No. 3318.
PERTH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1967.
. Mass Changes• Their Effect On People 77Z-0 ,
; 2 1' 1 l• BISHOPS CONSIDER .
(Registered at the G.P.O.. Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
Heat Keeps Many Away From Aquinas
By James C. O'Neill from Vatican City.
WHAT FORM is the Mass of the future to take? This was the crux of the discussions during the early meetings of the last week of the synod of bishops. Twenty-one speakers took the floor to first part of the Mass-the Liturgy of the Word discuss the study paper submitted on —it is proposed to reit, eliminating the new liturgy by the Consilium for the shape some of the beginning Implementation of the Constitution on prayers to include a "wider range of Scripthe Liturgy. While there seemed to be ture readings covering a Besome general agreement, there were three-year period." and sides the Epistle plenty of exceptions. Gospel, it is proposed, he
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Crowds gathered outside Aquinas chapel for the procession of Christ the King last Sunday. Bishop M. McKeon carried the Monstrance as sisted by Father Justin Bianchini and Father Peter McCronn. Record October temperatures kept many away from the procession but failed to deter the two first communicants at left.
Lay. Congress Seminary Jubilee Delegates
said, to add a third readA RCHBISHOP George therefore, I hope, how ing from the Old Testa^ P. Dwyer, of Bir- important it is to get de- ment. mingham, England, gave cisions now about the a press conference to proposed future changes GERMAN delegates to the third World Congress explain just exactly so that this enormously what the Consilium had important element of of the Lay Apostolate tended to be people workproposed to Synod mem- stability can be achieved Archbishop Dwyer, in ing for the Church and did not reflect the thinking iers for their discussion. soon." his conference, noted of the average layman, Father Karl Rahner, Archbishop Dwyer dis- that the Offertory is to Archbishop D wy er the so-called be simplified and that said that the Consilium cussed said in Milwaukee, U.S.A., recently. sad already begun vari- "normative" or standard the Prayers of the FaithThe German theoloIt has always been a ous reforms of the Mass. Mass of the future which ful are to be obligatory gian commented on the practical difficulty for breviary and funeral has been proposed by at every Mass. PAGE FIFTEEN lay congress during an lay organisations, Father rites, However, he said. the Con.4ilium. In the interview at Marquette Rahner said, that people 'its main work is to reEVER, contributed to De La Salle Brother, to University where he de- who should be active do east and reshape thr Sainthood last Sunday. the on overwork by livered a lecture on Va- not have the time or de9nrituality, the religiou. part of Pope Paul VI outlook of the Catholic The Pope is being tican II and the teaching sire to work in Church (see story. Page Five). authority of the Church. groups. People." caused the Holy Father treated by his doctors He said he knew too , lie stressed that care In order to become efto miss the close of the with antibiotics to re- little of the total compois needed to achieve this the duce fever to prefective in the Church, he Synod and the cereof the congress to said , lay groups must goal. "The old Mass and monies elevating Bless- pare him for an opera- sition the old liturgy make a general judg- develop themselves and in mid-November. tion Benildus, a trained Brother ed ment. but said some of choose their own Our People and trained leathe German delegates ders. them well. There must were what he called be no question of de"profession 1 a yme n." "How lay groups should stroying the values of the past but These, he said, are peo- work with bishops is a of enlarging pie who have the time question to work out in !,erri II and enriching and money to. become the years ahead," he 'nem, giving them a involved in Church af-- noted. "Each has his 1,1€.1r dimension and to fairs, but are not truly !proper place and must ',ring out values not Clear in the representatives of all . discover the right ways past." laymen. of co-operation.
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OPERATION FOR POPE PAUL
Archbishop Knox On Brief Visit
Sensitive Point
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Aust. Delegate Returns
N interim report of I the decisions. The Congress, with the World Congress The of the Lay Apostolate workshops and commitArchbishop candidily recently held in Rome tees reporting to Gen'When admitted that you touch the will be available almost eral Assembly, dealt lass you immediately, said Dr. with a large number of touch a Catholle's religion Gerald Caine, deputy - social questions ranging at its most !ensitive leader of the Australian through point. Rass as The racism, war, we know it was delegation, when he u a fixed thing in peoples, nderprivileged the one passed through Perth stable equality women and of last Sunday. changingelement in a men family planand world. Dr. Caine, who is the ning with continuing "I have no doubt that president of the Adult emphasis on the lay4,great deal of the reliLay Apostolate Ballarat, man's role in the Church !Tus unrest and unease said that Cardinal Roy, today and the need for "Rich we Itg today are experiencchairman of the Lay ccepting responsibiliis a 4heaval in due to the Secretariat, made it the liturgy ties. of the quite clear that the deleThe highlight of the takingMass that has been gates were expected to Congress was the closing place . Of course 17e Must arrive at their own re- session when all the "eaval whenexpect up- The Archbishop of Melbourne, W.A. born Archbishop J. R. Knox, arrived in Perth last Tuesday and solutions and it was not bishops present in Rome the wind of Midland. Bishop M. McKeon and his brother and sister-in-law M. and Mrs. A. P. Knox of lioly °I1 Must Spirit blows. Archbishop Knox is here for the funeral of his aunt the late Miss Anastasia Walsh. The Funeral Mass w as on intended that the clergy for the Synod were able should influence any of to attend. understand.. November 2 from St. Mary's Cathedral.