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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1944.
NO. 3,140.
"EPHPHET A"
PRICE THREEPENCE.
SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR.
Be Zhou Opened!
Special Festival For Catholics Who Are Deaf What Australian Catholics Do For Afflicted Children A Work of Eminent Charity the Christian Brothers do a like serIn these Catholic vice for the boys. schools, as you would expect, the children are thoroughly instructed in the knowledge and practice of their Faith, and in addition receive a general education from teachers well versed in their difficult art. Furthermore, vocational training is given in both schools, so that on leaving school the children are enabled to obtain suitable employment. Over one hundred and twenty pupils, from every State in the Commonwealth, are at our two add in his own handwriting: "In ac- Catholic schools for the deaf. West cordance with the petition we most Australia has two representatives at lovingly bestow the Apostolic Blessing the schools. Few people realise the difficulties on the loved ones named in the memorial: we most readily grant the privil- that confront the teacher of the deaf. eges and indulgences, and we pray that One short visit to a classroom where the Lord may bestow upon all who in such instruction is going on would conany way lend their services to this vince the thoughtful observer of the work of eminent charity every pros- pathos of the situation, and would awaken anew a realisation of the powperous and salutary gift." It is clear from the words of the erful effect of grace in the soul, an saintly Pontiff that the festival was effect that depends in part on our huAnd so the mirnot merely for the purpose of consol- man co-operation. ing the Catholic deaf: it was intended acle of redemption is slowly brought as a clai,,ant call to all Catholic people about and, in a lower plane, useful into the -not merely to bishops, priests and dependent citizens are given burdens. world instead of dependent religious, but to lay men and womento help with all their power to preserve To the deaf, then, education in a Cathe faith of our Catholic deaf children tholic school means a realisation of hte and to render help to those who are Faith, such a realisation that it begrown up to avail themselves of the comes thenceforth a strength and Sacraments and otherwise lead a full guide through life. Such a full Catholic life for the CaCatholic life. It is undoubtedly true that many Ca- tholic deaf is possible only to those tholic deaf have lost their Faith be- educated in a Catholic school. EnVircause there are so few capable of in- onment plays so large a part in the structing them and of giving them education of the child that the Church adequate preparation for the reception in Australia has rightly insisted on CaIn the petition tholic schools, even though the cost of the Sacraments. mentioned above, the following signi- to the Catholic people is enormous: ficant words occur: "Would that there how much more, then, is this Catholic training necessary for the deaf child were a sufficient number of priests, nuns, and especially Brothers, to take who has missed a great deal of the intraining home childeaf fluence of Catholic of education the hand in through the very nature of his afflicdren, particularly the boys." surnot are we Consequently Happily in Australia provision does tion. exist for the education of the Catholic prised that the Hierarchy of Australia, deaf child in Catholic schools founded assembled in Plenary Council, placed by the Hierarchy for that sole purpose. among their decrees one which stressAt the Rosary Convent. Waratah, near ed the necessity of Catholic deaf chilNewcastle, the Dominican Sisters have dren attending Rosary Convent or St. Catholic education is nodevoted themselves for many years Gabriel's. to the education of deaf girls; while at where more necessary than it is for Sydney, the deaf. near Hill, Castle St. Gabriel's,
As our Catholic deaf people know, the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, which falls this year on August 13, is Sunday." The "Ephpheta named name reminds us of the incident related in the Gospel of that Sunday, wherein Our Blessed Lord used the word "Ephpheta" 'when 'He opened the ears of the man born deaf. In 1910 Pope Pius X, of saintly memory, approved of this Sunday as a special festival for the Catholic deaf of the world. In approving of the petition for this yearly festival, Pope Pius X. was moved to
Iiow can Catholic people best spend
Ephpheta Sunday in accordance with
They can the desire of the Church? first offer fervent prayer for the welfare of the Catholic deaf throughout They can give practical the world. help to this eminently Catholic apostolate by bringing the work of our Catholic schools for the deaf under the notice of those who could avail of it, or by notifying the school authorities of the address of parents of deaf children. Such parents are assured that lack of means is no obstacle to enrolment of their children. This is possible through the charity of the fa;thful, who contribute to the Ephpheta Sunday collection now taken up in many parishes for the support of the Children travelling to two schools. and from the schools members of the staff of the schools. It is very desirable that parents of deaf children contact the schools as soon as they ascertain that their child is wholly or partially deaf: in this way
the schools are enabled to assist the parents in the pre-school education of the child, a work that has a vital bearIt is likeing on the child's future. wise important for parents to know that the school education of deaf children is best commenced between the ages of five and six. Our Lord's words, "Suffer the little children to come to Me," apply with equal force to the deaf as to their Pray hearing brothers and sisters. and work that they may be enabled to do so. It is earnestly hoped that every Catholic deaf child in Australia will be helped to avail of a Catholic deaf school. That this may be so let us all join in fervent prayer on Ephpheta Sunday. "And they brought to Him one deaf and dumb." Do you wish to help educate a priest for work in Western Australia? Make a regular annual contribution to help an indigent student.
ELLIOTT ELLIOTT Opticians and Optometrists
Piccadilly Arcade, Perth JOHN ELLIOTT, Manager. EN-MAR1ST BROTHERS' STUDENT.
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