'POPE CALLS' FOR UNITY
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V ATICAN CITY: "We wish to express that truth as it as w then expressed: 'We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the prophets."
This declaration by unity of faith between the measure they are obligated P ope John Paul Catholic and Orthodox in fidelity to their origins and their faith, to rer esounded from a tape communities. On the eve of Pentecost establish unity or not to rer ecorded homi ly Cardinal Hume of West- establish it," he said. r elayed through Saint minister, as president of P eter's basilica and the European bishops, in Metropolitan Damaskisquare on Pentecost place of the pope presided nos closed his homily to S unday. over vespers and worship the assembled Catholic
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Past echoes over Yalgoo
At the end of the special of the eucharist attended prelates and other ChrisPentecost Mass attended by bishops from around tian representatives by by bishops from around the world and Rome clergy quoting and making his own the words of French the world the pope came and laity. on to the balcony of St The gather of 53 cardinals Dominican theologian Peter's for a brief first pub- and over 250 bishops made Father Yves Congar a few lic appearance since his in one of the largest such days earlier to an orthodox being wounded three gatherings since the Second gathering in France: "Brothers, I love you. I weeks ago. Vatican Council. love you as you are and for Still pale and thin from his ordeal he leaned Underlining the ecumeni- what you are. I should like slightly on the rail as he cal nature of the gathering one day, to commune with gave a five-minute talk and was the presence of the you in the same Chalice of his blessing. Orthodox metropolitan the Blood of Jesus, filled To the gathering below of Damaskinos who gave the with the Faith of the bishops and representa- homily and led the prayer Spirit". tives of other churches he at the vigil service in St said that the Holy Spirit Peter's. "gathered us together into Pope John Paul sent the one love of Christ." Later in the morning he greetings to Patriarch appeared at his window for Dimitrios in Istanbul the recitation of the Regina where a similar Pentecost observance was being held Coeli. The doctors had refused with a Catholic representto let the pope lead any of ation. the functions that he In his homily in St Peter's intended to be a high point the Orthodox prelate in his search for unity with Damaskinos said in his the Eastern churches. French language homily: It did not prevent him "Today the Holy Spirit sending a half-hour taped imposes a great task on us: homily for the St Peter's to re-establish the unity of c eremony and a further divided Christianity. half-hour taped message "As we live today the for the Sunday evening tragedy of the separation c eremony in St Mary and the necessity of remedmajor basilica. ying it, we are particularly The pope had called for a called — in this year of the Pentecostal commemora- celebration of the 1,600th tion of the 1600th anniver- anniversary of the meeting sary of the promulgation at Constantinople of the of the Nicene Creed that Pictured admiring the restoration of the former Yalgoo convent chapelin which he learned to serve Mass is Father Peter McCrann Second Ecumenical Counp ronounced the words, cil — to deepen the symbol and his mother Mrs Shirley McCrann. "The Holy Spirit, the Lord of faith of that council, and Giver of Life. O ne of a famous Geraldton priest which constitutes the basis June 7 was also the anniof Ecumenical dialogue for architect's first works has been restored and versary of the opening of re-establishment of the council of Ephesus that the he added. dedicated as a civic monument at Yalgoo. declared Mary to be the uhity," all the churches and The one-time chapel "For Mother of God. Court, before a crowd Shirley and Father Peter c onfessions, this year conDominican the of of more than 500 peo- McCrann who earlier said Both council declarations ought to be the year of an are held by the Orthodox urgent invitation to exam- vent at Yalgoo was ple, 300 more than the Mass in the Yalgoo church churches and Pope John ine in common, by means o fficially dedicated s hire expected to with Father Michael Morrissey, another one-time Paul wanted the Pentecost of the bilateral and multi- last Sunday by the attend. of the district. resident gathering to emphasis the lateral dialogues, to what Premier, Sir Charles Built by the hands of John Hawes, a former Anglican minister who was Fr McCrann spent the ordained a Catholic priest first 10 years of his life in and arrived in Geraldton Yalgoo and learnt to serve in the former chapel R OME (NC) — Pope John II's bullet -shattered left forefinger will in 1915, the building which Mass while for four years he take another 45 days to heal and he will not regain full use of it, one had become near-derelict attended school in buildhas had $24,000 spent on of the pope's doctors said recently. haves since diswhich ings its restoration. Dr Gianfranco Fineschi, said that the When the pope was shot in St Peter's The Heritage Commis- appeared all but for two doctors' first concerns with the broken Square on May 13, one of the two bullets sion gave $10,000 and the stone fireplaces. finger were to prevent infection and to let fired went throught his left forefinger and State Government $5000 the tissues and skin heal, and then to set right forearm. It shattered the second and towards the project which A big contingent of the finger in the most functional position third bones in the index finger. has now been fenced and Dominican sisters attendPossible. Fineschi said it has been "taken for fact will be preserved as a tour- ed the ceremony including the recover to able be not that he will The previous day Fineschi placed articulation (joint movement between the ist site complete to the res- two who had formerly aluminium splints and a plaster -of-Paris second and third bones) as such, since he toration of the tower from taught at Yalgoo. Presenwhich the bell sounded for tation sisters from Mulcast on the pope's finger. was injured irreversibly." lewa and Geraldton also the ceremony. attended. A clear glass panel allows visitors to see into the inteA former parishioner, rior which includes a Joe Elder, made the jourreplica of the original altar ney all the way from Melwith its small statuettes. bourne to be present and• RIVERTON PH: 457 1977 Monsignor Hawes went there were large represenD.L.0891 on to further fame as the tations from the Coyne, architect of Geraldton Tulley and Rinaldi famiCathedral, Nazareth lies who were once active House, Northampton and in the parish. Morawa churches and his The most trusted name in cars. labour of love, the church Proudest at the ceremony at Mullewa which he built was veteran Yalgoo iden•1308 ALBANY H'WAY CANNINGTON. tity Mr Jack Neville, with his own hands. PHONE 451 2333 Interested guests at last MBE, a freeman of the •377 CANNING H'WAY, MELVILLE PH: 339 1633 Sunday's ceremony were Yalgoo council, who has 0175 HIGH ROAD, RIVERTON. PH: 457 1977 8I-year-old Mrs Shirley given 56 years continuous • McCrann, her daughter service to the shire.
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