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with pleasure that I commend this Easter number of "The Record." It has been the custom for some years now to produce an issue commemorative of the Birth of Our Lord, and it is only fitting that the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ should be also brought more prominently before the minds of the T is
faithful.
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1942
Registered at the G.P.O., Perth for transmission by post as a newspaper
To -day, our thoughts are overshadowed by the terrible ordeal of war, and no one can measure the hazards of the months that lie ahead. It is for Catholics, then, by their quiet courage and their way of life, to set an example to the community at large. For it is only by an intensification of the Christian outlook and way of life that our courage and determination to survive can be adequately sustained and the many spiritual excesses of to -day mitigated and repaired. I beg of the Catholic people greater devotion to the Mass, and even daily Mass, to the reception of the Sacraments, to prayer, to hard sustained work and to the self-denial expected of us all. For in these uncertain times, let us not forget that only through union with Christ in all our endeavours shall we attain to that newness and fulness of life, to give us which He came and died and rose again from the dead. And maybe, in the inscrutable ways of God our nation, tested and tempered in the rigours of war and uniting its baptism of blood with the Passion of Christ may be found worthy to rise with Him to a new and fuller life, both in time and eternity.
Devotedly yours in Christ,
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