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Youth Movements Provide Striking Contingent in Empire Sunday March Youth to be an Influence for Good Of the 2,000 young people who gathered on the Perth Esplanade for the Empire Day Youth rally on May 6, approximately 250 were members of Resplendent in uniform, and headed by 23 the Y.C.W. and N.C.G.M. banners -bearers, representing every branch in the metropolitan area, they The column was led by the Clontarf presented a colourful spectacle. A message of loyalty to the throne was delivered by the chairman of the Associated
Youth committee, followed by the message from the King read by the Chief Justice (Sir John Dwyer) who represented the Governor (Sir James Mitchell.) A roll call of Empire Flags and the reading of a message to the youth of England was followed by the impressive march past of 20 youth organizations. The march through Perth concluded for the Catholic group with Rosary and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Mary's Cathedral, His Grace the Archbishop presided and gave Pontifical Benediction. The lowering of the Movement banners at Benediction proved an inspiring spectacle. The occasional sermon was delivered by Rev. J. McNamara. "The observance of Empire Youth Sunday," he said, "is designed to emphasise the contribution that young people can make to the cultural and moral unity and welfare of the British Empire. That we all have such nists they were responsible for enabling the influence of Christ a contribution to make not only the spiritual and temporal well Himself working through them to the British Empire or to Aus- being of others. The good they to reach the world in which tralia but to the world at large did, and the evil too, reverbera- they lived. They were members of Caththe preacher added, is an idea ted in the lives of those they already familiar to you as met in the course of their daily olic Action Movement:- in order members of Catholic Action lives. They must see to it that that their influence for good their influence on others was might be given impetus and diMovements." As citizens, as members of the good. It would be good if th .y rection. It was for them thereChurch and as Catholic Actio- lived the Christian life, thus fore to share Our Divine Lord's
attitude to the multitudes, those prejudices that were, as it were, a barrier between "moved with pity," as If w. "at seeing them harried an Christ and those whom He abject like sheep that have no loves. It they succeeded in replacing false ideas with Christian shepherd." In response to His invitation attitudes then those with whom they labour to cure the diseases they lived, and in time the worm and infirmities that were affect- at large, would have a 1,, I
ing the world, namely, those chance to come to know wrong attitudes and ideas, serve Christ Our King.
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DAINTILY FROCKED LITTLE FLOWER STREWERS preceded the Blessed Sacrament at the South Perth May procession on May 6. (Inset) Children of Mary bore the exquisitely decorated statue of Our Lady, followed by members of the Holy Name society.