The Record Newspaper 07 March 1996

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Record PERTH, WA: March 7, 1996

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What's Inside... Bishop Peter Quinn's pastoral letter to the people of Bunbury Diocese for Lent - Page 2 Carnarvon welcomes Polish priests - Page 3 Eucharistic adoration for Lent - Page 9 Sally Trench saves Bosnian children - Page 5 Miraculous medals and the teenage mutant ninja turtles - Page 9

Thanksgiving Day plan for Australia By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Australians will be able to give thanks to God for their great land once a year as a nation if the dream of an Australian Redemptorist priest comes to fruition. Father Keith 'Rimer wants to establish an Australian Thanksgiving Day on the last Sunday of July to help Australians cool( together in family groups to give thanks for the Lucky Country. A missioner, and currently livFr Keith Turner with kb book ing in Miami. Queensland, Fr because it is a season withJuly limier came up with the germ of school or public holidays. out an idea at the North Perth His book. Australian Thanksmonastery during,his term there the format 1989 to 1991. The idea, which giving Day, provides and prayers with day the for of part could well become freedoms' the for God to praise Australia's tradition, has now fully matured in the form of a Australians enjoy, its beauty and book published in Queensland its bounty. It thanks God for the founders just prior to Christmas. It's an appealing, simple but of our Nation, who, in Fr Keith's powerful message that he puts words, "did all the hard spade work, who laid the foundations out. He urges Australians to come for this nation, which we are now together on the last Sunday of enjoyiug." He says the Aboriginal people July as a family unit, sharing a certainly part of this too as are traditional meal with an Australian emphasis, not only in the original inhabitants and, familial unity, but most impor- regardless of race origin, the fact tantly to thank God for the bless- that we all now live in Australia ings he has poured out upon must be acknowledged. To date Fr Keith has written to Australia. received enthusiastic respand He picked the last Sunday in

Mercedes' generations remember 150 years

Two generations celebrate 150 years of the oldest Mercy school in Australia - Mercedes College - last week at St Mary's Cathedral in Perth: Mercedes' students bring symbols representing the life of the Victoria Square college family since 1846. Below, some of the 30 Mercy sisters present at the Mass, with past and present links to Mercedes. - Report and more pictures - Page 5

onses from all Australian Catholic bishops and is now approaching the Anglican bishops and heads of other churches. Buoyed by their response and that of lay people, Fr Keith's next targets in his Australia-wide campaign are the supermarkets whom he believes could feature a traditional meal for the day. Fr Keith believes it should be a traditional family meal on a full day spent together, and emphasises that regardless of the food fare. the Australian damper just has to be at the centre of it because of its truly Australian character. He also suggests that churches could then promote the day in advance so Australia with one Archbishop Barry Hickey will mighty voice could praise God become the first Roman Catholic on this special day. prelate of Perth to preach in St Lyn Price from Attadale assisted George's Anglican Cathedral in Fr Keith with the book during his the city when he visits it this time in Perth and shares his Sunday morning to preach at the views on bringing together fami- Sam Eucharist and again at the lies in pride because of our 10am Sung Eucharist. unique Australian identity and The Dean of St George's. the culture, and giving Almighty God Very Rev Dr John Shepherd. thanks for his generosity to the invited Archbishop Hickey, Australian people. whose historic visit follows on Australian Thanksgiving Day from a similar official visit to St sells for $4.95 plus $1.55 postage George's in 1995 by Father Kevin from Santa Monica Publishing. Long, chairman of the Perth PO Box 518, Palm Beach, Catholic archdiocese's EcumenQueensland 4221. ical Affairs Committee. It is also available from the Fr Long was also the first North Perth Monastery. phone Catholic priest to preach at St (09) 328 6600. George's Cathedral.

Archbishop makes history Dr Shepherd said the idea of Archbishop Hickey preaching at St George's had come to him out of the blue. As far as he was aware it was the first time the Catholic Archbishop of Perth had preached in the Anglican Cathedral. "It's also fabulous because its a good testimony to the developing relations between the two churches," he said. Father Kevin Long said the visit was a sign of the Archbishop's, and therefore the Church in Perth's, commitment to the ecumenical vision outlined by Pope John Paul in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint.

New Kimberley schools' course aims to save Aboriginal languages "A lot have a very small number approximately thirty distinct languages throughout the Kimberley of speakers - usually old people some are extinct and probably there are only half A new unit to be taught in region, today a dozen still spoken by the whole retrieval. beyond and Catholic schools throughout the community," Ms Hudson told of of loss Part of the tragedy the Kimberley may help halt the conThe Record in an interview at the is that these as such languages tinuing loss of traditional AboriCatholic Education Broome ginal languages which were once they are, in every sense, ancient. Office. spoken throughout the entire Aboriginal people have been in "As the old people die off, the region. Australia at least 40.000 years languages (just) go. That's the periodically archaeologists and Launched on Wednesday and case right across Australia," she developed over the last seven push the arrival of the first said. furand further back Australians years by Broome Catholic Perth Catholic Education Office Education Office consultant ther into the mists of time. Aileen specialist Joyce Hudson, the unit, entitled And while the disappearing language launched Kimberley Hawkes Aboriginal Languages Kimberley languages may not be identical , is designed to stimulate a desire with those spoken in pre-history Aboriginal Languages at a weekin Aboriginal children to learn they are, nevertheless, part of an long induction seminar held in their own disappearing lan- unbroken tradition. But today Broome each year for teachers guages before it is too late. few survive and, where they do, new to the Kimberley. they are not in good overall "conAnd disappearing they are. Continued on Page 5. dition." Whereas there were once By Peter Rosengren

Young Kimberley Aborigines: hope for their ancestral languages


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