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No. 2,679
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(Registered at the G P 0,. Perth, for tranvalssion by post as a Newspaper)
Perth, Thursday, Nov. 18, 1954.
Marian Year To Finish With Blaze Of Glory
Sisters Of Mercy
Look To Farmers To Help
According to the wishes of Rome, the Marian Year will end in a blazeof glory in the Cathedral and Archdiocese dedicated to Our Lady under the title of the Immaculate Conception. Preparatory for the feast,
Kiddies
Only once a year do the Sisters of Mercy at Subiaco seek the assistance of Catholics and of the public generally in maintaining their work for foundling kiddies and orphan girls. It is a very modest demand and the visitor who goes to Gift Sunday-this year on Nov.
a Novena will commence on Tuesday, Nov. 30, and continue nightly from 7.30 to 8 p.m. until the feast on Wednesday, Dec. 8. 28-comes away richly A special course of serrepaid for his visit and mons on Our Lady will be small offering. It is a preached throughout the joy to meet the happy, Novena. little homeless ones in On Dec. 7 at midnight, their bright and beauMass will be offered in the tiful surroundings. Cathedral to usher in the This year the Sisters patronal feast. are looking to the farmOn the feast day itself, ing community specialDec. 8, Masses will be ofly for support in gifts fered at 6.30 and 7 a.m. At of kind for their tiny 9 a.m. a Solemn High Mass charges. will be sung for the children and at 10 past noon a lunch hour Mass will be offered. In the evening the Novbe marked by a bought them at a precious ena will close and the cul- Year will procession around cost. They are her submination of the Marian torchlight jects; she is their Queen. Victoria Square. A statue of Our Lady So teaches the recent enwill be borne by members cyclical of Pope Pius XII on the Children of Mary Mary's queenship; it is a Carlisle Girls ofsodality and Pontifical Ben- further explanation of the ediction of the Blessed Sac- great depths of the medal's meaning. will be imparted. Compete For Title rament This reflection on the Country people may send in "intentions" which will Medal's Cross brings into the great worth of relief before placed in a box Of Parish Queen be Mary, her great holiness, Our Lady's image. The Solemn Novena with her extraordinary position It is which the Marian Year will in God's schemes. close in the Cathedral will amazing that her merits those of with pay special honour to Mary, were accepted Queen of Heaven and Earth. Christ as the price of the Mary's Miraculous world's redemption. Those On Medal there is stamped the merits must be beyond all Cross of Jesus Christ, a re- human evaluation. Honour paid to Mary's minder of the source of the medal's graces. It is at the medal is, therefore, honour same time, a reminder of paid to Mary's queenship. the share Mary had in the Mary must always be honRedemption of Calvary, be- oured as Queen; her medal and cause, according to God's must be honoured It is not surprisgracious will and disposi- worn. MARY SHARP tion, Mary's sufferings and ing that the special intenmerits were added to those tion of the solemn Novena of Christ, and, with His is for the grace of persemerits, redeemed men from verance in devotion to Each year can be Mary. the power of the devil. should be Mary's Human beings, therefore, and belong to Mary. She has Year.
Tom Paine Wanted Priest At Death WASHINGTON (NC)- either his own "Age of Rea-
Believing that priests son" or about the proofs for existence of God. When would be able to cure the that he had asked with means un- reminded him for the priests, he ordered known to physicians, them out, following them Tom Paine, famous pam- with blasphemies. phleteer of the American (There has been some deRevolution, called for bate or not Tom their help in 1809 just Paine whether was an atheist. Some before he died. who have denied that be
Frs. Kohlmann and Bene- was, called him a "religious dict Fenwick, both Jesuits, radical.") stationed at St. Peter's Paine, who lived much of Church, Barclay-st., New his life in France, was a York, answered the call. prolific writer. Born in According to the account England, he was an active in propagandist for the AmeriColony in "The Jesuit New York 1808-1817" Paine can cause during and after would not hear talk about the Revolution.
