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St. Mary s Boys' Choir Will Be Lions Of Irish Concert
On Sunday, March 18, an Irish concert
will be presented at His Majesty's Theatre Maria Ladies' College will be at 8.45 p.m. tableaux
seen in spectacular The highlight of the con- and colourful scene. cert will be the appearance Sacred Heart High School of St. Mary's Cathedral will present spoken Irish Choir, under the baton of lyrics. the director, the Rev. P. Mc The guest soloists will be Recent perform- Ron Pollestrini (tenor) and Cudden. ance by this choral group Joe Savage bass). has won them unstinted Flashes of Irish dancing praise. and novelty instrumentalists Our Lady's College, Vic- will lend spice to a concert toria Square; St. Brigid's, that promises to be memorWest Perth; and Santa able. Booking opens at Nichol -
11102 1?cco No. 2,746
(Registered at the G.P.O.. Perth, for transmission by post as a Newspaper)
Perth, Thursday, March 8, 1956
son's on Monday, March 12.
Cathedral Packed Archbishop For Osborne Park Builds For Pope's Mass Hibernian Rally
Five New Parishes Excised In 19 Years
Another New School
"The preparation was long His Grace the ArchSt. Mary's Cathedral arduous and consoling, for, bishop will perform the was packed last Friday and like the Master he represents,
afternoon for the Solemn High Mass which marked the 80th birthday of
opening ceremony of the
"advanced in wisdom Triennial Convention and age and grace with God 15th and men"-in holiness, without of the Hibernian Society which all else is nought, in which will be held in His Holiness Pope Pius knowledge both sacred and Perth from May 1-3, at XII. Most of the con- profane, in living with his fel- 10 a.m. The national secretary, gregation received Holy low men of high and low estate, as individuals and as notions, Mr. J. W. Whitely, said Communion. that he might be "all things to during the week that deledoing Earlier at 9 a.m., 1,600 all men" and "go about gates from all States and parish good. from schoolc'hildren New Zealand would attend. special "That he succeeded in modelo attended schools The venue of the conhis of Very that his life on by the ling Moss celebrated vention will be the new Rev. J. Hogan, Adm. Master is attested by the spon- Catholic Centre, VictoriaHis Grace the Archbishop taneous tribute of admiration sq. presided at the evening Mass, of his own Roman people in reassisted at the throne by the ferring to him as the 'Dolce things originate, the denial of Right Revs. Mgr. E. Kennedy, Cristo In Terro'-'the sweet God, of the Saviour, of the V.G. and Mgr. E. Moss. Christ on earth. Saviour's Mother, of His Vicor, The celebrant was the Rev. "How strong is the tempta- as if denial meant th-ir nonon the the length dwell at A. Morahan; the deacon, tion to existence. Rev. B. Harris and the sub - immense gifts of our Common "Two thousand years ago, Father and on this his 80th God walked the earth and lived deacon, the Rev. B. Whitely. on him Rev. T. to congratulate the birthday men and taught t'sem was among The M.C. P. Phelan and the assistant the use he has made of what how to serve God and in this priest the Very Rev. J. Hogan, God hos given him so abun- way attain the happiness for dantly," Father Nolan ex which they were created. From Adm. the cross on which He was The Cathedral boys' choir, claimed. P. "But it is not upon himself dying, He looked down on His under the baton of the Rev. McCudden, song appropriate he would have us dwell but, Mother and the tiny group of after God, upon the Mother those who remained faithful. motets. His Vicar, too, hos walked In his <-ermon, the Very Rev. given to mankind by Christ, His Grace the Archbishop addresses the gathering His before He expired upon the the earth, and repeats what P. Nolan, O.S.M. praised God hos taught, and like his Holiness as a living example Cross. "With what love the Holy Master gazes from the cross of In violent winds and heavy rain brought on by the cyclonic of Our Blessed Saviour. mankind with an his position out over this Col assured to -day, Father years ago Four score opened St. he storm, His Grace the Archbishop blessed and said, o child was born in infallible voice of Mory's As- vary of a world, seeing the sumption into heaven; with Mather he hos honoured so Osborne Park last Sunday before a Rome-Eugene Pacelli. Laurence's School -Church "To -day, 17 years ago, the what yearning that men might reverently and the group of his devotion to Our Saviour and some parishioners. big crowd Pacelli electknow and love her more and faithful followers. was Eugene a great loyalty to His do not doubt, my "And He was glad to know that Church, because it was in ed the 262nd Vicar of Christ through her, know and love our He had been to Osborne proclaim brethren, nor do you, that the Park to bless buildings or there was a possibility that defence of our Saviour and on earth. At the age of 23 Creator more, did hewith what wonderful Marion Year; most offering we the 18 he had ordained priest, been would extensions to buildings more two Sisters of Mercy of the Church which He escould make him on this his 80th frequently than he had been be available if necessary to tablished, that St. Laurence years later consecrated bishop, pride and devotion he continues of Queenship would to number speak of her birthday be to any other parish, he said. staff the school at the be- gave his life by being slowly and 12 years later still created to ourselves in that group standheaven and earth. cardinal. ginning of 1957. 