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Family celebration A new Perth pilgrimage takes Italian couple as its patrons The first married couple to be beatified simultaneously will be the focal point of a pilgrimage for marriage and family life to be held at the Schoenstatt Shrine in Armadale on Sunday November 6. Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi were beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 21, 2001. Two of their sons, aged 92 and 95 at the time, concelebrated the Mass with the Pope and a daughter aged 87 sat close to the altar. The November 6 pilgrimage has been planned to give everyone involved or interested in family life the opportunity to pray and ponder the importance of holiness in marriage and family life. As the organisers put it, the pilgrimage is “for all who are married, separated/divorced, single and considering married life, widowed, devoted to family life, interested in learning about the Quattrocchis and their Cause, or involved in marriage and/or family services”. The program will begin at 10.30am. There will be adoration and the rosary between 11 and 12, Mass from noon to 1pm, and BYO picnic lunch from 1 to 2.15. There will be a talk on Bl. Maria and Luigi Quattrocchi from 2.15 till 3pm, with separate activities for children. The pilgrimage will conclude with consecration to the Holy Family at 3pm. Luigi Quattrocchi was born in southern Italy in 1880 and Maria in Florence in 1884. They met in 1899 and soon began a courtship that was documented in their love letters which expressed their passionate love for each other as well as deep religious sentiments. They married in 1905 and had three children within four years. When Maria became pregnant again in 1914 doctors told her there was a 99 per cent chance she would die unless she aborted the child. The couple decided they could not do that. Their daughter Enrichetta was born safely in 1914 and was present at her parents’ beatification. Maria herself lived for another 51 years. At the time of the beatification the surviving children (the fourth, a daughter died in 1993) described how ‘normal’ was their life with
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Volunteers the key: St Bernadette’s Port Kennedy Parishioner and Volunteer Margaret Bochat helps Adam and Siama Longolio fill out a form, while Parish Priest Fr Richard Doyle Looks on. Photo: Jamie O’Brien
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A refugee family from Sudan who arrived in Australia last November have been given the unique opportunity to stay in a house provided by St Bernadette’s parish Port Kennedy. The idea has stemmed from the mind of Fr Richard Doyle, who also set up the idea at his former parish of Saints John and Paul Willeton in 1992. Adam and Siama Longolio, together with their three children are now becoming acquainted with Australian life. Fr Doyle said the parish has been provided with much support, with people donating clothes and welcoming the children, aged three, four and six, at the school. Fr Doyle has also set up a support group of volunteers from the parish to help the family in any way they can.
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The publication by The West Australian on two successive days of photographs of a victim and alleged perpetrators of the Bali bombings raises once more the serious reservations that many have about the direction of the paper. The first, a front page photo which appeared on Monday, was of a 13 year old girl, the sister of a Western Australian victim, desperately injured in her hospital bed and apparently asking where her brother was. The following day photos of the three severed heads of the alleged suicide bombers were published on Page 4, after a large notice at the top of Page 1 warned people about what they would find. Journalism is full of temptations, and ever more clearly, dominated by a lack of self control. The first question which should be asked of The West is simply this: what good has any of this done? We defy anyone to name one single benefit to those injured or bereaved, or to the reading public. Editors and journalists must exercise self-control and not be shallow creatures of every whim of the market. Who benefits? The criticism is not limited to The West Australian, although it has a special responsibility as our only daily paper. The severed heads were also shown on television news programs where they were much more likely to be seen by unsuspecting viewers, particularly children. There are no lessons we have to learn that could possibly justify such gruesome and pointless displays.
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DOWN WITH PROGRESS? Ask most young people what they think of the Church and a likely answer is ‘irrelevant.’ They’d be amazed to discover the Church built Western civilisation.
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