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Mass And Concert 01 For Saint Patrick Solemn observance of St. Patrick's feast will be made throughout the Archdiocese
next week. On Sunday, March 17, The Irish Club's weekly Solemn High Mass, at which Thursday night dance atHis Grace the Archbishop tracted a large number of will preside, will be offered members and friends who at St. Mary's Cathedral at farewelled the club's chap11 a.m. lain, who is leaving for a The Rev. Columba Flan- holiday in Ireland. agan, O.F.M., will preach Members of the' Shamrock Perth, Thursday, March 7, 1957 the panegyric. Rovers Soccer teams, the No. 2,798 (trlianegistessrLdn aitvt.hpeostGL.0a4NI:ewrIphpefo4, Mass and sermon will be ladies' basketball teams and over broadcast Station national dancers are arrang6WN. ing parties for the annual WE At 8.45 in the evening a ball on Monday, March 18 national Irish concert will at the Canterbury Court be presented at H i s ballroom. Majesty's Theatre. Songs and scenas will be presented by metropolitan Solemnity At Port orphanages. Bookings open The feast of St. Patrick at Nicholsons on Monday will be observed on Sunday, next. March 17, with Solemn High Mr. Brian O'Leary, cham- Mass at 10.30 at St. PatFeb. North -Weston the 14, which areas of the devastated mission con- pion of the 1955 State Musi- rick's Church, Fremantle. In the cyclone cal Festival, and Shirley united choir will sing ducted among the aborigines at Beagle Bay by the Society of the Catholic Apostolate suf- Flesfader, well - known theThemusic of the Mass in married quarters, A the church large section of and gardens soprano, will be the guest Gregorian chant and a fered severe damage. artists. panegyric will be oreached were damaged or destroyed. The loss is estimated at between £10,000-£15,000. The An Irish step dancing on the saint. description of a a first-hand terrifying here gives experience. McGuire, S.C.A., contest will take place at Rev. John On Thursday, March 14, the three stores. The third the Highgate parish hall a grand carnival 'dance will take place in St. Patrick's one was totally demolished. on Thursday, March 14, hall, from 8 to 12. Besides The girls' dining hall was at 8 p.m. the usual floor shows and levelled to the ground and The competition for the supper .there will be an exextensive damage to the present will be confined to of Irish dancing in verandahs, chapel, kitchen the reel, and it is hoped hibition costume. and refectory of the con- that further competitions national A card night is held each vent was suffered. Other will be arranged in the Wednesday night at 8.15. buildings damaged were future. Mims and supper. the Brothers' quarters, guest-house, the bakery and cart shed. Our famed mother -of THOUSAND TO VISIT LOURDES pear shell church was saved The Australian National Pilgrimage parfrom severe damage, by the winds changing direction, ticipating in the Lourdes centenary 1958, though some damage was wrought on its small spires. will depart from Australia on April 1 by. All five windmills at the R.M.S. "Srathmore," under the leadership of. mission were destroyedlater we were to learn that His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy. another ten in the bush The pilgrimage will visit tourist from £722 (Aust.); were wrecked. The enti$e the shrines of Lourdes, Fat- first class from £992. banana plantation was ima, Rome, Lisieux, as well (Aust.) wiped out, plus havoc to a as the countries of PortuApplications should be number of coconut trees, gal, Spain, France, Italy, made at once to Catholic and the building where mil- Switzerland England and Travel Centre, 175 Elizabeth let brooms are made was Ireland. St., Sydney. torn down. The all-inclusive costs are There is a definite limit of Continued on Page 12 considered very reasonable: 1,000 persons.
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Cyclone Devastates Beagle Bay Mission To Tune Of £10,000
Section of native married quarters after the blow
His Grace Blesges Convent For Nuns At Queen's Park
for the keys for the hall, thern door of 'the church, telling me all the home were he found two Sisters of St. down or badly damaged in John of God on the ground the married quarters, and with iron flying over their they wanted to put the old heads. women and the children in Although a man of 68, he needed supply of flour and the hall, the only building picked them up and supstill Wilundamaged. porting one on each arm, he Brother to pie kup our All the time sheet iron struggled against cyclonic liam. the Mission truck driver and mechanic who was passing by us, then a winds finally reaching the was returning front a holi- tank from a building a convent in safety. The Sisday down south. It was quarter of a mile away roll- ters say they owe their lives Father's intention to hurry ed past; it had obviously to him. back before the rain set in. been lifted over trees and At nine o'clock it was all It continued to rain buildings twenty feet in over. The boys ran over throughout Wednesday, and height. to me and view with each I tried again to get to the ither to tell what was deduring that night it rained in torrents, and a strong dormitories where the boys stroyed. One said: "Three by were, but it was impossible windmills are gone"; anwind sprang up and morning it was difficult to to dodge the iron, as it other said: "No! more better walk up to the church. How- twisted in all directions as five are gone." (Blessed ever, I did not think things it came towards me. I had youth-the fires of wondert'oar41*' were amiss and I started to be content to make f2fr ment and adventure burn ,..4tigau44* the monastery and watch as brightly in them as in Mass. Shortly after starting, the the boys as they ran from boys throughout the whole On Sunday, March 3, His Grace the Archbishop solemnly blesscandles blew out and as soon building to building with world). ed and opened the new Convent of Mercy, Queen's Park, in the as Brother would re -light