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Daybreak 80; Letter from the Archbishop My dear People, I write to you about Daybreak 1980.
At the opening of the vocation's display Sister Joan SMITH, audio visual co-ordinator discusses the exhibition with the design artist David HORROCKS and John BILLING who printed the photographic reproductions.
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A special feature of Perth's celebration of Daybreak 80 will be the display in the Gibney Hall of Trinity College from April 9 to 18. A montage of photographs and historic mementoes of the past are a ccompanied by an audio-visual production. On display boards loaned by West Australian Newspapers a selection of photographs from the past and present is designed to stimulate discussion and questions on the relevance of the priestly and religious life. On stage on equipment loaned by the Catholic Deaf Association ideas about commitment to God in life are spelt out in sight and sound. During the day the e xhibition is open Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. School groups are being taken t hrough the display at regular intervals. Adults are welcome. The display is open Monday to Thursday evenings 7 to 9 p.m. and
Saturday and Sunday afternoons 2 to 5 p.m.
This is not primarily a campaign to recruit for the priesthood and religious life. This is not a campaign to place individual priests and religious on pedestals. Very simply it is a call to all of us to renew our appreciation of what the priesthood andreligious life should mean to us as believing Catholics. Pope John Paul has recently reminded us that without the priest there is no Blessed Sacrament and consequently there is no Eucharistic Sacrifice, there is no full Catholic life. The Eucharist is brought to us in the world today through priests and it is the Eucharist that builds us up in the church and gives us hope of eternal life. The Eucharist comes with priesthood and not without it. We need to face again this reality of our faith while at the same time we face the fact that priests are human being with defects of character and human weaknesses from which we also may have suffered. During Holy Week I placed before the priests of the Archdiocese the example of Pope John Paul on his knees asking for forgiveness for his failures as a minister of the Eucharist. If that picture of the Pope finds a place in our hearts it should awaken in response a realization of our own unworthiness and our need for forgiveness together with our duty to forgive. As you recall the blessings which have come from the priesthood in your own lives and in the lives of others, you should renew your appreciation of God's plan for the priesthood. You should pray for priests and ask God for more priests as channels of God's grace for yourselves and the whole world. It is part of his plan that we should long for his kingdom to come by Him working through his priests. "Daybreak" is meant to light up our own minds and hearts with an understanding in faith of the priesthood of Christ in our world today. And while we think and pray about our belief in the priesthood we should consider too the wonderful role that religious men and women have had in the Church through the centuries. Religious life has contributed in a remarkable way to the well-being of the Church. Most of you will have benefited from the influence of religious in your own lives. And these reflections should inspire you to pray that God will bless his church in our day with a new flowering of religious life and a fragrance that will help us all, including those outside the church, to realize that there are much higher standards than those set by the world about us to which God calls all of us, each in his own way. I ask you to be open to this message of Daybreak 1980. I ask parents to teach their children by word and example the meaning of priesthood and religious life. I ask young people to open their hearts to the possibility of God calling them to these states of life. It is my hope that Godin his goodness will give us a renewed appreciation of his gifts of priesthood and religious life and that He will continue to bless us even more richly with these gifts. L.J. GOODY, Your Archbishop.
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