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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951 .
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Seventy -Seventh Year
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Teachers Will Confer, Jan. 25-26; Mgr. McMahon Tells Summer School Catholic High Mass of Gratitude Will Open Sessions conference of Catholic teachers will of Need of Prayer in Today's Crisis held TheThursday and Friday, Jan. 25 and 26. The for all teachers will held at the Chrisbe
on sum- sessions
be G. K. Chesterton At the recently concluded Summer School, cause. marised the life of St. Francis tian Brothers' theatrette, and for groups at Victoria Education Adult by the University at the Assisi of that by saying Francis conducted
Square convent. a lover of God. board, the Rt. Rev. Mgr. J. T. McMahon, together wasAnda lover, On Friday morning at 10.30, the means to love and with the Rev. J. Bryant, spoke on the theme serve God is prayer, that is, in St. Mary's Cathedral, there a precis daily, we speaking to God that "Religion in this time of Crisis." We print will be a Jubilee Mass for reli- Father O'Farrell Is may know Him better. Know- gious teachers, to offer gratiof Monsignor's remarks below:ing Him will increase our love
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Mother Within each one of us there that is unnecessary for him or of Him, and that love will tude for the Catholic educational Bereaved contrary to 'is nature or posi- propel us to do His Will in all contribution to Australia's develWord has been received from opment in the past 50 years. Ireland of the death there on fect of the sin of Adam and tively harmful to his soul. An- things. Eve. Our inheritance from the xiety increases in direct ratio The preacher will be the Rt. Tuesday, Jan. 15, of Mrs. O'FarFall is a darkness of the intel- and proportion as man departs No Spiritual Growth Rev. Mgr. J. T. McMahon, rell, mother of the Rev. J. P. lect, a weakening of the will, from God. Strange as it may Possible Without Prayer D.P10., M.A., H.Dip.Ed. O'Farrell, secretary to His Grace and a strong inclination to evil. sound every person is called to Prayer is absolutely essential, the Archbishop. The head houses of the differWithin each of us there are two be a saint, that is, to a holiness without it there is no spiritual Mrs. O'Farrell became seriousforces, the downward pull of within himself. The alternative progress, no growth within. ent teaching communities will be ly ill in November of last year, the Old Adam, and the aspir- to sanctity is sin, and sin is a Character can be built only by circularised concerning the full and Father O'Farrell left by air ing to spiritual heights. Each double cheat, for it never gives the inward dweller. The inside programme. After the Mass on for Ireland. He had the conday man faces a cross-roads what it promises, and it depri- is more important than the outsolation of being at his mother's where he must make a decision. ves us of what is destined for side and without prayer the in- Friday, only post primary teach- death -bed. ers will be engaged in conferShall he surrender to the weak- us hereafter. side is spiritually unhealthy. To Father O'Farrell and other ness of his own nature, or shall A Man Cannot Convert I met a priest in the U.S.A. ence, and the conference will members of the family, "The Rehe say and act 'no' to its prompcord" extends sincere sympathy. year whose sole aim in life end at 12 noon. Himself by Logic Alone last tings. is to persuade people, especially The practical question is how families to pray together daily. One whole book of the Old Testament, the Book of Job, can you and I resolve the crisis His slogan: "The family that concerns itself with that inner within us and bring peace to prays together stays together" Jubilee of Christian Brothers, Fremantle, crisis within the soul of man. our souls? The intellect alone has captured the imagination Job declares that life is a war- cannot answer that question. of the American people. On the fare. St. Paul also writes about Cardinal Newman, who was an air, on the screen, and in illuBe Observed by High Mass, Dinner the two forces within him pul- intellectual of the first order, minated hoardings, he has sent A large number of Old Boys and friends of ling against each other. St. Au- assures us that man cannot con- this challenge into the homes gustine in his "Confessions" vert himself, make himself over of America, unless you pray to- the Christian Brothers are planning to attend the tells of the long struggle of the into a better person by logic gether you cannot stay together. functions which have been arranged to celebrate clinging clay which impeded his alone. In a memorable passage To his scoffers he says: flight to God. The saints are the in his "Idea of a University" who use prayer purge the silver jubilee of the Brothers' educational acgreat ones of this world be- he writes: "Quarry the granite Those minds of grudges, resent- tivities in Fremantle, said Mr. W. J. Hughes, presicause they have mastered them- rock with razors or moor the their vessel with a thread of silk, ments, hatreds and fears, and dent of the jubilee committee. selves. insure for themselves peace at a then may you hope with the so Every person stands High Mass will be celebrated offered for the repose of the of the of mind and that mental health instrument cross-roads, the one leading to delicate we call sanity, Prayer, and in St. Patrick's Church, Fre- souls of the Christian Brothers, God and the other away from human intellect to curb those prayer alone, can create pea- mantle, on. Jan. 28 at 10.30 in Old Boys and benefactors of the Him. The will must choose. In giants, the passion and the ceful, sane, and happy aworld, thanksgiving for the 'graces re- college who have passed to their the inner life there are no pride of man." which families ceived during the past fifty eternal reward. A special effort in stay together Life must have a purpose, an plains, we are either going up years. A Requiem Mass will be will be made for the Annual hill slowly and steadily, or over-mastering aim. Why was because they pray together. Communion and Breakfast to and I born? For what do I live? down quickly coming be held later in the year. Why did God create me? In the easily. An Old Boys' dinner will be opening page of the text book Father Hart, Visiting Dominican from