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his week The Record begins its regular SUNDAY BEST f e a t u r e . I t ’s an attempt to capture people at different stages along the trajectory of life as they go to worship their maker and we want you to be the ones to provide readers of The Record with these moments. We begin this week with a photo of a dozen or so youth who organised a pilgrimage from St Bernadette’s Church in Glendalough to St Anne’s in Belmont starting at 11.15pm last Saturday night and going through until they arrived at Belmont at 7.30am the next morning. There, Chaplain Fr Michael Rowe blessed a weary but happy group of walkers. The moment was captured by photographer Nigel Cornelius, one of the participants. You can find the story and more photographs on Page 5.
While it’s true some clergy have expressed reservations about the new prayers of the Mass, they have also signalled they will support it. There’s a lot of goodwill to make this project work, Auxiliary Bishop Sproxton has told The Record BY ANTHONY BARICH
We invite you to submit your photos, new and old, of family and friends – photos that capture the meaning and spirit of SUNDAY BEST: children before, at or after Mass, couples being blessed on the anniversary of their marriage or renewing their vows, parish priests and associates, parish fetes – all the thousand and one things that make each and every Sunday so special. You don’t need to write a story. We just want to know who is in the photo and what it is about. You can send your scanned images at 300dpi or more to our designer Mat de Sousa at production@therecord. com.au.
Bishop Sproxton discusses the implementation of the new Mass in his office last week. PHOTO: MIA WUGOL
PRIESTS have a critical obligation to give catechesis during Mass on the theology behind the newly translated Missal to be used in Australian parishes by early next year, Perth Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton said. Bishop Sproxton, who heads Perth’s Archdiocesan Implementation Committee, told The Record that while most of the changes are perfectly understandable, with some “elevated language” priests must help the faithful understand the theology behind the new texts. For example, when the congregation says that Jesus Christ is “consubstantial with the Father” rather than “of one being” with the Father in the Nicene Creed, “that’s up to the Please turn to Page 12
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