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VATICAN CITY (NC): between lay and priestly Pope John Paul II in his vocations. annual letter to priests The pope marks Holy called service the Thrusday and its com"heart" of their mis- memoration of the Last sion, and urged clergy Supper with an annual and laity to work letter to the church's together.

400,000 priests.

The pope underlined again the difference In his letter, the pope between the "common cited extensively the priesthood" of the laity Second Vatican Council's and the "ministerial Dogmatic Constitution priesthood" of the on the Church and ordained clergy, while at Decree on the Ministry the same time identify- and Life of Priests. ing a "profound link" He also told priests they

should meditate upon their own vocation in light of his recent apostolic exhortation on the mission of the laity, "Christifideles Laid" While the ordained "differs priesthood essentially and not only in degree" from the common priesthood of all laity, the pope told priests, "the lay faithful' are those from among whom each one of us 'has been chosen'."

The pope called the

laity a "spiritual seedbed of vocations."

"Wherever vocations are scarce the Church must be attentive," the pope said.

He underlined the role of "service" in the priestly vocation, calling it the "very heart of our mission".

Priests must not "be conformed to this world," yet must live among the people, the pope said.

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who must recognise the dignity of the laity and their proper role in the Church's mission.

As pastor the priest can perform this task, he said.

But he must keep in mind that he is "gathering the community together not around" himself "but around Christ." "gathering This together" of the Christian community is a "continuous and coherent"

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Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem, said March 16 that the procession was cancelled "out of concern for worshipers in these troubled times."

He said Easter services would be held, but there would be no outdoor

ceremonies.

The procession had been scheduled from the Mount of Olives to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It usually attracts thousands of tourists.

More than 400 Palestinians and 16 Israelis

have died in the 15month-old uprising.

year, Patriarch Sabbah called Holy Week a "Way of the Cross" for Palestinians.

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"Every Palestinian carries the cross," the patriarch said. "They

have carried it for so many years."

In December, the town of Bethlehem cancelled its annual Christmas celebrations because of the violence. Israeli soldiers put up a few Christmas decorations after Palestinian Christians

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munity, he said.

It is here where cooperation is "essential."

Priests must recognise the gifts of the laity and allow them "freedom and room for action," he said.

"Pastors also know that they themselves were not meant by Christ to shoulder alone the entire saving mission of the Church toward the world," he said.

Palm Sunday procession off J ERUSALEM (NC): Church leaders in Jerusalem cancelled the traditional Palm Sunday procession for the second straight year because of the Palestinian uprising in Israelioccupied territories.

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refused to do so.

Patriarch Sabbah had also planned to cancel the traditional Christmas handshake with Israel's governor in Bethlehem, but relented after the Israeli government put pressure on the Vatican.

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Above: Father Dino (right) reading the Passion story with Archbishop Foley (centre).

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A tremendous success. That's how Father Felix Decandia described the trilingual Mass week held at St Laurence's Church, Balcatta.

Father Felix of the Capuchin order organised this trilingual thrust as a highlight of the Easter celebrations.

He said the Balcatta church was packed during the week — from March 13 to 18 — and was pleased with the response.

During the six days, Masses were celebrated in English, Italian and Croatian.

The priests who participated in the celebration of the Masses were Father Dino, Father Nicholas and Father Felix himself.

It was the first time that the church had conducted its Masses in three languages.

What was also achieved in this tri-tongue experi-

jnent was the fact that it helped promote a sense of togetherness among the of members congregation.

Very much in evidence was the inter -mingling of the various ethnic groups after each Mass.

And for that Father Felix is extremely pleased. He achieved what he had set out to do — getting the ethnic groups to mix more freely with one another.

On each of these evenings, the three language groups broke up and went with their respective priest to the hall, church and school.

After instructions and discussions, they reassembled in the church for Mass or Benediction Blessed of the Sacrament.

The week kicked off with members of the congregation, with a candle each in their hand, making their way

into a pitch dark church.

The glowing sea of candlelights in darkness was indeed a spectacle to behold.

Another moment to remember during the six days was the recitation of the Our Father in three languages with members of the congregation holding hands to form human chains.

Archbishop Foley celebrated Mass on the final day (Saturday) which saw a procession with palms and the blessing of the palms outside the church.

After Mass the congregation assembled in the hall and were treated to refreshments. Most of them brought a plate too.

And what a party it turned out to be!

Father Felix said previously the church had conducted Masses in two languages — Italian and English — to mark the feast of St Laurence.

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When she entered the Nedlands monastery on September 8, 1937 it was the first time she had ever seen Carmel. All arrangements till then had been made by mail.

It was a newly arrived community and it was young, ranging from the 32-year-old Mother Prioress to 17-year-old postulant Eileen Brennan.

Four years earlier she had felt the urge to enter Carmel, even though a local monastery had not been founded, through her mother's love of St Therese of Lisieux.

That vocation she traced to the Presentation Sisters who had come from Beverley to Pingelly every month to teach the children catechism after Mass. She was impressed by their piety and holiness.

Home then was Taylor's Well, one of six localities to which her teacher father took his family.

St Patrick's Day was also the anniversary of the arrival in Fremantle

altar-breads and working in the garden.

Her love of books is reflected in her caring for the monastery library.

At the golden jubilee Mass, Archbishop Foley said, that Carmel is a reminder that God is with us throughout our lives to reach out to us for our good and for His Glory.

There is a special grace for those who are chosen to live the contemplative life; like Martha's Sister Mary they have realised real of is what importance.

He said that Sister Philomena's unique calling has played an important part in the life of the church and what she had done over fifty years is well known though probably not so well understood.

Her link with the state's pioneers, he said, was another special cause for Sister Philomena . . . golden jubilee and first West thanksgiving in this Australian to enter Carmel.

Jubilee Mass; it links us with the early WA Chrisfrom Ireland of her father converted to Catholicism tian community.

Patrick Brennan, then a at the age of 18.

In concluding His Grace lad of 22 who had They were to have nine withdrawn from May- sons and three daugh- said: "We are grateful to you for allowing us to nooth seminary just ters, Eileen being the share in your Jubilee.

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Record Allelu-la! Jesus, the Lord has triumphed over death and lives forever with the Father . . . But where does that leave His followers . . . if any . . . and who are they in the Year of The Lord 1989?

In multi-cultural Australia of 1989 we tread sensitively over the matter of names and titles.

When is an Italian, Irish, Lithuanian or Indian no longer Italian, Irish, Lithuanian or Indian but only Australian . . . or are they both? We are not sure.

In multi-religious Australia we play cautiously with our titles. Are Catholics, Anglicans, Uniting, Lutherans or Baptists really Christians? Or are they both? Latter day religious trendies leap on to the safe ground of superiority and call themselves simply "Christian", so that no-one will have the temerity to question the religious group to which they belong.

Yet when the Commonwealth government asked Australians, again in 1986, (and who knows if for the last time) literally to stand up and be counted, some 75% declared their allegiance. Only a handful used the vague description schristian'. By far the majority told the government what 'religion' they belonged to — more or less.

Will, then, 75% of Australians be seen and heard this weekend proclaiming that their Lord was cruelly put to death but that He now reigns immortal in our lives? Will their families gather for a memorial meal on Easter Sunday to remember what He did, and said?

Apart from the usual media gasps that St Mary's and St George's cathedrals were packed, as if miraculously, for a service or two, will marginally more than the usual 25% of all Christians turn up at a service of worship this weekend? Or is the traffic on Mandurah bridge the yardstick of Easter?

