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No. 3572.
PERTH, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1972
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St. Patrick's Day message
Pray for peace 1 Ireland, Archbisho pleads Ironically, the very imperial greatness of her neighbour enabled Ireland not only to keep her identity at home but also to spread and to extend in many overseas lands the home grown values of liberty and of a living Christian faith. Australia's debt to the Irish is as incalculable as it is all pervading. In early colonial days, with some notable exceptions, His Grace, the Archbishop, the Most Rev. Dr. L. J. Goody, it was the Irish immigrant as a labourer who c alled on all Christians to pray for peace in Ireland when he built up the economy of preached at the Irish Week inaugural Mass at St. Mary's the country in town, farm and mining lease Cathedral on Sunday. and at the same time favoured the introduction of The following is the text of his sermon: social justice in labour WITH ST. PATRICK'S DAY occurring next Friday, the week beginning and industrial relations with their support of today is being celebrated throughout the world by Irish people and their trade unions and insistence on self respect for descendants. the working man. I welcome this opportunity to speak briefly on the subject of the Irish priests accompanAustralian Church's close association with Ireland, especially at this ied the immigrants in time when, unhappily, the peace and the stability of the country is being ever increasing numbers and the build up of the shattered in its northern province and its Christian image, too, so spoiled Catholic Church followed inevitably from the stalby civil, social and sectarian conflict. wart fidelity of the immiThe greatness of most nations in the lesson of history is seen to grow, grants themselves and of the ever growing populato decline and occasionally to develop again in a different context. tion of their Australian born descendants. These Ancient Greece is a which the Church of Other small nations classic example: begin- Christ was first able to have stood out and con- people today are Austraning with a rapid cultural achieve such extraordin- tinue to wield great in- lian, not Irish, but, in large proportion, they development, it grew to a ary development. fluence in quite other and world empire under AlexSimilar achievements often more elevated fields have maintained not only ander the Great. It was were realised later by of heroic perseverance the loving memory of then conquered by the Spain, Portugal and Eng- and of living, indomitable their hibernian origins but also a continuing Romans but, in a very land—all relatively small faith. faithfulness to the religr eal sense, Greece absor- nations—which, in daernOf these Ireland and bed its more uncouth op- onic bursts of vigour, its faithful people is a ion which had cost their pressors and continued were able, for a time, to shining example. Oppres- forefathers so much to to inspire the growth of dominate the world and sed and dispossessed in preserve. civilisation under Rom- leave The same has been the inheritance centuries past by a more an an technology, and we which continues even powerful neighbour, she picture in Western Ausare still today the benefi- after the domination has maintained her identity, tralia where all but one ciaries of the Greco- retired to the pages of her courage and her per- of the first five bishops His Grace the Archbishop delivering his address in St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, during the Mass offered for the intentions of Peace in Ireland to mark the comRoman culture within our history books, severance and her faith. Continued on Page 3. mencement of Irish Week.
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