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No. 2686. PERTH. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1974
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Liturgy Commission moves on reader training programme The W.A. Liturgical Commission intends to continue its reader training programme in the parishes, but considers that a more efficient participation of parishioners ought to be aimed at in future. At the 51st meeting of background knowledge Flamer, secretary , Cathothe full commission held of the Scriptural passage lic Presbytery, Corrigin Cathedra the l resi- he is reading and his or Father C. Ross, at chairdence last Thursday technical skill as a read- man, St. Denis Church night, it was felt that er. ( 24-4355). some form of prior enPROPOSALS rolment or commitment TRAINING Archbishop Goody atby those intending to The four-night protake part ought to be es- gramme touches on all tended a part of the tablished before pro- these areas, but further Commission meeting and a proposal ceeding with a pro- individualised training of discussed gramme in a particular readers has to be carri- brought up at a conferparish or area. ed on in the parish by ence in Adelaide recentOver the past two the local parish liturgy ly that there should be a years, many programmes committee, if the full national liturgical commission. had been successful but benefit is to be gained. It will be put to the others have had patchy Also, it was felt that attendance, it was re- even those who are not Bishops Conference later ported. well equipped for public in the year. Also raised with the While there was a lot speaking can develop of initial goodwill and their own appreciation Archbishop was the posdesire for such a pro- for the Liturgy of the sibility of the art and gramme, often only a Word by sitting in on the architecture sub-committee drawing up a plan ot handful of people from a training programme. particular parish emergA current programme procedure for parishes ed for actual training; at East Victoria Park embarking on new liturwhere it had been prom- was attracting a wide gical buildings so that ised that it would involve cross section of parish- consultation with the Commission could take neighbouring parishes, ioners. place at the most profitoften little or no repreable time in the course sentation turned up even "LONG WAY" of a project. on the first night. Deacon David O'Brien, Plans were made for one of the Commission various members of the STIMULUS members on the reader Commission to present a Past experience has programme says: "One course of liturgy studies shown that as many as has only to drop into a during the next series of 70 or 80 people can take church on Sunday in Holy Spirit evening lecpart in the four-night many parishes to realise tures that are to comprogramme and that the that, we still have a long mence shortly. hrger group provides a way to go in presenting Another sub-committee stimulus to parishioners the Liturgy of the Word is to develop a liturgical to discuss openly the as it deserves". programme for this way that the Liturgy of "A lector has the privi- year's Aquinas eucharisAs world illiteracy continues to disappear, the Bible Societies are faced with the challenge the Word is being con- lege of God using his tic procession as part of of getting simple texts across to the latest generation of new readers. ducted on Sundays. voice to bring the mess- the Holy Year obserThe Liturgical Commis- age of salvation to the vance and aiming at a Although illiteracy may re above. At the left is sion adheres to the prin- people. closer 'participation of be as low as 15 per cent Rev. Keith Bricknell, ciple that reading the "It is a position of re- those present for the by the turn of the cen- State secretary of the Word is much more than sponsibility within the occasion. tury, (34 per cent at Bible Society of WA., a matter of speech dy- liturgy, and not just a present) an increase in who presented Archbishnamics or elocution. 'new thing' in the Church ON INSIDE PAGES the world's population op Goody with a copy of It is a ministry within or a matter of 'helping will mean that there will the Mass and involve, , Father out', in the Mass". Calendar 4 still be some 650 million the Catholic edition of The Way — an illustrated the. whole person who is Parishes or zones in- Classified illiterates by the year version of the Bible, editexercising that ministry terested in reader trainAdvertising 10 2,000. ed to catch the attention — his personal faith, his ing programmes should Education File These were some of of the modern reader. 11 concern for the people contact Deacon O'Brien, 11 the details explained by He also presented a Who must hear the Word 23 Victoria Square, (tele- Letters 5 Mr Roy Gwyther-Jones,( copy of Today's English through his efforts, his phone 25-2885), Father C. Music News In Pars 4 regional director of New Version of the New TesScriptures in tament "Good News for Our Historic Link 8 Reader Singapore ,after a visit Modern Man" in a speciSister Philomena to explain his work to al 'imprimatur' Catholic Earle 6 Archbishop Goody last edition. Sport 12 week. 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