flying timber and sheet iron I told one little fellow I them, they would be out all around and over them. would have to sell him to presence of a number of well-wishers of the parish and neigh again. Just after the Conseof Sisters required to staff sion field of New Guinea. get money; if some people bouring districts. Sisters Rescued cration, dirt and dust startBoth Church and State They poked their heads knew him they would pay a His Grace, the Arch- the schools, since it was ed to fall on the altar. I had million pounds. He started bishop, after being welcom- neither practical no econo- were indebted to them for to keep my finger on the round corners, and pulled to easy. I like to mical to extend the think it original their work in the sphere of them back, as more iron ed by the parish priest, the Sacred Host to prevent It because he reckons the Rev. J. P. O'Farrell. de- building. education and His Grace from being blown away and flashed by. The glass of the was price was Congratulating too low. (It was the archisaid he was glad of the opclared the convent 'officialI used to continually blow barometer was down to 27 degrees, and as the intensity too!) ly opened. In his address tect (Mr. Anthony O'Hara) portunity of paying them the dirt off It. of the wind increased, one As I went over to the he recalled the occasion of, and the contractors (T. S. tribute with all the sincerity Escape From Death could see the needle waver- married quarters, my eyes the blessing of the first con- Plunkett Pty. Ltd.), His at his command. Continued on Page 4 Soon the altar was as ing. By this time the build- filled and I could not speak vent in 1927 by the late Grace commented on the dirty as a country lane, and ings at the eastern extreme to the people crowding in Archbishop Clune and point- grace and dignity of the building which showed exthe on of the mission were stripped the hall. Every home was ed out the zealous work I had to leve the top ciborium as I gave the ab- of their roofs. down or damaged, including done by the late Father Fin- cellent workmanship. He was, grateful for the By running from one ten new homes we built last negan, then parish priest of solution before distributing opportunity afforded him of Earlier building Communion. to another, the year. Holy Two of these had Queen's Park. my altar boys disappeared. Brothers reached the dif- never been slept in. It lookHe said that there was no thanking the Sisters of Evening Mass, offered for I learned afterwards that ferent stores and tried to ed as though some giant had doubt that the success the Mercy for the wonderful first time on Feb. 3, is they were trying to hold the save the goods from the passed through. parish had achieved had self-sacrificing work they the appealing to not only Cathside doors closed. Between rain. I made for the dormibeen due very largely to were doing in the schools olics who live in the vicinity and Native for their Heroism co-operation the ceiling and the walls of tories and met the bigger the intercessory powers of Later we heard stories of that holy priest before the in the field of education in of Yanchep, but to Catholics the sanctuary, there was a boys carrying the younger from Perth who wish to Australia. two inch gap; this is what ones across the mission sheer heroism, as the young throne of God. spend a full day amidst the square to the church. It was men rushed about at the littered the altar. His Grace referred to the He briefly outlined the beautiful and peaceful surI hurried outside and had a miracle that not one of height of the cyclone, drag- humble beginning of the remarkable progress of the roundings of Western Austo take cover behind the them was cut down by the ging young and old people pioneer Sisters who until Order throughout the world tralia's wonderland. from wreckages, defying the huge flying debris. 1936 taught school in the and particularly in Auswing of the church, as The evening Mass is ofAs we battled to save the flying iron sheets blown off parish church. Since that tralia since its beginning in, sheets of iron were being in Yanchep hall each tossed about like paper perishable goods and cloth- the houses as they carried time Queen's Park and sur- Dublin in 1831 under the fered night at 8 p.m. A to safety, rounding districts had made saintly guidance of its Sunday bags. Whilst standing there ing from the store, the these people priest from the Servite giant strides. said His Grace. foe ndress I saw the Brothers waving beams were still being rip- some of them blind. Mother Mary Priory at Wanneroo makes The Brothers reported me to get away-the small ped off from above our Armadale and Gosnells Catherine McAuley. the trip each Sunday night church tower was rocking heads; then suddenly the our losses at the mission had become. independent In 1846 the first Sisters offer the Holy to and fro, having become wind changed from the east centre itself. All dormitories parishes and new churches of Mercy settled at Victoria - to John Handcock Sacrifice. Wancracked at the base. Had to the north and soon more the various shops in which had been established in East square and that mustard' neroo, fills the role of of usher it fallen I would have been sheet iron was being hurled trades are taught (such as Cannington and Kenwick. seed had grown today to a for the Mass. Jimmy Papathe carpentery, blacksmith The new convent had be- mighty tree with its branches crushed to death. across the mission. of 31 -mile, is the Just then, two young marMeanwhile, as Brother and motor repair shops) come an imperative need spread throughout the Com- lucca, acolyte. ried men came and asked Frank was leaving the nor - were damaged, plus two of to accommodate the number monwealth even to the mis-
On Tuesday, February 12 it started to rain. the first heavy rain since July last year, so the rector, Father Leo, took th esix-ton Inter. to Broome to load a badly
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Evening Mass For Yanchep