No. 4656. PERTH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1973
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"Pilgrimage" churches in Holy Year
Quick church response on famine relief The Ethiopian famine disaster has produced a prompt and generous response from both individuals and Church bodies in the archdiocese.
Archbishop Goody has announced the Churches that will be the centres of pilgrimage designated for the obtaining of the Plenary Indulgence in the forthcoming Holy Year. Two of the churches are in the metropolitan area and five others in country centres. They are St. Mary's Cathedral, Perth, and St. Patrick's Church, Fremantle; St. Joseph's, Northam; St. Mary's, Kalgoorlie; St. Mary's Merredin; Our Lady of Monserrat, Southern Cross and St. Joseph's Norseman. In a letter addressed to the people of the archdiocese, the archbishop says: On the first Sunday of Advent the Holy Year for the Catholic world outside of Rome commences. In October, the bishops of Australia called upon all our people to respond
In Nedlands parish, a spontaneous decision to devote the Sunday collections to this cause produced the remarkable result of $1,640 contributed up to the time of going to press, with donations still reaching the presbytery, and with many more promises of contributions this Sunday.
to the Holy Father's request to participate enthusiastically in making this a special year of Reconciliation between ourselves and God. A traditional feature of the Holy Year is the pilgrimage visit to the major Basilicas in Rome or designated churches in other places. These visits express externally the inner journey to a closer union with God in our lives and are enriched during Holy Year by a sharing in the spiritual treasuries of the Church in the form of a Plenary Indulgence. Because of the distances involvedIam nominat( • Continued, P.4)
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A further move there was a decision to forego the usual collection for the support of the clergy to concentrate on the effort for Ethiopia.
The New Norcia Centre
The State Government has made a grant of $10,000 to the development of a cultural centre at New Norcia and the grant is matched by a similar sum from the Federal Government.
The Premier and Minister for Cultural Affairs, Mr. Tonkin. who handed a cheque for $20,000 to Father Bernard Rooney, Prior-Administrator of the Benedictine Monastery at New Norcia. said that the monastery, founded by Bishop Salvado in March, 1846, was itself a national treasure. The joint State-Federal contribution would be used to accommodate part of its collection for public display. The display would be housed in a renovated two-storey building at St. Joseph's Convent, on the Great Eastern Highway, in New Norcia. v. as convent The founded in 1847, as an orphanage for Aboriginal children. The children were car-
ed for by the monks until 1920, when the convent was taken over by the Spanish Benedictm e Sisters. No part of the original convent buildings were now extant, the oldest surviving section having been built by Bishop Torres in about 1913. The section to be renovated for the cultural centre was completed in 1956. The Benedictine convent is now vacant, the Sisters having moved to a new establishment at Girrawheen, in the metropolitan area. The monastery's collections of art, mediaeval books and manuscrips, and artifacts, contained some ancient and irreplaceable works, while the archives were a valuable source of referenc-
es to Western Australian history, Premier the added. New Norcia was already popular with tourists, and was of great interest to scholars. The new display arrangements would he particularly acceptable to women, previously debarred from the monstery proper by the rules of the Benedictine Order .The New Norcia cornmunity had long hoped that the monastery and the settlement around it would become a centre of culture, similar to those attached to the great ecclesiastical cornmunities of Europe. They would be assist ed in achieving that goal by public donation. and by the contribution of the State and Federal Governments.
across the tally sheets are the "Ethiopian word Famine Relief". One of the star participants in the Lapathon will be Father Sean O'Shea, director of the Stella Mat-is Club, who will welcome any number of sponsors and any number of keen competitors who wish to outdo his efforts. Further details are available from telephone club, the 35 1958 or 35 6836. Not only is the Ethiopian tragedy filling the news columns but news is also coming to light of the immense drought conditions that has been developing right across the continent of Africa. In Ethiopia the situation is catastrophic.
There are five Masses in Nedlands parish each weekend, including a Saturday vigil and a Mass at the Carmelite Monastery. In another area, a special collection at BelleOn-the-spot reports revue parish church rea- veal that 100,000 people lised S300. have already died in this In another generous tragic country where the decision, the Stella Mans full facts are only now Club, Fremantle, is to emerging. devote the proceeds of At least 12 million its Lapathon at the Bruce people are threatened Lee Reserve, South there, too, with another Street, Beaconsfield, this 13 million close behind. Sunday (November 25) Whole families are perishstarting at 1 p.m. to this ing. cause. Relief centres have It was originally in- been opened but until tended that the proceeds recently there has been would be spent on an nothing to offer but hot air-conditioner for the water and a once-daily Stella Mans Club ballroom, but now stamped ( • Continued, P.2)
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