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Perth WA: September 18-24, 1980 Telephone: (09) 328 1388
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On January 7, 1846, when the young congregation of the Sisters of Mercy was only 15 years old and the f oundress, Catherine McAuley, had been dead only five years, six young Sisters stepped onto the sand at Fremantle.
They had just completed a voyage of 113 days from Gravesend, England, and all that faced them was the endless sandhills of the Western coast and the few whitewashed houses of the village of Fremantle glaring white in the intense summer sun. On the fringe of the village stood a few Aborigines. The Sisters had come to the other end of the earth from their native Dublin at the call of the new Bishop, John Brady. They had a fortnight to pack and say farewell to the people they would likely never see again on this earth. Whatever his reason, Bishop Brady had convinced the Roman authorities and his missionary recruits, including the Benedictines Salvado and Serra, that there were 3000 Catholics in the colony and no less than 4,000 children yearning for instruction!
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Irish Mercy specialist on the life of Mother Catherine McAuley, Sister Angela Bolster, is pictured at the gravestone in the grounds of Victoria Square convent where lie buried the pioneer Mercy sisters who arrivedin Perth in 1846 just 5 years after the beginnings of an orderthat now is secondlargest in the Catholic Church.
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The World Synod of Bishops opens on September 2610 discuss the vital topic of the role of the Christian Family in the Modern World. Archbishop Goody asks that this prayer of the Pope be said daily by all the faithful.
Soviet officials are continuing a crackdown on the Catholic Church in occupied Lithuania.
Keston College reports Bishop Kriksciunas was believers had signed, askthat bishops and diocesan asked who ordained the ing for the return of the church in Klaip,tda, saying: administrators in Lithua- "secret priests", nia have been summoned He replied that he had not "Catholics have a church for interviews with an offi- ordained any, nor had — let them pray in it." LORD God, from you every family in cial of the Council for Reli- Bishop Povilonis, nor Processions to shrines or heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, you gious Affairs. (CRA). cemeteries and services in Bishop Sladkevicius. are love and life. Through your Son, Jesus T he C R A official the open air must have perwas Kriksciunas Bishop Christ, born of woman, and through the Holy attacked the petition which mits from the authorities. Spirit, fountain of divine charity, grant that told by the officials that conopenly must each bishops for become may earth on every family A LSO NEW successive generation a true shrine of life and demn certain extremist HONDA manifestations in the love. * A VAILABLE AT Grant that your grace may guide the Lithuanian Catholic R IVERTON Ph: 457 1977 thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for Church — secret ordinathe good of their families and of all the families in tion of priests, "greedy criminals who have already the world. Grant that the young may find in the family served sentences for their solid support for their human dignity and for crimes, uneducated persons"; extremist attitudes their growth in truth and love. 4t Grant that love, strengthened by the grace among priests such as 4( -0 held (who Mockus Father mightprove may Marriage, 4( of the Sacrament of 'p ier than all the weaknesses and trials through * open-air services), or 4x Father Kriksciukaitis (who which our families sometimes pass. Through the intercession of the Holy Fam- led processions to the ily of Nazareth, grant the Church may fruitfully shrine of Siluva); the "tercarry out her world-wide mission in the family * rorisation" of priests by the Catholic Committee, and through the family. We ask this of you, who are life, truth and * which collected signatures 1308 Albany Highway, Cannington from them to back up the :love, with the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Perth Side Carousel Ph: 451 2333, A/h 457 4413 *********************************** Committee's documents. **********************************
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