"A 9SPECIAL 9 JOY
Like our predecessors we have always rejoiced in the festive occasions of our Brothers in the Episcopate; for as St. Paul says they are "our brethren, the apostles of the Churches, the glory of Christ". (2 Cor. 8,23).
LNINiqj# csivi° G(t
CrNj
)1:f
al°
ert&n/ t/iJ 611 1/fl!-
elig4 anno A4C/14 10 1 o ftri fertli/o
ti
le XXVmiui1J
,n
A reproduction of the personal signature of Pope John Paul II on the festive Papal letter sent to Archbishop Goody.
History spanned
ca/tuf
We are moved by a special joy when it God with your innate skill; to consecrate concerns those Sacred Prelates who stand new Priests and Bishops; to lead the flock out for their dedication, their piety, their assigned to your care to the eternal shores achievements and their virtue. Venerable and so on. Whatever you have undertaken be it as Brother we rightly number you amongst these: you are to be complimented for Priest, Bishop or Archbishop has born a your personal and intellectual qualities; rich and fruitful harvest like good grain. You enthusiastically encouraged the your religious faith is manifest; you excel in the study of the sacred disciplines by faithful in the pursuit of virtue; you gave which man strives after nobler goals and to the students under your care in the Seminary wise and fundamental princifinds peace in the knowledge of God. ples by which the young are formed in the But these remarks are very general and love of God and their fellow men. on this occasion of your fiftieth year of You gave solid foundations to the DioPriesthood it is appropriate to single out cese of Bunbury, whose first Bishop you manifthat some of the events in your life were. Then as Archbishop of Perth you est God's goodness to you and your introduced with prudence and balance response in love to God. God called you the decrees of the Second Vatican as a boy to true faith and holy doctrine Council. which came to you like fresh life giving You have built churches, set up parwater. ishes, convoked synods, set up schools, Later on God added the gift of the built presbyteries. You have shown in all Priesthood and then of the Episcopacy. this diligence, commitment, kindness to Greater than these there is no gift granted all, qualities in which you abound. Augto men nor could any be conceived. In ustine's words "Sweet is the word of love that way you were set apart and conse- but sweeter still the deed" fittingly apply crated to the one true God in the likeness to you. of a victim and in the image of Christ. There is good reason Venerable You were appointed to act for men in Brother why you should rejoice, why we their relations with God (cf. Hebr. 5,1..): rejoice, why the sons and daughters of able to forgive their sins, to give them the Christ rejoice to the praise and glory of Eucharistic bread and to lead troubled God. Finally accept the Apostolic Blessing souls back to the peace of Christ. This was your duty — a pleasant and gratify- as a sign of our love towards you and yours: your Auxiliary Bishops, the clergy ing one. Through your Episcopacy you and people of Perth and whoever has increased in dignity and your vision rose taken part in your celebrations. May it above the valley to the mountain top. strengthen you in goodness. From the Vatican Palace, 25th October With your epsicopal dignity you were given new duties: to spread the word of 1980; the 3rd year of our Pontificate.
With over 140 Savings Centres
f
This historic photograph (right) is a Ming commentary on the 50 years o riesthood that Archbishop Goody celebrates this week, and also on a egment of the West Australian priesthood of half-a-century ago. The picture was taken in Propaganda ollege, Rome, in 1926 when the late Monsignor Edmund Sullivan (centre seated), who died last month, was about PERTH, WA: December 18-24, 1980 to return to Australia after his TELEPHONE: (09) 328 1388 ordination to the priesthood. To his left and right are the late Monsignor Edward Collins who died while at Shenton Park, and the late Monsignor Fred Byrne who died when t Albany as vicar-general of Bunbury locese under Bishop Goody. Rear left is Launcelot Goody, then a student in second philosophy, along with Father Frank Ryan (right), now in r etirement at Glendalough, both of w hom were ordained priests in 1930 on December 20. Rear centre is the late Archdeacon ohn McKay of Carnarvon, then a tudent in his first year of theology. Following ordination Dr. Goody ' ent to Yugoslavia to study Croatian hich he used in the districts of Midland and Spearwood while an ssistant in St. Mary's Cathedral. He served in Boulder, and then as arish priest of Toodyay, and had olunteered as a chaplain to the army w hen in 1941 Archbishop Prendiville requested him to establish St. Charles' Seminary Guildford for which he personally recruited the first 20 students among whom is his auxiliary, Bishop 4E0:141041114411*(411V54441tib . *104§rOlt* •-1.'411:11tr Peter Quinn. Now Monsignor Goody, he was parsh priest of Bedford and labouring on he building of his new presbytery hen he was told of his appointment as uxiliary bishop in 1951. Three years later he was the founding 'shop of Bunbury and in 1968 he was made Archbishop of Perth, the city that ad seen his entry into the Catholic hurch and the scene of his first years of riesthood. AD MULTOS ANNOS.
DEACONS IN THE PARISHES Page 4
111r7our-
NUMBER: 2218 PRICE: 60 cents
LIFTOUT TV, radio I Christmas 7: programmes A P15-18
throughout Western Australia, we're near you. But no other building society comes near us.
Town & Country. Setting the Pace. Town & Country Permanent Building Society 297 Murray Street Perth Telephone 327 3333.