A STRIDE TO UNITY
PERTH, WA: DECEMBER 3-9, 1981 TELEPHONE: (09) 328 1388
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There can hardly be any doubt that the Second Vatican Council will stand in the history books as the single most important event of 20th century Church history, and certainly as a most decisive turning point in the Christian Church's modern · pilgrimage toward that full and complete unity for which Christ himself prayed for his people.
This was said by the president of the SecretarAnglican Archbishop of iate for Christian Unity Perth, Dr Peter Carnley, in and John XXIII was 78 St Thomas More College when he was elected to be a at a service to commemo- "caretaker" pope. r~te the centenary o~ the "That is a parable to all of b1rths ?f t~ree pr~mment us," Archbishop Carnley Cath?hc figures m ecu- 'continued. memsm: Pope John ,; XXIII, Cardinal Augustin We all kno~ only !oo Bea and Father Paul well that the rem~egrat10n Couturier. of the _churc~es is a s~o~ As a grou th f and p~mstakmg w~rk; it 1s O . "fi P, ey are easy simply tp proJect our s1gm 1cance for us because, h f th t f for one thing, they all ope or_ e efven uCa1h 1:111 a group have to say to us, it Archbishop Carnley said mon action that is at pres- In St Thomas More College chapel Archbishop 11 achieved their really great ct_ommumonho th dr!s- is that great and moment- that one of its most impor- en t poss i b 1e, every Goody gives the final blessing after an ecu1ans somew ere m e is- ous and significant things tan emphases was "what eucharist deepens the unity menical service in which the address was given work qu't 1 t • 1-. e m 1ie. was tant • . i e a Carnley Archbishop ,, .future. , can be accomp1·is hed even might be called the spiritu- of the Church, a unity by the Anglican Archbishop of Perth Dr Peter which subsists in one Carnley (left). Partly obscured is Rev Des Coualluding to the fact that It !S easy t? say prob~bly in our own time and per- ality of ecumenism." degree or another in every sins (Uniting Church). Also in the picture (I. to Father Couturier was 51 not m my time; sometime haps quite unexpectedly, r.) are Professor David Al/brook (Moral Rewhen he established the after I'm gone'. when, in the world's terms, "It stresses the intimate Christian community. Armament), Father William Uren SJ rector of Week of Prayer for Chris- "But if there is one thing very little more is really relationship between tian Unity, Cardinal Bea that John XXIII, Cardinal anticipated to happen at church unity and the euch- "Even as we worship in St Thomas More College and Father Bryan arist and speaks of the our s_eve~al separated Rosling, archbishop's secretary. Also taking was 79 when he became Bea an d p au l c ou tuner, • as our hands. "'That will come about' eucharist both as that denommations, our com- part in the service were representatives of the which signifies the unity of mitm~nt to eac.h other in Salvation Army, Churches of Christ and WA Council of Churches. ~~e~·ab'y !iicioi: J~:n~ the Church and as the our eucharistic celebra'not now, not in our time'. means by which that unity tions when we c o m m u n e - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - together with our present . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • : "But our time-scale is not is brought about. Lord, achieves a deepening necessarily God's eternity, • The vmtage year 1881 turned out to be the historic • which has a certain instan- "By speaking of the euch- unity which is the ground birth year not only of prominent ecumenists. taneousness about it, and arist both as a sign of unity and promise of greater • At the St Thomas More College service last week : o~r ways not necessarily and as a means by which it unity to come. is brought about the decree -.. . . Archbishop Goody quipped that it was also the• Hts way. does not mean that interHavmg glimpsed the • centenary of the birth of Pelham Grenville Perhaps we should all be communion should be unity o_f Christians ~t each Wodehouse. : more ready for. God to do embraced without further euchanst, we can hft our • But Anglican Archbishop Carnley topped the• much more with us. and ado, as though other issues eye to the future in hope of . . . . • through us ecumemcally which divide us were mat- a greater and more full and t• score, fpomtmg out that 1t was also the birth cente- • k' g t'h e e er y. A hb' h w·11· T I f C b +: meven ' care an towexpect v ters of indifference. all-embracing unity. -tc nary o re 1s op 1 1am emp e, o anter wy, • spea dare or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and "just to prevent us • just as He did with th; "Rather the decree means : from becoming airborne and to keep a toehold in the group of three whom we that for all the good (More on page 3) • secular world" the birth centenary of musicians Bela commemorate tonight. achieved by our dialogue Bartok and Pablo Casals. (See page 3.) Turning to the Vatic~n II and talking and for all the good achieved by the comDecree of Ecumemsm,
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Catechesis defined
Sharing faith - the true meaning of the word catechesis - involves much more than teaching the verbal expressions of doctrine, though they are part of it, Father Gerard Holohan director religious education, said last Sunday.
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Speaking at the Mass Though the child will "The General Religious "Parish-based profor catechists cele- understand their verbal Instruction programme grammes have been brat e d by Bish O p explanations, these alone seeks to teach the children adopted already by some Quinn at the Redemp- will not teach the child. about religions and so its archdiocesan parishes and • · h h N h "The parents will recog- objective has nothing to do we will have to explore tonst c urc , ort nise that much of the love wit• h t he d eveIopment o f other possib1"lities." Pert h , Fat h er Ho Ioh an Father Holohan appealed th ey share cannot be faith. said: to state school teachers in
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