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Audio series answers request from prison chaplains to engage those who cannot read
A reading for the captive Bay jail, Fr Peter Carroll, consists of 30 sessions, each of about 10 minutes’ duration. The sessions, which consist of stories and information
on Catholicism, also provide times for prayer, and are designed to help listeners understand the faith in the context of popular culture. Mrs Winters said the response so
God’s call Hearing
A n AU D I O I n T r O D U C T I O n T O T H e C AT H O l I C FA I T H Hearing God’s Call consists of 30 ten-minute sessions on 4 CDs. It can be used individually or in a small group format.
Disc 1 1. Welcome and Introduction 2. Hearing God’s Call: Models of Faith in the Old Testament 3. The Prophets: Faithful Witnesses to God 4. Stories of Call in the Gospels 5. Peter and Paul, Apostles of Jesus Christ 6. God’s Call: Saints and Heroes I 7. God’s Call: Saints and Heroes II 8. God’s Call: Saints and Heroes III
Disc 3 16. The Apostles’ Creed I 17. The Apostles’ Creed II 18. The Ten Commandments 19. The Beatitudes: Blessings from God 20. life after Death 21. The lord’s Prayer 22. Sacred Time, Sacred Space, Sacred Things
Disc 2 9. The Bible 10. The Bible and the Catholic Church 11. Praying the Bible: Lectio Divina 12. The Story of Jesus 13. One Story, Four Gospels 14. Forgiveness in action: The Story of the Prodigal Son 15. The Church in History: Always Changing, Always the Same
Disc 4 23. Sacramentality and Sacraments 24. eucharist 25. Mary, the Mother of the lord 26. The History of The rosary 27. How to Pray the rosary 28. The Prayer of the Church 29. The Church in the Modern World: Catholic Social Teaching 30. review, Summary and Invitation
Text: John Francis Collins, Projects Manager, Catholic enquiry Centre Additional Text: rev Dr Peter Malone MSC, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting Special Consultant: rev Fr Peter Carroll MSC, Prison Chaplain, long Bay, nSW recorded at Sonic Sight, north ryde, nSW. www.sonicsight.com.au Voice artist: Tim Stackpool Cover design: Mary Ferlin, Catholic Communications, Melbourne ISBn 978-1-86420-362-2
Catholic enquiry Centre PO Box 415 Crows nest nSW 1585 1300 4 FAITH (1300 432 484) info@catholicenquiry.com www.catholicenquiry.com
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Intended for those in jail, audio series will also be useful to others.
far from chaplains had been positive and there was optimism at the enquiry centre about the future of the programme. “While it has been written with prisoners in mind, it is also suitable for other audiences … such as patients in hospitals, people with an intellectual disability, individuals with a visual impairment, residents in nursing homes and parish groups concerned with outreach,” she said. Funding for the production and distribution of the resource was provided by the Bishops Conference.
God’s call
PRISONERS who cannot read can now hear about the Catholic faith with the release of a new audio series designed bring inner freedom to those in captivity. Throughout September, almost 100 copies of the CD resource Hearing God’s Call: An Audio Introduction to the Catholic Faith were distributed to every Catholic prison chaplain in Australia. The CD is the creation of the Sydney-based Catholic Enquiry Centre, an agency of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. The
centre’s director, Marita Winters, told The Record the idea for the programme came from a number of calls from prison chaplains expressing concern that there were no resources available for prisoners with low levels of literacy. “There was reading material available for people wanting to find out more about the Catholic faith,” Mrs Winter said, “but unfortunately there weren’t any alternatives for those unable to read.” The four-CD set, which was written by the centre’s projects manager, John Collins, with the input of the prison chaplain at Sydney’s Long
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Bindoon’s class stands out from the herd By Sarah Motherwell IT IS day five of the Perth Royal Show and people are trying to escape the midday heat. Screams come from Sideshow Alley and hundreds of coloured showbags brighten up the concrete alleyways. Away from the crowds, eight teenagers lie on bales of hay in a stable, swatting flies away from their faces. One is asleep in a swag next to a cow. The rest all look tired too, but they are all beaming with pride. The group are students from Catholic Agricultural College Bindoon, and for the past five days the showground’s stables have been home for them and their cattle. They have come from Bindoon, 80km north-east of Perth, as part of their college’s Cattle Club, an afterschool programme that teaches students to show and handle cattle. Graeme Maitland-Smith, dressed in moleskin trousers, cattleman’s hat and obligatory showman’s tie, proudly shows off Bulldozer, named after he kept knocking Graeme over Continued on Page 6
Students and staff from Bindoon Agricultural College with some of their prize-winning cattle at Perth’s Royal Show.
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Wanneroo leads way with online annual report By Robert Hiini IN A MOVE common in business and government but a rarity in the Catholic Church, the Wanneroo parish of St Anthony of Padua has published its parish priest’s annual general meeting report online. With all not-for-profit organisations facing demands for greater accountability and business acumen, along with the criticism often levelled at Church goups about the need for greater open-
ness and transparency, the innovative move by the parish in Perth’s northern suburbs could well inspire other parishes to adopt the same reporting approach as standard operating procedure. The annual report, which has been available on the parish website for several weeks, details happenings both large and small over the past 12 months. For parishioners and outsiders alike, the report also provides a valuable insight into the highs,
lows, trials and joys of contemporary parish life. While growth at the parish school “continues unabated”, numbers at Mass have “plateaued”, parish priest Fr John Daly reports. This is a “natural part of growth” and an opportunity to consolidate parish achievements. Fr Daly directly addresses progress implementing parish goals. “I looked at last year’s report and to my dismay my opening comments related to my hopes
of conducting a parish census and Commitment weekend,” his report says. “Obviously this hasn’t happened; however ... we are just about ready to fulfill this obligation which has been nagging at my conscience for some time.” Among the achievements notched up in the past year is the installation of new sound and projection equipment. On the human resources front, newly ordained priest Fr Mark Payton spent three months with
the parish; more recently St Anthony’s welcomed a new assistant priest in Fr Kenneth D’Souza AP, a Capuchin Franciscan priest from India. “Being parish priest of St Anthony’s is something I enjoy immensely,” Fr Daly notes in his annual report. “Certainly, there are challenges and even difficult moments to negotiate, but that is part of life’s landscape, regardless of our calling.”