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No. 1939. PERTH. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1975
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Is first confession or first communion in the life of a young child also the last in a lifetime? ask the producers of a new first communion programme issued for the Archdiocese this week. Issued under the auspices Mrs. Barbara Harris, of Costing $2 and available of the Catholic Pastoral In- the Catholic Pastoral Insti- from the Catholic Pastoral stitute, the programme was tute. explained this week Institute, 45 Tyrell Street. prompted by /he revelation that the new programme Nedlands, phone 86 7166. t wo years ago that as few aimed to go to the heart of the programme contains 17 as 25 per cent of all Catho- the problem by involving items of documentation, inlics, including nominal,. in the parents deeply in intro- cluding a cassette tape of the archdiocese were at- ducing their children to the songs and detailed• suggestending Sunday Mass. sacraments of confession tions about how to set the programme up in a parish. A- group of parents took and communion. a close look at some CathoShe said that many people The first step. for exlic and State schools and were questioning the value ample, after getting the were disturbed to find that of preparation programmes names of eligible children. of children being admitted that were merely school- is to arrange a meeting for to first confession and first centred or consisted only of the parents who will have communion, as few as 15 weekend classes at which three meetings during the o St. Lawrence Church, Balcatta, opens its gaze to the world. Pictured is the view from the per cent were keeping up children were dropped off six-week course and will be church through the glazed north-west corner of the building, looking out across the fields and . the practice with any regu- by their parents but with involved in an enrolment houses of Balcatta. In the foreground the baptistery and its brass rail stand silhouetted in the larity. little understanding by the ceremony recalling the sun against one of the four buttresses that supoort the roof They found that in the parents of what was taking Christian commitment of Catholic schools survey the place in the child's spiritual the child that was undertaken at baptism. figure was possibly slightly growth. higher because parents were going to Mass with their FAMILY UNIT ATTENDANCE children, whereas in the EMPHASISED AT MASS case of State school childThe new communion pr,r"Parents must try to sense ren they were being sent to gramme follows in the wake Mass. of a penance programme the responsibility that acissued only four months ago companied that first comand which has recorded mitment," Mrs. Harris said. "They must re-commit sales of 420 complete kits and more than 3.000 work themselves again to their children's Christian upbringsheets. The material for the com- ing and if they have not munion programme was put been attending Mass they More than a thousand people crammed intogether after experience must look closely at this side and several hundred outside strained the gained by parents and cate- matter also." capacity of the new St. Lawrence Church Balcatta chists in the parishes of For the actual first comat its solemn opening last Sunday. Mirabooka. Dianella and munion ceremony various Balcatta. options are suggested, such Bishop Quinn blessed the For the procession of church and with twenty gifts the cross-section of The new programme em- as celebrating the sacrament The Minister for Edupriests concelebrated the people included Indians, cation, Mr. Mackinnon, phasises the family unit as in family or small groups first Mass for the large con- Burmese, Italians, Macedoannounced this week that the course of spiritual throughout the year with growth. gregation in a ceremony nians, Scottish and Irish. appropriate emphasis and the State Government The lessons that the child perhaps combining for a lasting two and a quarter would provide a subsidy Also in the procession of hours. gifts the architect, Mr. Aris, of $5,000 . to the Parents learns in family- life be- larger celebration later. and Friends Federation come a new reality when The communion kit inIn his homily, the Bishop presented the folio of plans the Family of God meets cludes four pages of sugassist it with adminito of the church. ',aid that there was nothing in the church on Sunday. gestions of children's books stration expenses in the in the Gospel about building Songs for the Mass were current financial year. The preparation for com- suitable for first communion churches. provided by the parish folk munion is centred not only preparation and also lists Mr. MacKinnon said on the child but allows for 22 films and film strips that However, he said, it was group and a new organ supported the congregational playFederation the that - art of human nature io participation by older mem- relate to the sacrament of ed an important role in bers of the family. e beautiful things for singing. the eucharist. During the Mass two litproviding a link between f.iod and to offer such ings to His service as a urgical movements were pre- Catholic schools and their sented by the Grade Four students, and also beift from ourselves. children the Catholic sysof tween St. Lawrence Among the visitors was tem and the State system. he provincial of the Capu- school, at the gospel and at chin Order in Australia, Fr. the communion thanksgivHe said the W.A. C olbourne, and a former ing. Council of State School The total cost of the new ari.-;11 priest of Balcatta. Organisations would rebuilding is estimated to be Father Charles But:ern. ceive a subsidy of $26 in excess of $200,00 but thousand this year; the Balcatta district has been precise figures were not yet same as in the past fiexample of the forces available. nancial year. at have been at work in (See also pages 5, 6, 7 & 8) development of Aust"The emphasis of parrdia in the post-war period. organisations is in ent ON INSIDE PAGES No: only have suburbs the process of changing sprout in what Calendar :1 to 4 from concentration on t he market gardens Classified fund-raising to more acMake deposits or withdrawa!s at any de, e!e red by a pioneer of thrme centres— 10 tive participation in the Advertising Building Society House, 297 Murray Street, Perth; W alahs, va of migrants, but also Education File 9 school and the communFriendly Perth; Motive Travel, 1301 Hay St., Perth; a .; ,1-o14/ s-section of ity," he added. Societies Pharmacies, at Canning L 11 Bridge, Letters eederville, Claremont, rw ioralities have come to Subiaco, Beaufort Street Perth, Fremantle, VVillagee; Ouartermaine Travel, at 5 Music "B o t h organisations settle in the parish. Carousel Morley City, Cannington, Broadway Fair Nedlands: Gill-Boine have a very important News In Pars 3 Real Estate, at The prayers of the FaithNorthlands Shopping Plaza; W hitford 10, 12 role to play as people W estern Drive-in Pharmacy; ful for the Mass were de- Sport International Travel, at Victoria Park increasingly tolook Philomena Sister & Midland. livered in three languages e4 aaidt tirueed'Mace la &mil Phone 21 Gavin Smyth, Gosnells. wards schools as centres 9 8911 for the latest that are part of the loagency information. CANNING HIGHWAY for community activities." cality — English, Italian _ . site Goan% and Y tps!oslay. TV, Radio 3411711 9 4-4.4.4.4.••••••••••••••••••...
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