Getting in touch with the times One of Redemptorist Father Michael Timbs' last memories of his short stay at the new Lockridge parish would be that the notice board was hopelessly out of touch with the times. Pictured planning publicity for the three Sunday Masses said now are Mr De Chalain, sacristan Mrs Dawn O'Neill and Infant Jesus Sister Dorothy. Father Timbs left for Newcastle NSW this week and the new parish priest Father C harles Tory has taken up his appointment. Full details on the new parish will be published next week in The Record.
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Materialists and post-Christians who claim to believe in God but cannot accept the supernatural got particular attention from Archbishop Goody in his Easter Sunday homily. "The greeting Christ Is Risen is expressive of the faith that separates us from those who do not believe," he told the congregation in St Mary's cathedral. Using the expression of St Paul that the death and resurrection of Christ is "a foolishness to the Greeks and scandal to the Jews", A rchbishop Goody rejected the attitudes of materialists and post Christians.
Materialists who rarely think beyond the immediate present and the things of this world will say: 'Who can listen to this nonsense?' he said. Post-Christians, he continued, claim to believe in VATICAN CITY: "May the plans andprogrammes for the pro- God, honour Jesus Christ a prophet, a guru or tection of human life against death prevail andnot the illusions of as even as a marxist revoluthose who see human progress in the right to inflict death on life tionary but will not accept anything supernatural. w
hich has just been conceived," Pope John PaulIIproclaimedin "Anything miraculous his Easter Sunday message. about rising from the dead
POPE SPEAKS TO WORLD ON EASTER
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is outside their span of understanding; anything beyond the ordinary is not conformable to their programmes their command over the physical forces of nature.
The pope broke his seclu"Easter carries with it the at Easter last year. sion on Holy Saturday Miraculous John Paul prayed. message of life freed from only to meet the papal death, of life saved from Two days earlier Pope On Holy Thursday Pope choir and the motorcycle the "Then there are those, John Paul had to be pro- John Paul went to death," he told policemen who accom250,000 who are legion in every W ho packed St Peter's tected from driving rain by Rome diocesan cathedral Square for his midday, "To an umbrella as he carried a of St John Lateran for the pany him on journeys out- country, who see this miraculous element which light cross for the cerem- Mass of the Lord's Supper side the Vatican. the city and the world" ony of the stations of the during which he carried on During the evening shows the power and message. John mercy of God. "May the thoughts of cross at the Colosseum, the papal tradition re- Easter vigil, Pope Peace prevail and may that was inaugurated by introduced by John XXIII Paul baptized 20 converts in 1959 of washing the feet from South Korea, Sene- "If we did not believe in Pope Paul VI in 1964. respect for life prevail," he "This cross stands here, of 12 men from institutions gal, Bwanja, Holland, miracles, in God's intercontinued. amid the ruins of the Col- for the homeless and Togo, Japan, Italy and vening in a special way, we Nigeria. The group would never believe in osseum, like a sign," the elderly. included eight -year -old God, in the essential truth said. pope Directing K weng-Joong Kim, who of God that He is infinitely "We cannot end this day Confessions took the christian name more powerful than we without thinking about, The pope was clearly without embracing with At noon on Good Friday John, and his mother, are, and can do infinitely directing his thoughts to memory and heart, those he repeated his unan- father and two brothers. more than you and I. t he forthcoming referenda many brothers and sisters nounced action of last year "The work of the redempon May 17 when Italians of ours in the faith, who, in in hearing confessions for a tion of man will reach its "It is not a foolishness, neither is it a scandal. must vote on two conflict- our time too, are ready to time in St Peter's basilica, zenith on this night," the ing proposals, one to res- suffer dishonor for love of the only time a pope has pope said. "The hour of the "We are not afraid to say trict and victory of Christ over that God is greater than we various been known to do so. liberalise the other to Christ's name, in abortion. ways, by various forms of For over an hour he used death is the greatest hour are and can work miracles S ending greetings of umiliation, discrimina- the confessional usually in the history of the when he wants to. h Peace to the whole world tion, imprisonment and occupied by a Hungarian church." Pope John Paul II broke torture," he added. At midnight, the bells of "We are not afraid to Capuchin friar. People of !his own previous record by "May the power of your up to 20 nationalities are R ome's 500 churches were admit that our religion is Issuing greetings in 43 lan- love once more be shown reported to have confessed rung to celebrate Christ's supernatural and someguages. He used 42 Ian- to be greater than the evil to the pope. thing beyond this life." resurrection.
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