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Each club has been allot- requirements as soon as posto the organiser, Carted a particular social func- sible tion to organize, and prepa- nival committee, W.A.C.L.rations are advancing with
Perth, Thursday, Nov. 27, 1952
great rapidity. St. Joachim's members have been allotted Carmelites the task of organizing the official dinner and dance to be held on Boxing night. Honour Patroness The barbecue at ClonSpecial celebrations will tarf is to be prepared by Highgate members. St. be held in the Carmelite Mary's have been asked to chapel, Nedlands, Dec. 14, in arrange the concert party honour of the 25th. anniverand games evening on board sary of the pontifical declarthe s.s. "Perth" on Dec. 29. ation of St. Therese as "PatStar of the Sea and St. Bri- roness of the Missions." gid's will arrange the bus On that day there will be trip and buffet tea at Mt. two Masses in the chapel. Lawley on Dec. 25. St. By special permission of the he assisted for his kindly humour, afternoon Father Francis Gilmartin, C.Ss.R., died ed for the from the balcony at the Thomas' will organize the Holy Father, both Masses his compassion picnic to Yanchep on will be of St. Therese; the on It Subiaco, procession. and Eucharistic sinner, his fearless hospital, peacefully in St. John's Dec. 28. first at 8 o'clock, and the straightforwardness i n was the expression of a lifeWednesday morning, Nov. 19. The main preparations for second, a Solemn High Mass, preaching the truth. Even long devotion, and during Born in Sligo, Ireland, 75 years under the Southern to the end his zeal would the semi -consciousness that the gala New Year's eve at 10.30, at which His Grace years ago, he entered the Cross saw him occupied in bring him at once to the preceded death, he could be ball at Cottesloe Civic centre the Archbishop will preside. He bedside of a soul in need. heard repeating the prayers are being carried out by the In the afternoon at 3.30 a in early Missions and Retreats. Redemptorists be Daily till within two days of the Mass. God gave him capable carnival organizer, special sermon will youth. hoping, like his pat- was twice attached to the preached by V. Rev. P. ron, St. Francis Xavier, to North Perth community, and of his death he struggled up a calm and gentle end. Two Mr. L. J. McGovern. by Talty, C.Ss.R., followed of his last seven the Circulars have been sent to the chapel several times members of his large famfind his future apostolate on spent In declining years in Perth. to make the Way of the ily survive him, a brother in to all association members, Solemn Benediction, singing the foreign missions. He said Mass for America and a sister who is listing the charges of the va- of the Te Deum, and venerGod's providence his desire As a missioner he was al - Cross. was to be granted. to the last time on the Sunday a Bon Secour nun in Bel- rious functions as follows:- ation of the relic of the acceptable ways very saint. All are cordially inhe died, and that fast. not -before people. A few years after his or- both priests and vited to attend. His Grace the Archbishop Social Programme dination in 1905, he was In the 25 years since St. Season ticket: £4, single. Requiem at the presided sent to New Zealand. The Dec. 25: Bus trip, buffet Therese of Lisieux was nearly 60 presence of in following year he went to priests on Thursday morn- tea and dance at Mt. Law - named patroness of the misjoin the Redemptorists in sions by Pius XI, the numley tennis club, 12s 6d each. in the Monastery church. ing the Philippines, where, at Dec. 26: Official dinner ber of Catholics in mission On Sunday evening last a the request of the Pope, the short panegyric was preach- and dance, Y.A.L. ballroom, lands has almost doubled. ReAustralian and Irish There were 14,660,000 Caat 7.30 p.m., 17s 6d each. priest at on the deceased ed demptorists were endeavDec. 27: Barbecue at Clon- tholics within the jurisdicevening Devotions by the ouring to replace the many tion of the Propagation of V. Rev. P. Talty, rector of tarf, 1 Is 6d each. priests driven out after the Dec. 28: All -day picnic to the Faith when Pius XI, on the monastery. Spanish-American war. Dec. 14, 1927, decreed that Yanchep, 9s 6d each. J. Higgins, Rev. The Father Gilmartin and his Dec. 29: Pass to "House- the Little Flower should be C.Ss.R., was celebrant of the "confreres took over three invoked for the success of party, boat." Games, concert Mass, and the last rites at large parishes that had been To-day the the graveside were conduct- music, and supper, 6s 8d the missions. without a priest for 14 years. number has increased to ed by the Rev. T. Robin - each. The people had begun to 27,945,000. more than Farewell to deleDec. 31: son, C.Ss.R. fall back into idolatry and the strenuous labours of the zealous young priest were made more difficult by the strenuous labours of a tropical climate. Eight years of tireless work necessitated a return to Ireland that he might recuperate his health. These LONDON, Oct. 30 ( NC) .