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'Brilliant Con The exterior of St. Mary's Basilica,' Sydney, was
illuminated trinity of
The centre of on the evening of Sunday, April 12. the twin statues of above entrance, main Neon lights over the Patrick and Michael (in whose bishoprics the Cathedral had been completed, save for the spires, which are still not there), made incandescent the Congress themes-charity and the Eucharist. a
advanced even These were vividly sym- 1817, had curtly informed has recently closer towards obtaining her bolised in a circle depicting the newly arrived Father his rash the title of Venerable, and a scene from the Last Sup- O'Flynn, who in unin- whose bones some daY may per.with the head of the be- innocence had come to minis- yet form the relics of the Australia loved disciple resting on the vited to first Australian saint. of Catholic to needs ter the the Before Sacred Breast. apostle and his Master lay convicts, that it was the There, too, it was left to to intention Government's an English Bishop with an the bread and the chalice. On either side of the make them all Protestants, Irish name, Dr. Heenan, of white circle were two huge and had signed the expul- Leeds, to tell nearly 15,000 white Neon crosses with sion order which led to the Australians that in England Stark in departure of the said Father Catholics complain because arms outflung. their simplicity, yet of a dig- O'Flynn from our shores, they have to pay a part only nity unexceptional, they re- leaving Australia once again of the cost of the upkeep of galled G. K. Chesterton's without a Catholic priest, Catholic schools, and that if words that the sign of the though leaving, too, the he were living in Australia Christians, unlike the in- Blessed Eucharist uncon- for a short time he would, ward -turning triangle of sumed for two years in the before being deported to England, complain very bitMasonry, or the inverted house of Charles Davis. terly until justice was done. crescent of the East (to of Comsickle the which The Archbishop of Bommunism has its similarity), bay, Cardinal Gracias (prowas a Cross on a hill, blaznounced Gracious by Caroned forth for all to see, Behind the Cathedral slept dinal Gilroy) also reminded looking outwards with out- also house, the audience that in pagan stretched arms as if to em- where inParliament+ 1879 Henry Parkes India a liberal subsidy is brace the whole world. had introduced the Bill for given to all educational inMost Materialistic? the secularisation of educa- stitutions. On the Sunday morning, Certainly on that typical- tion and the withdrawal of denominational the Catholic colleges' ex to ly balmy Pacific autumn aid a night, set way up on the schools, thus giving rise to students' association held the Basilica, it was embracing the present system of Catho- general Communion. at followed by a the largest city in Austra- lic education which is at Cathedral, as C'U9A house, lia. On the left from the once the Church's glory and breakfast an ex-stubeing not but docktown shallows of Wool- its cross. Of a verity much that was dent of any N.S.W. school, ,loomooloo (the "loo" in a Sandlocal parlance) the ground history stood in the shadows I did not intrude such sloped upward to the cos- of a Sunday night in Sydney groper's head among in elite. mopolitan heigths of King's behind the great churchbethe the half -mile that lay Before lay Cross. Vincentians & Legion squalor of Darlinghurst and tween it and the spot on At 2.30 p.m. on the Sunwhich Australia was foundHills. the toughness of Surry But one was glad that day afternoon, there were To the right, across Hyde ed. One was Park. slumbered the heart the floodlighting of the Ba- two functions. and official of what many Australians silica looked outwards to- the blessing Gilroy Cardinal by 'think of as the most mater- wards the land, across the opening Ozanam House, the headialistic and uncouth city in coastal strip, and over the of Vincent St. the quarters of the Blue Mountains to Australia.
courtesy of "The Daily Telegraph". Sydney, and "The Sunday Time-, Perth.
His Eminence Cardinal Gracias (at microphone) gives his lecture, "Asia and Australia," at the University Great Hall, Sydney, on April 13, during the Eucharistic Congress symposium on "East and West and the Future of Australia."
