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Local Priests Win Successes Abroad: Ordinations Close
Thcit1?ccot No. 2,608.
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Perth, Thursday, July 16, 1953.
Opening New Parochial School Which Cost £11,800.
His Grace Lauds Spirit Of Mosman Park Parish Yet another new parochial school was blessed and declared open by His Grace the Archbishop on July 12 in the parish of Mosman Park, before a gathering of about 1,000 persons. Erected at Parishioners a cost of £11,800, the school fills a long -felt want. contributed more than £1,200 on the opening day.
His Grace is pictured below at Sunday's ceremony telling the crowd of the Church's fidelity to Christ's command about the children.
His Grace the Archbishop was welcomed by the Rev. J. Murphy, parish priest. After the building had been bless and His Grace had concluded his address, the Rev. M. Meohane, 0.M.I., made an eloquent appeal, which met with a ready response. After the function, afternoon tea was served in the A brief school grounds. lull in the inclement weather cerethe prevailed during mony.
A letter recently received from Rome tells of the Rev. Peter Quinn obtaining the Licentiate in Canon Law with outstanding The final stage of his work will success. be the presenting of a thesis for the DoctorHe is writing it under Monsignor ate. Coussa, a very well known professor of Canon Law in the University of the Lateran.
Father Quinn, originally Barry Whitely. He comwas ordained mences his third year of in 1951 at Propaganda col- theology at the end of the lege, whence he passed to summer vacation and looks read law at the Lateran, forward to his ordination well known for its 'Faculty in December 1954. in this particular study. The At the Brignole college next stage of Father Quinn's in Genoa, Messrs. Maurice work will occupy 12 months Toop and William Foley are and he should be returning much closer to their priestto Perth towards the end of hood and having embarked next year. on their final 12 months at the college, are now expectStudents in Rome ing the sub-diaconate. They Father John Barden, re- are due home late next year. cently ordained in PropaAmong the Religious, the ganda College for the Ge- Rev. Vincent Finnegan S.C.A raldton diocese has just of the Pallottine Fathers is departed from Rome having shortly to be ordained in secured his licentiate in Rome. theology. After a short vaBro. Hilarion (Mr. Brian cation in Europe, he is due Pitman) of the Carmilite to arrive in Perth on Sep- Fathers recently arrived in tember 28. Rome to begin his theology The remaning West Aus- at the Carmelite Internatralian at Propaganda is Mr. tional house. of Highgate,
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Three Alumni of St. Charles' To Be Ordained in Cathedral
Three ecclesiastical stu- tian Brothers' High school, dents will be ordained for Highgate. He entered St. the Western province short- Charles' seminary in FebruAll graduates of St. ary, 1945. and studied there ly. Archbishop's Address Charles' seminary, Guild- until the end of 1949. In His Grace said he was deford, they are: Rev. Paul 1950 he went to St. Patrick's lighted to be associated with Fitzgerald, Rev. John Lyons college, Manly. the function that day, and to Hs is to be ordained at St. and Rev. Brian Harris. be afforded the opportunity Rev. Paul Fitzgerald is Mary's Cathedral, Perth, on his publicly of conveying the ninth child-in a family July 25, by His Lordship congratulations to Father His first of ll-of Mr. and Mrs. Pat- Bishop Goody. Murphy and to the people of rick Fitzgerald, of Great Mass is to be celebratwas very Mosman Park. He Eastern highway, Belmont, ed in Sacred Heart church, pleased with the building, Western Australia. He re- Highgate. on Sunday, July and congratulated the archiceived his primary educa- 26. Rev. Brian Gerard Hartects, Messrs. Henderson and tion at the Namban State Thompson, on the dignified school and later studied at ris is the elder son of Mr. and serviceable design. He Christian Brothers' college, and Mrs. R. Harris, of LeeGeraldton. From there he derville, and brother of Sisalso congratulated Berry proceeded to St. Charles' ter M. de Chantal, of the Bros., the contractors, on in West Perth community of seminary, Guildford, their excellent workmanHe re1945, to begin his studies for the Mercy Order. ship. ceived his early education were which said the priesthood, school, fine was a It them given had certainly the Catholic with displeased lesson; that completed 1950-53 at St. from the Sisters of Mercy, His Grace, in every way not forgotten had been teaching Orders of priests, nothing but the best. Leederville, and his seccollege, Manly. worthy of the site and wor- that command His Grace assured Father Patrick's and nuns, because letBrothers the them to by obeyed On July 25 he will be or- ondary studies were begun for which thy of the purpose have would Murphy that he the had not forbidden they in every dained to the priesthood in under the Christian Broit had been erected; it would ter. It was obeyed children, but had brought the wholehearted co-opera- Perth, for the Diocese of thers at Highgate and Leemeasure up most adequate - brick and tie, in every board tion of his people in liqui- Geraldton, by His Lordship derville. to His feet. them they In 1944 he enterthe building nail in and de9y to the most exacting He was not displeased dating the debt. In the past Bishop Goody-his first Rec- ed St. Charles' seminary, mands of modern educa- had assembled that day to with the of tor at St. Charles.' His first Guildford, to begin his studevidence they had given nuns Presentation bless. requiretional building sec- Mass will be celebrated on ies for the priesthood, going For they had opened the and the people of Mamma loyalty and generosity ments. And that was July 26 in Anne's in 1950 to St. Patrick's colSt. of doors of a school where the Park, because, in the glori- ond to none. population Catholic The guarsurest and eduthe safest Mother lege, Manly, for his course