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wanted Notre Dame South Perth couple follow Salvado an ‘Indigenous faith’ in their footsteps invites all to Open Day
Former Abbot of New Norcia, Bernard Rooney OSB, gives hands-on insight into his ministry to Indigenous at a Catholic Social Justice Council meeting
INSPIRED by the overwhelming success of the Mary MacKillop Festival held in 2010, Notre Dame is opening its doors once again for its inaugural Open Day Festival on Sunday, 31July. Whether you are a prospective student, parent, researcher, former staff member or student, community member, family or group, or just someone curious about how much Notre Dame has grown, this is a chance to come and experience what makes The University of Notre Dame Australia so unique.
BY TERRY QUINN Catholic Social Justice Council
BY MGR BRIAN O’LOUGHLIN Vicar General All will be welcome at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Open Day on 31 July. PHOTO: COURTESY UNDA
The streets will come alive with music and entertainment including a kids’ corner, animal farm, rock climbing and lots of delicious food on offer. Along with Campus tours offered every Please turn to Page 2
THERE were extra family ties when Lisa Murray-Smith and Garth Brooks married at St Columba’s Church, South Perth recently. Lisa’s uncle, Fr Ted Miller
celebrated the nuptial Mass. When he opened the marriage register he discovered Lisa’s brother Colin and his wife Fiona were the first couple recorded in the leather bound volume. Fiona, who was Lisa’s matron of honour, and Colin
had married at the same church almost eight years earlier. Lisa, of Yangebup parish, is a teacher at St Emilie’s Catholic Primary School in Canning Vale. She married Garth Brooks, of Eden Hill, on 16 July.
Archivists to come to grips with new Parish software BY PETER ROSENGREN
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The first five people to send their name, address and telephone number to The Record will win a double-pass to see Rossini’s Stabat Mater performed by WAAPA at St Joseph’s in Subiaco. Address your envelope to ‘Rossini’ at: PO Box 3075, Adelaide Tce, Perth, WA 6832.
17-page booklet especially for parish archivists which gives a step by AN AFTERNOON for Parish step guide to using the software,” archivists will be held on 27 August she told The Record. to introduce a new software proOn the day, we will be demongramme written espestrating that. There will cially for those who also be a visit to the archive parish docuArchdiocesan archives; ments and records. and acid-free archival The afternoon sesmaterials will be on sion, running from 1.45sale for those who need 4.45pm, will be held at them,” she said. A guide to sacrathe Pastoral Centre of mental record keeping Our Lady of the Missions at 40A Mary Street in would also be launched, Highgate. she said. “We want Archdiocesan everyone to know how Archivist Sr Frances to use it – and to use it,” Sr Frances Stibi Stibi PBVM told The she told The Record. Record the Archdiocesan Those wishing to Archives had received a grant from attend should RSVP to Sr Frances LotteryWest to develop a small on 9228 8020 by 22 August. database programme enabling parThere will be a charge of $20 ish archivists to put parish collec- to cover afternoon tea and related tions on computer. expenses. The archives house extant This would greatly assist gain- records and artefacts from the earliing access to materials in par- est period of the Catholic Church ish archives. “We have written a in Perth.
The inspiration for retired Abbot of New Norcia, Bernard Rooney’s work was the forward-looking methods of Bishop Salvado working with the local people in the 1840s. Salvado’s missionary methods were “born of a determination to respect and understand the culture of the Aboriginal people” Abbot Rooney said. “Bishop Salvado believed the Catholic faith should be Bishop Rosendo Salvado built on the cultural conditions and understandings of the indigenous people themselves. As history has shown, Salvado’s ideas were to bear fruit.” Abbott Bernard began by reflecting on the influence of Darwinian evolutionary theory on missionary perspectives and policies with the Catholic Church. This perspective underpinned the words addressed by Pope Gregory XVI to Doms Salvado and Serra on the eve of their embarkation for Western Australia on 5 June, 1845. ‘Civilise and Christianise’ was the directive issued by His Holiness. But, Abbot Bernard asked, how was this to be interpreted? Should Indigenous cultures be set aside and replaced by the Christian cultures of England and Europe? In many missions such policies had proven disastrous. The mission to be established in Western Australia by the banks of the Moore River in 1846 was to prove Rosendo Salvado to be a man well ahead of his time. Salvado believed that conversion of his people to the Christian faith, as indeed their so-called ‘civilisation’, should begin within their cultural community, not simply as a system of belief and practice imposed from the outside. Please turn to Page 4 Brady’s modern day conversions Pages 4 & 5