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THE NEW CARMELITE MONASTERY T he building of. the Carmelite Convent, in Adelma-street, Nedlands, which vill be the first Carmel in the West, is nearing completion. The band of seen Sisters who will form the Community will be leaving the Dulwich Hill Convent, Sydney, for Perth on May 18th. The solemn enclosure will take place on Trill ity Sunday. June 14, but before this ceremony the Catholics k_f Perth will have an opportunity of meeting the Sisters and inspecting the Convent. Prior to their enclosure, the Cartnelite Nuns will be the guests of thg Good Shepherd Community, LeeThe Carmelite Order, which in its beginnings was only for men, was founded at Mt. Carmel. in GATEWAY TO NEW CARMELITE CONVENT. Palestine. After many vicissi The new Carmel, in Adelma-street, Nedlands, is nearing completio n, and tudes of fortune, the Order will be ready by Trinity Sunday, when th,e solemn enclosure will take spread throughout the world, and place. a Carmelite Monastery once more crowns the Mount of Carmel. A in the thirteenth century, for the tury saw the reform of the Order Superior General of the Order, rise of the devotion of the brown and the birth of its greatest hull' St. Simon Stock, was responsible. scapular. The succeeding cen- inary—St. Teresa of Avila. The
female branch of the Order was founded towards the middle of the fifteenth century. The best known Saint of modern times is the Little Flower, a Carmelite of Lisieux, to whose honour the exquisite Shrine has been raised in the Cathedral. The Carmelites are a strictly enclosed and contemplative Order, devoting their lives to prayer and penance. They have been called the "spiritual power'houses" of the Church. Wherever they make a foundation! there is a noticeable increase of spiritual vigour and activity. Hence Perth is highly privileged in their coming to the \Vest, and many blessings will be bestowed on the work of the Church in the \Vest as a consequence. For the active- Apostolate is made superficial and empty unless it is actuated by the inward spirit. The power of prayer, which the Carmelites wield so effectively, is the intangible influence by winch more things are wrought than this world knows of.
Mission Harassed by Storm
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The anxiety caused by the State-wide willv-will y, which caught the pearling fleet last week on the Broome-Derby region of the Kimberley coast, what relieved byhas been somethe latest reports. Eighteen of the luggers, with their located by crews unharmed, were the plane in Beagle chartered aeroBay. there Though has been some loss of life a!"1(1 property, the number of victims is, considerably less han washappily, at tfleet of 36 first feared. Of the luggers ten are still tinsstrig and little hope is held
BEAGLE BAY NUNS SUFFER out for their recovery. If these boats have been wrecked with all hands, the death roll will number approximately 135. The financial loss to the industry is estimated to exceed £15,000. The Beagle Bay Mission, according to a report early in the week, was in the heart of the storm centre. and the full violence of the willy-willy was experienced there. A number of buildings were destroyed and the roof was •swept off the new Convent. The Mission is at present isolated, as the land routes are
strewn with fallen trees, making leave in 1900. The Pallotine it impossible to reach the Mission Fathers took over the charge of by vehicle. The two Mission the Mission, first under the Rt. luggers were caught n the blow, Rev. Dr. Coppo, S.C., and now and one was completely wreck- under the direction of Monsignor ed. The other was damaged to Raible, Vicar Apostolic of the such an extent that it will take Kimberleys. The Fathers were weeks to make it seaworthy joined in 1907 by the Sisters of again. As this lugger was about St. John of God, who train the to leave for Broome for stores, native women and girls and care the plight of the Mission is un- for the sick. The Mission is 80 certain. miles north of Broome and conThe Beagle Bay Mission was sists of a church, convent, school, founded in 1890 by the Monks of monastery, workshops. and "La Trappe," who conducted the houses for the 280 blacks under work until they were obliged to the missionaries' care.
BEAGLE BAY MISSION Left: The tine Church at I3ea gle Bay Mission, in charge of the Pallotine Fathers. Right: A group of native children. under the care of the Sisters of St. John of God, taken outside the Convent School. which was damaged in the rethat devastat cent ed the Kimberley coast.
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