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No. 3299. PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1967
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iloly father Grieved Islands' Mission Fleet As War Rolled Depends On Bro. Moore Over Sacred Earth CUATIO
A WEST AUSTRALIAN who has been a lay brother on the Catholic Mission conducted by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at Samarai, Papua, for the past eighteen years is at present in Perth on leave.
Brother Ronald Moore, M.S.C., is a boat builder at the mission and is in charge of building and maintaining boats in the mission's fleet. He is visiting his mother, Mrs. M. Moore, of Birtway, Perth, and will spend some time here before going to his Order's motherhouse at Kensington, New South Wales, where he will spend the remainder of Speaking at a general audience on June 7, the Pope his leave. The Samarai mission sounded on anguished cry over "the sudden and sinister was established in 1932 and embraces eastc langour of a new war waged in a country sacred and beloved ern part of thePapua, known as the Milne Bay to us." district. Brother Moore said thouing be suspended, let THE Pope told THE Israeli Prime there are ten boats in sands gathered in St. Minister, Levi Esh- human life be safe- the mission's fleet. Two This is our Peter's Basilica: "Do kol, ordered all Is- guarded. of these, the Morning not expect us, at this raeli troops fighting t hought. Star and Bonaventure, moment and in this See, in and around Jeru"Then let the debate are based at the misjudgment to pass any salem to take special be resumed in just and sion's headquarters at on the conflict now in care to protect the reasonable words. Let Sedia, and the other .he Instead, rogress." p Christian there Jewish, and be trust in the in- eight are used by miscalled for a suspension Moslem holy places stitutions which pro- sionaries to travel to and of hostilities, adding: of the city. Brother Moore with his mother and sister Iris (Mrs. McKenny). mote peaceful relations from the many islands rebe debate the "Let Observers in Jeru- among nations and may within the mission area, sumed in just and rea- salem said that little God grant that respon- carrying out their pas- been with Br o the r Brother and his men will be built within the sonable words. Let there damage was done to sible men of noble spirit toral duties, medical Moore for the past 12 have only recently com- next two years. instituthe trust in be the holy places, al- may be able vigorously visits and sick calls. All years and were married pleted a 31ft. boat to be Brother Moore says tions which promote though they had been to lead the minds of all the boats are motor- only recently. The mis- used for sick calls maintenance costs are peaceful relations towards balanced solu- powered. shelled. sion has just built around the Sedeia area high, owing to the nuamong nations . . ." tions with justice and Brother is in charge houses for them. It cost neary $15.000 to merous reefs and strong audiThe text of the concord, sparing man- of the boatshed at SaBrother's task is a build. tides in the area. ence talk is as follows: terrible reality seems to kind the heartbreak of marai and has a staff of mighty one, for as well Only last week he "Beloved sons and be forgotten, as if trust many victims and many three married men and as building craft, each Because of the rapid is still placed in its blind ruins, as well as the dis- seven youths working boat in the fleet has to expansion of the mis- was advised that the daughters, "This intimate week- and deadly violence, in honour of a new general for him. All are natives. be slipped at least once sion's activities, a 60ft 40ft. Bonaventure was The married men have a year for maintenance. passenger - cargo boat almost completely ly talk of ours on things the assumption that it conflict. wrecked when tides of the kingdom of God can restore order and "We will add another threw it against a is today interrupted by justice among men. 10.000-ton ship in the word, repeating our the sudden and sinister "For more than 20 deepest wish for the main harbour at Sameclangour of a new war rai. the Holy waged in a country sac- years there has been the safety of red and beloved to us preaching of peace. And Places. It is in fact a Brother's efforts in where Jesus our Tea- is this the result? In matter of supreme inboat-building are at present handicapped by cher, the Redeemer of addition to the more bit- terest for all descenof Abraham's the world, was born. ter sorrow of having to dants the lack of suitable lived, preached the Gos- witness a new conflict, spiritual offspring, Jews. equipment. He said vel, founded His Church, the soul is disillusioned Moslems and Christians, there is an urgent need Was crucified and died by the insincerity or by that Jerusalem be defor a new steam boiler a. victim for the salva- the inanity of human clared an open city and. which is used for mouldtion of mankind, and efforts to restore peace freed from any military ing the woodwork for operation, that it may Where He was resur- in the world. the boats. This will cost be immune from the b etween $700 and rected, beginning a new 'The words propa- war casualties vat,:ttgo"" 4 which hfe