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A CATHOLIC WEEKLY CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE :MATZ or WESTERN AUSTRALIA. PRICE THREEPENCE ESTABLISHED 1874. Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
No. 2,824
Vol. LX
PERTH, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1934
"No Procession--No Congress" ARCHBISHOP MANNIX'S REPLY TO SECTARIANISM
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The Archbishop of Melbourne, at adequate and unsuitable—an altar erected there would need to be at least the opening of the Training House of 20 feet high in order to be visible down the Little Company of Our Lady, at Bourke-street—and so the committee Surrey Hills, recently, referred to the National Eucharistic Congress, to be is looking for a longer route and a betheld next December, and warned the ter site for the Benediction round sectarian opposition that its objection about the neighbourhood of the Caagainst the procession, if successful thedral. A proposal is under considwith the authorities, would lead to the eration which, I think, is likely to abandonment of the Congress. In the prove satisfactory. The success of presence of a large and enthusiastic the Congress and of the Eucharistic assembly, His Grace spoke as follows:— procession promises to be so great "All over Australia, as well as in as to be embarrassing to those who New Zealand, and in other overseas are in charge of the arrangements, but lands, extraordinary interest is being they will be rewarded by the great taken in the National Eucharistic Conmultitude of visitors that will flock to gress and procession, which are to be the Eucharistic demonstrations and to part of the centenary celebrations in the centenary celebrations of MelDecember. The Catholics of Austrabourne. lia promise to come in their thousands, "While Catholics are busily organisand a great influx of visitors from ing their contribution to the centenary abroad is already assttred. celebrations of Nfelbouroe and VicI ndeed, the committee in charge of toria, there is an unpleasant section of the Eucharistic procession is finding it persons trying to whip up an allegedly e xtremely difficult to arrange for the spontaneous opposition to the Eucharhuge multitude anxious to walk in the istic procession. It matters not to procession. St. Patrick's Cathedral them that similar processions have been and its grounds would have been recently held, among other places, in natural place from which to start the Sydney. and in many cities or towns the procession and to terminate it with in England. Sydney and England, the Solemn Benediction. apparently, have not the robust, fullpace about the Cathedral, But the blooded Protestantism of Melbourne. ample as it is, was found to be utterly inadequate It matters not to them in the least for the multitude' that that the Eucharistic procession has will assist at the final Benediction. The been pronounced legal -by the Claw of Parliament House space in front was then sug- huthorities; that it was originally apgested. But the proposed route proved by the Premier of the State was too short, and the and by the Lord Mayor of the city: that Parliament House space in front of was found to be in- good citizens of all creeds welcome it
as likely to bring a huge concourse of or the municipal authorities or the Melbourne visitors to Melbourne, and so to help fair-minded citizens of to ensure the success of the centenary would do anything to mar the centenary celebrations. I hope that Cathocelebrations. For reasons that are obvious, I lice, in spite of sectarian opposition, have not entered into controversy with perhaps on account of it, will redouble these people. I do not mean to do their efforts to support the centenary so. Theirs is a case, not for argu- celebrations, and especially the Eument, but for pity and for sorrow, that charistic Congress." Moving a vote of thanks, the Hon. people should be found so to besmirch the good name of our city and jeopar- E. L. Kiernan, M.L.C., said he hoped common sense would prevail in the dise the success of the Centenary. "One thing. however, I desire to community, and that nothing would be make clear, though it is, I imagine, done to bring about the cancellation clear already. If the proper authori- of the Eucharistic Congress and the ties were to represent to me that they great procession through the streets of There should be no room had changed their minds and that they the city. now judged it undesirable that the for narrowness; all should unite in Eucharistic procession should go making the celebrations worthy of Melthrough the streets of Melbourne, the bourne and of Australia. The Mayor of Richmond, Cr. Fitzvery moment that intimation reached me I would cancel all the arrange- gerald, who seconded the motion, said The cable it would be disastrous if the Congress ments for the Congress. service would immediately announce to were cancelled, and it would greatly the 11012,- Father and to Cardinal Mac- mar the success of the centenary celeRory and to the Bishops and other in- brations. A vast influx of visitors could vited guests from overseas that the be expected for the Congress and proCongress was abandoned, and that cession, and all fair-minded citizens their presence was not desired in Mel- had no desire that anything should bourne, for reasons that I should as- be done that would mar the centenary sign. Without the Eucharistic proces- celebrations and lessen the attendance of visitors. He was not afraid that a sion there will be no Congress. "That, perhaps, would be good news few narrow-minded people would prefor certain irresponsible people who vail on those at the head of affairs to wish to prove at all costs that they take action that would cause the ConThe timely are sounder Protestants and more in- gress to be cancelled. fluential citizens than their co-religion- words of His Grace would have a good ists in Sydney or in England. But I effect in making the Catholic position have not the least fear that the State clear and definite.
