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Father P. J. Brennan,. the Redemptorist, died
at St. John's Hospital Subiaco on Friday night, May 18, aged seventy four years. He was born in Roscommon of old Irish stock that gave many Priests, Brothers and Nuns to the Many months of negotiation had a happy conclusion in the arrival at service of God. Some of these are now labouring Fremantle this week of a carillon of bells for St. Mary's Cathedral. in Eire, others in Australia, New Zealand, Africa The carillon of eleven bells hos been designed as an advance installaand the United States of America. tion of what will eventually be a complete carillon of from three to four
After receiving his early edu- In 1914 he left the Diocese cation in the West of Ireland he. accompanied by Fr. Robinson to octaves. They have been cast and .the carillon to be an excellent the reception of the bells which went to Melleray college for become a Redemptorist. by the famous Croydon and most impressive achieve- will be solemnly blessed before philosophy and to Kilkenny for On his way to the Novitiate supplied firm of bellfounders, ment. The traditions ' of the being installed. When the work theology . It was there he first in Ireland he made pilgrimages (England) Gillett and Johnston, which was ancient Croydon Bell Foundry of installation is completed a met Bishop Gibney, and with to the Holy Land, Rome, Croagh favoured last year wij,h an are excelled by none in perfec- special inauguration ceremony the late Archdeacon Smyth and Patrick, and Lough Derg. from the Australian Bat- tion of craftmanship and in mu- will be held on the occasion of He made his Religious Profes- order Father O'Niell volunteerd for tlefields Memorials Committee sicial and acoustical effects". Perth Diocese. He was ordain- sion in Dundalk in 1915. Soon for what will be the largest The Cathedral tower is in which the bells will be heard ed in Kilkenny Cathedral in carillon in the Southern he- course of being prepared for by the public for the first time. December 1902 and shortly afmisphere to be installed in the terwards came to Perth accomtower of the Canberra War Mepanied by the late Dean Gilroy morial. and Fr. Donohue. The bells which vary in to appointment was His first weight from one to 9icwts. will St. Brigid's, West Perth, under be operated by a hand clavier the gentle guidance of Monsigof the latest type which is said nor Bourke. A few years afto give a delicate and. responterwards he became Parish sive touch, and are so tuned that they provide scope for Priest of Bridgetown and Green playing a wide range of the bushes. In those days there more common and better known were extensive parishes, few carillon tunes. priests and no motors. SunThe carillon, which is a gift day after Sunday he drove or to the Cathedral from a number miles between fourteen rode the of generous benefactors, comBridgetown and Greenbushes to memorates the Holy Year of say Mass in both places. 1950 and the Solemn definition On Christmas Day he did the of the doctrine of the Assumpsame and then set out for his tion. The largest and ' heaviest third Mass in Donnjbrook or bell, or Bourdon, ..bears. the folsome other centre. He made lowing inscription in Latin, "I zealous efforts to provide religiafterwardS he commenced a was made in the year of the ous instruction for every child Jubilee, by order of Redin the parish, and to have all strenuous round of Missionary Great throughout Ireland, mond, the Bishop, to commemofrequented the labours people his the definition by Pius XII rate which continued until 1919 when Sacraments. of the doctrine of the AssumpIn 1910 he was recalled to he started for more strenuous tion of the Immaculate Mother Perth, appointed Editor "The labours still in the Philippines of God into Heaven." Record'', and given charge of Islands, which is one of the most Before being packed the RENOWNED FOR HIS SKILL as a Conductor,, Armadale where he built the trying as well as one of the most complete installation of bells, present Church of St. Francis fruitful of all Redemptorist framework, clavier and action Mr. Michael Bowles, who has I been leading the mission fields. Xavier. were erected in the factory of Grace He set himself so earnestly to Messrs. Gillett & Johnston at A.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, chats with His acquiring a know- Croydon and the task of given thorough the Archbishop, upon whom he called on May 23. Father Perrott S.J. Make ledge of the Filipinos language, working tests before shipment. Return Visit to State that in a short time he was able Present at this test, as the ArchThe Rev. T. Perrott, S.J., for- to hear confessions and preach bishop's representative, was Dr. mer Minister at St. Louis to them in their own dialect. He W. Greenhouse Allt, Principal Father James Bourke Compiles Text Book school, Claremont, revisited the found, the people as a rule nom- of Trinity College of Music, State during the school vaca- inal Catholics, with scarcely any London, who later cabled: "I Higher Grades schools, and priests so few that warmly approve of your comp- Of Religious Instruction tion. The Rev. L. Flynn S.J., who of an average each had to care leted carillon. The bells are the volume entitled Fresh our is a from press has been for some years on the for more than ten thousand best I have ever heard". staff of St. Louis school, left on souls. The result was that the The cable was followed by a "The Catholic Pattern," written by the Rev. May 22 for Melbourne, where great majority knew but little letter from Dr. Allt in which James Bourke, B.A., diocesan inspector of schools. he will join the staff of the about their religious obligations. he writes: "I confirm the state(Continued on page 3.) ment in my cable, and consider It comprises notes for a course in Christian docRichmond parish.
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trine for the higher secondary grades. ume falls into four chaptersgeneral survey, life like Christ, life from Christ and faith in Christ. The whole pattern of the content of the last three of the book will be presented in years religious instruction in class each year, and each year a separate area of the pattern Catholic schools. The structure of the course will be the subject of special derives from Canon Glorie- study. aux's definition of a Christian as "The Catholic Pattern" is one who has "faith in Christ, priced at 3/6 and copies may be life from Christ and life like had from the Catholic Education office, 81 St. George's terChrist." Hence Father Bourke's vol- race, Perth. The book, which runs into 73 pages, has already been tried experimentally in some schools. It aims to unify and integrate
Five Poor Clare Nuns In Route for Sydney
fall on Archbishop While in Fremantle Aboard the Moreton Bay which reached Fremantle on May 22, were five Poor Clare nuns from Nuns Island, Co. Galway, Ireland, who are travelling to Sydney where they will make a foundation of their Order in the Waverley parish, administered by the Franciscan Fathers. The abbess is Rev. Mother 'Paul Russell.
DELIGHTFUL CHORAL WORK WAS HEARD from the 40 members of the choir of St. Joseph's church Subiaco, during the Mission to nori-Catholkcs. The Rev. P. McCudden conducted the hymns.
The cabins occupied by the They were met at the ship by the Rev. T. Pearson, O.F.M., nuns were sealed off when they their 35 -day journey and began parish priest of Midland juncthey will use them as a convent, tion. singing the Office and getting up Franciscans are the first Or- at 2 a.m. each morning just as der founded by St. Francis of they did in Galway. Assisi. The Poor Clares are the During the vessel's stay in second and the third Order' is a port the Sisters called on His lay organization. Grace, the 'Archbishop.