Where then, and who are the latter day Christians of 1989? How are they recognised in the streets? How does a shintoist Japanese tourist who literally has never met or spoken to a Christian in his life know that he is in the midst of a throbbing mass of Christians?

It was in Antioch, the scripture chronicles tell us, that the followers of the Risen Jesus were tagged Christians. They now had a handle; they could be labelled in a hurry. The adversaries and destroyers of the fledgling church knew whom to pick out of the crowd.

Being a Christian was no feeble joke; it was downright dangerous at times, and at other times it was no doubt an advantage.

Yet for the past 1700 years of Western European history no-one has been put to death because they were Christian but only because they were a particularly detested type of Christian. Only from the heathen Muslim or the savagery of Africa or Asia would Christians fear for their lives, and lose them.

If Christianity could not always be defined, the enemies of Christian life and culture were known and feared.

Today the enemy cannot be defined, or not easily and not without personal shame and embarrassment. Is the enemy of Christ and His teaching our high standard of living for which we battle so hard? or our belief that each one of us is a god, endowed with a freedom to do what we like? or the new scientific manipulator of a creation that no longer needs a Creator?

Those who pose these standards as the test of Christian belief will not get a good hearing.

In fact, the curse of modern political, economic and scientific life is when so-called Christian busy-bodies want to get loose and ask embarrassing questions. And who are they to say they are better Christians than the rest who filled in their census papers and declared their Christianity, say their critics?

There are many dead-end trails in the search for an authentic Christianity because so often we want to meet the Jesus who would do what we do. There are dozens of Christian fads, but ever so few convincing Christians.

St Paul must have grappled with the problem when he came up with the only advice that ought to be given from the pulpits this Sunday: If Jesus has not risen from the dead, you are all wasting your time . . And that means talking about faith!

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HINDERING THE CHURCH IN CHINA CLAIM HONG KONG (NC): About two-thirds of Poor construction, cor- those were rebuilt by the ruption and bureau- government, he said. cracy are hindering the The buildings belong to government -approved the governmentCatholic Church in sanctioned church, China, said the director which has no formal ties of a Hong Kong dioce- to the Vatican and elects san research agency. its bishops without papal approval but professes to governChinese The ment must return be part of the universal church administration to Catholic Church. the church, added "Corruption, as a side Anthony Lam Sui-ki, effect of China's ecoexecutive secretary of nomic reform, is so Holy Spirit Study Centre common on mainland that the religious field in Hong Kong. is no excepinevitably 3000 Lam noted that churches and chapels tion," said Lam. were rebuilt or renovated Most officials in the in the the People's government Religious Republic of China Affairs Bureau and the between 1980 and 1988. Chinese Catholic Patrio-

tic Association are honest, he said, but "some take advantage of their power and privilege to for money make themselves".

Corruption also leads to substandard construction in new church buildings, he said.

In eastern Kwangtung province, the metal window frames of a new church rusted before the opening ceremony, he said. case similar "A occurred in northwest China, where a newly built seminary building was declared 'dangerous construction' before being formally opened,"

and the government had to pay to have it redone, Lam said.

He said he and companions had visited many Chinese churches in the past few years and "the impression we got is that some of these buildings cannot last more than 20 years. Ironically, some older churches appear to be in better condition".

with menial jobs for are they which overqualified.

They would have been more likely to get work in keeping with their qualifications if they had gone to continental Europe, he said.

He said that departure of many Irish between 18 and 30 years old had reached serious proportions in his own central Ireland diocese.

One graphic indicator of the outflow, the bishop said, is that it is hard for teams in the popular Gaelic football league to keep players.

Bishop O'Reilly said many more Irish who are forced by the country's severe economic problems to seek work abroad could secure good employment in Western Europe if they were proficient in modern

languages.

"I am convinced that our eduction system is failing our young people," he said. "It's failing to equip them to work in Europe. I believe that a fundamental examination of the way languages are taught is required."

In recent years, an increasing number of young people are leaving Ireland for continental Europe. There are over

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Last February Archbishop Milingo said he had decided to suspend his faith-healing Masses in Rome until he was able to discuss the matter with The Vatican released no the pope. details about the meeting The 58-year-old archbiand the archbishop was shop said he had made for the decision to suspend unavailable

the services after Vatican officials refused him permission in December to celebrate a faith healing Mass in Rome's Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls.

The archbishop, an official with the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travellers, said he has regularly

ST LOUIS (NC): Six after a similar program in women's religious orders Cincinnati, which began have joined forces to open August 1987 and which a St Louis employment placed 37 of 47 nuns office for nuns, 65 years looking for work in jobs and older, who are looking during its first year. for paid employment.

A trial period of four to "They're not ready to six months to find jobs really retire but they for 12 nuns has been set. need to move from their present ministry into Eventually, the office what you could call a may help younger nuns transition ministry and members of other where eventually they religious orders. would retire. They still It is hoped the program want to be of service director's salary will somewhere," said a come from fees paid by spokeswoman. employers instead of the The project is modelled k religious orders.

VATICAN CITY (NC): — The Vatican has cut four additional dioceses from the populous Archdiocese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a controversial move that the head of the a rchdiocese has said would jeopardize existing pastoral programs.

Of the city's 14.6 million inhabitants new Sao Paulo Archdiocese will have 7.1 million.

On the bureaucratic front, Lam said one Kwangtung official has estimated China has more than 100,000 officials in the government's "religious system".

These include members of the patriotic associa-

tion, the Religious Affairs Bureau and the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

"Each body, theoretically, should have specific functions and tasks, but in reality they spend more time watching the church and each other" to make sure no one steps too far out of line with policy, he said.

"How can one be convinced that the government, with such a waste of precious human resources, is following (a) good policy to stabilise society?" Lam asked.

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DUBLIN, Ireland (NC): — Irish clergy say some of the young, talented Irish illegally emigrating to the United States for work are exploited by employers and that many of the emigrants could have done better moving legally to Europe.

Bishop Colm O'Reilly or Ardagh and Clonmachois said the young Irish in America often end up

in working 3000 Munich, West Germany.

Irish groups are also found in Paris. France and Brussels, Belgium.

But upward of 150,000 young Irish are thought to be living and working illegally in the United States. They have commonly come to the country as tourists and then stayed on after their visas expire.

Pope meets 'faith-healer' VATICAN CITY (NC):Pope John Paul II met privately last week with the controversial faithhealing Zambian churchman, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo.

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celebrated Masses at a Rome hotel for thousands of people during the past two years.

Archbishop Milingo has celebrated such Masses for years.

He said he switched to the basilica because of the size of the crowds he was attracting.

The controversy they stirred led to his resignation as head of the Archdiocese of Lusaka, Zambia, in 1983, after a 16-month investigation of his activities by the Vatican.

The Masses include a healing service after the Gospel.

More Vatican cuts The remaining Catholics divided into four dioceses.

The Vatican rejected a 1978 plan, submitted by Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo, that would have created nine "non -autonomous, but interdependent" dioceses because this has no juridical basis in canon law.

Cardinal Arns, 67, has said such interdependence is necessary because the resources

of the archdiocesan rich are needed to help the poor.

He has said the Vatican reorganization would cut off the poor areas from the wealthy ones.