work of Catholic ous church, Belmont. Mosman Park was small image of our Saviour would He is to be they had stood shoul- antee that he need have no M. Cyprian, of the Sisters in theology. comparatively, he continued, have a prominent place in cation to shoulder with their apprehension regarding the of St. Joseph of the Appari- ordained in St. Mary's Caand it required great cour- each class room, where the der on July 25 Perth, thedral, sister. future. his is in Australia tion, Catholics age on the part of the parish religious atmosphere would fellow Bishop Rev. John Lyons is the by His Lordship for His Grace then formally priest and parishioners to prevail at all times, where for morality, for religion, following the On and Goody. only true and complete declared the school open, son of Mr. W. F. Lyons launch on the venture the the little children of the the church his parish in morning He was Lyons. Mrs. it late the success the and it wished expenditure of £12,000. But parish would be brought to education. deserved in the noble cause educated at the Convent of St. Mary he will celethey had the courage and the feet of Our Lord every Faith in People first brate his Mass. Chrisand of the furtherance of Catho- school, Highgate, the vision, and they realised day of the school year. He was not displeased in the district. that a school was necessary And if to -day the Church with their good, zealous, lic education List, P. 9) (Donation school worthy of their in Australia was strong and efficient, and unselfish pas,children and worthy of their virile, with its strength and tor, to whose energy, zeal teachers, the nuns of the virility growing year by and leadership, backed by Presentation Order. year, we were indebted for the wholehearted co-operahappy position to the tion and generosity of his Unforgotten Lesson that that Australian Catho- people, we were indebted for "As we bless this building fact His lics had obeyed that com- the school we were blessing continued to -day, school of Our Lord, even that day-a that mand Grace, "and dedicate it to though at the cost of much would bring thousands of the cause of Catholic edu- sacrifice. children to the feet of Our cation, our thoughts go back But it was precisely that Lord in the years that lie to the scene in Palestine In the recently concluded West Australian Musical Festival, when Our Lord, accompani- sacrifice, said His Grace, ahead. With less courage and the brought such which had met pupils from the Catholic schools of the State were well to the fore. ed by His Apostles, group of mothers with their blessings to our schools, and vision the parish priest of Among outstanding performances, commented on by Mr. James A. little children. The mothers had brought such strength Mosman Park would have St. Joseph's convent, Victoria had fallen to their knees and virility, glory and pres- been satisfied with the old, Steele, the adjudicator, was that of and held up their little chil- tige to the Church in our out -dated class rooms near- square, primary school choir, which won the Levinson shield. It was altogether unby. dren to be blessed. But land. conducted Presenting the shield to of the violin solo under 17, Loreto convent, satisfactory and inadequate. Peter, the spokesman for the Hodges, was Here Displeasure No the choir, Mr. Steele said: that he had forgotten all by Miss Marcia and them, Apostles, rebuked parish The children of the and marks 88 with of second part during her about singing re"This is the best In that incident, as told them, in effect, to go and their teachers deserved for many the performance and had Sacred Heart High school, Our Lord in turn corded in three of the four the best that could be given that I have heard away. Our and school Mary's St. the about think to This choir would begun year. rebuked him in those mem- Gospels, Our Lord had used them, and Mosman Park ahold were third its own with any child composer of the piece. That Lady's College each. orable words, words which a strong phrase to express choir of similar calibre in was the greatest compliment with 86 marks that he had would re-echo down through His feelings. towards His Mr. Steel said that could be given to the Commonwealth." He was very the ages: "Suffer the little Apostles. not thought there could be Anthony's choir, from anyone, he said. In theSt.Convent children to come unto Me much displeased. The Apossuperb singing in WesMaria such The choir of Santa of Mercy, Coolexpeand forbid them not; for of tles had made many miswon first place among college, conducted by Miss tern Australia-the gardie, was Master their but takes, had been an "eyesuch is the kingdom of the Girls' High Schools Carmel Moran, won "The rience always patient with them. to him. God." opener" shield. The monthly meeting of choirs. Mr. Steele said that Western Mail" He had not heard better In that incident Our Lord When, however, there was the Third Order of St. Fran- the superb girls' choirs "This was some of the taught His Apostles, the question of keeping the lit- cis will be held on Sunday, could hardly be beaten for loveliest singing I have ever work in any State, not even Church, and the children of tle children away from Him, July 26, in the Children beauty of tone and sustain- heard from a girls' choir in in Queensland which was His Church a lesson for all He was very much displeas- of Mary chapel, Victoria ed phrasing. all my life," the adjudicator noted for its choirs. "Enunciation was excellent time to come, a lesson that ed. Norma Miller, of St. said. square. The winning choir, one of and on the ,whole, intonathey had never forgotten. Our Lord was not disVictoria Exposition of the Blessed Joseph's school, The parish priest and peo- pleased with the Catholics Sacrament is held every Square, was told by the seven school choirs which tion was first-class," he4).said. (Continued on P. ple of Mosman Park had of Australia. He was not Tuesday at the same chapel. adjudicator, as the winner competed, gained 92 marks.
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