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SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR.
Excellent Results of Mission Year
Perth Report Notes Tenfold Increase in Financial Returns Increased Membership of that Propagation of the Faith Society .
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.Apostolic Delegate Addresses Meeting The twenty-five years of His Excellency's Priesthood are marked by other and greater achievements than this, no doubt; but there is gratitude to -day in the hearts of thousands of people in this country and in the Pacilc for what he has done for the Pontifical Mission Works in Australia.
In the 1943 returns for the Propagation of the Faith, Holy Childhood, the Work of St. Peter Apostle for a Native Clergy, the total sum contributed to the Missions of Australia and Overseas in six years since the Missionary Eucharistic Congress in Newcastle, in 1938, amounts to £200,000. The amount contributed through the same source in the six years immediately preceding This the Congress totalled £51,000. was revealed by the National Director of the Pontifical Works (Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hannan, D.D., Ph.D.), in the report presented to the National Council at the Annual Meeting at St. Mary's Cathedral on April 22. His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate presided at the annual meeting of the National Episcopal Committee and the National Council of the Pontifical Mission Works, at which were present the Secretary of the Committee, Most Rev. N. T. Gilroy, D.D. (Archbishop
of Sydney); Most Rev. J. Duhig, D.D. (Archbishop of Brisbane); Most Rev. E. Gleeson, D.D.(Bishop of Maitland) the Most Rev. T. B. Maguire (Bishop Present also were the of Goulburn). National Director of the iPontifical Mission Works (Rt. Rev. Monsignor James H. Hannan, D.D., Ph.Dd.); the National Treasurer (Rt. Rev. Monsignor E. O'Donnell); the National Secretary (Rev. James Murtagh. M.A.); Rt. Rev. Monsignor M. Clune, Rev. A. R. E. Thomas, Rev A. G. Tynan, members of the National Council; the Diocesan Director of Perth (Rev. J. Rafferty), and the Dioecsan Director of ;
Bathurst (Iev. E. Murphy, B.A.). Presenting the annual report, the National Director stated: ,
It is pleasing to announce a record
year at this meeting, coinciding as it does with the celebration of the Sacerdotal Silver Jubilee of His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate, to whose en energy and initiative is due the reorgani" sation of the Pontifical Works which took place at. the Newcastle Congress. The progress made has been indicated, perforce, in terms of finance; but the true picture of the advance that has been made contains much more than that. No figures are available to bring into relief the vast increase in spiritual aid for the missionary apostolate, the kindling of a bright missionary flame in the parishes and the schools of the whole nation. -
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Solid Advance. "In 1043. the Propagation of the Faith showed a gross increase of approximately £5,000 over the returns for 1942; the Holy Childhood, an increase of approximately £7,000; the Society of St. Peter Apostle remained practically the same. A remarkable feature of the result is the way in which the country dioceses not only held the position they had gained in past years, but almost all showed an advance. It is natural enough to expect that the cities with their swollen populations should provide a large field for the enrolment of members of the Propagation of the Faith and the Holy ChildThe country dioceses. however, hood. with so many men in the army, so many families moving to the cities, could well be expected to suffer a deThat the pression in thtir returns. results have been so splendid, both from the country and from the city, is a sure indication of the solid hold that the missionary cause is gaining on the Catholic people. "The Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul throughout Australia, Gran Mr. sion Groups, and other societies rendered valuable service; the Postal Mission Guild in Sydney showed a further advance in the excellent work it has been doing for a number of years both for the Propagation of the Faith and for the Society of St. Peter Apostle; in the Archdiocese of Adelaide, the special Praesidium of the Legion of Mary"Our Lady of the Missions"-earned the grateful thanks of the Diocesan Director for 'very generous and efficient service.' "Besides the usual rallies of promoters and members of the Propagation of the Faith, special celebrations to mark the Centenary of the Holy Childhood were held in fifteen dioceses. Aid from the Suffering. "Mission Sunday of the Sick was celebrated in twenty-three dioceses on Pentecost Sunday. Prayer cards were
the Faith by the. St. Vincent de Paul Conference in the Air Force units of the North-Western area." Monsignor Hannan pointed out the Propagation of the Faith must be viewed in the light of a sodality, the universal sodality of Catholics, which claims as its members Catholics of either sex, of all stations in life, of every profession, of every race and coluur. There 'Were tens of thousands of people in Australia, he said, who were reciting the daily prayers of membership of the Propagation of the Faith; there is quite a considerable number of parishes where the Propagation of the Faith is functioning as a sodality. For the most part, however, the Propagation of the Faith is a strictly private For example, corporate comaffair. munions of the members as envisaged by the Superior Council, on the days set aside for the gaining of Plenary Indulgences, are practically unknown in this country. The building up of a sodality spirit seems to be the immediate problem facing the Propagation of the Faith in Australia. RT, RSV. MONSIGNOR Holy Childhood. The nett returns from the Holy ChildBMUS, D.D. hood for 1943 were £15,771, which sum issued by the National Office, carrying is available for distribution to the MisThis sum the official prayer to be recited by the sions of the Pacific area. sick persons, in offering up their suf- shows an increase of £6,845 over the remarkable a really accordance 1942, in in Missions, sum raised the ferings for with the intentions of the Holy Father. result. In fact, financial returns for Through the parish priests, parish so- the Holy Childhood in the year 1943 dalities, the staffs of Catholic hospi- were considerably more than twice the tals, the promoters of the Propagation total amount raised by the same Pontifical Work in the whole six years perof the Faith these cards were distributed to the sick, 6,764 persons participat- iod before the Eucharistic Congress at Newcastle. celebration. ing in the The year 1943 marked the Centenary Propagation of the Faith. of the Holy Childhood, and all school Propagafor the "The nett returns children in Australia were invited to In all dition of the Faith for the year 1943 are take part in its celebration. rections issued with regard to the Cen£35,976, of which 111,992 are available Mistenary, in all publicity coming from for distribution to the Aboriginal sions and the Australian Home Mis- the National Office, it was stressed, the Pacific over and over again, that the aim was sions, and £23,984 for Islands. Of the total amount contri- to make the celebration of the Centenmembership ary a spiritual one. No special camrepresent buted, £34,685 subscriptions to the Propagation of the paign for funds was initiated from headquarters, no arrangements made The large in"At the end of January, 1944, there for special collections. were 302,354 members of the Propaga- crease in donations was, therefore, the tion of the Faith in Australia, repre- spontapeous effort of the children and senting an increase in membership over of their teachers. To mark the Centhe previous year of 35,206. The pre- tenary, special High Masses, attended sent membership enrolment represents by children from the Catrolic schools, were celebrated in fifteen of the dio31 per cent. of the whole Catholic adult ceses of Australia. population of Australia. "In the returns of 1943 there are a The Work of St. Peter Apostle. considerable number of membership The nett result for the Society of St. subscriptions from members of the armed forces. Some of these were en- Peter Apostle for the education of narolled by the initiative of chaplains in tive priests, during 1943, was f1,257, the the various camps; others, more satis- showing a decrease of f74Theonamount factory still, by the initiative of the amount realised in 1942. men themselves, as is exemplified by collected represents voluntary contri(Continued on Page 13.) the work done for the Propagation of
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