One of Sao Paulo's 10 auxiliary bishops will head one of the new dioceses, while three bishops from dioceses outside the area have been named to head the others.

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In response, Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York, while agreeing that trend exists, the defended the US bishops as articulate and courageous teachers of the faith."

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the Vatican official. "freTheologians quently perform their quite dissonant concert for all the public with the instruments of the mass media in such a way that their voice drowns out that of the bishopevangelist," he said.

Cardinal Ratzinger said religious education "has been turned over to the so-called professional".

There are attempts "to reduce the episcopate to a kind of spiritual administration" with the bishops in the role of "supervisors," he added.

"Theologians in many parts of the world have taken the place of the bishop as teacher," added

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this scheme of things and have little excercised their teaching authority in opposition to theologians," the Vatican official said.

"The preached word is consigned to the category of the simply 'pastoral' and is not invested with the authority of decision," he added.

"The evangelist must also be a martyr. If he is unwilling to do so, he should not lay his hand to the plow," said Cardinal Ratzinger.

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VATICAN CITY (NC): Cardinal O'Connor said many of the problems facing US bishops stem from a US culture "alien, if not hostile," to Church values.

"It would be helpful for the Holy See to recognise that frequently when American bishops are perceived as questioning the authority of the Holy See, what they are really doing is trying to make things 'work' in our culture," said Cardinal O'Connor.

"To discredit either the

Holy See or the American bishops because of the problems confronting both is to discredit Noah's ark because of the flood," added the New York cardinal.

"It is to the credit of the American bishops, individually and collectively, that they have succeeded so frequently and so well in keeping God's people afloat," he said.

"The teaching commitment and effectiveness of the US bishops is comparable to that any body of bishops," he said.

Major failings of the US bishops have been inadepreparing quately Catholics both for Vatican II reforms and for accepting the Church's birth control teachings, said Cardinal O'Connor.

"When Catholics learned — arid it took them no time at all — that they could shop around among confessors for opinions on birth control, they soon decided that they didn't have to confess this matter at all," he said.

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Rare free day VATICAN CITY (NC): Pope John Paul II took advantage of a rare free day in his schedule to slip out of the Vatican for a half-day of skiing in the winter resort of Campo Felice, in the Apennine Mountains east of Rome.

The 68-year-old pope skied for five hours, from mid-morning to midafternoon, on a slope of medium difficulty.

The slope was kept free of other skiers during the papal runs.

At mealtime the pope took time out for a cut lunch.

It is the third time in his pontificate that Pope John Paul, an accomplished skier, has slipped

away for a day of skiing.

The first time, in July 1984, he went with Alessandro Pertini, then president of Italy, to a ski slope in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy.

The elderly Pertini contented himself with watching the pope do the skiing.

Afterward Pertini told the pope that he flitted about the mountain "like a sparrow".

In February 1987 the pope again slipped away for a day of skiing, hiking and praying, this time to the nearby Apennines.

It was the same area, but a different resort, that the pope visited this year.

vered from this confusion," he added.

Cardinal O'Connor agreed with Cardinal Ratzinger that some bishops have let theologians and professional experts take over their teaching role.

Some bishops "seem to have been browbeaten by directors of religious education, or teachers of religion, whom they perceive to be more authoritative than themselves," said the US cardinal.

Others have lost confi-

dence in themselves and "in their magisterial authority, perhaps out of fear of the press," he added.

"A bishop may not want to enter battle over authoritative Church teaching called into doubt by dissenting theologians, pastors. Religious, lay persons or the secular or religious press because he fears that neither the National Conference of Catholic Bishops nor Rome will support him," said Cardinal O'Connor.

Slated to close DETROIT (NC):- Fifteen of the Detroit parishes slated to close have filed formal appeals with the Vatican, hoping to keep the churches open and to overturn the criteria archdiocesan officials used to decide which parishes were no longer viable.

Bob Van Cleef, a member of the legal team volunteering to help city parishes, said "we want to be sure that the parishes have the opportunity to exercise their full canonical rights before we take our next step."

The Congregation for Clergy is expected, but not required, to deal with

each parish's appeal individually.

The congregation may reject the appeal, accept the appeal and suspend the supression of a parish or accept the appeal but not suspend the closure.

The uncertainty over what action the congregation could take exists because it is unclear how the process occurs since the congregation, unlike the Vatican courts, is not required to document its cases.

Also, the large-scale closings slated for Detroit present "a wholly unprecedented situation," said Father Anthony Kosnik, a former teacher of canon law.

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by Risen Lord

Recognising the risen Lord certainly is something extraordinary.

Jesus died a terrible death on the cross. His disciples saw to his burial. Women who had followed him from Galilee to Jerusalem had seen the place were they laid him.

After everything that happened — in spite of anything Jesus himself might have said about rising — the disciples did not expect to see him risen.

But then he did appear to them.

Placing ourselves in the disciples' position, it takes little effort to realise that seeing him alive again in their midst and listening to his teaching had to be a most extraordinary event.

Reading the New Testament stories of Jesus' appearances, however, we also realise that the fact of the appearance and the fact of the recognition are the only things extraordinary about those events.

For the rest, everything is extremely ordinary.

That includes the way the disciples recognised him, what they were

By Fr Eugene LaVerdiere SSS doing when they did and even what Jesus himself was doing.

In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus met the group of women as they were returning from the tomb.

In Luke, he was recognised as he joined Cleopas and his companion at table and broke bread with them.

A little later, Jesus joined the community of disciples in the place where the disciples gathered and again he ate with them.

In John's Gospel, Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene outside the tomb and he was recognised when he called her by name.

There is also the story of an extraordinary catch of fish when the disciples recognised Jesus on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.

On that occasion. Jesus was preparing breakfast for them, cooking fish over a charcoal fire.

He actually invited them to bring some of the fish they had caught. It is during this potluck fish barbecue — a breakfast of fresh fish and bread — that the disciples recognised Jesus living in their midst.

The Gospels had referred to Jesus as a carpenter, but they had never shown him doing carpentry work.

Here after the resurrection, they show him cooking breakfast. Could anything be more ordinary?

Jesus' life had been one of service, and all of that came together in the meals he enjoyed with his disciples.

Part of that service was preparing the meal.

John's Gospel is telling us that the Lord's Supper is both offered by the Lord and prepared by the Lord. That is something to wonder at.

The simple, ordinary way the event is told is also something to be wondered at.

We know that, of course. But the tendency to look for the risen Lord in extraordinary situa-

tions and events is almost irresistible.

We look for him in church and at special shrines.

Rarely do we look for him at home preparing a

meal, let alone the simplest of meals, breakfast.

My thoughts turn to Easter breakfasts I have enjoyed in past years, breakfasts warmly and lovingly served, espe-

Briefly...

Advice articles on topics of all kinds are popular these days.

These articles may advise you on almost anything — how to spend your money, how to raise your children, how to dress for success.

You really can gain insight there on how to live more effectively, how to use your time, where to focus your attention for best results in life or how to establish your priorities.

When people read the Bible, they ofen read in If the number of advice the same way that they articles published in a read anything else. given month is any indication, editors So it is only natural for believe that good advice them to come to the Bible is one thing people want. seeking advice. They'll find it.

But what about reading the Bible? Should people Still, this is just one read it in pursuit of good dimension of Bible reading. advice?

Without a doubt, there And something is is much good advice in missed if one begins to view the Bible only as a Scripture.

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cially in my earliest years.

