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Willetton launches Parish Prayer and festival
Western Australia’s award-winning Catholic newspaper since 1874 - Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Audience silent as Immaculée shares horror of massacre...
BY ANTHONY BARICH THE parish of Sts John and Paul in Willetton launched a new era on 26 June as it celebrated its 30th anniversary. Parish priest Fr Thai Vu concelebrated Mass with his assistant Fr Anand Reddy, Vicar General Monsignor Brian O’Loughlin and Fr Thi Lam, who spent time at the parish while a seminarian, as the parish launched its new Parish Prayer and inaugural Parish Feast Day. The Parish Feast Day is to be held each year from now on in the last weekend of June to coincide with the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul, 29 June. Last month’s celebration marked the third parish fair weekend, during which the parish’s many pastoral ministries, including Personal Advocacy Service and stewardship, are on display in the parish hall. Continued on Page 8
Cathedral architect takes out major awards BY PETER ROSENGREN
Willetton parish priest Fr Thai Vu blesses parish chlldren after the Eucharist celebrating their parish feast. The parish, which has several active pastoral groups, launched its own parish prayer, a plaque with all its priests and a festival weekend marking the feast of one of its patrons, St Paul. PHOTO: ANTHONY BARICH
Southern parish marks parish feast with evangelical vigour
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Led by Faith: Immaculée Ilibagiza, above, gave powerful testimony to the fact that “God is real,” vividly recounting how she lasted for 91 days in hiding while her Rwandan brothers and sisters were murdered. God revealed Himself to her and Immaculée revealed this to Perth Catholics, leaving something to tell. Immaculée Ilibagiza, below, with Celia Hammond, UNDA Vice Chancellor. PHOTOS: TOP, BRIDGET SPINKS; BELOW, MICHELLE EBBS
...and experience of the victory of love, forgiveness, over revenge and hatred BY MARK REIDY
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mmaculée Ilibagiza confessed to over 1,000 people at the Notre Dame University in Fremantle on 29 June that, during the first weeks of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, she would alternate her decades of the Rosary with graphic visualisations of how she would kill as many of her persecutors as possible. Speaking for the first time in Australia, as part of a nationwide tour, Immaculée mesmerised the capacity audience with her journey from bitter hatred, as she spent 91 days trapped in a
small bathroom with seven other women, to her moment of complete surrender to God, who she discovered beyond the merciless brutality that surrounded her. “I knew that I was lying to God in my heart”, she shared with a crowd that spilt into the
cold night air, “But I also knew that I wasn’t capable of forgiving on my own.” It was only when she begged God to lift her above the fear and hate that was consuming her, that she understood the depth of His love and the Continued on Page 13
SUBIACO architect Peter Quinn won three prestigious awards in June for his completion of St Mary’s Cathedral, including WA’s top architecture award. Mr Quinn won the Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture, the Architecture Award for Heritage and the George Temple Poole Award. The Poole Award is for the best overall winner across the ten categories in the Western Australia Architecture Awards given by the Australian Institute of Architects. The awards cover ten categories of architecture including divisions such as commercial, residential, small projects, etc. As a result, Mr Quinn is now eligible to enter the national architecture awards, which will be announced in October. “The Poole award in particular is a great honour, because it the highest award in WA, but also having looked at the other entries it’s made me feel very honoured, given their calibre,” he told The Record. The day after MrQuinn’s wins, the company which managed construction on the Cathedral also won an award for its work on the Cathedral. Emco, the construction managers for the Cathedral completion, won the Master Builders’ Association award for best historic restoration or renovation. Meanwhile, just metres away, Cathedral House in Victoria Square, Perth won an award in the 2010 WA Heritage awards. Cathedral House, which was built in 1855 and predates St Mary’s Cathedral by 10 years, houses Cathedral clergy and Archdiocesan offices. It has been renovated and saved for future generations over the last two years after parts of the historic building were found to be in serious decay or disrepair. Cathedral House was a joint winner of the Heritage awards for conservation and/or interpretation of a place on a State Register of Heritage Places, together with the Colwyn building in Claremont. Full report and pictures in next week’s edition
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STUDENTS AKNOWLEDGED
SEMINARIANS STUNNED
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