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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
*15,000 Children Take Part in Centenary Mass Cardinal Spellman, of New York, celebrated his 59th birthday on Tues lay, the day he presided at the Children's Mass. He sold newspapers and worked as a bus creiductor before entering the priesthood, and was the I,r;t Catholic bishop to gain a pilot's licence. Best-selling author sed poet, as well as celebraced preacher, Cardinal Spellman is one of the Pope's influential advisers.
Fifteen thousand school children packed the Exhibition Building on Tuesday for one of the most spectacular ceremonies of the Melbourne Catholic Centenary celebrationsthe Children's Mass. The Cardinals and all the vis- (Bishop Grimshaw, of Plymouth) iting Church dignitaries were told the children. there in their colourful robes, 'Yours is a very serious rewith Cardinal Spellman presid- sponsibility. May God give you ing The Coadjutor Archbishop the grace, courage and strength of Melbourne (Dr. Simonds) cele- to look to it all your life-time." brated the Mass, wth the children Bishop Grimshaw said that if as active participants. English boys and girls could have been present at to -day's In remarkable unison they ceremony, they would have been chanted the Mass in medieval proud to reflect that two early plainsong, with three priests pioneers of the Church in Melconducting them on the cue of bourne were Englishmen-Dr.
His Eminence, Cardinal Spellman, preaches from the pulpit of St. Patrick's.
Former Migrant Married NUPTIAL MASS AT BINDOON
Cardinale Spellman and Gilroy enthroned in the Sanctuary St. Patrick's Cathedral Melbourne.
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the Director of Music (Dr. Percy ilathorne and Dr. Polding. Dr. J ones1. Ullathorne later returned to EngDin Stilled. land. but Dr. Polding stayed en Before the prelates assemble Victoria to become one of its in the pews grouped around the first bishops. decorated altar facing the northCommenting on this remarkern door, and Cardnal Spellman able demonstraton of Faith, Carand Cardinal Gilroy took their dinal Gilroy said that it "capped places on the red and white everything we have ever seen. thrones, the din from the excited It was such a demonstration of children was terrific. Faith as to inspire the rest of A few minutes before Dr. Australia." Our sentiments should be 01 Simonds arrived, carrying the Blessed Sacrament, Dr. Jones gratitude for the great gift of mounted the pulpit and explain- our Catholic Faith. A young man who came to senting Clontarf, Castledare, and Great demonstrations such as ed that the Exhibition was to be from England in 1938, Fremantle C.B.C. Gifts were transformed into a church for the these tended sometimes to make Tardun under the scheme sent from all the Communities of migration us forget that they are due mainnext 60 or 70 minutes. sponsored Broby the Christian the Brothers in State. the the "hidden and unrecognisThere was a hush. For the ly to daily drudgery of the parochial thers, was married with Nuptial boys' choir sang during next hour it was broken only by ed Mass in the School Chapel at theTheMass. clergy," who year day after day, the chanting of the celebrant and after year, in the parish visita- Bindoon on April 17 Brother Keaney, Superior at the responses of the children. tion-knocking on doors and He is Robert Murray, aged 22, Bindoon, arranged a reception for They were drawn from metro- sometimes being rebuffed-carry and the bride was Gladys Muriel the couple at St. Joseph's Farm politan schools and were taken the word of God into the homes Glover, of Mooliabeenie, who was and Trade School, Bindoon. recently received into the Church. Speeches to the Exhibition n buses, dis- of the people. were made by Brother of the persing amid cheers after the An actual photograph His Eminence Cardinal Spell. The ceremony was performed Keeney, Father Wilfred, and the famous statue of Our Lady at announcement that they had been rnan said that it was a demon- by the Very Rev. Father Wilfred, bridegroom. St. Mary's Church, Heaton Nor- granted holidays for the rest of stration firstly of Faith, and sec- O.S.B., Prior of the New Norcia Mr. Murray will take his bride ondly of love for their dearly be- Abbey. ris, Stockport, England, with a the week. to his °win property at Bindoon, Blind and crippled children had loved Archbishop. coronet of 22 golden roses which Ruby The bridesmaid was Miss where he is farming 150 acres. was placed on the statue by a special seats below the prelates As in Sydney, the most unfor- Glover, sister of the bride, and Their house is the original homelittle child in May, 1947. They on the dais. gettable sight, the most heart. the best man was David Gatfield. stead of the Musk family. He are still as fresh as when placed "It is to you that we, who are cuing spectacle was the welcome Members of the bride's family is the first young man to be setupon the statue, and the shrine grown to mature age, lobk-so afforded by the children-the and friends in the district attend- tled at Bindoon on his own land has attracted thousands of pil- that the mistakes we have made pride and hope of the Church in ed the ceremony, and there were under the Christian Brothers' will be recognised," the preacher Australia. grims in recent months. also Christian Brothers repre- agricultural scheme.