be Record *% No. 3431. .0,41 .A.1. ieLNR.A7
PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1970.
Educators Warned: Identify Yourselves With Community
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The re -definition of the role of the student in the educational community is perhaps the most pressing current issue facing most schools. lie said it NN as essential "Of more lasting inU.S. National Catholic fluence, they also acquire that a parallel effort Educational Association at least some of theiz. should be made to rep resident, Father C. most fundamental ideas, create a genuine educacommunity, commitments and values. tional A lbert Koob, addressing Perhaps more now than respect for with marked more than 1,000 Catho- at any time in history, it human dignity and the no exaggeration to lic educators at the 10th is speak of an identifiable unique needs of the inConI nter - American youth culture with its dividual. gress of Catholic Educa- own special fashions, "An educational system goals and modes, a 'cultion, which ended ture' which seems to lacking a sense of comearlier this week, said t ranscend national boun- munity is rather like a daries to become truly s tudent unrest was run- International." skeleton." ning high and the causes were many and varied.
A general view of the assembly at the recent General Chapter of the Perth and Geraldton Congregations o f the Presentation Sisters of W A. Seated in front are ( from left ) Mother M. Albeus Fahey, Bishop Thomas of Geraldton, His Grace the Archbishop, Bishop Quinn and Mother M Assumpta O'Donnell.
TWO NAMED ON NEW YEAR LIST
"In many in,tar.,•ec. they have their roots in larger social problems. "One hears it said that students resent the depersonalised atmosphere of the large school; that traditional find they school programmes and practices unresponsive to their special needs and aspirations; that they are "turned off" by educational philosophies and methods which seem, to them, remote from their own life experience.
Two well-known clergymen in Western Australia were included in the New Year's Honours list. They were Monsignor and came to WA. in 1921. John Thomas McMahon, He was appointed first who received an 0.B_E director of Catholic edufor services to education cation for the archdioin the State, and Father cese of Perth. a post he Seraphim Sanz, who was held till 1950. made an M.B.E. for serFr. Sanz. who was born vices to native welfare in been in Spain. has the State. Mons. McMahon was superior of the Kalum;Om in Ireland in 1893 buru Mission since 1957.
"In short: students today resist the role of passive objects of education and desire, instead, to be active participants in the educational process."
W ARNING He warned educators that, unless they became better identified with the goals and demands of the community, outside forces would frustrate their efforts.
His Grace receiving the offertory gifts from Mother M. Albeus Fahey and Mother M. Assumpta O'Donnell during the Concelebrated Mass at lona.
Christian teachers, in The Perth and Geraldton Congregations of the W.A. Presentation Sisters role despite the fact most fulfilling community of them lacked the glaneeds, should give prior- were recently united in a lavish ceremony. morous appearance and ity to three consideraIn the past. one could better facilities found in His Grace, the Arch- Geraldton Congregations. tions, and these were by most urban schools. qualified In his address, His become bishop, Most Rev. L. J. that: unimerely a attending the hoped he said Grace Goody, Most Rev. Bishop "The Sisters, whose • The school 'is the Francis Xavier Thomas union would help make versity and gaining a apostolate now extends only one having degree without Augustine St. peace the Most and Geraldton, of educational agent among many." and Rev. P. Quinn, Auxiliary spoke of as "the tran- any practical experience even to the adult lay peoits effectiveness would at all. Today, this was ple, will need a backbe Bishop of Perth and quility of Order". undermined if the "mul- Vicar for Religious, all not so. The highest prac- ground of theology and He recalled the words tical experience was ex- philosophy. This training. tiple" influences exerted concelebrated Mass of on students by a Russian Orthodox pected. and opportunities added to their spiritual of the at Spirit educa- the Holy formation will enable tional agents outside the Iona Presentation Col- Church Bishop who, in were available. school, were Leningrad. said, among He said that, with them to help not only the not taken lege, Mosman Park. but the lay into account. They later attended a other things, that the these changes and in- children so that General Chapter of the Western Church should creasing government as- adults as well, • They must identify Sisters. not worry about the sistance, he was optim- they can let the light of accurately those educa- Delegates from both dearth of Vocations as istic the small Catholic their dedication shine tional agents — Congregations were God would provide the country school would through to others in their duals, institutions, media, united in the singing of Vocations needed if there c ontinue its important environment." movements and assess the Veni Creator and was faith. their roles and impact. other hymns at Mass. The uniting of the two The Epistle was read by congregations, he added. • They must work for Rev. M. Bernard Hogan, was an historic ever:, a true educational com- Local Superior of the not only for the PresentaStarting next week, and continuing for four munity within society. Perth Congregation. tion Order but for the consecutive weeks, we will run an explanatory Highlight of the pro- Church in W.A. as a series on the Order of the New Mass. This 'CULTURE' ceedings was the pre- whole. will be illustrated with photographs. One of the sentation of gifts to His ful of such more power- Grace by Mother M. "The Record" hopes to be able to publish There were many rea"agents" outside schools, Albeus and Fahey semi-secular and — sons Mother New Mass. This booklet should meet the the he said, was "Youth M. Assumpta O'Donnell spiritual — why this was requirements for participation and instruction culture". at the Offertory Proces- so important for, in this in its meaning. "Children acquire sion—a symbolic gesture highly technological and modes The New Mass Order will be implemented of sPeech and behaviour, which marked the pro- specialised age, greater the First Sunday of Lent onwards. from dress from demands mulgamation were of made of the one another. Union of Perth and teachers.
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