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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH

NO. 3,120.

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22, 1944.

Solemn Commernoratiort How the Apostle. Brought to a Pagan .Race Christ's Teaching

SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR.

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Many a time and oft you must have consolations before his eyes were closlistened whilst others have told you of ed in death. And the spirit he himThey would have self had given them survived, in spite the life of Patrick. known it better and would have told of the tradition of moral laxity inI it better than ,and I feel it more herited from the pagan past. It has . . fitting of this occasion if instead this survived until this very day, for still morning I paid a grateful tribute to we welcome as apostles to.our shores the memory of a great man, a lovable the modern counterparts of those first man, rugged, determined, and a Saint. young neophytes, and they still bring And I am happy to be given this op- with them the love of purity and devoportunity of voicing the sentiments tion to the Mother of God that charthat must rightly fill the hearts of my aeterised the youth to whom St. Patown generation and of the Catholic rick had taught the new way of the youth of Australia. For the faith Christian life. that we are heir to is the faith of PatNor should our youth to-day, and rick. It is to him amongst all God's above all those engaged in Catholic greatest Saints we look as to our Action, forget that other doctrine so Father in Christ. We have learnt the consistently taught by Patrick and depth and the richness of Christ as which is, even 1,500 years later, the inPatrick saw with the Irish spiration of Catholic Action-the docof old, so too with us to -day, our untrine which teaches us to see Christ in of derstanding of the Christian synthesis everyone and in every thing. You reSolemn high Mass was celebrated ing still was the memory, still fresh, reis the complete because the more of on the of honour imperishable wreath call, perhaps, how Patrick enshrined in St. Mary's Cathedral at 9.30 a.m. March 17, to mark the celebration of cently decreed to the Mother of God sweet aroma of Ephesus that pervades that doctrine in lines that all of us should know; heis said to have comthe Feast of St. Patrick. The cele- in the Council of Ephesus. The whole it still. And in this Archdiocese of Perth we posed them in preparation for his vicbrant was Rev. J. P. McGillicuddy, as- Church was still rejoicing in the definidoubly was not should feel grateful for thi's that Mary the dogma Deacon tion of as Donnelly tory over Paganism. He first begs sisted by Rev. P. and Rev. H. Brennan as Sub -Deacon. only the Mother of the humanity' of beautiful Irish traditon which can be ut God and all created nature to help His Grace the Archbishop presided. Christ, but that she was the Mother of traced back through the centuries to him in his tremendous task and finally It is well to remember that, for Patrick and the months he spent in he speaks to Christ, his Lord: God. His Grace was assisted at the throne Christ, protect me to -day, by Very Rev. E. Kennedy, D.D., the great Council had pronounced its Rome on the eve of his life's mission. Adm., and Rev. Father F. Lyons, decision only a few months before this For our diocese has been consecrated Against every poison, against burning, to the Mother of God; this Cathedral, you, and to recall for scene that I wish Againstdrowning, against deathM.S.C., Chaplain to the Forces. Rev. wound,That J. P. O'Farrell was Assistant Priest. it is against the background of this too, has been consecrated to her I may receive abundant reward. Ceremonies were under the direction teaching concerning the Mother of maculate Conception; and the future apostolate of Catholic Action in which St. Mary's God, this teaching so full of dogmatic of Rev. J. J. Rafferty. Cathedral Choir, conducted by Rev. truth and of devotional and moral con- such great hope is placed is also bring- Christ with me, Christ before me, ing Christ once again to His members, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Pontiff venerable of that the sequence, music the rendered A. E. Lynch, the Mass. The occasional sermon was gave this, his last commission to the and above all to our youth, through de- Christ beneath me, Christ above me, votion to Mary. That, surely, is how Christ at my right, Christ at my left, him. preached by Rev. H. Lalor. Address- Young man kneeling before Christ in the fort, Christ in the chariot ing the large congregation, Father Strangely enough Celestine had previ- Patrick taught the truths of our faith! ously refused the permission that he That most certainly is how the Church seat, Lalor said:would have us absorb and understand Christ in the poop, And it now so confidently granted. them, so that seeng them more Christ in the heart of everyone who My Lord Archbishop, Rev. Fathers, and was that this very determined young my dear people,man should go to the little isle lying through Mary's eyes and less through thinks of me, off the coast of Britain, and minister our own we may come the better to I would recall to your minds this Christ in the mouth of everyone who understand and is the live them, the (that, as Bishop to the "Scots morning a 'scene in the City of speaks to me, So, too, we can truthfully say that Popes fifteen hundred years ago. The Irish) believing in Christ." The Holy Christ in every eye that sees me, Holy Father, Pope Celestine, was a Father bestowed on the young apostle Patrick's teaching is still alive to-day, Christ in every ear that hears me, . . . The little cere- many relics and other spiritual gifts, that it is still handed down from gensick and tired man. That is the faith that we are heir mony he was now performing was to and firefly gave him the Latin name eration to generation of the Church in Those words of Patrick might &f "PAliercius or ;;,Patritius," not a's Australia. Not that Patrick taught to! be' his last official act, for Christendom m honorary title, tfut as foreshadow- anything but the doctrine of Rome, for well have come from the lips or the would mourn his death in but a few pen of Saint Paul before him, and I nine years after death of Celeshis the of holy ing the fruitfulness d merit Yet, although the days time. Pontiff perhaps never fully realised apostolate whereby he became "pater tine, Pope Leo approved "Patrick, the can't help thinking that they had much the significance of this last commis- civium"-the father of his people. Bishop, in the Catholic Faith," and in common. At least both of them And so the conversion of a nation was no successor of St. Leo down to our had the vision of the Saints which sion that he was to give and its farreaching consequences for good, in ac- begun, begun by a giant amongst the present Holy Father has ever seen fit pierces through the wondrous pattern es, tual fact it has lived in the annuals of Saints of the ChurCh who brought to to alter or suppress that confirmation. of doctrines that Christ revealed to history as perhaps the greatest deci- a pagan people the depth and the rich- But, the youth of Ireland, too, had and sees in all their tremendous implias it which form, He those truths cation Patrick's consolation. ever been its telling Looking ness of Christ fragrant in sion in an eventful reign. of Catholicism. back over the last difficult and anxious with the sweet breath of Ephesus. And was filled with admiration for the mul- were, the very heartrealsed the true years of his pontificate, Celestine the beautiful deep devotion of Patrick titude of young men and girls who Both of them had that we bandy might well have felt a thrill of conso- to the Mother of God became so in- passed through the critical years of meaning of that phrase in our seeing so much: Christ purity of mind about with their adolescence of under religious character that into the grained lation in the knowledge God he had finally destroyed the two the Irish people that not all the per- and body inviolate, and then conse- neighbour. loveable this great, ever since And great cancerous growths that had at- secution and vicissitudes of fifteen crated their affections, as monks and tacked the Church, the Pelagian and hundred years have been able to dis- nuns, to God. As I say, it was one man preached theonlove of Christ in our Back Cover,) most profound (Continued Apostle's great of the of it. them it or rob consolfigure more But Nestorian heresies.

"Fragrant with the Breath of Ephesus" .

Devotion to the Mother of God has Characterised Irish Faith for 1500 Years

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