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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1944.
NO. 3,134.
ELLIOTT ELLIOTT
SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR.
"We solemnly dedicate the C.G.M. to thee, our Founder from on high-or rather we give back into thy beautiful hands the Movement that you first gave to us."
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Beautiful Ceremony at General Rally in- St. Mary's Cathedral His Grace the Archbishop Congratulates Leaders and Members that
love of thine be "May the spirit of our Movementa love that is like "fire on the earth."
Movement to Spread to Parishes Membership now well over 1,000 quickly and
Nor it is before time that your Moveso clearly the cardinal point in devotion to Mary herself. You ment has come to weld our Catholic We of members have set yourselves the glorious mis- girls into an army of apostles. In the presence of His Grace the Archbishop, the hundreds live in an age that has challenged the their Movement sion of diffusing throughout the length of the C.G.M. gathered in St. Mary's Cathedral, consecrated and work They Youth. of which the and breadth of the Archdiocese, and integrity to the Mother of God on Sunday last. The 'General Rally, during The Archbishop addressed the above all in the hearts of all your mem- laugh and struggle td -day in a world ceremony took place, was well attended. present. also bers, a real, intense and altogether new gone mad, in a world that has forgotgirls and many of the parents who were Kathleen devotion to Mary. For you have un- ten Christ and lust its sense of valuesAfter the Act of Consecration, the President of the C.G.M., And bouderstood the great secret of all aposto- a cynical, carnal world of unbelief. Frawley, and Vice -President, Margaret Gray, presented a magnificent from gratitude late, that the surest way of bringing in that world you have set out to bequet of flowers to the Blessed Virgin as a gesture of love and been essouls to Christ is to bring them first to come a leaven of sanity, of belief in the members. It was placed before a statue of Our Lady that had Mary. Having brought them to the Christ and in His cause, that tremenSanctuary. the in erected pecially the func Mother you leave them in safe hands, dous work of our incorporation into The Chaplain, Father Lalor, preached the occasional sermon, andby Rev. His Mystical Body through the Sacrafor in a myriad beautiful ways she will tion closed with Pontifical Benediction by His Grace, assisted She will ment of His Eucharistic Body. It is reveal to them her Son. Fathers McGillicuddy, O'Farrell and Lalor. during teach others, as she has already taught the Mother of Christ who has called The big crowd gathered afterwards in the Cathedral Hall, where, Prenyou and begs of you to "'stir the grace so many of you, to see life through her an informal afternoon teas the members were presented to Archbishop own eyes, and so to understand as only that is 'within you" through your Condivine. and Bro. Mulligan she' ever understod her Son, the Mass, firmation, the Sacrament of your priestThe Legion of Mary was represented at .the Rally by of Comitium. the Sacraments, and all the mysteries hood and of Catholic Action. her to Sister McAdam, President and Vice-President, respectively, it i» not that you have asked He revealed to us. Oh, what a mission help you in your work, but rather that radiant understanding of the secret of is yours, girls of the C.G.M.! she. has chosen you to co-operate with Ideals and Spirit of the Here in the West you have set a high Mary that animates so many of your her in her work as Dispenser of all mempers, that you could think of no example-for that we all are grateful. graces, and Co-redemptrix of the huC.G.M. more fitting expression of that grati- Your enthusiasm has been an inspira- man race. What grace Christ won for tude and devotion to Mary than to con- tion, your all -conquering faith has been its in us upon the cross is given to her to Action Catholic secrate your Movement to her, the a consolation, and this Rally to -day but the redemption and perFr it was she who proves that your leaders have won the your out in Mother of God. in Highest Form loyalty of your thousand and thirty fecting of your womanhood.has And really called into being the C.G.M.; she chosen glorious work Mary that but alone, themselves to NOT memmembers as you of one each ocwho thrilling asked has many been have There she has chosen you. in rather to the cause for which they h,r .ANn apostkv: casions for the C.G.M. over the past two bers of her Movement to co-operate has formhave prayed so much, and given so To do it more electively she years, said Father Lalor, in the course her work of dispensing the grace her and infused into Movement own ed her suffered so much! even yes, and has who much, she It ;s for us. apwon have has Son none But of his sermon. If perhaps many the growth and development of it her own spirit. proached in their spiritual significance placed so high a trust, so great and May C.G.M. continue; and may you seem not yet to have captured it, rethe or even perhaps in their merely exter- grave a responsibility on your young just begun, and, have only you That trust is the deeper soon have leaders' groups in every par- member nay success the Rally that you have shetulders. please God, time will bring the fulness Son her ish, for it is now time for the MoveChrist of love and eloquent an knowledge as afternoon this organised the great ment to begin to spread throughout of faith and devotion and generosity tribute of love and faith in the Christ that she has given you, and that she looks for from you, her chosen If and grave responsibility is the spread. the parishes of the Archdiocese. of the Eucharist, and as an expression it MUST spread, ones. MOVEMENT your in is a it homes, your in His you to about ing devotion of your gratitude and Girls, already you have responded that and now the time has come when you exquisite Mother. your Founder from offices and your playing fields magnificently to her appeal. I congratusame deeper knowledge and love of are ready to extend and build upon late you with all my heart, and in her on high. the solid deep foundations that you It is truly typical of the spirit of Christ her Son. (Continued on Page 6.) And many of you have grasped so have laid. your Movement, and of the deep and
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