Nestle House, St. Giant's-!gNi 1p longer the address of the Cathalle Wonseite League. The League has been compelled to terminate its long tenancy of 12 years on account of the rent having more than doubled.
However, it has been able room, Perth Literary Into make satisfactory ar- stitute. Hay-st. (corner t with the Pier-st.) on the second rangements Women's Service Guild for Wednesday of the month, The executive and commencing February, 1955. 1955. The usual card afternoon, general meetings will in future be held in the guild's on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month will also be held in the same room. The elms' Retreat For Girls numbers are: telephone hon. President, UM053; Intent On Religion secretary, V73467. Girls interested in the reCathedral branch mem' ligious life will be given hers will a social eventhe opportunity of making ing in thehold Women's Service a week -end Retreat at the Guild rooms, Literary Convent of Mercy, Vie- stitute, Hay-st., on Dec. Iti13, offering to their Queen and oommencing at at 8 p.m., and ail members Special devotions at Highgate Hill, in the South-West dean- Mother a tribute of grate- torla-sq., 2.30 p.m., on Saturday, of the League are invite& hearts that they have Dec. '11. ery, at Palmyra, and Bindoon, will mark the close of the Marian ful This will be the and lived through such a won- Further information may for the year and Year. At St. Mary's Cathedral there will be midnight Mass on derful year of grace, and to be had from Mother Pro- gathering opportunity for exan of her that the mantle vincial. Dec. 7 to usher in the feast of the Immaculate Conception and a beg changing Christmas greetof her heavenly protection 8. ings among friends. will continue to enfold them torchlight procession in the evening of Dec. Name Holy boys, senior in the years that lie ahead. On Dec. 7, the Rosary will shrine will be performed by sodalities and other men, be recited at 10.30 p.m. and the Most Rev. L. J. Goody, Visitors to the Palmyra Sisters, smaller children, p.m. at 3 Bishop, Auxiliary coinwill Mass Midnight the alight from the bus of the Blessed clergy, Holy Angels, statue function , mence at 12.30 a.m. Masses Benediction Foss-st. On the corner at of Our Lady. Sacrament will follow. On Dec. 8 early notice giving directions a People are asked not to In the morning at 11 will be offered at 6.30 and of will be displayed. Foss-st. At 9 a.m. a Solemn o'clock a regional rally of park cars along the route 7 a.m. yards on the 100 about is Torches procession. High Mass will be chanted Holy Name Society mem- the will be Perth side of the Leopold at which the children of bers will be held at Dar- (including incandles) hotel. the grounds at St. Joseph's parochial school, danup prior to the proces- available 1/- each to cover cost of Victoria-sq., will render the sion. production. sacred music. It is anticipated that at Rosaries will be said and At 12.10 p.m. there will least 10 Marian floats will 4 sung during procesbe a special lunch-hour be assembled in a final hymns Special arrangements sion. Boys' Town, Bindoon, Mass to give everyone the tribute to Our Lady. are being made for the conMass opportunity of hearing their conclude venience of invalids and the on the closing day of the infirm who will receive a Marian Year celebrations Marian Year. special blessing. with a procession in The procession will comAt the conclusion of the honour of the Immaculate mence at 7.50 p.m. followand prayers Year Marian 5, On Sunday night, Dee. ing devotions at 7.30. Those Conception of Our Blessed taking part will each carry at 8 o'clock a torchlight special sermon by the Rev. Lady on Sunday, Dec. 12,, marking the T. W. Purcell, O.M.I., the a candle which he must procession, close of the Marian Year, people and their families at 2.30' p.m. supply himself. The Lord Abbot of New The marchers will walk will be held at the Fatima will be solemnly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart, Norcia, the Rt. Rev. G. six abreast and should be shrine, Palmyra. beloved with our together of Fossbe will instructions the route alert for The Victoria- st., Hammad-st., Harris-st., country, and the final grand Gomez, 0.S.B., will prethe marshals. square will be closed to where it will enter the Marian Year function will side. The Brothers and traffic and parking from 7 grounds, proceeding to the close with Solemn Benedic- boys invite all friends to tion. shrine. to 9.30 p.m. Bindoon to join with them The Rev. J. Lynch invites in honouring their PatParticipants may park in The processional order all streets adjacent to the will be: Cross -bearer and all friends of Our Lady to roness and Queen. Heart join with his parishioners Sacred Cathedral, consistent with acolytes, Fasting Regulations, P.4 traffic regulations. sodalities and other women, on this happy occasion in The Traffic Department arrequests motorists who rive before the police are on duty not to park in Victoria-sq., but in surrounding streets.
