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VOWS: Young Perth women take vows before beginning Polish year Pages 8-9
IT’S HERE! Thousands welcome WYD Cross landing in Sydney Pages 4-5
GOOMALLING’S 100! Parish celebrates history - and a milestone Page 6
It’s Armadale’s day! Parishioners move into their new church
Celebration: St Francis Xavier Parish Priest Fr Kaz Styglik opens the doors to the new parish church, now located in Brookdale, watched by Archbishop Barry Hickey, clergy and wellwishers. PHOTO: PETER ROSENGREN
Record journalist Anthony Barich was present when Fr Kaz Styglik, Archbishop Barry Hickey, Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton and hundreds of people turned out for the official opening and dedication of the new St Francis Xavier Church in Armadale on Sunday June 24
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hen Archbishop Launcelot Goody opened and dedicated St Francis Xavier Church in Armadale in August 1976, parish priest Fr Geoff Beyers knew it would be temporary. Armadale, a satellite township of Perth, was expanding, and it would only be a matter of time before a new, bigger church would need to be built to accommodate the township and the inevitably bigger school community. The church that Archbishop Goody opened in
1976 was the second after the original, smaller 1912 church that is now heritage-listed. But even that second church proved inadequate to the needs of the local community, especially a growing one. As Fr James Corcoran - who served in the parish for 10 years until 1994 – recalls, there was no space, parking was terrible and the church was run down. So it was that on June 24 this year, Archbishop Barry Hickey dedicated and blessed St Francis
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Xavier Church - mark III. The church itself is finished in an ingenious design that, as Archbishop Hickey observed, ensured the whole congregation is not too far from the action on the altar where the sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ takes place. The church hall can also be opened to allow for larger-thanusual numbers, while the site has two meeting rooms and several offices attached. The new St Francis Xavier Church was built on
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the back of the land that Frs Beyer and Corcoran bought up around the school and presbytery of the old site and sold off for about $4 million. The new church and facilities were also enabled by bequests from Elizabeth (Betty) Knight, Len Draper and many others. But that doesn’t mean the parish is swimming in cash. The sale of the old school meant the Continued - Vista 2 More photos of a grand day for Armadale - VISTA 2 & 3, Page 20
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