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A Catholic school has to challenge students with the values of Jesus Christ and become a true Christian community, Sister Elizabeth Devine provincial superior, said at Mercedes College opening last Sunday.
"As a Catholic School, Mercedes ought to b e concerned with more than providing adequate facilities and educational programmes." ' Sr Elizabeth Devine.
She was speaking a fter Archbishop G oody had blessed and Lord Mayor Chainey had official ly lege over the past 10 ties and educational pro- students, staff, and vidual — a place where their consciousness of Sister Elizabeth said it o pened the new months. grammes," she said. parents. people are helped to grow Christian values and in was exactly 150 years since school hall that is part "As a Catholic school, "It ought to be a place "It is a Christian com- physically, socially, emo- their ability C atherine McAuley of a $900,000 con- Mercedes ought to be con- where Christian values are munity as far as it can be — tionally, intellectually, founded the Congregation • to live by those values struction programme cerned with more than not only taught, but lived a community where people spiritually. in Dublin for the purpose • to respond to carried out at the col- providing adequate facili- out in the interaction of really care about the indi- "The Catholic school need with faithhuman of education of poor girls,
Catholic school must challenge students
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and ought challenge the stu- concern visitation and care of the dents with the values of • to share in the transfor- sick, and the protection of Jesus as expressed in the mation distressed women. of the world Gospel. • to witness to a life of It was only 14 years after "Self-fulfillment, power, faith and the place God has the foundation in Ireland security, and independ- in their that Bishop Brady, the lives. ence which have such a newly consecrated Bishop high priority in our society This can only happen if of Perth, visited Dublin in are not the key purpose parents and teachers work 1845 to plead for the assistand essential message of closely together and sup- ance of the Sisters of the Catholic school. port each other in the Mercy for the distant "For sure, our students increasingly difficult task Swan River Settlement. must be prepared academi- of helping children to grow stating that he "had 4,000 cally and culturally to take into responsible adulthood children and no-one to their rightful place in in today's world. There is a break for them the bread society. great need for parents to of instruction". "In addition our students get involved in school and Bishop Brady pleaded his must be helped to grow in education, and for the cause so effectively that the school to support the fam- sympathy of the communily. ity was captured.
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th The new Mercedes College hall that takes its place proudly among the buildings going up on Hay Street East cost over $300,000, and contains more an $10,000 worth of gymnastic equipment. It can seat up to 900 people, and be used for basketball, badminton and volleyball with associated change rooms and viewing gallery.
Papal call to support church service
V. ATICAN CITY (NC). — In his message for the 18th World I/11) of Prayer for Vocations, to be celebrated on May 10, Pope John Paul II has stressed the responsibility of all members of the Church to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious "Every local Church must become ever more clearly aware Of what it is in the light of the rnYstery of the Universal Church," he says.
Pope John Paul says that members of the Church must clearly understand the nature of the vocation and mission of the People of God, as they travel t hrougb the world toward their eternal homeland. "There must be equally clear understanding of the identity of
the bishop, the priest and the deacon, of the nature of their precise and irreplaceable mission at the service of the People of God, and of what distinguishes these persons, who have been consecrated through Holy Orders, from the other members of the People of God," he says.
Church members must also clearly understand the identity and activity of men and women religious. "This clearer understanding, in the light of faith, will impel us to thank the Lord for the abundance gifts with which he has enriched his church.
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