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No. 1714. PERTH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1975
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Mission funds rise; proble Total funds collected in the Archdiocese, for the Missions, have significantly increased and for the first time have entered six figures. son had received their lifetime.
The 1974 sum, $130,902, is $34,270 above the gross - total for last year.
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EXPENSES
Releasing the report for the last 12 months, the MisFather Director, sions Nicholas McSweeney, said that it represented a creditable effort on the part of all who had contributed.
The administration of the Missions Office had been made efficient and economical through the efforts of the two full time staff members. Mr. Wally McDowell, Secretary and Mrs. Maureen Billing, who has succeeded Aitken, Mrs. Bernadette who resigned after three years as typist.
However, he added, it was necessary to stress continually that the amount raised was probably only one-third of what was really required to keep the missionary effort of the Church at a healthy level .
Expenses for the total archdiocesan programme of fund-raising for the Missions were approximately 11 per cent of the total. he said.
Father McSweeney said that although the gross total was an appreciable increase on the figure of last year, it was not possible to determine clearly whether the number of contributions through all sources had in&eased or- rttether the regular givers had increased the size of their donations.
"One cannot help noticing that in the Press and in magazines, other charitable agencies are spending substantial administrative funds in advertising their cause-. Father McSweeney said. "Often Catholics forget that there are already agencies at work within the Church which are operating with a minimum of overhead administrative costs and publicity but with maximum efficiency in getting funds donated to the points where they are needed for their particular put-pose" he said.
ENVELOPES The more disturbing feature, he said, was that not even the Church could escape the inflation pressures of today and whether the total sum collected was going to improve the lot of missionaries was very much determined by the loss of Purchasing power of the money when it came to be Spent in missionary effort in the next twelve months.
Father McSweeney noted that the administration of the Missions Office had now become a work performed • Father NICHOLAS McSWEENEY He reported a steady and by laity. releasing the priest gratifying increase in the tO look after the pastoral number of people using pre- either post or leave at the $5,000, had been received side of publicising the misat the time of the Mission sionary work of the Church. addressed envelopes from Missions Office. the Missions Office to make Appeal in St. Mary's CatheThe monthly donors had DIRECTOR TO small monthly donations accounted for $6,000 of the dral. rather than a single large A PARISH S66.000 gained from memoffering that might put a There had also been a strain on the resources of bership collections made at steady increase in the Father McSweeney had the churches. some people. amount given to the Mis- intentionally applied to do Father McSweeney said sions through the legacies parish work in the new People who wished to Whitfords area to experithat he continued to be im- of deceased persons. make a regular donation in ence at first hand how work pressed by the remarkable this Way indicated the fact Fattier McSweeney said for the Missions could be individual donations that on the appeal envelopes hat to remernber the onhanded out in he churches were made at the Missions going work of the Church most effectively combined with other duties in a from time to time. and they were then providin her missionary .effort was priest's day. ed with a series of enveTwo donations, one of one way of expressing gratiloPes NN hich they could $5,190 and another of tude for the blessings a per- ( • Continued page 2 )
a Better Deal °n Missions summary Holden Membership donations Mission Sunday Collections Legacies
1975 $66,190
1974 $51,904
$11,016 $14,581
$7,750 $11,156
Total from all sources
$130,902
$96,632
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On Wednesday this week, Archbishop Goody' called on the Lord May or • of Perth, Mr. Ernest tee-Steere (pictured right, above) to present the Darwin Disaster Relief Appeal with a el:eque for
$52,326.51.
In presenting the cheque to the Lord Mayor, the Archbishop said that he wished the occasion of the presentation to be a token of gratitude to the Catholics of the archdiocese
for their magnificent response.
It was pointed out to the Lord Mayor that this money, collected in churches, was in addition to the other offerings made by parishioners each Sunday. The Lord Mayor replied that this indeed was generous in view of the many other causes that the Catholic Church supported for people in various forms of distress. As a possible indication of the extent of
Catholic
generosity
to
the Darwin appeal, Dean
Finbarr Walsh, of St.
Mary's Cathedral, who accompanied the Archbishop, indicated to the Lord Mayor that a Mass attendance survey had produced a figure in the
vicinity of 55,000, so
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the sum collected for the Darwin appeal represented proportionately approximately $1 for each person attending Mass.
Mr. Lee-Steere said in reply that this had been his hope that everyone in the community would eive at least $1 per per:on. (See also page 4)..
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