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Mission Report

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Remarkable Growth

of the faith in Six *Membership Increas REV. E. SULLIVAN, D.D., D.Ph., Funds by £460 who was appointed Diocesan DirecTO AID * AUSTRALIA RALLIES

WAR - STRICKEN MISSIONS

Societies (Rev. J. J. The Diocesan Director of the Pontifical Mission Aid remarkable progrets Rafferty) reports that the year 1943 has been a yeartheofHoly Childhood. The for the Societies of the Propagation of the Faith and in the financial returns, steady increase in membership, and consequently since their inception in which has characterised the growth of both Societies for the Society of the Figures the Archdiocese has been well maintained. membership of 3,840, and in Propagation of the Faith show an increate in of the Holy Childhood Society financial receipts of f461 7s. lid. Membership that every Catholic child has reached the point where we may Well claim their membership fee, the in our schools is a member. In addition to payingin the work of ransoming children of many schools take a keen interest By organising sports days, raffles, inter-class competitions, black babies. children supplement their and in other, sometimes very ingenious, waysforthethe ransom of black babies raised money 1943 In fees. membership reached the magnificent sum of £572. War and the Missions. the Church in this the fifth As we glance over the vast Mission fields of No other war in history year of war, we find cause for sorrow and for joy.fields; both because in no has caused such damage to the actual Mission and because no other other age have the Mission fields been so farto extended Africa, so many countries. war has reached out its destructive hand South Seas-all have felt either China, Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, India, the of Missions through the the heavy impact of actual warfare, or the dislocation Brothers. Hospitals, convents, internment of Missionry Priests, Nuns, and painful years, have the through schools, churches and orphanages, built up and Brothers have died at been reduced to rubble; Bishops, Priests, Nuns and young women, especially in their Mission posts; hundreds of young men listening to Gods vocation, have already hearts their Europe, of the countries or national disaster. been barred from the Mission fields by death So much has However, there is much for which we must be thankful. the fidelity of the new Christians been saved that may easily have been lost; in the fires tried has been successfully of the Near North and the South Seas destruction, in spite of disorganisation, of persecution; everywhere, in spite of God's work goes. on. Australia's Part, fallen, to a very great exUpon the shoulders of Australia's Catholics has the place of Catholic Europe in the support filling tent the responsibility of allotted share, for the duration of of the Missions of the South Seas. Our of the Faith, is the ensurPropa,;ation the of task world-wide the in war, the they are, from the pre-war sources ing that the South Sea Missions. cut off as And nobly indeed have the of support. of supply, shall not fail for lack to the occasion. Year by year more and risen Australia of people Catholic under the banner of the Society for more members band themselves together and pray for the Missions, and we may the Propagation of the Faith to work the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Perth be justly proud of the fact that to shoulder their part of the heavy rewilling and ready so found been have Pontifical Mission Aid Societies in sponsibility that has fallen upon the Australia. SIX YEARS OF PROGRESS. National Treasurer The following table of amounts sent to the. the phenomenal proof the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies indicates in the Archgress of the Societies since their formal establishment diocese six years ago 1938

£293

tor of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies upon their formal estab-

lishment in the Archdiocese in He relinquished the posi1938. tion to take up full-time military duties in March, 1940.

PONTIFICAL MISSION AID SOCIETIES-PAROCHIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 005EPARATIVE LIST FOR THE YEARS 1942 AND 1943. Parish. St. Mary's Cathedral Cathedral: £117 4s 8d (£104 8s 3d). St. Patrick's, £18 8s 4d (£21 6s 4d). St. Francis Xavier's, £11 51s 3d (i9 2s 8c1). 75 0 6 5 16 3 .. .. .. Kalgoorlie-Coolgardie 88 4 3 77 16 5 Highgate Hill .. 92 0 0 Highgate Hill-Donation 33 4 2 69 13 0 Fremantle .. 39 3 9 65 13 0 Leederville 52 0 0 59 4 2 Subiaco 14 1 6 59 2 6 West Perth 20 18 10 5 .

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