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PERTH, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934.
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SIXTIETH YEAR.
His Grace the Archbishop at Leederville Sixteen Postulants Received -- Eloquent Address
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The spacious new thought. For whenConvent of St. BriHe calls, He ever Leederville, gid' , grace to atthe gives was the scene of a tain what we are t ouching ceremony on July 2, the Feast called to. If through of the Visitation, the faults, imperfecwhen His Grace the tions, and weakness rchbishop, Most A our poor human of Rev. Dr. Clune, and nature we do not His Grace the Coach iutor, Most Rev. Dr. reach the goal, we Prendiville, were preare bound to strive sent at the reception earnestly, to aspire of sixteen Postulants always in our religiinto the Order. Their ous life, by generGraces were welcomously responding to ed on their arrival God's grace to reach by the Rev. Mother a high degree of. and Assi,tant of St sanctity. How is Brigid's, West Pert that to be done? the Mothei Superio; For people in -the and Community of world, by the faiththe Leederville Con ful observance of the vent, and the Parish Comandments — for Priest, Very Rev you in religion by Father M o lo n e y the faithful 01,.;ervOther priests in. at. ance of the Rule you tendance were Right have embraced, and Rev. Monsignor Verof the v,,ws which ling, VG.. 'Father you will pronounce Truffle, C.SS.R later. Keep that Father Moss. Father before your minds. Winston. Father God has called me Linehan. Father trom home and Russell, and Father country. He has Browne. given me the interThe Convent Chap ior strength to sever el was artistically the sweet, tender, decorated for the ocand affectionate casion — a striking The Ceremony the scene Reception of on the Feast bonds that bound of Beautiful New Convent at Leeder yule, which was the feature being an altar drapery worked of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when Sixteen Postulants were received into the Order of the Sisters me to home and f riends, and all that In gold aryl silver of Mercy by His Grace the Coadjutor Archbishop. in the world my sequins, which was a heart held dear— gift to the Postuthat in the garb of a Sister of Mercy I lants on their departure for Australia My Dear Sisters,—Yesterday the reached you to utilise all your talents may become a Saint even in the flesh— from Ireland in October last year. Feast of the and your energies in ministering to the a living lamp, that as the years go by Clusters of rose buds, with a back- Church celebrated the ittle lambs l flock, His tell and of to Lord, ground of graceful fern, adorned the Most Precious Blood of Our Him now what in a few short years may shed warmer and brighter beams of holiness and virtue in the Conaltar, adding colour To-day she celebrates you will, please God, seal by an irJesus Christ, the Sanctuary, while and fragrance to the Feast of the Visitation of Our revocable vow that all you possess is vent, in the school, in the sick room, the Lady Altar, and in all the spheres of apostolic zeal There is something henceforth His, the undivided love of bedecked with lilies, Blessed Lady. recalled the beauthat your Holy Rule may bid you to more than chance in the linking of your young hearts, the labour of your tiful Feast of the clav—the Visitation. A special choir these two feasts in the Liturgy of the hands, the wholehearted concentration engage in. of Sisters West from Perth and I am sure, my dear children, that, Leederville sweetly and de- Church. There is a deep spiritual sig- of all the powers of your mind and though your lips and tongue may not votionally rendered the sacred music, nificance in that close liturgical juxta- brain in training the young generawhich included articulate the exact words of my text, It illustrates in a veiled tion in the knowledge and fear and a new motet—"Jesu position. Rex they thrill your hearts this afternoon, mystic manner the truth and the love of our Divine Lord. As you omposed for three and voices,Admirabilis"--c Yes, the good God has clothed you by Don Mario Pettorelli, the fact that the Precious Blood which came along over the seas that separconductor was so copiously shed as the price of ate you from your dear homeland, with the garment of salvation, and of the Vatican. Choir. man's redemption on Calvary's hill, at you might have chanted in gladness with the robe of Justice He has covered you. the Pillar where He was so cruelly and gratitude had you adverted to it The external change of cosDuring the tume is, we hope, and pray, an emceremony of Reception, scourged, that pickled down on the the words of the prophet Isaias: "Give which was performed by .His Grace rough cobblestones of the Via Dolor- ear, ye Islands, and hearken, ye people blem of the interior changd that God's t he. grace has wrought in you. .Coadjutor Archbishop, a most in- osa—were received from His Blessed from afar. The Lord bath called me, Go on ,spiring and eloquent address was de- Mother as He lay in hp- womb—that and from the bowels of my mother He then, under the sheltering mantle of livered by His Grace Archbishop Clune, chaste tabernacle of flesh from which bath been mindful of my name." Our Blessed Lady, and ever nestling who in close to that gentle and gracious e.d the his own inimitable way thrill. in the fullness of time He passed as I pass over the thought of the sub- mother's heart. like St. Paul. "forgetthe ray of pure sunshine passes through In full hearts of all present, recalling and measure that familiar 'eloquence the untarnished crystal, leaving her a lime honour conferred on you by the ting the things that are behind, press of diction for which His virgin mother afterwards, who was a remembrance enshrined in these con- onward to the goal of your supernal Gracefelicity is so well Similarly, my soling words of the Prophet, that from vocation. remembered, giving virgin maiden before. the Our concluding prayer this afterreassurance to his chil- dear Sisters, there seems to be a sym- your earliest infancy Our Blessed lr.en that his recent illness has left bolical spiritual link between the Feast Lord hath been mindful of your narrie noon will be that there may be here in Ins Physical your Convent home a striking reproand mental powers unim- of to-day and the functon we are as- —that He not only knew you, but Paired.sisting at. St. Luke tells us that loved you with a special love of pre- duction of what historians tell us charOur Lady in those days, rising up, dilection, of which this function is the acterised many religious cpmmunities went with haste into the hill country— c onsoling outcome. I. will rather in the ages of faith—how the young RI S GRACE'S a long, toilsome journey, to visit and dwell on the words "Our Lord hath Novices outshone in spiritual fervour ADDRESS. For what sublime end and splendour their seniors in profes minister unto her cousin, St. Eliza- called me." I will beth, and to be the humble instru has He called you before hundreds sion, and that the religious life of each greatly rejoice in the Lord, and ment through which Divine Power aye, thousands. of others, whom He one of you may be like the cloudless rrlY soul shall he joyful in my God. emanated from the Divine Child in her has created and redeemed? Why has course of a perfect day, breaking amid for Re hath clothed me with the womb, and sanctified and cleansed the He called you away from your home the silvery radiance of morning at your unborn Baptist in the womb of the in the world to this holy house of fer- R eception and after the allotted span ga rments of salvation, and So have you, my dear chil- vour, prayer, and strict religious obsinking to rest in peace and in glory." with Mother. the robe of justice He bath cover- dren, arisen in haste without murmur servance? I may answer that query or regret to undertake a long, perilous in one sentence--He has called you to (Names of Newly-Received Sisters on ed rne."—Isaias, 61-10. and trying voyage, when the Call be saints. Don't be appalled by the Page 8.) 404.
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