OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH, ESTABLISHED 1874 Registered at the G.P O., Perth for transmission by post as a newspaper. NO. 2,312.
Society of St. Cecilia
PERTH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947.
'PHONE B 6950 Box A3 5, G.P.0 . Perth
450 Hay Street, Perth.
PRICE THREEPENCE.
Wave of Conversions in Japan
SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR. all intending members will receive Holy Communion on Sunday morning. During the Sunday morning Masses, membership cards will be distributed. These cards will be signed (giving full name and address) by intending members. They will be taken up during the enrol-
Living up to the principles of its foundation, the Society of St. Cecilia is giving a concert in His Majesty's Theatre on Sunday night, December 14, at 8.45 p.m., at which it will introduce ment on Sunday night. The When conversions were a mere from sickness and exposure as names will be entered into a speTwice as many adult Japanese a master work from the Catholic heritage of kreat music. In ad- were converted last year as in handful, this system was prac- refugees during and after hos- cial register at St. Mary's Catheciiton there will be several works 1939, and the number of persons ticable, and its obvious advant- tilities is not known. dral, and also forwarded to the under instruction is nearly five ages were not excessively costly never before heard in Perth. Probably the present Catholic central headquarters in MelMission population of Japan is about bourne. The Haydn "Imperial Mass.' times as great as it was eight in missionary time. This great work, a production years ago, states "The Catholic leaders see that it is not war- 120,000. Any Catholic man, woman or ranted under present conditions. of Haydn's best period, used to Weekly." Miscellaneous Protestant de Catholic authorities say that nominations probably have a child may become a member of Per- Among the prominent Japanbe well known years ago. the The conditions haps it has never been heard be- ese converted this year was Kat- no estimate can be made yet of total of 200,000 members. The are League. as follows: fere in a concert hall, and no suki Debuchi, former Ambassa- the Catholic population of any recent figure of 2,000,000 menmusic lover should miss hearing dor to the United States and diocese, much less of all Japan. tioned by Dr. Kagawa, prominJapanese Catholics were most- ent Japanese Protestant, was 1. By handing in their full Chris,one of the two Catholics entitled tian names and surname for o sit in the Upper House of the ly in the cities, which were near- misunderstood; it represents an enrolment. ly all heavily bombed. Many of estimate ot 'sympathisers," not Diet. Debuchi died recently during the people were dispersed. 2. By promising to spend one members. He was the recess of the Diet. Japanese non-Christians numfull hour once a month in Catholic Population. baptised in Tokyo, on June 15, adoration before the Blessed ber some 80 millions, mostly Some are still in the country Buddhists and Shintoists. by Archbishop Marella, the AposSacrament, even when It is not districts. Some have returned exposed. At St. Mary's, it is tolic Delegate. Many are only nominally atRequiem Mass for the repose to the cities, but not to their tached to Buddhism or Shintohoped that members will enof his soul was attended by Tsu- former neighbourhoods. ism. A large number of youngdeavour to come to the Holy The exact number of Catholic er Japanese have abandoned neo Matsudaira, former Imperial Hour on every first Sunday Envoy to the United States and casualties from air -raids and these religions. night, the reason being that Speakand now Great Britain, we hope to consecrate the first er of the Upper House of the Sunday of each month in a Japanese Diet. special way to Our Lord in the toA clearly discernible trend Blessed Sacrament. Hence the wards the Church is disclosed in best way of doing this is to recent statistics from Japanese receive Holy Communion on dioceses. the first Sunday morning and to come to the Holy Hour on Tokyo Outstanding. the first Sunday night. The highest total of conver943 where in Tokyo, sions is 3. By reciting an Act of Conadults were baptised last year, to the Most Blessed 77410.1 secration as against 420 in 1939. Sacrament. under (persons Catechumens instruction for Baptism) numSpiritual Benefits. bered 2,222, as aaginst 498 in The members of the People's 1939. Eucharistic League share in all (The year in each case runs the good works of the Congrefrom July 1 to the following gation of the Fathers of the June 30.) Blesed Sacrament, of the Sisters Atom -bombed Hiroshima, staffServants of the Blesed Sacraed by Japanese and German ment, of over 120,000 priests, Jesuits, shows adult baptisms members of the Priests' Eucharmultiplied by five, and catechuistic League, as also in those of mens multiplied by six, as comall the many members of their pared with 1939. DR. ('. EDGAR FORD affiliated Societies. The memKyoto, manned by Japanese bers