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IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR MARRIAGE
The interest shown this week by the Press, radio and television in the new archdiocesan requirement for three months marriage notice is good news for marriage, according to Father Pat O'Reilly, Archbishop's secretary. "It is good for the com- still a distance away there Contacting the people munity to hear that the was time for the young cou- who attended Mass each Church is worried about the ple to mature in their atti- Sunday was a sufficiently ?lumber of young people tudes towards each other, to large task, but it was even who are being disappointed ask questions about faith harder to get in touch with in their marriage hopes, and and themselves without feel- Catholics who rarely were that we are trying to do so- ing that their future was seen at Mass, he said. mething about it," he said. threatened. He suggested that it was Father O'Reilly said that Father O'Reilly said that up to parents, relatives and there was no suggestion that there was no question of friends of young Catholics merely three months' prep- the three months' notice be- to pass on the message that aration was going to cure ing enforced unreasonably. the Church was concerned every problem that arose in "It will take some time about the quality of their marriage. for the message to get life-long commitment to ea"Even discussing the we- around," he said, "and in ch other and that early nodding ceremony and choos- the meantime priests would tice of marriage was a posiing the different texts is a use their discretion." tive help in this direction. chance to open up ideas for conversation on the meaning • When the Petry brothers met at Bentley last week it was the first time the three had of marriage," Fr. O'Reilly been together since 1947. Father JIM PETRY (left), parish priest of Bentley, is host to said. his brother Father DENIS PETRY, administrator of Brentwood cathedral, Essex, who is In so many cases, prepin Perth on a month's visit while a sudden change of Antarctic plans necessitated Mr. aration for a wedding hinged mainly on when and TOM PETRY, divisional director of the Antarctic Division, resident in Sydney, to come to where a wedding reception Perth to join the supply ship Nella Dan on its voyoge south. A fourth brother, Jesuit could be held, he said. Father Terry Petry, arrives from Guyana in September to take part in the Movement Instead, the first question for a Better World. A sister of the family is still living in England. was whether the couple were — Picture by Peter and Paul Studios. really ready to accept the responsibility of loving each other for life. These were the sort of subjects that could be discussed with a priest many months before a wedding date — not just the three months requested in the guiSYDNEY. — Redelines. the society was to establish With the wedding date marks by Bishop Jobst a Bureau of Aboriginal Missions at the national office of Broome The Record, to foster the work. ON INSIDE PAGES January 20, page 7) "Missionary dioceses have drawn a retort throughout the world are Calendar from 4 national the dir. all in need, of .greater assistector of the Pontifical some might not know Classified that Jesuits and Passionists dur- ance, and those in Australia, Advertising 10 Mission Aid Societies. the amount of funds given ing the last century." such as in Broome, are by A general condemnation for missionary work among means exceptions. no Mgr. Stewart said the SoLetters 11 of • the Australian Church "The problem to provide the Aborigines "from the ciety for the Propagation of for support lack misof for Sister Philomena Society for the Propogation the Faith was organised on sufficient support for all is Earle 9 sionary work among the of the Faith, and to a lesser a national basis following the increasing concern of aboriginals was hardly fair, degree from the Society of the Eucharistic Congress in mission aid societies," Mgr. Monsignor Mgr. D. J. Stewart said last the Holy Childhood, had Melbourne Stewart said. in 1934. McMahon . . . 9 week. "However, the Australian been notable. A paper delivered to the "The report of an interSport 10, 12 "The number of priests, mission section of the con- missions, which are funded view has caused not a little Religious and lay mission- gress said that developing by the Home Missions Fund Theatre 11 concern", he said. aries of Australian origin the society "will help the through a long standing arHowever, he said that who have worked and are missions TV and Radio . . 9 to the Aborigines rangement with the Sacred still working in the mission in two ways". Congregation for the Evanareas of our country is con"It will awaken the mis- gelisation of Peoples are siderable," Mgr. Stewart sionary sense of the Cath- better provided for than said. olic people; and the more most missions in other areas. "To infer that the Church we contribute to the central "The support, which adfailed to support Aborigines fund of the society, the mittedly should be greater, in the early days of Cath- more help the Austral- comes from a sharing in olic missions is quite con- ian missions will receive the contributions of Austrary to the facts." from it." tralian Catholics for the "One has only to recall Mgr. Stewart said "one missions," Stewart Mgr. the work of the Benedictines of the first undertakings of said.
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