Country And City Parishes Prepare Fitting Close For Our Lady's Year
Bindoon Will Hold March
Torchlights At Fatima Shrine
Priests attending the pro-
will
Exhibition Of Marian Art Is Unique Show For This State
cession are asked to park likewise and not in the The Benedictine Abbey, Palace grounds. A Marian Art Exhibition is to be opened New Norcia, has loaned a The organisers suggest, at the Perth Art Gallery by His Lordship, the number of paintings, inhowever, that public transcluding _fine Morat ello. Thea very Osborne Park parishioners marked a committee report be used where con- Most Rev. L. Goody, on Tuesday, Dec. 7, venient. sponsible for this exhibition climax in the Marion Year when they con3 p.m. will The procession which them, to others 4 It will be open to the number of contemporary isforgratefuloftomaterial, commence promptly at 7.50 public to the ducted a Marian procession on Nov. 21 to loan thereafter till Dec. canvases have been includwill proceed from the main 31. It is a happy conclu- ed. The Blake Prize, trustees of the Gallery, and honour the feast of the Presentation. the to door of the Cathedral to the Marian Year, awarded annually, has turn- to the director of the GalPictured above is the decorated float Murray-st. gates and will sion a collection of paint- ed the imaginations of Aus- lery (Mr. L. Thomas) and follow the direction of nor- that and reproductions be tralian painters towards re- his staff, for their co-opera- about which the celebrations turned. ings It will traffic. one-way mal together and given ligious themes, and thare is tion. return by the same route. gathered An exhibition is pointless a very fine "Nativity" by Those not marching are public exhibition. Edict of Milan, Justin O'Brien, whose tryp- without an interested pubthe After asked to remain on the giving lic. The committee is hopeto the Church, tich won the first Blake footpaths or in the Cathe- for the peace Church Prize, and has been bought ful that the Catholic public the time first to not as dral grounds so will visit this exhibition had secure possession of for the Melbourne Gallery. obstruct the route. Three or four other paint- during the month of Decemthen on, All should carry candles buildings. From ber, as it is unlikely that effort a valuable ings show of fruitful partnership which will be available in the would be rearchitects and artists began to apply contemporary tech- this material the Cathedral grounds. assembled for many years traditional to a to enrich Europe. Early niques to come. The first full-time worker for the Yougg theme. had which Christian art been cryptic and full of Workers' movement in the Arch.Christian signs accessible only to the
Highgate Will became public and Hold Triduum initiate, more representational.
diocese will take office early in January. He,
will occupy the position of diocesan At Highgate Hill a tridnum From the definition of the will begin on Sunday, Dec. Divine Maternity at Ephessecretary. 5 and continue on the Mon- us, Our The diocesan council of the editor of the National Lady became a day and Tuesday at 7.30 more central subject from "New monthly the movement decided this Y.C.W. p.m. at a special meeting last Youth," Brian Junk, are 5th Century onwards, in the A special series of ser- the mosaics that remain. movement also full-time week. mons on Our Lady will be "that the workers in Melbourne. AnA motion, When Middle Ages preached-on Sunday, the became the Y.C.W. appoint a full-time other full-time worker may Mary's articulate, Mother of our Saviour; on place in the redemptive secretary for l9$5," came be appointed in Melbourne Monday, the Mother of plan of God, made her a from the executive and was very shortly. Mankind; and on Tuesday, central theme of the medieformally moved by the The position entails great Mother, Queen of Heaven. val lyric. When the paintpresent secretary, Ken sacrifice because the man Pontifical High Mass will ers began to work, she atwho takes it spends several Byrne. be sung on Dec. 8 by Bishop tracted the developing genThe movement had reach- of the best years of his life Goody at 5.30 p.m. after ius of European painting. ed the point where it at a job which is not highly which parishioners will join would have to go ahead or paid, has no prospects of This Marian exhibition the Cathedral torchlight can present only fractional stay as it was; and it could advancement and the posiprocession. not go ahead unless there tion gives him little mate evidence of the vast body for a n y was someone to supervise rial training of tributes that have been and organise on a full-time specialised job later in life. paid to the Mother of God. Its only, yet great, reward basis, he told the council. However, it is interesting See The decision of the coun- is the knowledge that he is to note that Eastern Christhe work of an furthering will means that Perth by All parishes of the South- tianity is represented shortly be the third diocese apostolic movement which West deanery will partici- two very fine icons of the a to achieve Christ's have sets out to in Australia pate in a Marian Year pro- 17th century, representative Y.C.W. leader working full- desires. cession on Sunday. Dec. 5, of a fairly static tradition However, experience time for the movementcenturies older than the inat Dardanup. Melbourne secretary Dan shows that when a young A motorcade of Children dividual pieces themselves. Callahan, recently in Perth, man has had to resign from Western Christianity is of Mary will leave Bunbury Y.C.W. work, secretary, hic Brisbane at 1 p.m. on the 10-mile represented by a series of With their coach, Mr. R. Ryan, are (from left) Marie and Sorrel Dwyer (13), (12) Houlahan (13), Rowena O'Connor W ian O'Halloran, are the Providence has provided reproductions, pilgrimage to the Church of paintings and singles and other two. him with a far better Job the Immaculate Conception, mainly of Italian and Span- winners of the under 13 singles, under 14 doubles in the recent W.A.L.T.A. competitions. The girls In addition, the national than the one he left for the Dardanup. ish schools. School, Sublaco. Secondary and movement. Wilson, pupils of the secretary, Jim Brigidine are a past, the the As well as Here the blessing of
Dardanup To Motorcade