PERTH, WA: December 27, 1990
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Real-life Christmas crib... Real-life Christmas crib figures, Jessica Heenan as Mary and Joseph Kane as Joseph, and trained by Sr Edith Murphy also had real life angels from Holy Rosary school at Doubleview church's preChristmas pageant. And the back-up cast included Caesar and Roman guards to say nothing of shepherds and three kings
heralded by red trailing ribbon dancers trained by Samantha Wynn. The live tableau highlighted the new crib bought for Our Lady of the Rosary church. The ceremony commenced with a lighted candle being brought into the darkness and the flame passed to candle holders prepared by Jim Downie.
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A craft group led by Jim and Eileen Carr produced 980 gifts made by parishioners and which were handed out in a gifting ceremony at the end of the service. Over 150 people are estimated to have taken part in preparations that became social occasions on Wednesday nights for weeks before the event.
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The state of the world He continued: "The weeks leading to in Eastern Europe and in the war clouds this Christmas have been massing in the Middle spent under threat of war East weighed heavily in the Gulf, with the on the thoughts of political and social probpeace uttered by some lems of Eastern Europe of Australia's bishops. and countries like our "In the months preceding Christmas 1989, unexpectedly and in rapid succession, communist governments all over Eastern Europe crumbled. We spent Christmas with renewed hope that, as long as there is goodwill, people of all sorts can live in peace with justice for everybody," said Archbishop Rush of Brisbane.
own unable to offer any great example to follow. "Nevertheless our hope remains undiminished because of the coming of Christ into our world at Christmas. "The birth of Christ in poverty is a rebuke to extravagance and greed and hums our thoughts to the poor and to the injustices which make widespread poverty pos-
done publicly to uphold He said: the cause of justice "The story of Christmas cannot compensate for never grows old, and any failure on our part to there is always freshness be just in our day-to-day in the message that it dealings with one brings; peace on earth another. The rights of and goodwill towards all. individuals are some- The Christmas blessing "As we prepare to times trampled under- falls like rain on the celebrate next year the foot as we make all the parched earth. centenary of Rerum right noises, appealing "This year, however, as Novarum we remember loudly for a more just watch anxiously the we assertion society. Pope Leo of events in the equence s letter of his at the end "I hope that Christmas Middle East, the Christthat, in searching for a for all of us will be a mas of peace and goodsolution to social probtime of serene will takes on a special joyful lems, the main thing reflection and active needful is to return to concern for the victims of urgency. "We rejoice that the real Christianity; apart poverty, violence and hostages have been from which all the plans injustice. released and seek therein and devices of the wisest In Sydney Cardinal the seeds of hope for a will prove of little avail. Clancy rejoiced in the peaceful solution to the "Whatever is said and release of hostages. crisis that still prevails.
sible. Christmas stirs our conscience and invites us to do whatever we can to help build a just society where God is acknowledged and every human being is respected.
"The whole dispute "I invite all to pray as seems to be in the hands best they can this Christof a few powerful men, mas that God in His and the rest of us feel so mercy will help suppress helpless. Christmas how- the evils and injustice, ever reminds ordinary hatred, greed and selfishpeople like ourselves that ness, and let peace win there is a power far the hearts of all involved greater than human in the present conflict. intent and ingenuity — it "But peace, like charity, is the power of God. begins at home. Let us "Christ's mission on have goodwill towards earth was a mission of all in our own communpeace and salvation. He ities, let us banish greed introducted the power to and selfishness from our God into human history own lives and give the in a way that had not spirit of Christmas a been known before. permanent place in our "God's power is ours for own hearts." the asking, ours for the • Archbishop Carroll's Everybody praying. message on P. 2. prays sometimes.