258 A.D." burnt to death in had Park' Since Osborne "And the tragedy of our ing with Mary at the foot of "These were the milestones He congratulated the arHis Grace was welcomed marking the progress of his pre- world is not the misery or the cross and accloim him in become a parish in 1937, chitect (Mr. Bennett) and when Father Langmead was the firm of contractors (An- by Father Langmead who paration for the unique position poverty or wars or persecutions his trials as in his triumphs: appointed the first parish derson Constructions Ltd.) said the people of St. Laur- he now fills of Vicar of Jesus with which it abounds, but the 'Blessed is he who comes in the priest-five new parishes which had built the two up- ence's greatly appreciated Christ, the living voice of God denials from which all these nome of the Lord,"' Father had been excised from it, to-date class rooms for such the privilege of having the among men. Continued next column Nolan concluded. he too
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Wanneroo, a reasonable figure, '£2,950. Archbishop come
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their new centre. Tuart Hill, North Beach and For some time they had North Doubleview. St. Laurence Invoked been labouring under great "I don't know how many It was the first building difficulties in sending their more parishes Father Long - in the Archdiocese to be children to distant schools. mead will establish," His dedicated to St. Laurence The costs of transport were Grace said humourously, "but the Martyr. so heavy, and owing to the I do know this, viz., that if Father Langmead had rule of not having to pass and when, Father Lang- chosen wisely; when he was the nearest State school the
Decentralisation Example Set By Church, Says Bishop
mead, in his sound judgment a student in Propaganda parents did not qualify for Support for the newly -formed Western Australian Decentraliis of the opinion that other College, he saw the great a refund from the Education parishes ought to be cut off devotion of the people to St. Department. sation League-and criticism of the policy of "those who guide from Osborne Park he will Laurence, particularly in not hesitate to recommend the Church of St. Laurence To Open in 1957 the destinies of the country"-was given by the Most Rev. J. J. it." Outside-the -Walls, the fifth Auxiliary That, of course, of itself Rafferty, His Grace complimented Patriarchal of would not have been a suffiBasilica Father Langmead on his Rome, built by Constantine. cient reason for building a Bishop, at the openleadership, vision, zeal, inHoly His Grace expressed the new school, there also being ing the new dustry and selflessness. hope that the people of the difficulty in obtaining a Family at Church Westminster staff, but now the rapid deof The new building would district serve iflual purpose. Holy would cultivate a devotion to velopment of the area, to- Tammin last Sunday. gether with the promise of Mass Would be celebrated St. Laurence. "There has been a great "May Saint Laurence," he staff, make it reasonable to there each Sunday and would obviate the difficulty which concluded, "gain for you the expect the opening of this deal of talk in recent years many people in the district favour of bearing your building as a school in 1957. about the necessity of departicularly In the meantime it would centralisation, experienced in finding trans- trials with Christian resigport to go to St. Kieran's, nation. May he gain for serve as a temporary Church. of industry, if our national is to be stabilised," economy Continued on Page 16 you the favour of an intense Osborne Park. he said. "It is such a self-evident fact that one wonders why time has come when the use those who guide the destinies of the country have Church of the Holy Family, Tammin grown so apathetic that the of the ballot box, and the "The lack of development whether they be city or threat of the atom and hy- in the country leads inevit- country dwellers, who has drogen bomb must be held ably to that drift to the city the welfare of the State at over their heads to convince which is deplored by every heart, will wish the newly them that the present pat- right-thinking person. formed Western Australian tern of development borders "The young people who Decentralisation League on national lunacy. leave the country for the city every success in its cam"It should be obvious to cannot always be blamed- paign," His Lordship said. "The idea of decentralisis in a great number of cases Australia that everyone becoming little more than a there is nothing offering in ation lies at the very, heart of the solid programme of prowould handful of over-populated, their district that vide them with a decen, liv- the Church. high -centralised "For this reason it which, to provide for their ing. They have no alterrapidly increasing populat- native but to seek employ- great pleasure for any bishop to bless and open a ions, absorb so much of the ment in the city. "It is most encouraging church in a rural area," he capital available from pri"Including that vate and public sources for to read that the country went on. investment, that there is people themielves are at last part of the Archdiocese little left for the develop- organising in an effort to which last year became the ment of the country towns fight for decentralisation in diocese of Bunbury, sixteen this State, and everyone, IV Continued on Page 13 and rural areas. Attractive exterior of the new school
cities,
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