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No. 1978. PERTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1976
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SISTERS' PERTH VISIT
Song and healing More than 1,000 people took advantage of the perfect autumn sunshine last Sunday to pray farewell to three visiting Medical Mission Sisters. has contributed On the dais of the Su- 4,700, preme Court gardens music $184,000 to ten projects dushell the three women Re- ring 1975. ligious, in the presence of Each member contributBishop Quinn, sang spiritu- ing a minimum donation of al songs into which were $2 a month. woven scriptural reflections. At last Sunday's gathering Their appearance was the the Rev. Keith Dowding adlast stop in an Australia- dressed the audience and wide tour and in Perth, they appealed for contributions had entertained a sell-out to Force Ten. audience in the Perth Concert Hall and had conducted HOLY WEEK TIMES workshops in liturgical music. Holy Week and Easter The three Sisters travelled arrangements, supplied by The three visiting Medical Mission Sisters are pictured at their farewell presentation in the Supreme Court in order to promote Force parishes in response to our Gardens last Sunday 'Ten, an inter-church body imitation, appear on page contributing aid to needy 5. The full Sunday lists for the dioceses of Perth, Bunprojects overseas. bury and New Norcia will preceded were Sisters The appear in next week's issue, by a reputation that their available in the churches on Order had gained for re- Holy Thursday. ligious songs in the early days of liturgical renewal. Many record albums have ON INSIDE PAGES been published. The shroud was last on A non-Catholic crimintheir insee The Sisters Calendar 4 public display during the volvement in music as , a ologist, has affirmed Classified Holy Year. • 1933 that the Holy Shroud natural consequence of their Advertising . 10 It bears two images of a concern to heal people. in of Turin definitely human body; the front and Education File 11 need. dates back to the time the back of a man about six 9 of Christ. Their nursing involvement Letters feet tall. The announcement cappcoincides with the objective Music 10 "IMAGES PAINTED From JOHN MUTHIG, of NC News, in Rome ed a series of similar scienof Force Ten, which began 4 tific reports in recent years. ON THE CLOTH" as an experiment of .the News In Pars . . The reports indicate that shroud's the of indication uments Opponents Churmentioning a shroud Council of is no There Australian Sister Philomeno The oldest Christian docthe cloth venerated in Tu- sion which has studied the whether the Vatican will co- --aside from the gospels — authenticity, including some ches in 1967, and which Earle 11 rin's cathedral may indeed shroud for seven years plans mment after the shroud co- date from the fifth or sixth bishops throughout history, Australian Catholic Relief Theatre 10 be the linen which covered to release the findings of its mmission's report is releas- century. have claimed that the ima- joined in 1972. Today a the body of Christ after the scientific research soon. 5 ed. Later, writers speak of ges were painted on the membership of more than T.V & Radio crucifixion. veneration of the shroud in cloth. commission member A Max Frei, is a 63-yearPOPE PAUL'S HOPE But modern research has imperial Constant inople's old crimininology expert said recently that the group Pope Paul commenting on to discount that thetended from Zurich, Switzerland, has found nothing that a television documentary palace. ory. shroud's disprove the would When Constantinople's ‘vho specialises in analysing about the shroud in 1973, One of the most eminent authenticity. micro-particles. said that modern science fall to the Turks was im- promoters of the shroud's The commission, he add- would make its judgment on minent, the writings say, the authenticity was Pope Pius He says that certain polshroud was taken to France. XI, who had the shroud dislen fossils taken from the ed, is calling for further the shroud's authenticity. Shroud could have origin- study. Frei said his pollen stud- played publicly in 1933 for But he added his hopes ated only from plants which ies bear out the traditional the Holy Year and in .1931 that judgment their would grew exclusively in the time MIDDLE AGE 'RELICS' "lead onlookers to a deeper history of the shroud's itin- for the marriage of then of Christ. Crown Prince Umberto of Study of the shroud, kept insight" into the mystery of erary. Italy. in a silver casket within an the saviour. "THE CLOTH DATES iron chest and surrounded PHOTOGRAPHS Strangely, the cloth — POLLEN FOSSILS He found pollen fossils by a huge marble urn, is in- 1 ft. 3 ins, long and 3 ft. BACK Pius XI distributed holyFrei, who isolated six of tensifying at a time when 7ins wide — belongs nei- from Turkey dating back to card photographs of the these Palestinian pollen fos- modern have ther to the Vatican nor to the time of the Crusades shroud up to a few days beCatholics and others from France in fore his death in 1939. sils from the shroud, declar- grown sceptical about the the Turin archdiocese. ed: authenticity of many relics. It came into possession of the Middle Ages. A West German author, "I don't know if the body In the Middle Ages, "re- the House of Savoy in 1453 After the shroud was da- Kuret Berna, requested in of Christ was wrapped in lics" supposedly connected and still belongs to that for- maged by fire in 1532, the 1969 that the Vatican step the sheet or if this is the with the life of Christ, the mer royal house of Italy. House of Savoy moved it to up study of the shroud. linen mentioned in the gos- Virgin Mary and the early Turin's Renaissance cathedBerna maintained that the pel. • ral. saints cropped up all over FIRST RECORD shroud has blood marks "Rut I can state with cer- Europe as cathedral cities The first clear documen- It is now reserved in a which, he said, would indielte 0041t eTade gdffte eo eau! tary record dates from ven- baroque chapel whose dome cate that Jesus was not dead tainty that this cloth dates vied for their possession. CANNING HIGHWAY from the time of Christ." Many have been proved eration of the shroud in is larger than the cathed- when removed from the (opposite Boans, Melville). An international commis- to be medieval forgeries. Lirey, France, in 1354. ral's. cross. Phone 391711
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