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Sisters of Saint Benedict Pope Looks Forward to Peaceful Come to Bindoon
Uses of Atomic Energy
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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
Million Pilgrims
Expected for 1950 Holy Year in Rome
His Holiness the Pope, ad"What catastrophe must huWednesday, 14th. inst, was thing you didn't know. So ie% dressing the Pontifical Academy manity await from a future conMore than a million pilgrims the occasion of great excitement me tell you in the simplest woros of Sciences on the inauguration flict, if it is shown iimpossible to at Boys' Town, Bindoon. It was what this devotion is. You of its twelfth year, called for halt or curb the use of always are expected to visit Rome durpacific use ing of atomic new and the Holy Year of 1950, as energy. always more surprising a really big occasion. In the know what we mean when we Scientists from several nations, scientific inventions," he asked. against approximately 800,000 in words of Brother Keeney, "it was say that a boy is devoted to his Passage to New Learnings. the last Holy Year, in 1925, says the greatest day Bindoon had yet work, to his lessons, to his including Ireland, U.S.A., Italy/ Briefly outlining discoveries a C.I.P. message from Rome. seen." It was so because the mother. Now devotion to St. Austria, Belgium and Portugal, listened that have led to the atomic to his delivered address, Sisters of Saint Benedict, from Joseph means being "devoted" A special committee for the bomb, the Pontiff said that "The preparations has been establishNew Norcia, were installed at to him, like those boys we men- in the Consistorial Hall. The Holy Father recalled his result of these marvellous inves- ed and will soon open offices on Boys' Town. And Brother Kea- tioned. Devotion means being ney's words were the true and devoted; it means liking the address to the same body on tigations does not represent so Via Veneto under the direction of sincere expression of his big- work or the thing or the perdon February 21, 1943, when he re- much a conclusion as the passage its Vice -President, Dr. Domenhearted appreciation and of the you are devoted to. It means ferred to writings of the late to new learnings and the begin- ico Francini, who is also Execureal worth of the Benedictine more. It means trying to be physicist, Max Planck, on the ning of what has been called the tive Director of the Permanent Sisters, both in themselves and like that person. It also means possible uses of atomic energy 'atomic era.' Until recently the Vatican Office for Pilgrimages to science Rome. in relation to the new work they liking the things he liked. Re- that he said "has become a real- Pontiff said, chemical have so nobly undertaken. Their member this, because you do be- ity and has had its application and technique concentrated on The committee has expressed in the construction of the atomic analysis of the molecule, now it the opinion that in 1950 there will long record of economy, effici- come like the things or persons bomb." concentrates on the atom and its ency, wholeheatted devotedness --ou like. Now what did St. be fewer pilgrims from European Future Wars. nucleus. This the Pontiff de- countries than in 1925, and parand motherly solicitude at St. Joseph like? He loved Jesus He could not abstain from ex- scribed as "a marvellous con- ticularly few from beyond the Joseph's Orphanage, New Nor- and Mary and became like them. cia, augurs most happily for the He loved hard \Pork, and became pressing "a thought that weighs quest of human intellect, that "iron curtain," but that there will constantly on our spirit as upon studies and investigates the laws he a great many more from that of so many men who have of nature, bringing humanity North and South America than a true sense of humanity." with it through new roads. May on any previous occasion. If wars of the past deserved it give more noble conceptions." so severe a criticism as that givThe Pontiff then proceeded to on them by St. Augustine, "With a consideration of natural laws, what voice," asked the Pontiff, which, he said, fill scientists with in "should we now judge those that enthusiasm, "but also with huhave struck our generations and mility," because of inabilities to )ent to the service of their works penetrate and exhaust "the riches of destruction and extermination of the conception of the Divine a technique incomparably msre construction and the laws and Partial use of the French lanadvanced?" guage in the administration of rules which govern it" the Sacraments of Baptism, Extreme Unction and Matrimony, and at funerals has been authorised by His Holiness Pope Pius , according to a letter from His Eminence Clement Cardinal Nicara, Prefect of the Sacred Lourdes. Congregation of Rites, to His Eminence Celestine Emmanuel Hope that the United States Cardinal Suhard, Archbishop of wid take the lead, ''as it has in Paris. all else," in the penance and deThe Sisters of St. Benedict outside their newly completed the Papal authorisation was votion to the Blessed Virgin, Convent. granted following submission by which she asked in the Lourdes Cardinal Suhara, in the name of and Fatima apparitions, was ex!he French Hierarchy, of a prosuccess of their new labour at like it, strong m body and strong pressed by 20 -years -old Franjected new ritual in Latin and I use the word in soul and mind and will. This cois Soubirous, grand -nephew of Boys' Town. French. "labour" advisedly. All begin- is what 1 want you to remember St Bernadette Soubirous, of This ritual was patterned after nings are laborious, yes, painful, most of all. Love your work Lourdes, who has arrived in the similar ones that had already and stamped deeply with the sign and you will become healthy in ted States. been authorised for certain parts of the Cross. But labour is body and strong in