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Love, Effort an ten dollars in Ethiopia It takes a lot of effort, a great deal of love and just $10, to give a woman in Ethiopia a sense of her worth and dignity, an Australian missionary from that country said in Perth this week.
• Father N. McSweeney, Director of Catholic Missions, talking with Sister Brigid, Australian missionary in Ethiopia.
She was Sister Brigid have to take place to find a a University College and Harley, a Daughter of place in the market for the other educational administCharity from Victoria, who woman to sell her bread. ration. has spent 8 years in EthioIt was at this point Sister Many of the missionaries pia and who, after a short Brigid said: "It takes a lot in Ethiopia are concentratholiday in Australia, was on of effort, a great deal of ing on educating women on her way back there again. love and just $10 to do all their dignity and helping In an interview with Fath- this for such a poor wo- them in simple things such er Nicholas McSweeney, man." as giving good food to their Director of Catholic MissShe pointed out that the children, as well as looking ions, she spoke of the work nuns have many middle after lepers and giving other her Order is doing there. class girls in their schools in medical care. As a special Lenten pro- Addis Ababa and these girls ject, they undertook to are being stirred up in their GOODS build up poor beggar wo- social conscience to see conSister Brigid is forthright men found in the streets. ditions in their country of in her approach to the goods These women were taken which they have been total- of this world. along to clinics, built up ly unaware before. "They exist for the good physically and prepared of all mankind," she said. psychologically at the same FAMINE "and if we have emphasised time to make better use of the place of private prop"The has famine had this their human talent. erty, we may have overgood she result" said, "that One instance Sister gave looked that it is only one was of a woman who had the educated ones are now of the means of distributing been cared for who when stirred up to do something the goods of the world asked what she could do re- about the poor and the soc- justly." ial conditions of their own plied: breadmaking. "When we give, we are The secondary school country." giving the poor only what an girls were put to the task It ctrnes as a shock to an we have deprived them of of the long negotiations that Australian to hear that of 7 for so long and only when million school age children. we have this attitude can only 7 per cent are able to these people accept our help go to school in a country in a dignified manner." where literacy is around 5 "When the poor stretch per cent. out their hands to us they Sister Brigid noted that are looking for what they modern education began in have a right to." Ethiopia when in 1927 Can"It is God who receives adian Jesuits arrived and as what we give them," she lay men set us the basis for said.
"Binding duty" to Next Sunday spread Gospel-Pope is Mission Day VATICAN CITY (NC). -- Pope Paul VI opened the fourth World Synod of Bishops September 27 with a declaration that the preaching of God's word and the progress of peoples work hand in hand. Only one day after his 77th birthday, the Pope presided over two meetings of this synod on evangelisation, preaching at a Mass for the synod's 207 participants in the morning and delivering an a ddress at the synod's first plenary session that afternoon. Despite this long day, the Pope looked fit. Pope Paul said that - such and all human efthe necessity to preach forts toward developthe Gospel was a "bindment, which justly await ing duty, even almost the Church's help even menacing" in its dethough this is not its mands on Christians. specific mission, he said. "Evangelisation is not It is necessary to rean occasional or temporaffirm clearly the speciary labour, but a fixed fically religious purpose task and constitutional of evangelization, and necessity of the Church." not permit it to be disNon - Christian religsipated among strictly ions must no longer be sociological or political considered rivals or obconcerns, he warned. stacles to evangelization The Pope hastened to but as zones of lively add that the Church's and respectful interest mission to preach the and of future and even Gospel should not allow already dev eloping the Church to overlook friendship. important problems of It is possible to define the day such as "justice, better the relations beliberation, development tween evangelization as and world peace.
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To forget such concerns "would be to forget the lesson which comes from the Gospel about the love of one's suffering and needy neighbour," he declared. In reality the Church, following the example and teaching of its, Divine Founder, has never failed to promote the improvement of peoples. Neither opposition or separation exists between evangelization and human progress, but rather a complementary relationship. It will never do to have recourse to methods which are in open contrast with the spirit of the Gospel. Neither violence, nor revolution, nor colonialism in any form will serve as means of the Church's evangelistic action. The Pope recommended to his brother bishops, -a healthy optimism" as they discuss the problems of evangelization in a world which has often abandoned religion.
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He said: "You must have confidence in your effort because you are working for the Church; confidence, above all, in Christ who is with you, who lives with you."
Pope Paul has issued a special Letter to mark the world wide observance of Mission Sunday next Sunday (October 20). Below are some extracts from the Letter.
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BIRTH CONTROL PASTORAL
The Australian Episcopal Conference, the official body of Bishops in the Church of Australia, has issued a pastoral letter to all their priests on the application of "Humanae Vitae," the encyclical Letter issued six years ago. The famous Papal Letter dealt with the values of Christian Marriage and dealt with the value of married love and the value of responsible parenthood. Contained in that Letter was the teaching of the Holy Father that while parents should decide responsibly on the number of chi ldren they should have, they were not to do this by the use of any contraceptive practices whatever. The Australian Bishops have addressed themselves to the difficult question of what priests should do in their pastoral deal ings with people for whom the Pope's teaching poses a problem. The Bishops counsel the priest on how he must present the Pope's teaching, yet take into consideration all the qualities that may affect a penitent's a ttitude, and with what mind he will admit a per-, son to the sacraments in this regard. The full statement is on Page Two. ----.._ --,
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