We still have breakfasts like that when our family, or at least part of it, is together.

And the risen Lord is

there. He was there all along. It just took a while to recognise him.

Cooking and serving breakfast may have seemed too ordinary for such an extraordinary presence.

Who's who . . . book of advice. It is more than that.

Often people read books, newspapers and magazines in hopes of acquiring new, interesting and useful information on topics of interest to them. Often when people read the Bible, they have a similar goal in mind.

People want reading the Bible to be a learning experience.

Through their reading they hope to become well informed about biblical times and the message of Jesus.

Again, this is a worthy goal — one that can be

achieved when people devote time to studying the Bible.

Yet, if reading the Bible is reduced to this — to becoming well informed — something is missing What the people of God believe about the Bible is that it can be read in a new way.

The people of God not only testify that the Bible can be read in a new way, but that it can be heard in a new way — different from the ways in which other literature that is read aloud is heard.

This is why so much effort is given in parishes to training the lectors who read from Scripture

during the Sundy Eucharist.

Their clear, vivid proclamation of Scripture can facilitate a fresh kind of hearing among the people.

The outcome of reading and hearing Scripture may be prayer, contemplation and a profound change in people: a change in their vision of life, a conversion of their way of living.

Christians believe that reading and hearing Scripture leads to a relationship: a relationship with the risen Christ of Easter.

This is what makes reading the Bible a new kind of reading.

Father John Castelot writes about that first Easter when Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty. Though desolated, Mary shows how persistent love can be.

Theologian Theodore Hengesbach of Indiana University at South Bend, Indiana, thinks that Thomas plays a significant role with his insistent questioning in John's Gospel.

His questions initiate a dialogue with Jesus which shows us something about what the relationship between God and humans is.

Hengesbach says.

Though the resurrection of Jesus was an extraordinary event.

Jesus' first appearances to his disciples took place in the most ordinary of circumstances.

writes Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere: for instance, cooking breakfast for the disciples.

Jesuit Father Lawrence Madden writes that at Easter the whole church recalls how Jesus' first followers were touched profoundly by their contact with him after the resurrection.

Father Madden tells how people today can have something of a similar experience by meeting Jesus at the liturgy.

Religious educator Laura Meagher makes some suggestions on how families can create some Faster customs for use at home based on the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults.

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Vigil of Mary Magdalene

By Fr John Castelot Magdalene Mary came to Jesus' tomb "while it was still dark (John 20:1). But wait a minute. All the other Gospels say that the women came to the tomb "when the sun had risen" (Mark 16:2).

Yes, but as far as the fourth evangelist was concerned, it was still dark, whatever the time of day.

For him, light and darkness were heavily symbolic, and the darkness through which Mary stumbled to the tomb was the choking darkness of uncontrollable grief bordering on despair.

Jesus was dead. Buried.

Gone.

But love is persistent, even in the face of hopelessness.

Mary Magdalene was determined to be near him, to hang on as long as possible to whatever was left.

There wasn't much to hang onto now, just an entombed corpse, sealed off from her by a huge circle of stone.

But there was plenty to hang onto from the past — so many wonderful and now heartbreaking memories.

She had been one of that devoted group of women who had played a role in his ministry.

Remember how Luke wrote that "accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene. from whom seven demons had gone out . . . and many others who provided for them out of

their resources" (Luke 8:1-3).

How could she ever forget his healing love?

She had been so sick Luke tells us that "seven devils" had gone out from her.

Illnesses popularly were believed to be the result of diabolical action.

To be beset by seven "demons" was to have been very seriously ill indeed.

The number itself, seven, indicated intensity.

How she had suffered, and he, with his overwhelming compassion and tenderness, had restored her to health.

Her devotedness to him was a practical outpouring of her loving gratitude.

And it had brought such joy: revelling in his companionship, watching with admiration as he brought healing and dignity into the lives of others who had no hope — lepers, the crippled, people stripped of selfworth by an unfeeling society.

These memories made the present all the harder to bear, sweet though they were.

And then there was the soul-searing final, memory: watching this man wonderful betrayed, slandered, brutalised, stripped, beaten, subjected to the most agonising death the empire could inflict, a death so horrible it was reserved for slaves.

Now, seeking what small comfort she could find near his tomb. Mary

Magdalene was deprived even of that.

His body, the last tangible evidence of what he was, had vanished into thin air.

It was indeed still night, and the night was growevery darker ing moment.

In terror and confusion she ran to tell the disciples, but still did not give up. She came back.

There had to be an

delirious joy. "Rabbouni! answer.

In the coolness of dawn Teacher:!". the gardener arrived to Beside herself with start the day's work. she fell to her happiness, knew he Maybe knees and grasped him something. about the khees.

"Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you But he told her, gently laid him," she said. but firmly, that while he But the gardener was was really there, his not the gardener. He said presence now was of a one word, softly: "Mary." different kind.

He had risen to a new And the sun burst over the horizon, flooding her level of existence and with light and almost their relationship from

now on would be on that surpassing, but no less real, level.

His body had been t ransformed, transfigured, and was no longer subject to the limitations of time and space.

"Rabbouni" and they were together.

But this new mode of existence, of unrestricted presence, was to benefit all who loved him.

MOre wonderfully still, he could now be with her all the time, everywhere.

So he gave her the glorious mission to bring the almost incredible good news to his other friends.

All he had to do was whisper "Mary", and all she had to do was answer

Mary sped off on wings of joy to tell the disciples: "I have seen the Lord."

Pursuing faith Thomas' way You remember Thomas. He was the apostle who refused to believe his colleagues when they told him they had "seen the Lord" after his death on the cross.

You recall Thomas' response: "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side,I will not believe."

Hearing was not enough for Thomas. He still had more questions.

He wanted to see, to touch for himself. like Thomas. It is easy

to identify with him.

After all, when it comes to something really important, don't people tend to be wary about the steps they take?

Young couples ponder carefully the prospect of marriage; a law student walks on wobbly legs into the examination room; and the first day on one's first job is met with terror.

In such situations, it is natural to have questions and anxieties.

"Cheers for Thomas. I'd have acted the same," you may find yourself thinking.

As John's Gospel portrays him, Thomas isn't like the student half dozing in the corner of the classroom while the lecturer drones on.

In a scene in John's 14th chapter, Thomas is more like the impetuous, slightly unruly student on the edge of his seat, interrupting and insisting: "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?" (John 14:5).

Thomas is the one who initiates a dialogue with Jesus that is beneficial for him, for the rest of the disciples and for us.

By Theodore Hengesbach In John's Gospel Thomas plays a critical role.

He is the questioner who makes sure that what Jesus is teaching is cracked open to reveal its true meaning.

And Thomas gets answers to his questions.

The risen Jesus does appear and invites Thomas to see and touch him.

But shouldn't Thomas have known better and

accepted the word of his fellow disciples about the resurrection?

After all, Thomas is the only apostle mentioned by name in the setting surrounding Jesus' raising of Lazarus from the dead.

But even such an experience apparently would not inhibit Thomas from asking questions.

It is something like the engaged person asking for (and expecting) continued expressions of love and fidelity, though already assured of the other's love.

So it was with Thomas.

He knew, but he continued to inquire, to question, to pursue faith.

This brings us to the

pushes us beyond preconceived notions.

Just as Thomas' inquiry led to vision, so can our questions about life's meaning lead to the vision of faith.

punch line.