soul. Half Mr. Sourbirous, who has lived of Europe. their glorious inheritance from the trouble in Australia comes .all his life in the house next to In his petition, Cardinal Su their Holy Father, St. Benedict; from men loving not work but the one occupied by St. Bernahard cited present circumstances and all their toil and hardship, iiioney. dette and her family at the time and the desire to foster underall their trials and difficulties I spoke in the beginning of the of the apparitions, related the standing on the part of the faithwill be a labour of love, which, sappy circumstances of to -day story of the cure of Louis Garful, and it is this new ritual we trust, will be sweetened for and the way the Sisters have gan. It had been told to him by which has now received Papal them by their untiring devotion come to you. Welcome them. is grandmother, who had marapproval. to St. Joseph and St. Benedict, Take them to your hearts. They ried Jean Marie Soubirous, broThe new ritual contains the will be mothers to you. Be gen- ther of the saint. the great Apostles of Work. complete Latin texts and, in parSix of the Sisters travelled by tle children ,and gentlemen to Louis Gargan, he said, was a allel columns, the French transFive of the Bindoon. them. Always car to pray for them railway worker, an agnostic who lations of those parts for whin. Benedictine Fathers were also that Our Lord and His Mother jeered at Catholics, ridiculed the use of the vernacular has been present. Very Rev. Father Prior Mary and your great Patron may grotto of the miracles and laughpermitted. The strengthen and console them in ed at the idea of the Blessed Mass. celebrated High boys sang a Gregorian Mass with all their labour of love. Always Mother. One day an accident much credit to themselves and do your utmost to make them the unwearying efforts of &o- happy as they deserve.'' The FatheaS After High Mass the Fathers appreciation of the Benedictine ther Macdonald. and Sisters went to inspect the Sisters, he might seem a turnsang the Proper of the Mass. After the Gospel, Rev. Father Convent. Although not yet coat; but he didn't nand being ST. BERNADETTE. FIRST SUNDAY IN MAY. Jerome Docherty, O.S.B., ad- completed, and many additions one in favour of St. Scnolastica. dressed the boys. He said their still have to be made, everybody He begged the boys to treat the occurred within a mile freest The annual procession in hongathering was a most happy one, was pleased and surprised at the Sisters as their mothers, and do Lourdes. Louis Gargan's chest our of Our Lady of the May will and for two reasons. Firstly, appointments. For the present all in their power to make trem was smashed between the cars he held at St. Columba's Church, it was the beautiful Feast of only two of the Sisters have happy. In concluding, he Kau of two trains. Count De Beau - Forrest Street, South Perth, on their great Patron. Secondly, taken up their quarters, with that if he were to speak for lays champs, a Belgian former diplo- the first Sunday in May, at 3 p.m. they were welcoming the Sis- three well -trained native girls he could not express one half of mat, who still lives in Lourdes, One of the Jesuit Fathers will ters of St. Benedict, who were from New Norcia. the appreciation and gratitude he served them as now as a volun- preach. coming to them from St. JosThe rest of the morning was sincerely felt. tary stretcher-bearer, carrying The Children of Mary invite eph's, New Norcia, to St. Jos- spent in meeting the Brothers Father Prior seconded his re- incapacitated pilgrims to the the members of parish sodalities eph's, Bindoon, and on St. Jos. and the boys. The time passed marks and exhorted the boys to grotto. The Count hurried the to march with them that day, and eph's own day. This was suffi- very pleasantly till lunch was make the best of the great op- dying Louis Gargan to the pool, later to be their guests at aftercient to suggest many thoughts served. At 2.30 the boys treat- portunity of a Catholic educa- and prayed to the Blessed Vir- noon tea. The cadets from of love and gratitude; but the ed us to a concert. We enjoyed tion under the Brothers and Sis- gin to heal the agnostic. Then Aquinas College will form the occasion demanded a word con- hearing the English !eddies sing- ters. the Count taught Louis the guard of honour. cerning devotion to St. Josepn. ing" "The British Grenadiers. Brother O'Sullivan then rose words of a short prayer, and lift "If I vtsere to tell you that such The Irish boys sang "Songs my and called for three cheers for ed him into the water," Mr. Sougrandmother said he was 80. devotion was not necessary, and Mother Taught Me." The Scstch the Sisters. Such a hearty rerelated. "The cure was During the war he went away, that St. Joseph would not bb boys warbled "The Bluebells of sponse I have never heard in my birous instantaneous." and we have never heard of him jealous of our devotion to Mary, Scotland." life. These poor boys felt and Louis Gargan became a devout you would be shocked. But I Brother Keaney thanked Father meant it. Their beaming faces Catholic, Mr. Soubirous continu- since." Mr. Soubirous said every blood didn't say that. On the other Prior and welcomed the Sisters and bright eyes told that more ed. He lived in Lourdes until relation of St. Bernadette who hand, if I said: 'You must have in very appropriate wards, and forcefully than their ringing the war, and often called on his has died since her death, has died devotion to St. Joseph,' you said that it was the greases; nay cheers. grandmother. "He was a very in February-the first month of would ask me to tell you some - Bindoon had yet seen. In ass Advance Bindoon! old man," he continued. "My the apparitions.
French Used Sacraments
A Relative of Bernadette Talked
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South Perth Procession
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