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Archbishop Blesses 1st Electronic Organ
HIGHGATE'S TRADITIONAL PROCESSION
Prior to conferring the Sacrament of Confirmation on 60 children in the Church of the Holy Rosary, Nedlands, on June 3, His Grace the Archbishop blessed a new electronic organ, the first of its kind to be installed in a Catholic Church in this State.
Father McEwen Due June 8, Returns Later Among the distinguished artists invited to visit Australia during the Jubilee year is the Rev. Sydney McEwen, well-known Scots tenor. He will arrive at Fremantle aboard the Oronsay on June 8. Commission, Father McEwen is accom- Broadcasting panied by his mother. He Father McEwen will return will be the guest of His to this State in August. Grace the Archbishop at He will give three' solo lunch tomorrow. recitals here, two in Perth After concert t ours throughout the States of the on September 4 and 6, and Commonwealth, under the one in Kalgoorlie on Sep auspices of the Australian tember 8.
His Grace was assisted in the ceremonies by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. E. Moss, P.P., the Day V. Rev. Dean Rafferty and the Rev. J. Hogan. A crowded church witnessed the confirmation of Of Priests, June 11 the children who were exPriests of the metropolcellently trained and presented. After the ceremony itan area are reminded that monthly day of recollecthe Benediction of the Blessed tion will be held at the Sacrament was given. During the Benediction Monastery, North Perth, on the new organ was played Monday next, June 11, for the first time and it was commencing at 10 o'clock generally agreed that it is a sharp and concluding with luncheon at 1 o'clock. beautiful instrument.
Recollection
Mgr. F. Sheen Named Bishop in New York Fulton ).
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor on June 3, the as a professor, radio perBlessed Sacrament Sheen, well-known procession -maker has been apconvert and sonality, E. Kennedy was held. The Rt. Rev. York. At Rev. M. Fitz- pointed Auxiliary Bishop of New the Mgr. Sheen was.: apointment of his the time gerald was deacon and the Rev. M. McKeon American director of the Propagation of the. of Maylands was subdeacon. Faith. He visited Australia with Cardinal. Among the large number of marchers Spellman in 1948. the Holy Name Society contingent was conspicuous. The prefects gave out the Rosary as the procession moved to and from the Church. The altar in the school ground was exquisitely adorned by the Sisters who also trained the 60 Holy Angels who took part in the ceremony.
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Father Pieters, Dutch Redemptorist,
Arrives to Minister to Compatriots In pursuance of its policy to provide for the spiritual needs of various national groups by obtaining the services of a priest of their own race, the Catholic migration committee welcomed the arrival on June of the Rev. A. Pieters C.SS.R. who will minister to the Dutch communities in W.A. Father Pieters, who has of Father secure d been studying English for were time at the Dutch some th r o ugh representations made by the Archbishop to seminary where he was a the Australian Provincial of professor, acted as chaplain on the Sbajak during the the Redemptorist Fathers. voyage to Australia. He continued in the vesand will sel to Sydney Blessing of Bells return to the West by air. He will be attached to the staff of the Redemptorist Before Erection Monastery, North Perth. The plastering of the Cathedral campanile in pre- Name Church Is for the installation known to paration of the carillon of 11 bells Dedicated by Pope The
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BLESSED JOSEPH TAYLOR,
the world as Pope Pius X was beatified in has now been completed. NC.).Prior to their erection, ROME, was(Radio, pushed forward St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, on June 3. the bells will be blessed by Work comGrace the Archbishop at a feverish pace to His name will endure as the Pope of His at 5 p.m. on Friday, June plete the final details of the of St. Eugene, the Eucharist, the Pope who instituted the 8. This ceremony, which Church be performed privately, which was dedicated on revision of the code of Canon Law, and the will His Holiness June 2 by is known as the "baptism" Pope Pius, XII. June 2 is Pope who, by issuing the Encyclical "Pascen- of the bells. the feast day of St Eugene di" became the hammer of the Modernists. X and then assisted at Be- and the name day of the
Bishop -elect Sheen decIn an address to American servicemen in Berlin, lared that American forces the Bishop -elect said that are stationed in Germany Atheism had been imposed and other parts of the world on the Russian people, but not to fight a war but to bring a message of peace. it would not last. to support the preserPointing out that only and about three per cent of the vation of basic rights, such as freedom of speech and. Russian people belong to assembly, freedom the the Communist Party, the press and of religion,of and Bishop -elect said: "I make a distinction between the to assure the same rights to peoples. party and the people. I love other Bishop -elect Sheen visited the Russian people and we Berlin and West Germany all ought to love them. the invitation of the U.S. Party systems come and go, at Army and Force before but the people remain. One attending Air an international. of the great traits of the meeting of the Russian people is piety- the PropagationSociety fal of 01 love of God and love of
Part of the ceremonies able Servant of God was nediction of the Most Holy Father. The edifice was blessed marking the beatification now to be ranked among the Blessed Sacpment. of Pope Pius X were held Blessed. Then the Te Deum The rare ceremony of the on the evening of June 1 out-of-doors in St. Peter's was intoned and the bells Holy Father going to St. by His Eminence Clemente square. His Holiness Pope of St. Peter's rung. The Peter's square recalled the Cardinal Micara, Cardinal Faith in Rome. Pius XII delivered a dis- proclamation of the new canonization of St. Mary Vicar General of Rome. On country. Blessed was followed by Goretti which took place the following morning, the course on the occasion. "Standing here as close In accordance with tradi- Pontifical Mass. outside on a Saturday secrated the main altar and as I will ever get to the Bishop Gummer Is While, usually, the Holy evening, while the first celebrated Mass. tion, the Holy Father did Russians, I only wish that On Visit to Perth not attend the beatification Father goes to the Basilica Mass in honour of the new remarks might be The Church of St. Eugene these The Most Rev A. Gumrites proper, which took in 'the late afternoon of Saint was sung on the folbroadcast with some penteplace on Sunday morning Sunday to venerate the lowing Sunday morning. is located a short distance costal twist of tongue, so mer, Bishop of Geraldton, off Via Flaminia, about that they might hear and is a present on a visit to inside the Basilica of St. newly Beatified, he proceedPius X was the second Peter. During these ceremo- ed on Sunday to an altar Pope under whom Pius half a mile north of Piazza understand. The Russian Perth. His Lordship is ac nies the Apostolic Brief of erected outside the central XII, then Father Eugene del Popolo and a short dis- people have been out of ci- Mgr. B. Gallagher, whom he Beatification was r e a d, portal of St. Peter's to pray Pacelli, served as a priest. tance east off the Tiber vilization for years, but companied by the Rt. Rev. which ended with the Papal before the relic and picture He was ordained in 1899, bridge called Ponte del Ris- please God they will be invested at Three Springs declaration that the Vener- of the newly beatified Pius under the reign of Leo XIII. orgimento. on May 28. back in it soon."