which is to regener- ganda. hopes, $1,000. instituate men in time, making tions, promises, statutes. are already being in"The money will have flicted on her and which them good brothers, a plans—can nothing re- threaten her more to be found somehow, and pew life unfolding itself move from the hearts of more. because the boats are in the blessed fullness men and from their poliessential. if the mission of eternity. is to carry out its work tics the demon of hatred, of violence, of resuccessfully," he said. venge, of cruelty? Is the The one used at precynical, ancient definisent was acquired by "This is our imploring Brother Moore (top tion of ferocious man, right) works on a boat with some of his native workers at the mission at the end of "A new war! We 'Homo hominum lupus' appeal in the name of t he Samarai boatshed. the second world war. all Christianity, trembWould have thought (man, the wolf of men), ling with anxiety, and that we would still valid after centuagain such a never se ries of civilisation and for which indeed we of this our religious exus as a prophetic dream sweet prayer for the re- Jesuit-Psychologist the present tragedy in after luminous make of ourself the in- hortation so that we the vision of mankind conciliation the and future of men terpreter of the whole may recomend to your history of peoples after dawn of new times? Lectures Here brought together in an among themselves, ferthe of civilised mankind charity and your terrifying (and, in piety ever-more just huand vent prayer great interest to obtain to the opinion "Behold beloved sons, with the rules of the two duties which we man order and do of wise not victory the men, of the sense parents of children of useless conflicting nations and believe are paramount and absurd) ex- we do not, however, delet us allow the poison of justice, a humble Attadale parish and Santhe military because spair leaders of peace of Periences which men in this anguished hour. of dislike and hatred to prayer to desire the ta Maria School is the have the fighting armies. Let paralyse Christian virtue of forgiveness visit this week of Coninflicted on them- we do not want to dc. "The first is precisely beahs which elves no less than twice pair of man and because Jerusalem be spared the have been and of the renewing of sulting Psychologist Fawe always hope in the experience of war and that of charity, of cha- so strongly led lo a century., towards desires for good, an ar- ther Gerald G. Daily, S.J. experi- irresistible, let it although remain the Holy rity in the depths of if ences !tore which are always slow and opposed. City, the refuge of the the heart„ in feelings, the universality of love dent prayer of faith Victorian-born Father by the recent Second which can merit the serious. "Do we and Daily studied medicine strength of the Gospel defenceless the judgments and hopes. Vatican Council. not know help of the all-powerful and trained as What war and in the merciful help wounded, the symbol of however ingenuous and a clinical There mercy of the Heavenly psychologist prior cornes to is? hope and of peace for Utopian it may seem. of God. to or"If the state of war mind the Father. Words of all, We must love men, all engenders so much evil, dination, and has since Erasmus, the "Do not expect us at great men such as they are in both physical and moral, "This will be the way attained distinction and "While speaking to l5th humanist of the this moment and in this honours in the field of this troubled crisis, and in the world, let it encentury, which in you are this judgin hall of Cath- even if the judgment which all of us _can psychology at home, in See to pass any i on gender nscribed on a monu- ment in us an evun on the conflict now olic brotherhood and of them were one of Illent blame stronger c o m mitment contribute to the resto Europe and in America. at thededicated to him in progress. Only one Christian prayer, rather and condenthation Father will talk to parfor good and an even ration of peace and of . Hague: War than is considering the word — among the wisloved only ents of children in the greater capacity for deby those who est and most authorita- turbulent conditions of the true progress of age groups indicated — "Let our commitment do not know what it is. tive we have heard ris- the exterior world we of ecumenical charity siring the good and mankind. 111' May you love June 19 (up to 10 years); Working for it. generation should ing in this crisis above call your attention to stand fast. against the nave known like this and pray like June 20 (10-14 years); what war is the tragedy now un- the interior world of facile e,motions of the • "And the second duty, and June 21 (14-19 years)—at ean what modern war leashed—shall we make your souls and of those suasions of public opin- you have guessed it, is this, beloved sons, with Santa Maria College Hall be, but behold, its our , own: Let the fight- who may hear the echo ion. Let there remain in prayer, a profound and our apostolic blessings." at 8 p.m. each evening.
POPE PAUL VI has again lamented the outbreak of war in the Middle East and prayed that Jerusalem be spared as the c entre of the Holy Places of Christ's passion and death.
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