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The only school in Western Australia to receive a visit from Her Majesty ...
Royal stamp for Clontarf By Juanita Shepherd THE QUEEN’S arrival in Perth produced a flourish of activity, including the opening of a boarding house in Waterford. Clontarf Aborginal College, a co-educational Catholic school originally established by the Christian Brothers and catering for Indigenous students in Years 7 to 12, was the only school in WA to receive a visit from Her Majesty. For St Mary’s Cathedral Dean Monsignor Michael Keating, who blessed a newly built 80-bed boarding house on campus, it was the second time meeting the Queen. “I meet her in 1960 when she was much younger - and I was much younger,” Mgr Keating told The Record after the royal visit, noting that his first meeting with her Majesty was also during a Commonwealth occasion in Rome. The boarding facility officially opened by the Queen is called Ngulla Mia meaning ‘Our Home’ at Clontarf College. Since 1986 when Clontarf was first established as an Aboriginal College, students have been housed at two external hostels. With the opening of Ngulla Mia, college administrators are hoping it will become a true home to the students. Built around a central courtyard and offering an open learning environment, the new boarding facility Continued on Page 4
Queen Elizabeth is presented with Kangaroo stew and homemade scones in the kitchen of Clontarf College in Perth.
PHOTO: © THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Thanks given to God in Fremantle fishing festival By Bridget Spinks A 12TH CENTURY devotion from the south-east coast of Italy brought hundreds to Fremantle for an annual cultural and Catholic traditional Blessing of the Fleet. Fresh from his ad limina trip to Rome, Archbishop Barry Hickey visited the Fishing Fleet Festival in Fremantle on 30 October to bless the fleet. Archbishop Hickey celebrated Mass for the festival in St Patrick’s Basilica on 30 October and took part in the procession of Our Lady of Capo d’Orlando, accompanied by hundreds down to the port where he boarded the lead boat and blessed the fleet. Some small children dressed up as Carabinieri (Italian policemen), others wore traditional Italian costume, while still more were dressed in their First Communion attire and all formed part of the procession.
The fishermen and their families were placed under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title, Stella Maris - Our Lady, Star of the Sea. Fireworks rocketed through the afternoon sky, temporarily enveloping onlookers in dense smoke and the crowd processed back to the Basilica where Archbishop Hickey led the congregation in benediction, bearing religious statues and banners. The religious significance of the blessing was twofold, Archbishop Hickey explained in his official Message for the 63rd Annual Blessing. “The religious meaning of the Blessing of the Fleet is to give thanks to God for the bountiful harvest of the seas and to pray for the safety of the fishermen and their families who brave the elements to bring us that harvest,” Archbishop Hickey Continued on Page 5
The patroness of Molfetta , Mary, Our Lady of Martyrs, is processed down Fremantle’s cafe strip as part of the Fishing Fleet Festival on 30 October. PHOTO: FR ROBERT CROSS