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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950 Seventy -Seventh Year 450 Hay Street, Perth. Box R1279, G.P.O., Perth.
Alumni of St. Charles', F. Dillon and T. O'Neill Ordained to Priesthood In the presence of a large number of the clergy and laity, the Most Rev. A. J. Gummer, Bishop of Geraldton, raised to the priesthood the Rev. F. Dillon and the Rev. T. ONeill, Dec. 2, in St.
cathedral. The Bishop, clergy, ordinands and students from St. Charles' seminary, entered and left the Nuns be Guests cathedral in processional order. Dr. Gummer was assisted by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. L. J. Goody and Of Plaza Theatre at the Very Rev. J. P. Wilkinson, C.M. The seminarians assisted Film on Holy Year throughout the long ceremony, under the direction of the Rev. Nuns, Brothers, and priests R. Kelly and the Rev. J. Mc- will be the guests of the manager of the Ambassadors Namara. theatre, Mr. Nicholls, at a priThe Rev. F. Dillon was assist- vate screening of a "March of ed by the Rev. J. Russell, and the Rev. T. O'Neill by Father Time" feature on the Holy Year. The screening will be held in McNamara. The Rt. Rev, Mgr. E..Kennedy, V.G., as archdeacon, the Plaza theatre on Saturday, THE REV. THOMAS O'NEI LL and the Rev. Frank Dillon, after Dec. 9, at 9.30 a.m., and will last called the candidates to come The Most forward for ordination. The oc- about 45 minutes. Superiors of their ordination in St. Mary's Cathedral on Saturday, Dec. 2. casional sermon was preached the various teaching orders in Rev. A. Gummer, Bishop of Geraldton, was the ordaining prelate. the metropolitan area have by the Rev. J. O'Brien. been notified and the diocesan The newly -ordained priests inspector of schools, the Rev; were foundation students of St. J.E. Bourke, hopes that a good Charles' seminary, Guildford, attendance will be present. and bring to a total of five the number of its alumni in Holy Orders. Another graduate of the seminary, the Rev. P. Quinn, will be ordained in Rome, Thursday, Dec. 21, by Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi. But the five days' trudge through the bush that followed, After the ceremony the new as they made for the Forrest priests were occupied for a River Mission, proved a still considerable time in giving their greater ordeal, and, had it not blessing to the large crowd been for the great devotion of which thronged the altar rails. the crew-all natives-to their Later in the Cathedral grounds captain, he would have perished there were proud and happy from sheer exhaustion. That family reunions and the meeting was in April 1926. of many friends. Another lugger was procured, Father Dillon offered his first thanks to the generosity of the Mass in St. Mary's church, LeeAustralian public, and Fr. Cuderville, Dec. 3, at 9 o'clock, bero continued to face the perils assisted by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. of the sea. Maloney, who later spoke of the Once again he came into the pride of the parish in having limelight in May 1932, when the one of their young men raised to German aviators-Captain Berthe priesthood. The church was tram and his mechanic Klausecrowded to the doors and many mann-made a forced landing received Holy Communion. between Wyndham and the Drysdale Mission. At 9 o'clock in Sacred Heart Church, Highgate, Father O'Neill Fr. Cubero was the first white offered his first Mass assisted This is Billie, who came man to become acquainted with the mishap and to give the by the Rev. J. Wallace. It was to Castledare Junior orlargely attended as was the signal for the search that ended phanage three years ago. He ONE OF THE LAST PHOTOS of the late so happily and with se much Benediction given by Father hails from Edinburgh, and in the evening. O'Neill sailed for Australia when Dom Cubero, O.S.B., shows the smiling heroic mis- credit to the Mission "boys" who found and rescued the lost only seven years old. He is Receptions followed the first sionary making a native child familiar with the airmen. now aged 10, but during the Masses in the respective homes It is not surprising, then, to symbol of our Redemption. three years he has been in of the newly ordained where hear that the late Fr. Cubero Australia he hasn't yet had their parents received family was one of the best known idenfriends. a holiday away from Castle_ of the Kimberleys and The humble Benedictine monk, whose name tities dare. He now appeals to not less admired. some kind Catholic person became known throughout the Commonwealth in Though hardly a strong man, to give him a holiday in a 1932 for his part in the rescue of the German avi- he never spared himself. He Picnic Reward private home during the indefatigable, and never Christmas vacation. Billie ators, Bertram and Klausemann, died at Wynd- was shrank from any sacrifice where, likes Australia, and is happy the welfare spiritual or temham, Nov. 30. Floreat Park Boys with his companions at the poral of the natives was conorphanage. He enjoys swimHe is Fulgentius Rev. Father Cubero, O.S.B. cerned. To reward the 11 altar boys ming and splashing in the Aged A keen observer, he made a only 58 years, he had spent 33 years in heroic patient of the Floreat Park parish the river, and often wins the study of the language Rev. A. Lynch will take them race to reach the pool first service of the blacks of the Drysdale River mission. and customs of the aborigines on a picnic to Lake Leschenaulwhen "a swim after school" Born in Spain in 1892, he hardships in the pursuance of and has left copious notes on tia on Monday, Dec. 11. The is announced. both. He was particularly intejoined the Benedictine Order at his vocation. There are many other boys worked hard during the a very early age and came to As skipper of the Mission lug- rested in the children with "Billies" at Castledare, and. New Norcia in 1912. Here he ger for 20 years, he met with whom he was a great favourite. Forty Hours' devotions held rethe superior is anxious that completed h i s ecclesiastical more adventures and misadFor the last eight years or cently in the parish and Father studies and was ordained priest ventures, in his many voyages so, he had suffered from mathey should have a holiday Lynch will use this occasion to by the late Archbishop Clune to Wyndham and Broome, than laria, but had constantly waved away from the institution reward them for their fidelity. can be recounted in a few lines. away all suggestions to come for a few weeks at Christ- in 1917. Thirty-six boys of the CathOnce, at. least, he came ex.- South, and it was only recently mas. Only a few months later he edral choir will participate also Catholic people willing to was on his way to the Drysdale tremely near closing the chapter that he was induced to submit in this picnic. give a child the privilege of River Mission, which is an off- of his missionary activities, to specialised medical treatment, a holiday in a private home shoot of New Norcia, and there when he was overtaken by a which, however, came too late. Father Christmas will be in He was assisted at the end by are asked to contact the he remained, with only a break severe storm in Cambridge attendance at the parish bazaar the Most Rev. 0. Raible, S.C.A., Superior of Castledare, Bro- of six months in 1930, till the Gulf on his way to Wyndham. to be held in the grounds of dashed by the The lugger, Apostolic of the KimVicar ther McGee, or the Rev. end. the Brigidine convent, Cambangry waves against a coral berley. His remains were taken Father Stinson, of the Caridge street, Friday, Dec. 11, A small but most energetic and its was a total wreck reef, by to the Drysdale River plane and will distribute toys and tholic Migration office, 62 man, and completely dedicated valuable cargo completely lost. Mission where he was laid to gifts from the Christmas tree. A St. George's terrace, BA to his life's work among skipper North Fortunately, both the rest with his fellow -labourers-large variety of stalls will be in 3338. West Aborigines, the late Fr. and his crew escaped with their Father Augustine and Father operation on this occasion. Cubero went through untold lives, though with little else. Thomas.
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