The Holy Hour in St. Peter's
It is not often that one is vouchsafed a vision. For the general run of us such things are among the category of the "possibila'' (which often means the most improbable things the human mind can conceive!), Not merely do we not receive visions, but We don't even expect to do so, Nevertheless, I think I have seen a vision— a sPlendid one, too, envisaging in its spiritual content that the reality whose grandeur the ancient seers of Israel have for us so startlingly They pictured saw the shadow: we, the reality. And this vision was granted us here in Rome on March 15, in the Basilica of S t. Peter, h our in when we celebrated the Holy thanksgiving for the institution of the Christian priesthood. Perhaps it Priests and was not the fact of 15,000 seminarists being gathered t ogther under the dome of Michaelangel° so of other much as the ghostly army splendid presences that constituted the o ver the vision. One's eves wandered apse and and noted the rows the two transepts, turned and rows of faces to a 11,0 noise; common centre; there was tiny disc just a steady gazing at "tbe ,tinder the' glimmering palely up there twisting columns of Bernini s p ha,ldachino. Into that silence came ..Tg XT. softelv, and vet no voice was tsed the familiar - "Viva ii papa. " e Were not watching one man: in fact,
A ROMAN VIGIL By REV. T. L. DUNPHY, C.SS.R. we seemed hardly conscious of our own personality. We were a multitude united in one; a body and its head; Christ and His members. Those surpliced figures in the darkened transepts were attended by countless others thronging hither from the days when Stephen saw the Lord Jesus on the right hand of God down to the youth who fell under the murderous fire of a Mexican firing squad with his ardent -Viva Christo Rey" choked in the gush of his own life blood. It was the gathering of the priestly clans. • One of the most ingenuous insults thoughtless non-Cathloics cast in our teeth in seasons of bad temper is that the Catholic Church is priest-ridden (as if the Church were a jaded horse loaded with extraneous riders whose main object is to make it carry them as far as possible and as comfortably as possible. beforei t dropped dead of e xhaustion). St. Paul preferred a different simile. He saw the Church as a body functioning perfectly with the priesthood as a serie? of cartilages and veins (those intimate ligaments) without which any living body must fall to pieces and decay from want of nutrition. However, in one way, we can cheerfully admit we are priestridden—at least in the sense that we 414.-
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of that Faith, Hope and Charity one day to he merged in the ecstatic happiness of an all-engulfing Love. Then the Pope himself moved to the altar whereon stood the tiny monstrance, and the triple blessing was swiftly given. It winged its beneficient flight to the missionary raising a crucifix to dying eyes in a rank and tropical jungle and to his confrere labouring in the desert waste of our modern civilisation, wherein Christ and His ideas enter so hardly; and it came to strengthen and console, to confirm and to promise.
belong to a Church whose Head is a great High Priest ever interceding for us in the true Holies; that He organised as the central power of His organ of salvation a priestly company which should dispense to man the fruits of salvation. Without a doubt we are a priestly people, and it is our proudest boast. That at times the Church has made mistkes in the choice of individuals can cause no surprise; Our And here, I think, the vision ended. Divine Lord might justly be accused of a similar error. It is a fallacy— With the Blessed Sacrament removed, this digging out of old skeletons— the tension of the past hour must find like to that hoary old story that Alex- an outlet. I think it found it. Rarely annder VI. is a standing objection to has old St. Peted's seen such enthe infallibility of the Pope! It was thusiasm as on that late evening when not, however for individuals that we had the Pope was carried out from its gathered in St. Peter's. We honoured darkening halls. The surging crowd an Institution—Life-giving and salu- of black-robed clergy flung itself in tary; and therefore we were one with serried ranks along the harriers, and the whole sacerdotal race, with the the very dome seemed to rock to the great Pontiffs—the fisherman, Peter, cheering. The Pope was smiling. He whose bones lay under our feet; the stood up in his seria gestatoria and heroic Clement. Gregory the Great, waved his arms in a typical Italian Hilderbrand, Benedict XIV., Pius IX. gesture of greeting. Then men did —and the 'myriad band whose earthly strange things. They leapt on benches hand once broke the bread of life to and waved—anything! Handkerchiefs, The minutes hats; everything "waveable." It was the Christian people. passed. The old hymns of the Church's a moment of abandon, as complete liturgy died into silence, while the as it was spontaneous . And I think voice of the preaching Cardinal exhort- that was a very happy and a very ed his brother priests to the practice human ending to a vision.. , 14.--41.,--M -040--441-4041.--40. 41141
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