Jesus looks beyond the gaze and touch of ThoJohn's portrayal of Thomas and focuses attention on us: "Because you mas shows us that the have seen me you have relationship between found faith. Happy are God and humans is they who never saw me based on dialogue. and yet have found faith."

When we pursue a Some people will find dialogue with the Lord, the example of Thomas we are likely to find that reassuring. He makes us the door to faith is being think again about what opened for us, as it was Jesus is getting at and for Thomas.

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new customs Easter may be the annual high point of the church's liturgical calender, but it occupies a lower position on most family lists of holidays.

This is particularly true when family members have no tradition of gathering at Easter from distant points as they do at Christmas.

How do families celebrate Easter when it's just "the two of us" or "the few of us"?

If an informal pollI took recently is any indication, the answer is that they don't.

One reason may be that there are few widely celebrated Easter customs.

One young woman, recently married, remembers fondly a special braided bread her

Lithuanian grandmother always made at Easter.

She also recalls her grandmother taking the bread, with horseradish and eggs in a decorated basket to church to be blessed.

Does she intend to make these customs part of her new family's tradition?

"No,I don't know what they mean," she said.

A father of a young son spoke of the difficulty of applying religious significance to the ubiquitous bunnies, chickens and decorated eggs of the season. "At least you can make a case for Santa as the spirit of giving at Christmas time," he says.

"But it's hard to make anything very Christian out of the Easter Bunny."

Because family rituals are important to the religious development of

young children, families who have none for Easter may want to consider developing a few. Here

brings new members into the church at Easter.

1. Renew baptismal promises.

by a renewal ceremony.

Ask the parish director of religious education or a member of the parish

garmets.

Buying new clothes for Easter or wearing one's best clothes is a common

DISCUSSION POINTS Meeting the risen Jesus is an extraordinary experience.

But in the Gospels, the risen Jesus actually is met in very ordinary circumstances, says Father Eugene LaVerdiere. For example, the risen Jesus was met as he prepared a breakfast of fish and bread for the disciples.

are some suggestions, based on the beautiful liturgical rituals of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults which

Candles saved from family members' baptisms could be lit for Easter dinner, which can be preceded or followed

What are some ordinary circumstances in which people today might meet the risen Lord?

Father John Castelot describes a person who met the risen Lord, namely Mary Magdalene. She quickly became one who conveyed the good news to others. What are some ways people today convey the good news of the resurrection?

baptism preparation practice which easily can team how to obtain a be cast in a Christian copy of the Rite of light.

Baptism.

Just as the newly bap2. Clothing with new tised person is clothed in

a white garment as a sigp of putting on new life M Christ, so family members can iaake the donning of their special clothes a symbol of the new selves they have become through baptism and through their Lenten practices.

By Laura Meagher

come in neighbourhoods, too.

Neighbours who have moved into the neighbourhood within the year might be welcomed with the gift of a special food or some other appropriate personal recognition.

This kind of symbolism 4. Renewing won't just happen, how- commitments. ever. It must be consciously alluded to, per- The Easter season, haps with a prayer which leads up to Pentemarks the time prepared for the cost, the church was when occasion. born.

3. Welcoming the Many parishes hold a newcomer. sign up or recommitment Sunday during this Easter is the time when period. new Catholics are welcorned in the faith It is a good time to review and renew the community. family's commitment of But it can be a time to time and resources to the think about the need to parish. make people feel wel- This practice could be

extended to a review of priorities and commitments in family life.

New commitments to activities which build family bonds might be made in a ceremony at a special dinner.

5. Celebrate the Triduum.

Among the most beautiful liturgies of the church are those of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Saturday evening.

Adults who, based on childhood memories, think of these liturgies as drawn out and tedious owe themselves and their children a renewed acquaintance with them.

Parents who make participation in these liturgies a part of the family's Easter experience will build a lasting family tradition.

pathways of the KNOW YOUR FAITH

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approach a poem and less like we approach

By Lawrence J. Madden, SJ prose, we will be in tune with its communicative powers.

Be careful not to conlikely expect to have a let that inner life grow as Ianu g ag/ centrate on just one sense of his presence, at well as how to live with For example, Jesus aspect of the eucharistic others.

Some people today least sometimes. to le call God our taught celebration such as the To become better preundoubtedly wish their God's word will say to F o Father. ita th di u aue qT consecrated bread or own experience could be pared to sense the pres- you: "Love your That is'rue, but God is wine. just like that of the ence of Christ you might enemies." much * re than, and Take in the whole, earliest Christians. Yet begin by paying attention !rent from, our Other times, God's communal action. many people undoubt- to the kingdom of God word will speak to you in notion a father.

This includes the placedly would say that they within you — to Christ story form and tell you eina t iih iogni lsd1 )f these consid- ing of the gifts on the never, or rarely, felt that within you. what repentance and It can be seen altar, giving thanks and they come into contact We assemble for the forgiveness feel like. liii wreinegxpemraiss enceis praise to the Father over thatT ai part with the Lord, at least in Mass as the bearers of It will talk about a when ipture is pro- the gifts, breaking open a way that helps them Christ's Spirit.

Son and his l Prodigal the one bread and sharlive life and live it The kingdom Jesus father. yead atter of how we ing in the one bread and wl abundantly. promised is to be recogdnis, Aff nwe Or it will say: "The listen. the one cup.

The purpose of religion, nised and sought right kingdom of heaven is like will experience Remember, sacraments a wise person once said, within you. a treasure hidden in a much Illre if we listen are not things but is to put us into contact As you greet other field." for *le than just actions. with the Infinite, and in worshippers, make an ci utr Illgnta- age. o: nftornifil i Remember, the Scrip- se By giving your attention that way to enable us to effort silently to honour elect hearing the to the full symbolic live life more fully. the Holy Spirit living tures often speak in e n encounter action, and by approachmetaphor, telling us Which leads me, a within them. Bring to what God is "like", what with we have to ing the various parts of student of the liturgy, to mind also the realisation the God within is "like". minds in a the liturgy with a concowedilive mode. ask why we sometimes that through the gift of poetic templative, No human language Jesus you and your do not feel we meet etc haristic meal is mindset, the word of God can directly and accuChrist in a transforming neighbours are truly like awlihrtdeherk Ind of true, but and the Eucharist will rately describe what God way in the Sunday one body of Christ. have a chance to mediate As you listen to Scrip- is because God transliturgy. at the deeper the presence of Christ to cends all time and "a ; i h i f "0 , 4 space, ture proclaimed during Obviously, we don't the Mass, let the word of transcends all our ways leenvgela gei reality we are you. in. If we expect to see Jesus in a God address the king- of thinking and speaking.

Such an experience will kind of vision during the dom within you. It will at So we have to speak of approe the Eucharist illumine the Christ liturgy. But we most times teach you how to God in true, but "as if" more f,e we would within you.

At Easter, the whole church recalls how profoundly Jesus' first followers were touched by their contact with him after the resurrection.

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The celebration of the death and resurrection of Christ and in the reality of the lives of the people who live, suffer and celebrate in the Kimberley has always brought to me moments of profound richness, depth and

What a journey through Holy Week brought new insight into the m ysteries of Christianity.

Last year was no exception and journeying through Holy Week and Easter brought joy and pain, suffering and confusion, greater awareness of the culture of poverty and oppressed people's identification with a suffering Christ, greater

understanding of people's need and thirst for Christ and his healing and greater inspiration received from the honesty expressed in all these situations.