of the People's Eucharispriests and Maryknollers, shows tic League, from the clay of it. It has all the majesty of a fourfold increase in adult baptheir enrolment, may gain a Handel and the beautiful finish tisms, and an eightfold increase Plenary Indulgence on the usual of Mozart. The soloists will in catechumens. condition on each day on which Sendai, staffed by Japanese be Lexie Burrows, Evelyn Besthey spend one hour in adoration ton, Austin Coulahan, and Sid clergy and Canadian Dominibefore the Blessed Sacrament in Lynch. The choir will number cans, reveals a three -fold either exposed or in the Taberan 11 and baptisms, crease in thirty, and the orchestra, comnacle, on the folowing Feast, plete with brass and woodwind, fold increase in catechumens. days: Christmas Day, EpipYou see, there are nearly forty of us who have never had a The following totals represent will number twenty-seven. The hany, Holy Thursday, Easter, wnich comfrom nine dioceses home Our Mummies and Daddies were killed during the war, and conductor will be the Society's now we have come out here to Australia4 director, the Rev. Father Albert plete figures are available: We know you'd the Immaculate Conception, and many others. They may also 1946* 1947 love to have one or more of us for Christmas, and if you ring 1939 Lynch. Another work to be heard for Catechumens 1975 5253 9061 Brother Dowd (MW80), or write to him at Castledare Orphan- gain a Plenary Indulgence at the point of death if they invoke 3159 age, Canington, I'm sure he'll let us come. 1092 the first time will be a Concerto Baptisms .. 1491 the Holy Name of Jesus. (*The close of the war and the Grosso for two oboes and string, P.S.: We all promise to be good, so please DO invite us. by Handel. There will also be first post-war months are -o0o-included a lovely dance, for or- eluded in the 1946 figures.) The 1947 figures prove the dechestra, "La Calinda," by Delius. "The Lark Ascending," With finite change in religious prosCarmel Burrows as Soloist. pects in Japan. The tide has This unusual work, by R. turned in favour of Christianity. Vaughan Williams, is labelled a hut it is still a tide rather than Romance for Violin and Orches- a tidal wave. tra. Church leaders point out that Of late years it has attained great popularity. Al- there has been no wholesale inin though it has been heard over discriminate intake of new conthe air, and in public with piano verts. The People's Eucharistic Comparison between the num- League will be formally estabaccompaniment, this will be the first opportunity the public will bers of those under instruction lished in St. Mary's Cathedral On Tuesday, 2nd. inst. three have had of hearing it at a con- and those baptised reveals a slow, on Sunday night. December 7 Perth girls, all ex -members of careful process of preparation (Vigil of the Immaculate Concert in its complete form. ' the Catholic Girls' Movement "Zuleika," a New Composition and sifting. at 7.30 p.m., by His Various factors have slowed ception) received the holy habit of the by C. Edgar Ford. Grace the Archbishop. down the rate of First baptisms. "Zuleika" is a Cantata on a The People's Eucharistic LeaSisters of Our Lady of Charity and greatest has heartbeen the poem by O'Shaughnessy, which gue is a pious association of Ca of the Good Shepherd of Angers. has been set to music by Dr. breaking shortage of missionary tholics who desire to spend some Priests, Brothers and Sisters. Ford, for Orchestra, Soloist, time in adoring Our Jsord in the They are Misses Judy FitzharWar -time destruction of chur and Choir. This will be its It was Blessed Sacrament. dinge, Shirley Fitzgerald and first performance at a concert. ches and schools has diminished started in Marseilles, France, in Pat Evans, in the Novitiate of The soloist will be Austin Coule- the number of convenient instruc- 1859, by Blessed Peter Eymard, tion centres. Transportation and han, and Dr. Ford himself will the Founder of the Congregation the Convent of the Good Shepdifficulties economic make it hard conduct the performance. of the Fathers of the Blessed herd, Abbotsford, Vic. The proceeds of the concert for Japanese to journey across Sacrament. It was erected into All of these young religious are for the "Daily News" Christ- cities to frequent instruction. an Archcon.fraternity by Pope mas Cheer Appeal for the OrPersonal Instruction. Leo XIII. on May 8, 1897. Its bourne, C.1. In order to cele- are well known in Perth and to phans. Admission is 2s. to all Another retarding factor has central headquarters are at the brate the occasion of the estabparts of the house, and the book- been the tradition of individual Church of San Claudio in Rome. lishment of the Eucharistic Lea- them in no small way was due ing opens at Nicholson's next instruction for each person in The headquarters for Australia gue at St. Mary's Cathedral with the foundation of "Marian Monday. Japan. are at St. Francis' Church, Mel - due solemnity, it is hoped that Lodge."
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