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is Lay missionary interest and activity lia as was stepping up in Western Austra issioning comm i demonstrated by two in Perth this place ceremonies that took weekend.
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At Armadale two lay a result of contact between a diocese which consists of missioners, Jan and the Perth Missions Office hundreds of islands Janet Lim-Bott, at- and the PALMS lay scattered over a million tended the Saturday missionary movement square kilometres of the evening parish Mass which services Pacific Pacific Ocean. There are only 15 priests so that they could be missions. the diocese, so the bishop handed their mission Janet Byrne, a secondary in said that he relies heavily at been has Father teacher, school by c rosses on support from his team G eoff Beyer. But he Kiribati for the past 18 of over 30 lay missionaries. also invited them back months.weeks ago she was At present there are over A few to all the three parish joined by husband and 100 names of prospective following the asses missionaries on file at trui M so that they could wife teachers Greg and lay Missions Office, he the day Betty Lupton, of Perth. be farewelled by the Janet Hay of Bunbury said. Up to 25 people are the mission parishioners. also left recently to do attending
At St Jo:ln of God chapel, Subiaco, Father Pat Ahern, director of the Perth Missions Office, presented a cross to Dr Michael Hagan who for the next three years will work with the St John of a diff God sisters who volunteersus, a ed to take over the running gosi of a tuberculosis hospital that in Sialkot, Pakistan. d in :ality. Jan and Janet Lim-Bott hat e bring to six the number of nd th, West Australians working F km at Kiribati in the Central ha hum e deer
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that administrative work for information meetings month. each held being are the Kiribati mission. for the idea The Lim-Bott couple "It takes time a person's have both had lay to mature in said. missionary experience on mind," Father Ahern think to people advise I " Melville Island, and at for several Kiribati Jan will work as a and pray making a primary school teacher months before and his wife Janet will decision. them to work as a primary school "I also urge information teacher for which she is attend the evening where they can qualified. their ideas Father Pat Ahern met talk through have a who others with of Bishop Paul Mea calling. similar Kiribati during a mission conference in Sydney last Continued Pg. 8 year.
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Skill faith love of God are doctor's strength "As a doctor you have the wonderful skill of healing but as a close follower of Christ you have faith, love of God and His People," Father Pat Ahern told a medical practitioner whom he cornmisioned as a lay missionary in St John of God chapel last Sunday.
in "These will be your Father Ahern continued strength not only during his homily. into your next three years as a "You will be moving ours missionary but also for the an older culture than The Record apologises rest of your life," he told with its own traditions. for printing imperfecDr Michael Hagan. tions that occurred proCon-celebrating the Mass cessing these photowith Father Ahern was graphs. C olumban missionary Father P.J. Kelly and Father W.Uren SJ, rector of St Thomas More College where Dr Hagan resided during his training. Music for the Mass was this couple cannot be supplied by choir groups why reason no see I profession, JOLIET, Illinois: A diocesan official with which Dr Hagan has marry in the Church. here has pointed out that although free"Itoregret I een associated at b suffered. have they anguish and pain the according to canon law irreversible have spoken with them and assured them that they can Applecross and Claremont. Church. I wish them God's blessing s exual impotency is a strict be married in thetogether," "As you said recently, Bishop Imesch added. and a happy life impediment to marriage, the ban is Father William Donnelly, Joliet chancellor, said that you will receive much rarely imposed because many cases the church's rule barring marriage of a permanently more than you can give," is "so rarely applied because the of reputed potency are not impotent person rarely fulfilled." conditions are so permanent Many paralysed persons are capable of marital He was commenting on the decision of relations, he said. Bishop Joseph Imesch to allow the marriage to In addition, to be an obstacle to marriage, the must be incurred before the wedding and impotency proceed between a man who was reportedly must be permanent. Impotency often can be treated sexually impotent. "The Church has always upheld the basic right of medically. If such a reversal of the condition is foreseen, the every person to marry," Bishop Imesch said in a is not regarded as permanent and thus not a impotency statement. marriage, he said. to hindrance "After consultation with a number of moral theologians, canonists and members of the medical Continued Pg 2
Remember that we are all children of the one God and he cares for each one of us."
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rma a e parish priest Fathe Geoff Beyer pictured holding the two crosses which he presented to his parishioners Jan and Janet Lim-Bott before they left to be lay missioners in Kiribati. LEFT: At St John of God Chapel Subiaco, Dr Michael Hagan is pictured with the mission cross presented to him by Perth Missions Director, Father Pat Ahern. At right is Sister Martha Forde, provincial superior of the team of Saint John of God Sisters with whOm Dr Hagan will work in Sialkot, Pakistan.
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