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No. 1995. PERTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1976
Big crowds at U.S. Eucharistic Congress
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PHILADELPHIA (NC).— An estimated 350,000 people jammed a six-block section of Benjamin Franklin Parkway here to view an evening candlelight procession opening the 41st. International Eucharistic Congress. The second of two open- delayed for almost two eluded shortly before 11 ing liturgies, the procession hours, the crowd displayed p.m. was marked by pomp and patience, often singing to pageantry as prelates from "take our minds off our In a homily during the service, Cardinal Krol told around the world, dressed in feet," as one nun put it. the crowd to make the Euceremonial robes, marched charist "the centre of your to the singing of a 1,000lives," and urged them to member choir assembled for BIGGER CROWD live its spiritual and social the occasion. dimensions. Congress officials explainThe congress officially opCardinal Knox then lifted ened earlier in the day when ed later that the procession the monstrance to eye level Church officials celebrated a was delayed 90 minutes be- and blessed the crowd, turnsolemn pontifical Mass at cause the parade attracted ing in four directions, so the Cathedral of Saints Peter 10,000 more marchers than all could see. and Paul. the 40,000 originally expectPeople in nearby apartThe procession, which en- ed. ment buildings viewed the ded with Benediction, was A trace of incense was ca- ceremony from porches. preceded by a parade fea- rried on the cool summer Immediately after the serturing ethnic, parish and in- breeze as the Eucharist was vice, Cardinal Knox left the brought up the altar. terest groups. area while Cardinal Krol The spectators then be- mingled with the crowd for gan singing hymns and con- a short time, shaking hands. 50,000 IN MARCH tinued to do so throughout (• SEE ALSO PAGES 8 ' For two hours 50,000 peo- the ceremony, which conand 9) ple marched through the city's business district, stopping at the cathedral where they joined the procession up the parkway to Eakins Oval in front of the art mu-
All Saints, in city's heart, opens again
Along the route, spectators stood 10-deep behind police barricades, straining b see Cardinal James Knox, For the third time, tie papel representative to All Saints Chapel in tie Congress, and listening the city formally openb liturgical music from t)udspeakers attached to ed its doors, with the Ightpoles along the park- solemn blessing and
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first Mass ,celebrated
Not only did the Archdiocese of Perth secure a valuable equity in the new tower block; it also secured a separate chapel site, now in Sherwood Court but on the St. George's Terrace level.
Hawkers mingled in the last Tuesday evening Costing £65,000 the hour of Archbishop crowd, selling candles that by Archbishop Goody. ($130,000), the site with but Goody's solemn installation !ere used later in the cereNearly three hundred peo- a 30 ft frontage increased its in St. Mary's Cathedral late VALUABLE EQUITY tony. ple filled the seating capac- value many times prepara- on the afternoon of DecemThe archdiocese has been ity of the chapel for the tory to the present redevel- ber 20, 1968, as fire raced through the basement, the financially responsible for C ARDINAL KNOX Mass concelebrated by Bles- opment.chapel and part of the up- the cost of the chapel and Cardinal Knox made the sed Sacrament Fathers J. DISASTER for a residential unit below. stairs offices. (ProNegri and P. Dekker tip from the cathedral, on a motorised float, which also vincial) and other clergy; The first Mass was celeThe consequent damage After the new chapel proQirried the gold sunburst Father Rayson, the other brated in the chapel on Dec- put the chapel out of action ject had been launched, Arpriest Blessed Sacrament tionstrance used in the 1926 ember 3, 1962, several of the. for about a year. chbishop Goody was sucliucharistic Congress in Chi- who will be involved in the Catholic Church offices movchapel, conducted the Julian ed to the upstairs, and meet- It opened its doors a sec- cessful in securing the servcago. ices of the Blessed Sacrachoir. ing rooms became available ond time on February 12, ment Fathers with their AusAs Cardinal Knox approa1970, at the old site. Catholic the replace old to cited the altar, lights along The opening of the new tralia-wide reputation for the ate parkway were dimmed chapel crowns a strategic Centre next to St. Patrick's Commercial development service offered in St. Francis Victoria of St. George's School, a d a majority of the spec- purchase by the late Arch- Boys' Terrace then Church, Melbourne and the tators lit candles and began bishop Prendiville in 1962, Square, all of which has brought the chapel building Haymarket Chapel, Sydney. singing hymns printed on of a prized St. George's Ter- now disappeared. into the plan for the multiThe Blessed Sacrament song sheets. race property once the preDisaster hit the former storey Allendale Square Although the event was mises of the Daily News. All Saints Chapel almost to complex. (• CONTINUED PAGE 2)
• The new All Saints Chapel entrance faces on to the rear courtyard of Allendale Square on the St. George's Terrace level. The chapel will be open Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 a.m. till 6 p.m. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament being throughout the day and daily Masses at 1.10 and 5.20 p.m.
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