Participating at all the rituals that were celebrated in various cultural manifestations, according to the age and cultural identification of the particular group of Aborigines associated with the Warrmarn Community, was a blessed gift to us nonAborigines.

This gift was to sustain us through a weekend of gymkhana activities when surrounding nonAboriginal moneyraisers brought alcohol into a community struggling to keep its destructive forces away from its people.

It was into the mysteries of death and resurrection and the memories of the events deeply celebrated that I was given a new experience, an experience which I am still unravelling; the experience of getting last in a part of the Kimberley that I thought I had intimately known, an experience that brought with it moments of truth and helplessness, death

and resurrection.

Easter Monday began for me as a wonderful day.

We were driving along. like the two from Emmaus, Pauline my friend from Kalumburu and myself, sharing the memories of Easter. We

Maze of exits but none showed way home were following the tracks of two Toyota trucks ahead of us on the bush roads, contemplating the richness of the distant red hills and admiring the growth after the gift of the Easter rains.

The morning was perfect, the creeks passable, the country sparkling and the tracks clear.

Concentrating on the

a valley of tracks A

vehicle tracks and the stimulating conversation I suddenly realised that I missed the turn-off.

The solution was simple, turn and retrace our tracks but in the turning and retracing and the confusion of other tracks I missed our tracks and was lost in a valley of tracks, billabongs and swamps, a valley with a maze of exits but none that showed the way home.

Then began the afternoon of praying and searching, an afternoon of trying to be at home in the valley.

The afternoon turned to sunset and a realisation that our night would be in the valley, a night when my friend remembered the spirits present in strange country and I had to recall the greater power of the Good Spirit and the care of a Good Creator who would send help.

The night brought with it the contemplation of the bush, spotlighted by the Easter moon and four large fires to welcome our rescuers but the distant sound of their vehicle did not receive the cries of our horn and frantic signals of our flashing lights.

In the early morning, as the chill of the night cooled and fires blackened out, car seat-covers functioned as sleeping bags and the closeness of the two dogs gave richness to the meaning of "a two-dog night".

Gradually night turned

Feeling of being trapped and unable to help to a dawn of beautiful rain clouds, crimsoned by a rising sun, bringing hope and millions of flies.

Sustained with water, we began our early morning search through creeks, wash a ways, jump-ups, rocky tracks and cattle tracks, only to find that our journeying took us further inland and further away.

Eventually, a sense of exhaustion and helplessness settled on me and we parked in a clearing, waiting for the search plane to show us the route out of the valley.

There, in the shade of the tree, feeling a little like Jeremiah and Jonah, I reflected on the meaning of rocky hills, caves, the endless tracks and the dead wood readied for the fire.

I thought about knowing the land, reading the signs as my friends had shown me and about the land as mother.

On this particular morning, the land was enemy, harsh and hot, burning on my skin and I felt trapped and unable to help my friend.

And as the morning turned into midday and the sun hotter and feelings of panic developed, I realised how alien I felt in this particular spot.

friends back in Warrmarn, suffering another sense of loss because they could not be on the land I recalled the recent stories they had recountered to me, stories of going fishing on these lands once God-given to them, to discover now

Genuine welcome erased shame of getting lost that gates were locked to them or station managers blocked their ways, refusing them entry to their traditional fishing and hunting areas.

This land was not home to me and in the midst of I remembered the troumy helplessness came bles they had shared another realisation. with me, troubles when Here wasIlonging to be they told of trying to get free of this lost feeling, to their little excision of anxious to be out of the land when nearby stavalley and there were my tion managers had hin-

dered them or argued with them about cattle.

Ireflected on their sense of loss, their deep sense of having lost the land, of not having the freedom to wander and dream on the land, the particular land they called mother.

I felt terribly crushed and sad for those who called the place where I was "home" and could not be on it.

Here was I on it and not wanting to be and there were my Warrmarn friends of Turkey Creek wanting to be on it but prevented by those who came late to the land.

Hours later, after much journeying in prayer from trust and praise to bargaining, we ventured down another treacherous jump-up and were found by those friends, who called the land mother.

me. He told me I had suffered on the land because the land did not know me, that next time he would take me to the valley and introduce me to the land by blessing me with its primeval waters, the waters God had given to the land.

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Then the land of hot They escorted us back to base and to a worried, springs would know me and my skin would not caring community. burn again, then I would A genuine welcome be at home on the land. from those who knew He also warned me to how to live on the land and treat it with care and always take with me, in cautiousness, eased the my travels, one who shame and embarrass- knew the land as mother, ment of getting lost on one who came from the land. the land.

Days later, a traditional And so once again, this land-owner came to see time in Easter week, I

received from my friends, in the midst of being lost on their land, a greater awareness and appreciation of what owning and losing a birthright means.

But I also received a deeper understanding of how we latecomers need to be close to the land and need to seek and search for the Sacred on it.

I reflected, as the blisters and sunburn healed, on the gifts given during my experience, the gifts that I had not fully treasured at the time; • the gift of spending so many quiet nighthours in a remote valley of peace; • the gift of sharing with a nonlatecomer to the land, our mutual need of God; • the gift of receiving more knowledge about traditional beliefs in the spirits on the land; • and the realisation that we newcomers need to spend more time in the silence of the land, sharing and praying with those who are at a home on it.

My Easter was full of gifts.

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BRODERICK (Joan Mary) Bill, Kevin, Terry and their families wish to sincerely thank relatives and friends for their expression of sympathy, flowers, cards and attendance at the Church and funeral of their dear sister Joan.

Would you please accept this as our personal thankyou. God bless you all.

WANTED Statue of Our Lady (approx 11/2 metres high) required by a metropolitan parish. If you can help, please write to STATUE c/ - this office.

THANKS Grateful thanks to the Sacred Heart, Blessed Virgin and St Jude for prayers answered. B.P. Holy Spirit, Holy Mary Mother of God and St Anthony, my heartfelt thanks for an amazing grace. What's lost is found. D.M.G. May the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Amen. With grateful thanks to the Most Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour for favours granted. M.T. May the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised throughout the world now and forever. Amen.

With grateful tanks to the Most Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Anthony for many favours received. M.T. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may your name be praised, honoured and glorified throughout the world now and forever.

Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us, Holy Mary pray for us, St Joseph pray for us, St Jude helper of hopeless pray for us, St Jude helper of the impossible pray for us, St Jude worker of miracles pray for us and obtain my request. Thanks. Ramm.

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from Neil SMITH, Lesmurdie Sir, Bishop Hickey told Catholic teachers (The Record, Feb 9)". . . teachers should join with parents, religious and priests in the examination of this most regrettable situation (youth rejection of authority) in an attempt to discover a way of solving it".

Reflecting on my own experience in religious education, I can easily relate to the acute frustration of teachers working in this field, when they see and feel the rejection of, and, sometimes, open antipathy towards what they are trying to impart in the way of knowledge and of faith commitment.

Much of this frustration is born, also, of the unduly high expectations placed upon these teachers by parents, by Church and by a legacy of history which saw so much of the Church's resources sunk into educating the young to the age of seventeen -- a legacy which expects those teachers to provide a whole spectrum of religious knowledge equipment which will see the students through the whole of their adult life.

I believe the Church (specifically, the parish community) and parents, having established and maintained, at great cost, an extensive Catholic school system, have, over the years, felt justified in shedding the main responsibility for the education of the young and in putting this onus on the schools.

