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No. 3192.
Perth, Thursday, May 27, 1965
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New Liturgy Changes Show Confidence In Priests, Laity
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LONDON: THE remains of Lady Anne Mowbray, childbride of one of the two "Princes in the Tower" who were murdered in 1483, are to be reinterred privately in Westminster Abbey on May 31. Anne died two years earlier at the age of eight. The lead coffin bearing her remains was accidentally unearthed last December by a bulldozer excavating the site of an ancient convent in East London.
W ashington: The seemingly disjointed c hanges made in the liturgy in the past 15 months are a sign of confidence in the priests and people of the world rather than of indecision in Rome, according to the Australian m ember of the postconciliar liturgy commission in Rome. Archbishop Guilford Young of Hobart said that the liturgical "consilium" —which Pope Paul VI set up to implement the Ecumenical Council's Constitution on the Liturgy—has in effect called on the whole Church to help in its work. Archbishop Young spoke of the commission's work in the course of an interview here in which he revealed that the Australian Bishops had received permission two weeks earlier to have the Preface of the the Mass in English. He noted that the Australian hierarchy had asked to have the Preface in English last year when it r equested the vernacular for the other prayers of the Mass recited aloud. While the initial request concern-
good on paper but might prove defective in practice. "So it is truly out of consideration for the bishops, priests and people of the world that the consilium wants this testing to be done. We're passing; through a time of tremendous transition, and these changes are the first sweeping ones in nearly 1,000 years. "Once these changes are written into the liturgical books, the matter is settled. So this current time of testing should really be an eff ort of the whole Church —not just the 42-member consilium. "Therefore people should look upon the current procedure as an act of confidence in them, bringing them into the work of the Church." Archbishop Young said a main concern in coming to the United States on his way home from Rome was the work of drafting a common English text for the Mass for use throughout the English-speaking world. He is the Australiark representative on the ninenation commission set up by the English-speaking hierarchies in the latter part of 1963. PERMANENT OFFICE
He said that at its recent meeting in London the • ARCHBISHOP YOUNG committee had agreed that a permanent office should ing the Preface was re- be established — probably fused in Rome. he said it in Washington — with a now has been approved. priest named to head it. Archbishop Young said IRRITATION there is much to be done Concerning the way lit- in English in preparation urgical changes have been for the definitive liturgical introduced, Arch bishop changes which are expected to be enacted in about Young had this to say: five years. He said there is "Understandably, quite a general agreement that the number of people have texts of such major prayers been wondering why the as the Our Father, the consilium is giving directives in what appears to Gloria, Creed and Sanctus should have a common be a piecemea l way. Not for use Only are they wondering, English.. text throughout the world. but there is some slight irritation. Another concern shared by bishops of all English"The consilium is concountries, he scious of this. But it faces speaking a dilemma said, is the development of because it has such a terrific job to do. liturgical music 'suitable The work of for restoring the ship.English-language worChurch's worship has to be very The prelate indicated realistic and very Pastoral. that Australia has already set the pace musically. He "The men on the consi — precisely because said the music used for the English translations of the they Ln.ey want to be true to the Holy Week liturgy in AusWill of the bishops as ex- tralia have been very well Pressed in the liturgy con- received, and have proved stitution—are conscious of even the danger of drawing up scepti to those previously cal that the English a full cal blueprint for liturgi- liturgy can be truly beauchange on the basis of tiful and at the same time S cholarly work that looks meaningful and reverent.
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Visitor Will Talk On Pioneer Society IN PERTH TO TALK ABOUT THE SACRED HEART PIONEER TOTAL ABSTINENCE ASSOCIATION IS FATHER A. DANDO, S.J., WHO HAS BEEN ITS DIRECTOR FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. Father Dando will be here for a few weeks and hopes to cover most of the schools in thca Archdiocese. He was invited here by His Grace the Archbishop. The director of the association said that there were
174 centres of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in Australia and the Islands, involving a membership of 22.000. He said that in Ireland there were three-quarters of a million members. Bishops, doctors, judges and social workers admit that alcoholism is one of the biggest problems facing Australia today. Various approaches are being made to stem the grave menace to the health and morals of Australians. Archbishop Mannix in one of his last speeches at a rally of the Sacred Heart Pioneer Association said: "Today, there is a deadly menace in our midst. It is Australian r uining our manhood and womanhood. It is destroying our Australian family life. It is breaking up our Australian homes and if not checked could ruin our young nation.Irefer to the dreadful sin of drunkenness." There is no need to elaborate that statement of His Grace. Hundreds of broken homes and ruined lives are the direct result of this terrible sin. A judge in condemning a young Australian 19year-old to five years" hard labour for a serious crime he committed while he was
drunk, said: "You would not have committed that unnatural crime unless you were drunk, but that dose not excuse you.It
He then addressed the court and said: "For about every serious crime that has come before me in this court to be tried, I can trace the root of the crime to drunkenness." HOW TO ATTACK PROBLEM?
Father Dando said that cne school of thought said that drink was bad — therefore prohibit it altogether. But that is a wrong solution. The Catholic Church has a sane solution to this question. The Sacred Heart Pioneer Total Abstinence Continued on Page 10.)
Initially it was announced that Anne's remains were to be reburied in the Abbey—now the principal Anglican church in England—with Anglican rites. But in February the head of the family, the 25th Baron Mowbray, issued a statement asking that she be given a Catholic reburial. "She was a Catholic and died a Catholic." he said. "As a member of her family and the present Lord Mowbray, I think it is wrong to have an Anglican service." NEXT TO HUSBAND Despite Lord Mol,vbray's protest, it is not expected that any Catholic service will be held when Anne's remains are laid to rest next to those of her husband. Richard, Duke of York. who was son of King Edward IV. The Lord Mowbray who led the protests did not live to see the ,rebfirial. The premier baron of England died on May 7, and his son Charles succeeded him as the 26th Baron Mowbray.
NUNS AT ANGLICAN FUNERAL SYDNEY: THE funeral service held in St. Mark's Church of England, Darling Point, recently for Sydney surgeon the late Sir Victor Coppleson was the first Church of England service in Sydney attended by Catholic nuns. Sir Victor, who died on May 12, had been regarded as one of Australia's most eminent surgeons and a pioneer of post-graduate medical education. FIRST TUTOR
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Sir Victor had been associated with St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, since 1923, when he became one of the original members of the staff of the hospital's Clinical School. He was the hospital's first tutor in surgery, and was then senior surgeon and lecturer until 1953.