Poles Recall Independence With Display Of Fine Art
Canon Law Should Be Temperate BOSTON I NC)-Archbishop Richard J. MARY JONES
Cushing of Boston, told a meeting of canon lawyers to "employ the temperate and merciful language of Christ, rather than the harsh and unfeeling formulae of civil courts
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The thirty-sixth anniversary of the Polish pieces by Debussy, Grieg, Independence Day of Nov. 11, 191 8, was Chopin and Mozart. of justice." last community A very enjoyable evening Polish the by In promulgating and celebrated "The law is essentially followed by the opening of hum a n," Archbishop interpreting the laws, he Sunday. a buffet and dance gave an Cushing told the jurists, said, it is necessary to The Town Hall was filled recitations by Mrs. L. Kel- excellent opportunity of human to capacity by the Poles ler and Mr. J. Relewicz- meeting and exchanging the "it serves a human pur- consider
weakness of those who from Perth, Northam, Wun- Ziembinski; a solo from the views between old and new must obey them. "We dowie and Kelmscott, and St. Moniusko's opera, sung Australians. Australians by Mr. Zenon Kosiba; and cannot be content with their guests recitations by a little `throwing the book' at and representatives of many short whom girl and boy from KelmTrue en- nationalities among the faithful. Lithuanians, scott, arranged by Mrs. L. Sacramental Life seen were ough, as the theologians Hungarians, Ukrainians, Keller. of contact with human say, 'dura lex, sed lex' Croatians, Yugoslays, Ruschildren from Rich In Indonesia Sixteen hard, but still is law (the psychology." sians and Dutch. Kelmscott in colourful nalaw). the plea The Archbishop's ROME, Italy, Nov. 9 (NC) The idea of the evening, tional costumes had to refor the "spirit of supertheir dance "Krako- -Divine Word missionaries cannot encour- as the president of the peat DOROTHY McQUADE 3,575,553 Coindistributed A. by Mrs. (arranged natural charity" in the age"We wiak" in stated a spirit of laxness or Polish Association in the Endeh Vicof the canon indifference his opening address, was to Zarzycka) to a very appre- munions legtowards Parochial funds at Car- application flourishing of ariate, most Another audience. ciative law to particular cases remind the Polish people of lisle are being boosted came in the midst of islation which has been their duties towards their colourful scene was "Kuja- all Indonesian missions, duryear, acing the past fiscal under reasonably enacted by the queen competition highly technical discuscountry of origin-Poland- wiak," a folk dance in naof the which is at present under tional costume arranged by cording to the annual stawhich is at present in full sions which marked most the authority tistical report just received Church. Nor should we foreign domination, and to Mr. M. Mordwinow. swing. of the convention's ses- lead people to think their country of adoption, Delightful additions, not from Indonesia. The candidates in the sions. that laws are unwelcome Australia, and at the same included in the programme, The entire Vicariate numcompetition are Misses DorThe purpose of Canon a were brought by the Polish bers 276,439 Catholics, of othy McQuade, Mary Jones Law is higher than the restraints on freedom, to time to give the guests in be avoided upon every glimpse of Polish culture people from Wundowie who whom only about 216,000 and Mary Sharp. Parishorof song, poetry, dance and cos- gave two dances, Mazur and have made their first Holy ioners are working solidly mere preservation pretext." he discipline, and tume. der Krakowiak, in different Communion. for the girl of their choice. But the law should be The programme of the national costumes. "Its ultimate aim The This means the average The climax will be reach- said. presented, he said, "on its concert included Polish folk guest artist of the evening Indonesian Catholic in this ed on Saturday, Nov. 27, at is to strengthen the love approached mission who the Hobcroft, the annual bazaar when the of God and to widen the brightest side" as a di- songs, sung by the Polish was Mr. Rex the audience Sacraments 16 times last winner will be announced area in which the peace vinely appointed means choir "Polonez," under the impressed year. recital of his uiano with Hardy; E. Mr. of of self -perfection. direction reign." will of Christ at 10 p.m. pose in a human way. Let us not de -humanise it, by freezing it, under the cold beating of hardened hearts, into a set of abstract formulae, devoid
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