The classroom, however, because of its association with the grind of academic study, the demands of a high degree of competitiveness and the forced endurance of an imposed, and sometimes authoritarian, discipline, is not a good place for the faith development of the student.

The religion teacher's task in this scenario is difficult in the extreme.

This emphasis on the school as the chief arena of religious education with its programs, doctrinaire together with the early decision to commit the Church's resources to it under the perceived threat of a secular education system, fitted in consistently with the authoritarian and triumphalist institutional model of Church which was prevalent in Australia up to t he advent of Vatican Council II.

Strangely enough, considering the renewal of the Church's theological understanding of itself since Vatican II, little has been done to make the logical adjustments to the Church's educational thinking and structures.

If it is now progressively being recognised that the Church is the kind of community expressed by the biblical images of Mystical Body of Christ, Easter People, Communion of Saints and People of God, how should the Church now see its role in educating its young?

What is the place of the young in that community, and what should they be able to expect from that community? How does the family fit into that community, and what assistance can it expect from that community? The Catholic school, which is purely of our own human institution, what role are we now going to ascribe to it?

We as Catholics, have little understanding of this mystery: the kind of community that the Church, in its official teaching, describes in Council documents. We have so little experience of it in our existing parish structures.

One consequence of this is that our children are denied the faith environment to which they have the right.

This might go a long way to explaining the massive faith-drain in adolescence.

The Church in its official documents (eg Gravissimum Educationis par 3 Vatican II) acknowledges its obligation to provide this environment, but in actual practice, through its ministers, urges and cajoles parents in their homes and teachers in their schools to work harder and do better while the educational potential and obligation of the faith community is largely ignored.

A parallel might be explored here: If the Church, at' parish level, were fully and truly a caring community, there would be no need for an organisation such as the St Vincent de Paul Society. (There is no intention here of taking anything away from those truly noble people who, through the St Vincent de Paul take upon themselves the charitable work of the Church in our stead.) If the Church, at parish level, were to open its mind to discovering its true nature and its potential as

Medjugorje pull From Margaret Bowen, Northam Sir, Before I went to Medjugorje in 1987, I went to Mass every weekend, occasionally week days, said my prayers (not necessarily every day) and lived what I considered to be as a good Catholic. I was a very busy business person and being Catholic, that had to fit in with my busy schedule. I mean you can't work long hours and pray as well -- bit overboard — anyway, I went to Mass; I was doing my bit!

Now, eighteen months after Medjugorje . . I go to Mass because I want to, but more importantly, because I have a need to. The Blessed Eucharist is alive to me, the Blessed Virgin is a real person; I can feel Her love and caring all around me. I am aware of prayer from the heart. The feeling of love, peace and awe that comes

from spending time in prayer, particularly in front of the Blessed Sacrament. I feel deprived and a nagging feeling of something missing when I don't speak to the Lord every day, person to person.

Because the Holy Trinity has become a Real Presence, there's no way I can exclude them from my day.

Since Medjugorje I have been privileged to get to know Our Lord Jesus and Our Blessed Mother in a very personal, loving way.

With this awareness, comes the knowledge how fragile our faith is in today's society, how difficult it is to be a true practising Catholic.

How easy it is to become a 55 -minute-a-week Catholic.

I thank God for Our Lady of Peace and her apparitions in Medjugorje and the awareness she has developed in my heart.

an educational and formational field in which our young could find involvement and loving support, then our schools would not become the chopping-block of blame and belittlement.

The kind of educational process that should arise from Church's perception of itself as community, should be one that is a lifetime progression. While the formation of the young has been, de facto, the responsibility of the home and the school, the ongoing education of the young adult through to mature age has ignored largely been altogether.

Just as young adults are growing into the kind of maturity which would enable them to even begin to comprehend, appreciate and be involved in the mysteries of our faith, and make an adult commitment to them, they are abandoned to their own resources; there are certainly no Church resources available except at tertiary level for the select few. I believe the recent moves to establish a Catholic university, a further vast commitment of Church resources and entrepreneurial skills, is a sound indication that Church triumphalism is alive and well — we are far from recognising the Poor as blessed.

As long as the adult Catholic majority at the coalface of parochial life, together with their pastoral leaders, remain unaware of and uncommitted to the reality of Church, or at least incapable of finding ways to

make it a reality, then so long will the Church be unable to fulfil its potential and its obligation to work with the family and the school to form our young in the faith and so prevent the alarming faith-drain from the Church.

It seems to me, then, that the start of a solution to this problem lies with adult education, with a concentration on the meaning of Church and of liturgy.

(Vatican ll recognised the need for this emphasis and priority; we could do no better than follow its lead.)

Within schools themselves, particularly at upper school level where the young adult is emerging, recognition needs to be given to the different levels of faith development that exist, and different formational programs offered that will provide options most suited to the individual students. One of the frustrations of teachers, not to mention students, is that an program i nstructional pitched at some common denominator will, of necessity, be simplistic in content, lacking in challenge for the committed student and irrelevant to others.

Bishop Hickey's invitation to priests, teachers, religious and parents to discuss seriously and. conclusively this problem needs to be taken up, and I sincerely hope that the coming diocesan assembly will provide the occasion for the necessary initiatives to be taken.

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SELL VATICAN TREASURES AND GIVE MONEY TO THE POOR, LET'S HAVE MASS IN LATIN Margarethe Byrne at the typewriter.

By Youth Reporter

"Sell the Vatican treasures and give the money to the poor" and "Let's have Mass in Latin" were two comments made at a recent youth consultation.

Byrne Margarethe youth Liaison Officer for the Year of Mission

organised the meeting.

The recent meeting was a lead up to the Youth Forum which will take place in April.

A t a gathering in December, Margarethe volunteered to do something about the lack of youth response to the consultation in the Year of Mission programme.

Foley Archbishop appointed Margarethe to

sit in as member of the YOM team in January.

Eighty young people came to the first training session and apologies were received from Kalgoorlie and New Norcia.

Margarethe hopes that hundreds of young people will have their say in the consultation. "Not all the ideas may be practical but its important that young people explore their hopes and dreams," she said.

"Talking is not enough.

Young people must take realistic steps towards achieving their dreams and not expecting someone else to do it for them."

Manning, Mount Lawley, Midland, Mirrabooka, Morley, Queens Park, Rockingham, Riverton, Subiaco, Shenton Park, Spearwood, South Perth, Whitfords, The following 28 par- Willetton, Wanneroo, ishes are involved in and the Polish CommunYouth Forum: Bassen- ity of Maylands. dean, Cloverdale, Dou- The schools involved bleview, Dianella, Girra- are: St Joachims, Santa wheen, Greenwood, Maria, New Norcia, Greenmount, Hilton, Aquinas, Mercedes, De Kalamunda, Karrinvup, Vialar, and John Paul Maddington, Maida Vale, Kalgoorlie.

Be apostles, youth are told In a message for the 1989 World Youth Day, Pope John Paul II confirmed that next August he would travel to Spain for an international youth rally.

Perth TYCS full timer Corrine McLoud was nominated to attend the rally.

The pope also exhorted young people to become "apostles" who would challenge the secular world with the Gospel message.

The papal message noted that the ordinary celebration of World Youth Day would be marked in local churches on Palm Sunday as it has been since 1984.

