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On Sunday afternoon 10 years of quiet, persevering effort were crowned when the Most Rev. L. J. Goody, Bishop of Bunbury, blessed the new church at Kalamunda before a crowd of more than 400 parishioners and friends.
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Perth , Thursday, Dec. 23, 1954.
Father R. Kelly's Spirit And Work Praised
£4,000 Saved By Priest In Building Of Pinjarra School his
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With a good number of parishioners and ciency in
school. non-Catholics present, His Grace the Arch- theA new special word of praise new a open declared and blessed bishop, of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart was school at Pinjarra on Sunday last. Grace. The
His Lordship was attend- stand; the monstrance and ed by the V. Rev. F. E. thurible for Benediction. A delightful afternoon tea Hope, Adm., and the Rev. E. was served by the ladies in Collins. On the previous day, un- the shade of a spreading der the supervision of the gum tree. parish priest, the Rev. F. Kearnan and Mr. Stan Costello, the finishing touches Pa Plan put to the new church, Here were to the Holy dedicated Family. New Mission In Bishop Goody, after the blessing, said the church was a credit to Mr. Cos- North tello, to his tradesmen, to A new mission was the parishioners and to all who had helped either fin- being planned in Northancially or through their ern Australia, said Very labour. Rev. Father J. F. HenThe V. Rev. P. Talty, nessy, S.C.A., in MelC.Ss.R., appealed to those bourne recently.
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present that, while keeping their fares homes, they should hand over what was left to the collectors. As a result, close to £400 was received for the building fund during the after-
Father Hennessy, referring to progress made durHis by voiced would contract by estimate ing the year, said that The new school replaces The Sisters deserved only the another house had been the old weatherboard build- be at leastwas£9,000. given had Pinjarra and best £5,000. purchased in Sydney and It ing where the Sisters of St. actual cost school best-a the them priest, parish the To would facilitate the training Joseph of the Sacred Heart go a that would measure up more of students. have taught 100 children in Father Kelly, must the to adequately than for said credit Kearnan of the Father noon. large share Extensions had also been overcrowded conditions. for up-tomodern were was He parishioners his and building. he new the the carried out in Perth. In on With His Grace people date schools Vaildings. grateful to all kind friends regard to the new mission, platform were the Rev. R. an inspiration to his The Rev. Fr. Harper, who had assisted them to negotiations were proceedKelly, P.P., Sir Ross and by his sincerity, zeal, self - C.M., made an eloquent apachieve their great ambi- ing with the West AustraMcLarty, and Mr. lessness and industry. Lady clergy Other funds. for peal also tion of having Mass in a Archbishop Government, which The John Brophy. Rev. Brother Borgia, who church after 12 years in the lian S. Rev. the were present Brophy, John Mr. was sympathetic to the thanked The Archbishop praised ZeaNew in recently died (Waroona) and the hall. missionary work. Pallottine the fine spirit of the people a retired builder, who had Hawe land, was director of St. J. Hogan. The altar was the gift of There were 50 Pallottine of Pinjarra who had given given his services gratis to Rev. of Ildephonsus' college, New Mr. and Mrs. Ahern; most priests in Australia. They Benediction Pontifical the of On behalf parish. the and their labour voluntarily Blessed Sacrament clos- Norcia, from 1920-21, where of the pews were donated had to meet heavy liabilthus helped to reduce the parish priest and parishion- the the function, after which he won a wide circle of by various families of the ities. Final steps were beers His Grace presented ed cost of the new school. was served in friends and is remembered parish; another gave the ing taken for the canonisaAs it incorporated three Mr. Brophy with a silver afternoon tea grounds. for his influence on the tabernacle; another the tion of the founder of their large class -rooms, a teach- tea -set in appreciation of the convent students. Stations of the Cross; Order. ers' room, a shelter shed and others again the Missal and change room, and an ablution block (all in brick and Singing MacEwan's Sydney Father tile), His Grace said he was confident that the lowest
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Fr. P. Murphy
"Haunts" Audiences In America
Father Sydney MacEwan, who is wellto Australian concert and radio known Put Friars Of audiences, is at present touring the United Nation On Map States. He is featured in the "Music" secThe Rev. Philip Murphy, (Nov. 22) under O.F.M., who gave the tion of "Time Magazine" Priests' Retreat here in the heading "Singing Priest." Describing o 1952 died recently in the concert by Father MacEwan in the Jade Eastern States. New The news of his death in Room of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, Melbourne has been re- York, "Time" said: with nation-wide received "He sang the centuriesgret in Ireland. Philip was one of the bect old songs of plaintive and being love, of the sea and there, merry known friars noted for his outstanding of the rugged Hebrides, work for the national cause while mink -jacketed matand in the sphere of indus- rons and sober monsignori trial relations as well as for dabbed at misty eyes. One his distinction as a preacher of the favourites: "Westering home and a and retreat master. song in the air At Heart Of Legion "Light in the eye and it's It has been revealed here goodbye to care, that before his death Father "Laughter and love and a Philip sent a farewell meswelcoming there sage to Mr. Frank Duff, "I know my heart, my founder of the Legion of own one . Mary with which Father -When he is compared to Philip had been associated. McCormack, the singing Duff remembered priest says modestly: 'I'm Mr. Father Philip as one of the not fit to lace John's boots.' first retreat -masters for When he held a scholarship
