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Family comes 1st Notre Dame University in Fremantle set a day aside forr famil familyy and children recently. It was a smash hit. PAGES 10-11
Freo MacKillop bonanza Notre Dame to lead official Archdiocesan celebrations for Australia’s first sainthood University students seek support to host MacKillop extravaganza
Nedlands ‘Powerhouse of Prayer’ hits 75
BY ANTHONY BARICH THE University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle is planning a “Catholic Royal Show”-style festival on 17 October, the day of Blessed Mary MacKillop’s canonisation by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The Mary MacKillop Festival - to start with a Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton before proceeding in Fremantle with stalls, live bands and displays on the first Australian saint’s life on a closed-off Mouat Street - is the Archdiocese of Perth’s official event to celebrate the canonisation in Rome. The university’s Drill Hall on Mouat Street will also screen the canonisation live at 4.30pm Perth time on ABC2 as Blessed MacKillop is canonised as St Mary of the Cross, her Religious name as Mother Superior of the first Australian-founded Religious congregation. The idea was the brainchild of UNDA Nursing student and Notre Dame Student Association (NDSA) President Amy Rosario and her fellow students on the board when planning the 2010 calendar. Amy told The Record the plan is driven by a desire to break the mould of the NDSA’s reputation as a “ball and cocktails club” and to “do something meaningful”, while pushing a “student-driven” agenda that has not been present in the university’s previous major events in its short 21-year history. Continued on Page 6
Sisters: Carmelites, Sr Marie Therese and Sr Margaret Mary entered the Nedlands Carmel on 2 February 1962 and 1961 respectively. Sr Marie Therese was conscious of the monastic lifestyle, since there were Benedictine monks from New Norcia looking after her local parish at Mukinbudin. Sr Margaret Mary grew up “about a mile away” from the Nedlands Carmel, a monastery which held great mystery for her. For the full story on the Nedlands Carmel and its 75th anniversary, turn to Pages 4-5. PHOTO: BRIDGET SPINKS
‘Second opening’ of St Anne’s for Latin Mass community BY ANTHONY BARICH
A man prays at the tomb of Blessed Mary MacKillop inside the chapel dedicated to her in Sydney in 2007. Notre Dame University in Fremantle has organised aMary MacKillop Festival which will be the Archdiocese of Perth’s official event celebrating the first canonisation of an Australian Saint. PHOTO: CNS/NANCY WIECHEC
THE Traditional Latin Mass community in Perth is a sign of the unity and diversity of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Barry Hickey said. “The Church is Catholic, therefore there has always been variety in the worship of the Church,” Archbishop Hickey said after celebrating the ‘second opening’ of St Anne’s Church in Belmont on 25 July, the new home of Perth’s Traditional Latin Mass community since it moved from St John’s Pro-Cathedral in Perth city. “And while the Mass is the same, it has taken different forms. Different rites of the Church show that the Church is universal as well as one, and this is just another example of unity and diversity.”
Archbishop Hickey told the congregation in his homily that he would like the community to be like a parish - to support the priest and the upkeep of the church and liaise with the diocese just as every parish does … “though it’s not a territorial parish, but in a way it’s a personal parish - people choose to go there”, he said. He later told The Record that he wants it to be “a spiritual community of brothers and sisters who worship God, especially through the very historic and traditional ceremonies in the Church that have served her for many, many centuries”. The church - which its Rector Fr Michael Rowe said is open to all Catholics, not just those attracted to the Latin Mass – was opened after months of renovations by the Latin Mass community on 17 March,
St Patrick’s Day. Last Sunday’s Mass was a Pontifical High Mass celebrated the day before the feast of St Anne and used the texts of the Mass of St Anne, which is understood to be over 1,000 years old. St Anne was the mother of the Virgin Mary. Archbishop Hickey said that the ‘Proto’-Gospel of St James – not part of the official canon of Scripture but from which the Church derived much of its understanding of the early life of Mary – revealed that St Anne and her husband St Joachim were unable to have children, so Joachim went out into the desert to pray and Anne went to the temple. God told them to reunite as the ability to conceive had been returned, and Mary was born. Please turn to Page 7
Church of the Catacombs re-emerges
Christianity isn’t just for social workers
Soviet persecution of the Ukrainian Catholic Church was vicious but now it is forging a remarkable new presence, including a vibrant university that cares for the intellectyually disabled. PAGE 11
I SAY, I SAY: It may be easier to speak of Jesus as a social worker rather than as the Son of God - that’s the temptation when we’re afraid of the embarassment of being identified as Christian. PAGE 17
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