In addition, an interna-

tional celebration will take place Aug 19-20 at the sanctuary of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The pope invited Catholic young people from around the world to join him there.

The Spanish sanctuary is one of the historic shrines of Europe, traditionally believed to contain the body of the apostle James, also known as St James the Greater.

This will be the second time the pope has marked World Youth Day in a city other than Rome.

In 1987 the pope celebrated the day at a rally Aires, Buenos in Argentina.

In his message, the pope

said new apostles are needed to evanglise the modern world.

"The world of today is one great mission land, even in countries of longstanding Christian tradition," the pope said.

"Everywhere today, neo-paganism and the process of secularisation present a great challenge to the message of the Gospel."

But there is also a "growing nostalgia" for t hings spiritual and sacred, he observed, and a need for "young and courageous" apostles willing to proclaim the Christian message to others.

The discovery of Christ is "the finest adventure of your life," the pope told

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The pope said that for young people to fully benefit from the youth day, they must undergo spiritual preparation in their local dioceses, parishes, associations and movements.

The first youth day celebration took place in Rome in 1984, culminating in a Palm Sunday procession by an estimated 250,000 young people.

After a second such gathering in 1985, the pope established that World Youth Day would be celebrated every Palm A I Sunday.

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Irish music and singing flowed through Perth and suburbs until the small hours of the next morning, leaving in its wake a day full of great memories.

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Long time dead but equally long time remembered St Patrick would have been proud of his special day. Especially when events were preceded by Masses held throughout Perth in his honour.

Subiaco RP. Father Sean Bredin 0.5. Cam. (left) and Father Frank Murphy recently out from Co Wexford and now attached to the Cathedral, hold armfuls of children from the Catholic Baster family — symbolising the link between the Irish priests and religious who brought the faith initially to our shores and the Australian Irish children of today.

Thoroughly enjoying the scene are (left) Bernice, Sinead, Liam and Siobhan.

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It was a beauty!!

St Patrick's Day has been and gone but the memories of that great day will r emain for the months ahead until — (oh boy! I can't wait!) — it comes again.

The Irish don't mess around when it comes to "havin' a hooley!"

And everyone associted with them has a rip roarin' time too.

It's quite unavoidable — unless you are yourself, dull, boring, unimaginative, and a regular party pooper.

I thought I 'owed' it to you readers (?!) to cover as many Irish 'stomping ground' venues as I could fit in before exhaustion overtook me. And I did.

I lived it up for all those who couldn't get away to join in all this delightfully frivolous frivolity! And need I say green was the colour of the day, even to the extent of green face markings, green hair and shamrock stickers on glass lenses.

The highlight and definately the outstanding event of the day was the St Patrick's

Day Mass at Subiaco parish.

About 800 filled the church, choir loft, and banked up at the back of the church. There were non-Catholics and Catholics, bonded by their Irish birth or and connections represented professionals, businessmen and right through the work force, bringing their wives and preschoolers.

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Archbishop Foley concelebrated with 12 priests, a Mass which has become an annual event for the past several years.

I then moved on to the Celtic Club, Fenians Bar, the Briar Patch, the Irish Club and Blarney Castle.

At least 2000 people went through the Irish Club throughout the day and night, starting off with an early morning breakfast.

At lona Presentation College the adjacent Mosman Council gardens were a blaze of green for the College's annual family Mass attended by the 925 students of the senior college and 300 youngsters from the primary school.

C For the past 20 years the occasion has been held as a spiritual point of contact for parents who are asked not only to pray together but to bring picnic lunches and become a family of friends.

In her welcome the school principal Sister Consuela said St Patrick's Day was chosen as a tribute to the Irish origins of the Presentation Sisters, and to the Irish missionaries who gave their all to bring the Good News of the faith to Australia.

Celebrating the Mass Bishop Healy likened the missionary St Patrick to the missionaries of today, pointing out that the constancy of faith and the ability to endure suffering were always part of missionary life whether in the days of Patrick or of recent missionaries to Australia and present missionaries anywhere in the church.

Concelebrating with him were parish priests of students attending the college, and who were treated to lunch afterward.

Pictured left: Three soloists during the responsorial psalm: Julia Kely, Carol Unkovic, and Jenna Gallagher.

Below: Music for the Mass came from the 30 piece college orchestra under the direction of Mrs Gloria Martin.

Among those bringing gifts to altar at the offertory were school captain Jody Kerr and grade one novice Catherine Boston.

There was dancing on both levels and despite the fact it was packed with 'wall to wall' humanity, there no was unruly behaviour.

Having regard for primarily my liver, the boys in blue (or khaki or civvies!), magistrates who may not have a sense of humour, and my head the next day, I only had a moderate intake, but

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What determines that is the tremendous warmth of the Irish people, their 'lack of false fronts', genuine interest in other people, and their ability to generate fun.

They are truly a great race who will — while maintaining their culture — integrate!

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PSYCHIATRIC MEETING

Assistance by the church to people with psychiatric disabilities, will be discussed at a meeting at Emmanuel Centre on Friday, April 7 at noon.

Areas of particular interest are: • Should the church provide services?

• Is training required for people working in the field?

• Does the church need to lobby governments in this area?

Those interested in attending this meeting, should contact Barbara 328 8113 during work hours.

VOLUNTEER NEEDED

Emmanuel Centre needs people to live in a half-way house over a six week period from Saturday, April 8 to Monday, May 15, to offer support from 5.30pm to 7am daily.

Those interested in offering service for all or some of this time, should contact Barbara 328 8113 for further details.

C ANNINGTON JUBILEE

On April 16, St Francis parish, East Cannington, celebrates the silver jubilee of its Inauguration.

Bishop Healy concelebrates mass at 5pm. A multicultural supper will follow in the parish hall. Past and present parishioners are invited.

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DAY OF REFLECTION Majellans are holding a day of reflection on Thursday. April 13 a the Leederville Parish Centre commencing at 9am finishing at 2.30pm approximately. The day will be under the guidance of Sr Paula Quinn.

There will be a creche, for all those young mums wishing to attend, so if you wish to take advantage of this facility please ring Bernadette 276 2487 or Toni 342 5741.

Bring your own lunch, but tea and coffee will be provided.

March 29 West Australian Bishop's Meeting.

29& Conference of WA Institute and 30 Bishops of WA. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

30 Reception for Governor General at Government House Archbishop Foley.

Murdoch University Graduation.

Archbishop Foley.

31 Orientation Day for recently appointed priests. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

Civic Welcome for Governor General. Rev Dean John Orzanski.

Curtin University Graduation.

Bishop Healy.

April 1 Investiture of Knights of Holy Sepulchre. Archbishop Foley.

Blessing New School Kingsley Woodvale. Archbishop Foley.

Legion of Mary Acies, St Mary's Cathedral. Bishop Healy.

Founder's Day Mass, Knights of the Southern Cross. Archbishop Foley.

Council of Priests meeting. Archbishop Foley & Bishop Healy.

John XXIII Ball. Archbishop Foley.

7 Blessing and Opening Kolbe College.

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Mass for Seniors' Week, St Mary's Cathedral. Bishop Healy.

Parish Assembly Day. 18 Final Vows Sister Mary Joseph, Carmelite Monastery. Archbishop Foley.

23 Commissioning of Rev Les Goode at Cottage Hospice. Archbishop Foley.

25 ANZAC Day Service. Bishop Healy.

26 Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy (till May 5).

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