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legionaries and for groups at London's Royal Academy organised by them. of Music, young MacEwan Mr. Duff said: "Until auditioned for the great McLouis To Be Ordained Eire's Volunteers, Teacher At Father Philip departed for Cormack. Australia he was at the very Father MacEwan doesn', at St. training for the works of master A former heart of the Legion of remember what he sang Province. Louis School, Claremont, the Australian Mary." 1934 this training- North's Conscripts says with quiet pride' but he is among the three Jesuit Before Returning to Ireland for `He thought I was `quid.' I requiring up to 15 years scholastics to be ordained and even longer-had to be Sir,-The Primeat Minister a short visit in 1950, Fathcr want to steer clear of am present North Ireland, Philip preached to many comparison with him. Bu' to the priesthood at St. made overseas; but in that of W.A. on a busicongregations who still re- he thought I was `guid'.' Mary's Church, North year "Loyola," Watsonia, honouring of much makes visit, ness work membered his earlier Sydney, on Wednesday, was opened as an Australian N. Ireland's loyalty to the did London society. amongst but"So in the pulpit acclaim. midst in the of 5. They are all from House of Studies. Jan. fact, it In Crown. British them that of the Franciscan singer MacEwan felt a call the things he conjured in the Jesuit The training begun there is the main theme of his Theologate, church in Athlone, which he to the priesthood: "The spirit music Jesuit the at completed be is may You Pymble, he Can;sius College, However, addresses. was responsible for build- quickeneth where it will." haunted by him'." Theologate, Canisius Col- omits to mention that durN.S.W. ing. Pymble, N.S.W., which ing the war, there were "After his ordination in The Rev. Emmet P. Cos- lege, opened Enough people have been in 1939 and now more volunteers in the Greatest Sermon 1944, his superiors allowed haunted by Father Mac - tello, S.J., who is the son was extensive additions to armed forces from Eire than Writing from Melbourne, Father MacEwan to con- Ewan over the east 10 years of Mrs. K. Costello and the needs the increased there were conscripts from with cope L o n g, tinue his musical career to bring his HMV, Parlo- late Mr. D. B. Costello, of Vincent Father week: part-time. He travelled as phone and British Columbia Suva, Fiji, taught for three number of Jesuit vocations. Ireland, so he has O.F.M., said this group of North year's this nothing to boast about. "Father Philip has done far as New Zealand and recordings past the million years at St. Louis School, With of number total the priests more than any other friar to Australia, singing to sell- mark in sales (MGM Re- Claremont, W.A. He was Jesuits ordained from the Yours, etc., put the Franciscan Order out houses. cords plans to market U.S educated by the Jesuit Theologate reaches 92. J.B. Fathers at St. Patrick's Col"But before starting his releases soon). on the map in Australia Melbourne. lege. East and New Zealand first U.S. tour last month, With the proceeds Father After entering the Society "His work will live on in he lost 181b. just worrying helped rebuild of Jesus he completed his that of the young friars about the hard-boiled aud- MacEwan £7,300,000 IS St. arts and of church his parish as philosophy at trained has whom he iences he expected to meet. retreat - During his 28 -day tour. he Margaret's Lochgilphead in "Loyola," Watsonia, Vica nd in New South system education preachers Catholic The Scotland, and con- toria. Father Costello will masters. sang 12 recitals and made Argyll. Wales is directly saving the State £7,300,000 a a mental to both tributed at sermon Mass first greatest his own celebrate "His four TV appearances. year, the Premier, Mr. J. J. Cahill, M.L.A., said hospital. Now he the Convent of the Sacred has been preached during From Shreveport, La. to and a TB recently. concert engagements Heart, Rose Bay, Sydney. the past 12 months, after he Fall River, Mass., with accepts However, he said, the saving to the State is The other two scholastics knew that his illness was stops in Chicago, Detroit only during his vacation. actually much greater because if the education His patience and Pittsburgh, Father Mac Says he: "Eleven months who will be ordained are incurable. and resignation have been, Ewan found only enthusias- of the year, I do my ordin- the Rev. P. B. Gardiner, of children in Catholic schools became a State resnonsibility a great expansion in State school with his cheerfulness, an tic audiences. Wrote Chicago ary job. I sing only Mass- S.J., and the Rev. H. R. Cassidy: es and Benediction and all Norrie, S.J. Claudia inspiration to both clergy Critic building would be necessary Australian 130 About quite -folk." are and lay `You would have gone quite my parichieners Jesuit scholastics are now in a distance to match some of used to me."
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