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The Record Newspaper 13 October 1955

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Schoolboys Learn Way Of Charity the junior

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The second festival meeting for de Paul conferences of the St. Vincent 9, at St. Society was held on Sunday, Oct. Claremont. Louis' School, were short speeches

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The meeting commenced there Brother Amadio, who with the recitation of the from of the junior Rosary in the school chapel, is in charge and Brother followed by a sermonette conferences, .of the president Murray, given by the Rev. W. Logue, council; both stressS.J., and Benediction of the central in the youth for need the ed Blessed Sacrament. President Terence O'Con- senior councils. The president of the nor opened the meeting; Aquinas junior council made the reports from the various presidents. He mentioned the various hospitals they had been visiting and also the various charitable institutions they had been helping.

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Perthh Thursd ay, October 13, 1955

12,000 Kiddies Highgate Hill Gets Second Here Bishop As Parish Priest Were Born of

Colleges Represented memthe children born At the roll call 12College the Archbishop canonically inducted re -union Grace annual The His last Sunday On from Aquinas bers parish as Lawley, Rafferty, Mt. J. J. Home, Most Rev. at St. Anne's Nursing were found to be present, the Auxiliary Bishop -elect, the C.B.C. Perth, three place at the hospital on Sunday, 11 from C.B.C. take will Fremantle, priest of Highgate Hill. from profesa made -elect Bishop the October 23. four from C.B.C. Highgate, Before a packed congregation then the of Archbishop St. Louis' The from 11 his Ordinary. It will consist of a procession of the and sion of faith, kneeling before Jesuit College. There were blessing the and church. also several senior members handed him the keys of the to his Auxiliary Bishop and con- Blessed Sacrament present. children. Anne's St. at His Grace paid high tribute for born been The meeting concluded Bishop have The children will assemble since the hospital opened with in having a second Highgate of afternoon tea. people the hospital the of gratulated at the rear reannual the and in 1937, at 2.30 p.m. and the procesevent big a always their pastor. is union p.m. 3 Bishop -elect followed. sion will move off at Francis Remembered Holy Mass celebrated by the It is requested that the at the hospital. The Rev. Mother and light girls wear white or veils. Sisters of St. Anne's extend coloured frocks and cordial invitation to allBlue sashes will be provided afriends to witness the pro at the hospital for the boy.; cession. More than 12,000 babies

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Mexican Mexico City. commemoration of the 729th death of the of anniversary St. Francis of Assisi began on Sept. 25 and ended with solemn ceremonies today.

Mission Areas May Decide Future Of Our Civilisation Mgr. Thomas said his visit was to encourage development of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies and to assist the Arch diocesan director (the Rev. M. McKeon) in his work. He stressed that the missionary areas of the world were becoming the centre that would decide the future of the world. the is pic- Two civilisations Highgate of priest parish Christian (as the basis of In happy mood, the episcopal Rev. V. the the Quinn, and P. Rev. civilisation) Western right: the of tured with his staff. Left to the Rev. E. McKenna. Communist (as the centre Rafferty, -elect were Bishop neo-paganism) F. E. Hope, Adm., striving to hold the vast populations of the pagan lands.

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In South-West Engulfed SportfromTourney most of the Catholic

By Pagans J. Withers) at the com- So far as Australia was schools F. of the march. pletion Teams concerned, he said, we compete in a sports Collie-Bunbury section of should never lose sight of will South-West the of sports will commence at the fact that we were surat Bunbury on Wednesday, Oct. the missionary The country by

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a.m. sharp. sports will be officially 10 is scheduled opened by His Lordship and section a.m. sharp. 11.30 are (Mr. the Mayor of Bunbury Schools competing divided into three sections: Bun (1) Marist Brothers,Collie, bury, versus C.B.C., Marian the for competing shield. (2) St. Brigid's Convent, Collie, versus St. Joseph's Convent, Bunbury, competing for the Monaghan Mem-

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orial trophy.

(3) The following convent in the schools will compete Bishop country section for Goody's cup: St. Mary's, Bunbury; St. Philomena's, Donnybrook; Conception. Immaculate Dardanup; St. Michael's, St. Anne's, Junc.; Brunswick Harvey; St. Joseph's, Waroona; St. Joseph's, Busselton; St. Joseph's, Margaret River. The committee hopes to see many parishioners present lending their support (active, moral or vocal) to this outstanding event of the Catholic schools in the South-West. Competing schools will march past His Lordship Bishop Goody at 1 p.m. The

rounded for areas. To the north we had New Guinea and the vast Indonesian empire; to the east, the islands of the SouthWest Pacific; to the west the We continent of Africa. were thereby hemmed in by still teeming populations predominantly pagan. For our own safety it was imperative that we use every opportunity of teaching Christianity as a way Otherwise there of life. was a danger of the repetition of what had happened in Japan.

Education Demands

There, material progress had only meant a veneer of After surveying the work being done in civilisation and, as the last war proved, the veneer the Western province on behalf of the Poncame off and the barbarism tifical Mission Aid societies, the national still remained. Moncontinued director, the V. Rev. Mgr. A. R. Thomas This year, signor Thomas, he had visit- (above), returned to Sydney last week. ed Fiji, Samoa and Tonga In New Guinea, Austrafaced with the where the Church was beset Church was making a lot lians did not realise what yet with the problem of ex- problem of time to up provide had been done nor what in panding her forces to meet of leeway facilities remained to be done. There Chrisfor edufor adequate demand more great the were, for example, tian schools. cation. Catholics there than in New There was a healthy faith Zealand; yet 260,000 was The United Nations' "new numthe but few the among had deal" for native peoples but a small proportion of bers were too small in pro- 24-3 million inhabitants. meant that the inhabitants populatotal to The How long it would take to of those lands looked for portion reach the others depended education; consequently, the tion. Pt on the facilities available. One missionary superior The parishioners of St. 23 had told him,thatMonsignor at the Kieran's, Osborne Park, will Thomas said, honour Our Lady of the present time he could see 23 will be observed in all October Sunday, on reaching Rosary of Holy no possibility Oct. 16, by a Missa Cantataa churches of the Archdiocese as Mission the 50,000 in the hinterland preachbe will to be sung at 10 a.m. and 7 of his area before another sermons Special Sunday. at procession -light candle 20 years. taken up to aid the collection and ed p.m. sharp. Monsignor Thomas was Bishop -elect Rafferty makes his profession of the Faith. Propagation the met and farewelled at Perth of Sodalities joining the prowork his to prior to to Archbishop, airport by Father McKeon. of faith before the cession are requested in full regalia. induction as parish priest of Highgate.

Torches Flame For Our Lady

Mission Sunday On Oct.


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