"We Stand For God." The soap -box orators were say uncertain attack on thisling about it all. Each Sunstirring hymn was no doubt day afternoon, just inside due to insufficient practice the southern entrance to the in the parishes and sodali- Domain, the Legionaries of ties in the weeks preceding Mary gather in a circle to the Congress. As the week recite continually the RosTo -day, with the big goes by its execution should ary. improve to the level that ceremony across the way, a both words and music de- skeleton army only held the serve, for it is a fine hymn, fort, but they were still for Perth, Thursday, April 16, 1953 Perthspaper). aby (transRegis which it is to be hoped, the there, and their record for post as a Newt missiontered liturgical authorities per- regular attendance will thus Perth Catholics remain unbroken. mitting, may hear in the near future. A littile further along the and to de Paul society in the city, He is a clear and delightful Behind, to the rear of the broad plains beyond of re- speaker, with a nice turn It should make a striking first stand one comes to is another appropriate great church, less than half other Australian States, trito the asset when of a fortunate faith wit, of affirmation to minder of the charity that of the Catholic Evia mile away, lay the har- umphant and relegating but so far I have sung by the men before their dence Guild. Here a young Cove, the rear the murky recesses Christ and His Saints. at- Congress, Sydney bour and in him any- Benediction at the Show - layman was expounding the glimpsed I not which second, The had which past, near the where, on January 26, 1788, of tended, if standing towards thing of the dynamic eloqu- grounds on Friday night. doctrine of the Eucharist to 155 years before, Governor been spawned on the shores rear of the Cathedral, ence of the Auxiliary Bishop a crowd of about 50 listenPhillip had unfurled the of a new land through the the that Scene on Domain Perhaps York. New seats were no of there because On my way back a ers. out Deformation flag and drunk the Protestant , British is not the present English The legionaries warmed young priest had the rosof the uneasy lust of Henry left, can be called attending, health of George III. ways the and Acies familiar temperament, old of Mary the to a Legion more was up t urn. At the rear, too, across and Anne Boleyn. St. Mary's in of Martindale are not the strains of the hymn, "0 the darkness of the Domain, Actually, though the Con- ceremony. Mother, I Could Weep for Telling the World in- Sydney, though of much ways of Sheen. of gress was officially cacophony where a than the larger proportions admonished legionar- Mirth," as the Acies cereThe following day, Monspruiking voices had been augurated on the Sunday as yet uncompleted St. He Two by day, was to be Propaganda to live not for the legion mony proceeded. raised heavenwards in blas- night, it had got under way Mary's in Perth, would yet ies an up to the day for the Congress, and to rather but advanced they institution, two as first the Fittingly Sunbefore. pleasant that phemy have very much more for its work, not to glory four statues of Our Lady to one persistent interjector day afternoon, lay Govern- function had been the bless- not when they heard the legion make their brief re-conse- who wanted to know why ing on Saturday afternoon in the way of seating accomment house. the Catholics should indulge in of Two at Baulkham Hills, just out- modation than its sister Ca- praised or its work esteem- cration. It was from there that side the metropolitan area, thedral. ed, as was evident from the statues Were before the high unseemly propaganda, he Governor Macquarie, in the of the foundation stone of a presence of such a large altar, one before the altar of fired back the retort underthird decade of the last cen- new novitiate for the Brown British Fulton Sheen number of Bishops in the the Irish Saints, and one standingly and accurately tury, was able to drive to Josephs, the old one at What there is was insuffi- sanctuary that afternoon, before the Sacred Heart enough, even if not in the St. Phillip's Anglican church Mount street, North Sydney, cient for the legionaries on which indeed "meant little" altar. There were thus spirit of perfect charity: on a Sunday morning with- where lie the bones of the Sunday afternoon, and hun- --but to glory rather when four queues formed. "When Catholics _want to persecution, its heard of out his Sabbath being trou- foundrss, they Mary dreds Mother people stood of Knowing I would have a tell you the truth about the -day, for to ' bled by the sights of Papist McKillop of the Cross, havas in China the in something, they turn on a before the walls and practices, because he had ing grown too small for the around Legion was one surfeit of ceremonies did Propaganda Day, but when floor spaces in which persecuted of China and the Congress was over, I hopes thoughtfully allotted the Ca- needs of the congregation in open of the beautiful, though rather of the East. not wait until the thousands Protestants want to have a tholics a site on the sandy Australia and New Zealand. this dim, Cathedral abounds. of legionaries had filed be- Propaganda Day, they turn outskirts of Sydney town, for God" Stand "We fore the statues, but instead it into a Proper Slander the Bishop Heenan, There appropriate referout of the way of the gubAfter the sermon the con- strolled around to the Do- Day." This raised a cheer ence was made to the wo- preacher at the Acies cereernatorial procession. of the crowd. There, too, the same Gov- man whose cause, now un- mony, is, one gathers, a sort gregation sang, rather wav- main at the back of the Ca- from a section ernor eerier in November, der consideration at Rome. of a British Fulton Sheen eringly, the Congress hymn, thedral to hear what the (Continued on Page 9) ;
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