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No. 1965. PERTH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1976
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Pope proclaims "covenant" as Holy Year ends
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VATICAN CITY (N.C.).—The Church through the 1975 Holy Year had forged a 20th - century covenant between God and contemporary life, Pope Paul VI proclaimed in closing the year-long jubilee.
"We shall remember it unrivalled God, God of es You . . . life is You, 0 forever," exclaimed Pope mystery, of peace and of God, suspended as a beatifying lamp cast upon the Paul during an unprecedent- beatitude. "We confess this: we have shadow of our stuttering exed midnight Mass under cold, clear skies in St. Pet- bent our heads, senseless perience." "And where shall we go er's Square, at which 200 with pride, with self-sufficpriests assisted at the distri- iency and foolishness, and now?" the Pope asked, now before the requirements of that Holy Year is over. bution of communion. "We shall understand the God's kingdom we have recov"A religious act or of the times' which is consciences 'sign our generated enant has successfully enwis- love for that neighbour in deavoured to link this so- in the sincerity and the whose definition You have called modern life of ours dom of humility." every person — included with You, 0 God." every person needing yes, IS "FAITH The Pope, who minutes understanding, help, combefore had drawn closed LIFE" fort, sacrifice, even if he is the taught had Year Holy two bronze doors at the unknown, even if personally Holy Year entrance to St. Church that "faith is life". he is annoying and hostile." Peter's Basilica, declared the Pone said. solemnly: "It is life because it reach- (• CONTINUED PAGE 2) "In staggering fear we have come near to the abyss of a fatal ruin, and we have dared . . . to knock again at the door of the Father's house that we ourselves have abandoned."
BRICKS WITH PCPE'S CREST Workmen later .,ealed up the Holy Door entrance v4 ith bricks stamped with Pope
FINAL PUBLIC LECTURE
o Pictured at the two-week theology course at St. Thomas More College this week are from left: Miss Tessie Nittoreda, Miss Margaret Gomes and Mrs. Barbara Harris. MISS NITI OREDA is one of the four visiting lecturers from the East Asia Pastoral Institute. A specialist in catechetical programmes for schools and parishes, she will be the last speaker at the four twilight sessions that have been of-
fered to the public during the fortnight. Miss Nittoreda's first t alk commences at 5 p.m. on Sunday, January 11, at Trinity College. The session comsecond mences at 7.30 p.m.; tea and coffee are available for those who bring their
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own food for the teabreak. Miss Nittoreda intends to direct her catechetical remarks at her listeners, reasoning that teachers cannot do for others what they have not been through themselves in the experiential field of and living Christian understanding. Miss Margaret GOMES has just arrived in Perth to join the local Pastoral Institute. She will head the Institute's department looking after the religious education units now being offered in the t eacher training colleges. -
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She will also be involved in adult education programmes and in some administrative duties. Mrs. BARBARA HARRIS is the in-service tutor in the Institute's programme for teachers of religion to grades one, two and three.
Paul's crest. The Pope, who last Christmas became the first pilgrim of the Holy Year to pass through the door, was the last of about eight million pilgrims to cross the
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The doorway at the far right of St. Peter's Basilica will remain sealed until the next scheduled jubilee in the year 2000.
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At solemn ceremonies on Christmas morning, cardinals sealed up the Holy Doors at Rome's other major basilicas St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. Addressing about 90,000 pilgrims during the homily of the Mass televised around the world, the Pope said that the New Covenant Holy Year linked with God "our concrete, historical and Only four weeks re- civil life, whether negative, main till school re- skeptical, aberrant and incommences. different, or pious and faithful."
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