-Less than 5,000 people go to were unsettled times in his church in Britain on Sundays, Father Angellus Andrew, O.F.M., native land, when the Black and Tans were in occupation told the annual meeting of the Cotholic Evidence guild here. The of the country, and after a other 45,000,000 stay at home. couple of years devoted to He added that Evidence But only a very small that had taken Christians the giving of Missions, he group actually hates God, centuries to build. Declaring Guild speakers are regarded, returned to the islands more often by other Catholics, as on our living we are that said the Franciscan speaker, tired than when he left. who is popularly known as Christian capital and it has just soap-box orators, be Three more years sufficed to longing to a comic trio with Britain's "Radio Priest." The nearly run out," she added. his failing undermine "It is a sad thought that the mother-in-law and the Evidence Guild seeks to strength and in 1925 he convert Britain back to many of us laity travel politician. Yet they under came to Australia. Catholicism principally by through life on the religious take the work because they For six years he was novstreet -corner speaking. Its knowledge we acquired at hold it intolerable that the ice master of the lay Brolay and clerical preachers school. We do not like to vast majority of their counThe Late Rev. Francis Gilmartin, C.Ss.R. thers in Newcastle, N.S.W. are specially trained to meet talk about our faith. It is a trymen sould be starved of The remainder of his 27 controversy and to exercise sobering thought to realize the food Christ meant them that every communist in to have. popular appeal, this and other countries "The first Christian street gives at least two nights a Officially Open 'Pope His Grace preacher was Our Lord week to training in Marxian Himself," Fr. Andrew told doctrine, Truth is a respon- Beda College Is 11 Guild delegates gathered sibility and it is ours to HACBS Conference at Leederville. from 10 dioceses. "A priest know truth and be its stanOn Friday, Nov. 28, His Grace the Arch- For Services is suspect. Your main job is dard bearers. Founded 100 Yrs. people to listen, bishop will officially open the biennial State BRUSSELS, Nov. 13 (NC). winning setting an example in the Starved of Eucharist journal-Eleven Catholic His ROME, Nov. 17. conference of the Hibernian Australasian ists of Belgium have been home, the factory, the trade "Some people become Holiness Pope Pius XII has union, the club. Sink into it. doormats to modern proCatholic Benefit society at Leederville. in honours awarded Papal sent an autograph letter Get deep into it." blems which they allow to and a special blessing to On Sunday, Nov. 16, a recognition of their services The election of officers walk over them. They ought the rector and students of took place at the fortnightly, very happy party spent the to the Church. Six of them Cracks Showing to go out and shake them- Beda college on the occameeting of Help of Chris- day picnicking and touring received the honour of sion of its centennial. Bishop Cyril Cowderoy of selves." and found Knight of St. Gregory the tians' branch, H.A.C.B.S., on in the hills, The clergy are not using Nov 18, and resulted as fol- themselves landed in some Great, and five were award- Southwark, said the guild Beda is the English colincsteadily full the to the and lay regular has 281 Codet now Bro. F. rather unexpected places, ed the Cross Pro Ecclesia lows: President, lege in Rome for late voca81 priest speakers. He said reasing opportunities for lay tions. The formal centenary fortunately, Pontifice. alonga; vice-president, Sr. from which, he would like to see more action, the Countees comp- ceremonies are scheduled E. McCarthy; secretary, Bro. they were able to extricate In presenting the awards, lained. She said that the J. Egan; treasurer, Sr. V. themselves and arrive home Archbishop Fernando Cento, clergy taking an active part laity in many parishes are for November 22. and will in the work. Egan; warden. Sr. D. King- by a devious route after a still used merely to collect include a Solemn Mass, Belgium, Papal Nuncio to ston; guardian, Sr. P. Mc- very enjoyable day. "I am sorry in a way that money and are not recogniz- Benediction and a banquet. emphasised the importance some Pherson. religious orders which ed as an intelligent force. The college was founded Arrangements are in hand "Man's principal dignity of the service rendered by were founded primarily to Frank Sheed, founder of in 1852 as the Ecclesiastical for the Christmas break-up is his responsibility the Catholic newspapermen. He preach to the poor have the Catholic publishers College. In 1898, it was reorsocial games evening, to be consequence of his free will. recalled that he himself en- turned to other work which, Sheed and Ward, urging ganized and renamed after held on the next meeting In our industrialism it is gaged in this "noble and however fruitful, is not the wider support for the Guild's St. Bede, eighth -century night, Dec. 2, when five chiefly man's responsibility, awesome" profession, and work for which they were work, said: "The mass of British Doctor of the other branches are invited as a workman that is de- encouraged those honoured founded," the Bishop said. Catholics are not doing Church. Its original purpose to take part, and members stroyed. He is no more to remain faithful heralds The Countess of Eldon anything about spiritual was to train for the priestare looking forward to an than a 'hand,' an instrument of the truth and the warned that cracks were malnutrition and our na- hood "men of mature years," enjoyable reunion, which for the profit of his master." staunch defenders of God, beginning to show in the tion is starved of the Food both converts and lifelong none should miss. Catholics. -Eric Gill. the Church, and the Pope. structure of a civilization of the Eucharist."
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