is, the 1000-year

tradition of Polish Christianity and a faith so in1Bn9e that it has not only survived but thrived over centuries of

oppression.

BecaUM - 85 the pope himself

has often said - the Church and history of Poland are

intetwined it might be an idea to look briefly at their origins.

"A faniway country," John Paul called his homeland on the night he was electad pope.

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"To my knowledge there is not one successful businessman in Perth - and I know plenty of them - who does not work hard. There is no substitute for hard work if you want to achieve success in business."

Coming as it does from eminently successful businessman John Joseph Hughes, the state's b · ggest motor dealer, that comment has undoubted validity.

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It s a cornerstone of the p ilosophy of the man who was born at Fremantle on December 6, 1935, and educated at the

The Marist Lodge at 12 Lapage Street, Belmont was opened in 1980 and is having its first fete, on Sunday, November 2.

Residents have produced a stock of goods ready for sale which has involved sewing, crocheting, basket knitting, weaving and other activities.

Being relatively new as far as lodges go, and their first fete, the whole p ace is with buzzing excitement, so I checked out a couple of residents to see who they were and what they did with their lives before finally settling down at Marist Lodge.

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BARRY (Philip Patrick). The children & randchildren of th late Mr Philip P. Barry ould H e to incerely THA 'K Rev. Fathers Tom Gaine, ichael Keating, the matron & taff of t St Camillus nur ing home, Forre tfield, relative and friend for their expre ion o ympathy, prayer , condolence , card phon call and al o their attendance at the a and uneral.

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Bishop Mayne, head of the Catholic Ordinarlate to the defence forces, be ·eves the former view to be true. " •.• most of the people in the defence forces are prepared to dle so th ir fel ovv citize and freedom

Australian involvement in that un-declared war I defended myself and th Government with qualms.

The qualms came much later. Having learned more of the history of lndo-China in the meantime, and havif'YJ also learned more of how that was fought, I realise the vve.akness of my arguments in the light of the example and vision of Christ Our otherwise egitimale defence stance ·s morally compromised by Australia's part in an alliance with a nucl rpower.Atissue'sthe first strike planning and capability of the United

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Into the lifestyle they had built displaced migrants had come after Wo d War II seeking freedom, and a new life, he said.

Many of these, he said, had settled in Northam.

They had enriched the town and district with their various cultures.

The pres· nt of St Joseph's Parish Pastoral Council, Mr LB. Evans, welcomed guests who included the ayor of Northam, Mr V.S. Mrs Ottaway, the p esioent of Ottaway a the Shrin of ham, r D.R. Antonio and Mrs Anto lo. the District Superinte t of Police and Mrs Primrose and officers and members of St J hn Ambulance.

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