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No. 3596. PERTH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1972
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Pastoral Council opens with study of future role Nearly two years of discussion and planning came to fruition last week with the first meeting of the Diocesan Pastoral Council held at St. Charles' Seminary. The full day session from 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. was attended by al l but two councillors who were prevented from doing so by sickness. Members of the Coun- bishop delivered a paper cil are the Archbishop of that was taken up for Perth, President; Auxil- study for the remainder iary Bishop, "Ex Officio"; of the day. Nicholas McAt this point in the life R e v. Sweeney, "Ex Officio" as of the Council the ArchDiocesan bishop asked that the of Director first two meetings be Mission-Aid Societies. Rev. James O'Brien; given over to self educaRev. William Foley; Rev. tion on the place that Michael Keane, 0.M.I.; such a council should R e v. Michael Brown, have in the life of the 0.F.M.; Brother Linus Church. Bowler; Mother Attracta After the Second VatiO'Mahoney, I.B.V.M.; Sr. can Council there was a M. Cecilia. positive emphasis on the Mr. Enzo Ammoscato, responsibility of all memWest Perth: Miss Helen bers of the Church to Cattalini, East Freman- participate in every tle; Mrs. Thelma Child, aspect of the Church's Bayswater; Mr. Peter mission. Inglewood; Creighton, One area of such reMr. Norman Curtis, Les- sponsibility has been the murdie; Miss Patricia development of parish The new Executive Committee of the Diocesan Pastoral Council at the inaugural meeting at St. Charles' Seminary. Dolan, Mt. Hawthorn; pastoral councils. With Archbishop Goody and Bishop Quinn, from the left, are M r. Joseph Stokes, Miss Helen Trinca, Mrs. Thelma Child Mr. David Gurry, HamThe present diocesan ersley; Miss Nennie Har- council is intended to ( secretary), Mr. Jack Shanahan ( chairman) and Father W. Foley. ken, Como; Mr. Victor provide the Archbishop Hille, Cloverdale; Mr. with a body with whom John McCormack, Trayn- to discuss the pastoral ing; Mr. David Maguire, initiative that ought to be Boulder; Mrs. Jenny taken in the mandate Miolin, Bassendean; Mr. given to him to see that William O'Meara, Tood- the Gospel is preached yay; Mr. John Parker, in his diocese. VATICAN CITY (NC).—The major order of subdiaconate no longer exists in the Latin Church according to a Maida Vale; Mr. Warren new decree, The present developPickering, Brentwood; ment of of Pope Paul that will go into effect on January 1 next. the present counMr. Thomas Sefton, Wancil has steered away from What happened to the ward prelates, and assem neroo; Mr. John ShanaThe lector and acolyte bring Church law into that from now on thtlf the concept of it being a subdiaconate. and why bling councils. One of the will each take over some conformity with han, Tuart Hill; Mrs. present- "clerical status" of a: "super parish council". Mary Smith, St. James; has it been dropped after signers of England's Mag- of the liturgical duties of day reality. person would be linkecit At the inaugural meeting Mr. Joseph Stokes, Apple1,700 years of Church na Charta went by the the subdeacon, thus makand restricted to those: it was explained that it The fundamenta l note cross; Mr. Paul Travers, tradition? The Pope's title "subdeacon of his ing the office of subwould not be "interferin • the changes made in who had received the:: East Victoria Park; Miss new decree, Ministeria lordship the Pope." deacon itself superfluous. the norms of Holy( governing the sacrament Helen Trinca, East Can- ing" with the work of Quaedam (Certain MinFor centuries the subPope Paul said, how- major orders other bodies in various of deacon Orders. istries), explains very diaconate was considered ever, that "there is nothnington. aspects of the Church's ( See also Page 4) ' simply that "the func- a minor order in the ing to prevent the acolyte and priest, he added, was The occasion opened mission. tions heretofore commit- Latin rite, and it is still a being also called a sub with a Mass concelebratAt the same time it was ted to the subdeacon are minor order in the East- deacon ed by the Archbishop and in some places, if pointed out that the dio- (now) entrusted to the ern Catholic rites and priest members of the the episcopal conference cesan council would wel- lector and acolyte." Orthodox churches. But judges it opportune." Council. come suggestions from It might be more to the about the end of the 12th Many theologians from A fter each councillor the parishes and other point to say that subCentury it came to be the Middle Ages up to the had briefly introduced bodies about issues that deacons are the victims considered a major order present century believed themselves the Arch- could be studied. of history—of liturgical in the Western Church. that the subdiaconate reforms, changing Church was part of the sacraLITURGY practices; and new theoment of Holy Orders. All logical understandings of Since then Latin-rite available historical evidthe Church's ministries. subdeacons have had the ence, however, seems to The earliest Christian same obligation as dea- show that the office of Churches had no office cons and priests to ob- subdeacon was instituted of subdiaconate. The ear- serve celibacy and to by the Church, not by USUALLY COME BACK FOR liest references to sub- pray for the liturgy of Christ. deacons that can be the hours (breviary). SevOn this basis, the preANOTHER AND ANOTHER found date back to the eral years ago this obli- vailing theological opingation for subdeacons be- ion today is that the subThird Century. AND ANOTHER. . . came largely irrelevant, diaconate is a sacramenADMINISTRATION since it became a com- tal, not a part of the sacThere is a mention of mon practice to ordain rament of Holy Orders. seven subdeacons in men to the diaconate the Jesuit Father Dezza, an Rome in 254 A.D. Sub- day after they received official of the Vatican's deacons at that time the subdiaconate. Congregation for the The subdeacon's litur- Sacraments, said that the seem to have been quite important in the tempor- gical duties were to read two new documents isal affairs of the Church. the epistle and assist the sued by Pope Paul on They were bishops' secre- priest on the altar at major and minor orders taries and often their re- Mass. With the liturgical represented an effort to presentatives on import- reforms of recent years, lay lectors have been deant missions. ON INSIDE PAGES By the end of the Ninth legated to read the lesCentury, the subdeacons sons from the Old Testa- Aboriginal' Centre . .. 3 performed ment and the Letters and Calendar .... 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