USA, held at the College on Tuesday, Peace of Soul Can Be on religion, the Catechism, 30. Jan. The Jubilee ball will which we use in our schools, is Had With God's Help. be held at a date to be fixed. Monsignor Fulton Sheen has the answer which gives the true Address Holy Rally First Name Old Boys are exhorted to written a remarkable book, philosophy of life. The answer rise to the occasion and make On Sunday, Jan. 21, St. Mary's Cathedral all these functions worthy of "Peace of Soul". The opening is: "God created me to know, to his thesis: sentence states will be the venue for the first annual rally of the the jubilee. "Unless souls are saved nothing love, and to serve Him here on invitation is also extended The Archbishop will preside to An is saved; there can be no world earth that I may see and enjoy Holy Name Society. donate towards the Scholarpeace unless there is soul Him for ever in heaven." ship Fund. The aim is £2,000. at 7.30 p.m. peace." Nothing happens in the Love of God Follows In appreciation of the work of Following the visit of the Rev. external world which has not the Brothers, the Old Boys juis McEvoy, O.P., last year, it V. of Him A Knowledge Upon within a foul. first happened bilee committee expect the reDominican Priest With Double quest to be responded to in a man who is not at peace with The first step, to know God, hoped to have a himself will not be at peace is an easy one. The second, to priest at each year's rally. spirit of generosity. with his brother. No divided love Him, is a cross-roads. This year, the Rev. J. L. Hart, personality is happy. The con- Every human being must love Doctorate Returns fused man is always sad and someone, or something, or go O.P., who is on loan to his Order becomes his own worst enemy. crazy, because no one is suf- from the United States, will The Rev. Cornelius B. Keogh, Australia May See having completed a brilleant Peace of soul cannot come ficient for himself. Direct love preach at the rally. from man himself any more towards God and peace follows, course in Rome and Louvain is Father Hart is visiting the than man can lift himself by his turn it from God and the heart various communities of Domini- en route home on the Esperance Photo Exhibition of foundation own ears. Help must come from becomes a broken Bay which is expected to dock without and it must not be me- where tears fall "from the sigh- can Sisters in the State. at Fremantle on Tuesday, Ireland's Culture rely human help but Divine. ful branches of the mind." The Jan. 23. DUBLIN, Jan. 5 (NC.) Modern man has locked him- third step, to serve God, should Father Keogh was on outsExhibition of Ireself in the prison of his own follow joyfully from the love of tanding pupil of the Christian Photographic one of a series prepared land, mind and only God can let him God, but other interests distract Priests From East N.S.W. Lewisham, at Brothers Cultural Relations out, as He let Peter out of his us. St. Paul's zeal and missioWinning a Government Exhibi- by the nary labours were possible bedungeon. tion, he commenced his priestly Committee for showing in and Europe, Australia America, Anxiety stems fundamentally cause he concentrated his love Holiday in West studies at Springwood. has opened at the National Colfrom irregulated desires, from upon Christ. He was serving a Rome to he went In 1939 spreading a rather than the creature wanting something Person Quite a number of Eastern where he read theology to- lege of Art here. It consists of than 200 photographs coStates priests are spending their gether with several priests of more vering a cross section of every vacation in this State. Among the archdiocese, Ordained in aspect of Irish life and culture. th4rn is the Rev. Francis Lloyd, 1945, he secured the doctorate Father Depiazzi Explains the Purpose Included among the exhibits parish priest of Lidcombe, of theology the following year. are some specimen pages from to Louvain the new Swiss reproduction of He then went N.S.W. Father Lloyd is the Of Library Lectures; Helpful to Catholics guest of the Sisters of St. John where specialised researches in the famous Book of Kells, the philosophy gained him the doc- beautifully illuminated manustorate. Father Keogh will work cript dating back to about the Announcing the opening of the first series of of God at "Mon Repos". The Rev. L. Moran, master of in the Sydney archdiocese. year 800 and containing the talks on the Catholic religion for those not of the ceremonies at St. Patrick's four Gospels and other texts. It Faith, the Rev. J. Depiazzi stated that the first lec- Cathedral, Melbourne, the Rev. is now at Trinity College, library, Catholic Dublin. in the Central Conquest, of schools be given D. inspector ture would Other photographs show the 36 Pier street, on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 7.45 p.m., in Melbourne, and the Rev. K. Correction Rock of Cashel, in the archwho was stationed of that name, on which diocese and thereafter each Thursday evening for 15 weeks Morrison, In a report published in our in this State during the war as ruins of an ancient cathThe talks, explained Father keeping company with non-Ca- an R.A.A.F. chaplain, are the last issue of successes of Aquinas the edral burned in 1495 can still Depiazzi are for Catholics, as tholics, for husbands and wives, guests of the Rev. E. McBride, college ex-students at Australian be seen; the Cross of Cong, universities, it was stated that family friends. Attendance well as for those not of the and ' Scarborough. at the course entailed no obligaMr. Bernard O'Brien had com- which dates back to 1123 and is Chinch. They would be help- tion whatever. the National Museum, The Redemptorist Fathers at pleted his third year in medicine. now in and the Ardagh Chalice, ful to poorly instructed CathoPeople who intended going to North Perth are hosts to the Actually Mr. O'Brien passed his Dublin, workmanship and datIrish of lics, who could bring along a the Library lectures were very Rev. John McLaren, parish fourth year examinations with ing back to the ninth or tenth welcome to attend the afternoon friend. honours. century and now at the Irish The lectures were designed to at Victoria Square convent, on priest of Melbourne West and Academy, Dublin. the Rev. P. Jones. assist young people who were Sunday, Jan. 21, at 2 p.m. is a constant crisis. It is the ef-
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