Bringing it alive
LIFE FOR ALL
The Vatican offers practical suggestions to dioceses and parishes for putting the Year of the Eucharist into practice - PAGES 8 & 9
This Sunday is World Mission Sunday - PAGES 5 & 6
THURSDAY OCTOBER 21, 2004
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Notre Dame: Anglicans hold a Synod in Fremantle. Page 3
Rosary fad: UK bishops issue leaflet in wake of trend. Page 13
The Way: How to prepare to enter the seminary. Page 10
‘Mystery of Light’ This light is needed by man's heart, says Pope Eucharistic congress closes with televised message from JPII ■ By Jason Lange
he 48th International Eucharistic Congress closed with a televised message from Pope John Paul II to a stadium in Mexico brimming with tens of thousands of the faithful. Speaking from St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on October 17, the Pope said the congress “invites us to consider the eucharistic mystery, not just in itself, but in relation to the problems of our time.” The Pope’s message called the Eucharist the “mystery of light.” “This light is needed by the heart of man, made heavy by sin, often disoriented and weary, tested by suffering of every kind,” the Pope said. “This light is needed by a world in its difficult search for a seemingly distant peace, at the beginning of a millennium that is distressed and humiliated by violence, terrorism and war,” he said.
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A nun watches the closing ceremony of the 48th International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, on October 17. Photo: CNS
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Bunbury diocese set to celebrate golden 50 years The Diocese of Bunbury is celebrating its first 50 years with several events over coming weeks. The main celebration will be the Jubilee Mass to be held on Wednesday November 10 at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Bunbury at 5.30pm. Individuals of significance throughout the Diocese have been personally invited to this special
event as a way of saying thank you for their years of gift to the faith communities and Diocese. A link with the past will also come alive when the Papal Bull from Pope Pius XII formally erecting the Diocese on November 12, 1954 is brought forward during the offertory procession. In addition, the alb first worn by Fr Bernie Dwyer, the first priest ordained in the Diocese
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of Bunbury, will also be presented. On October 31, a Rosary Rally will be held at Kojonup, where Bishop Gerard Holohan will celebrate Mass at 11am. And from November 4 to 6, Hosea House of Prayer in Dardanup, a 10-minute drive from Bunbury, will hold a weekend seminar focussing on rejuvenating spirituality. Entitled ‘New Life in God’s
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Spirit’, the seminar will commence at 5.30pm on Friday November 4, and finish at lunch on Sunday. It’s a year of celebrations. Hosea House of Prayer, a well known Western Australian retreat centre run by Sr Romanus Dee sjg, celebrates its 20th birthday this year while the Parish of Dardanup is celebrating its 150th Year. Continued on page 2
Archbishop Barry Hickey has produced this Christmas Blessing for all families involved in this year's LifeLink Christmas Appeal, with an invitation to display it in thier homes. The liturgical launch of the LifeLink Appeal for parish priests and representatives will be held at the St Therese of the Child Jesus chapel at the Pastoral Centre in Mary St, Highgate, next Wednesday night. The appeal will be promoted in parishes on the weekend of November 6-7 and the actual appeal will take place in parishes on the weekend of November 13-14.
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