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Pope's advocacy on use of the liturgy in Lent V ATICAN CITY ( NC ). - Pope Paul officially opened the Lenten season in Rome on Ash Wednesday evening by using a religious ceremony of the Sixth Century in the Fifth Century Church of Santa Sabina.
the sincerity of the Church Santa Sabina's since the able dialogue between God added. "Lent is an act of humil- in preaching penance. Sixth Century has been the and man." Use the liturgy intellig- ity, of conversion and con"The Church does not stational church for Ash Wednesday or "gathering ently, the Pope added, to trition, things that are not want to pass in silence the spot" where Christians did avoid the "routine same- popular with modern man," experience of death and its dissolution, an experience to penance and attended Mass ness and monotony" of spir- he said. itual expression. Turning to the actual which we are all condemncelebrated by the Pope. conferral of ashes, the trad- ed. Although the practice of "But the Church speaks the stational churches fell "SIGN OF HOPE" itional act for many ChristLent was difficult, it was ians on the first day of of death with this immedinto disuse in the 1500s, it was revived in 1959 by a time of penance and fast- Lent, the Pope said that iate correction on this desPope John XXIII, and ing, a time of prolonged ashes were really a sign of perate concept of our true destiny: life in Christ will Pope Paul has opened Lent prayers and recourse to the hope, he added. "Convince yourselves of be victorious." at Santa Sabina's each Ash sacrament of Penance, he Wednesday since he was elected Pope in 1963. Pope Paul received ashes on his forehead from Cardinal Gabriel Garrone. The Pope then distributed ashes to the cardinals and Religious superiors present. The Pope told thousands at an Ash Wednesday general audience at the Vatican that Catholics should liven Confirmation will be administered in 1974 in twenty-six metropoliup Lent with intelligent use tan parishes, three country centres and to four Catholic College groups; of the liturgy. The Pope also urged there will be two adult confirmations. Christians to wear their In releasing the list had been sent to each Gosnells, June 26. Lenten ashes with optimism this week, the Archbish- priest in 1972 with a full Applecross, June 30. because, although they re- op's Secretary, Father P. explanation of the cereGlendalough, July 3. minded man of death, the G. J. O'Reilly, said that mony to be followed. Bentley, July 7. thought of eternal life he hoped parishes would Kelmscott, July 7. should be a cause of joy. consult with him quick- Wider scope Midland, July 10. Father O'Reilly said of the ly if there were particuThe liturgy South Perth, July 14. Church, the Pope said, was lar difficulties in the that parishes were inDianella, July 14 like a beautiful musical way of having Confirma- creasingly accepting the Cloverdale, July 17. composition, composed of tion at the designated idea that preparation for Floreat, July 21 confirmation was a much many parts. time. Mundaring, October 6. wider pastoral activity "The liturgy," he said, Carlisle, October 9. He said that parishes then merely preparing a "rises not only like an inKalgoorlie, date to be would receive the official group of children for a fixed. comparable work of art for its variety of themes divine documentation for epis- few weeks prior to the Balcatta, date to bc-visitation one ceremony. and human, but offers . . . copal fixed. month before the actual spiritual forma"The to the faithful the possibilConfirmations: Adult ity of participating in a date of the bishop's visit. tion of all concerned May 10, November 22. ceremony, inwith the marvellous and complex the new Referring to School Holidays: May celebration. ceremonial that is used cluding parents and godMay 28, August 22 to 9 to "Through the liturgy, this in the renewed rite, Falt- parents was now taking September 10. celebration recalls the per- er O'Reilly drew atten- place much earlier so Schools close approxiennial history of the ineff- tion to the material that that the actual conferrDecember 12. mately of ing of the Sacrament Confirmation was seen truly as a highlight of spritual development in the parish," he said. Noting that only two adult ceremonies of confirmation were being held this year, Father O'Reilly said that the demand for such a specialised ceremony was now lessened with the faculty given to SANTO DOMINGO priests to administer the (NC). - The "instant Sacrament of Confirma- divorce industry" for foreigners has so far tion on the occasion of administering baptism to produced some $3.5 a convert to the Cathol- million for the Dominican Republic. ic Church.
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Last week three young West Australians made the first profession of their vows as Christian local at Brothers ceremonies.
Trinity College At Chapel. Perth. Brother Stephen Harris, of Scarborough, pictured above with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Harris. and Brother James Van de Zalm, of Nollamara, made their profession during a Mass concelebrated by the College chaplain, Father Paul Keyte and Fathers Rupert Kelly and Thomas Phelan, respective parish priests of the two Brothers' families. At Geraldton. Brother Graham Bunter made hi profession at a Mass concelebrated by Bishop F. X. Thomas and attended by some 50 visiting Christian Brothers from various communities in W.A. (• SEE ALSO PAGE 3)
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