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Nationalities 'Mercy Nun Is Dead: Santa. Maria Extensions Organise 50 Years In Order. Blessed, Riverton Opened 13

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The Church committee of community of the Sisters of Mercy, St. Our Lady Queen of the Brigid's, West Perth, was called to her eterApostles parish is working hard for a successful bazaar nal reward in the person of Sister Margaret to help their young parish Mary. with 13 different nationaliA Victorian by birth, toria Park, sister of Sister ties. Sister was of French extrac- Margaret Mary, and to other Many stalls and wheels tion, and possessed in good- relatives, "The Record" exwill offer bargains. The ly measure, the deep, reli- tends sympathy. children are specially cat- gious faith usually associa- Sister of Mercy, half a century! ered for by pony rides. ted with that nationality. Various raffles will be She was educated by the Tending God's little flock for fifty years, drawn in the afternoon. Good Samaritan Sisters, In self-denial, prayers and Friends of the Pallottine Glebe Point, Sydney. loving tears, devotions special Her Fathers who are in charge Glory crown of the parish and well wish- were those of the Sacred The King of thy fealty! ers of a poor migrant parish Heart and of Our Lady's immortal saved iiare cordially invited to Dolours. From the Imita- And souls by thee will be make the fete a real suc- tion of Christ, most of Thy stars for all' radiant memfrom which she knew cess. It will be held at the ory, she could make apt eternity. Church hall, Tribute-st., on quotation to suit any cirSeptember 27, commencing cumstance. For the past 50 years, she at 2 o'clock. has been a devoted labourer in the Lord's vineyard, prizing highly her vocation With a large and enthusof teaching Christ's little iastic committee making ones how to direct their preparations, the fete at lives towards their final St. Hospice, Vincent's Guildford, on Sunday, Sept. The Rev. H. Brunetti, goal. That her work bore fruit 28, should be an outstandparish priest of Maida Vale, will leave for Italy by has been evidenced by the ing success. the Orontes on Sept. 24 to ever-increasing number of The proceeds of the fete be with his parents on the past students, from every will be devoted to a buildgolden jubilee of their mar- walk of life, who unfail- ing programme the Daughingly visited their former ters of Charity have in riage. Father Brunetti expects teacher to express apprecia- mind. to return to his parish by tion and gratitude for the There will be different sterling training of earlier stalls and pony rides for the Oct. 31. character solid a year children. On Sunday last, Sept. 14, His Lordship, Bishop Rafferty, formwhich presaged training The Hospice, which is in ally blessed and opened the new school building attached to Santa *Visitors later success. a picturesque garden set"As long as you did it to ting, will be open to public Maria College, Attadale. The three -storey edifice follows the one of these My little ones, inspection during the afterSpanish architecture of the original building and balances with you did it unto Me." Sister noon. The public are cordially Mary never lost the recently erected chapel at the other end of the frontage. Their Chapel Margaret sight of these divine words, invited to the fete which The classrooms are ar- ters of Mercy have made to Mercy were joined by many "Brother, it was worth may she now be enjoying will start at 2 p.m. ranged so that the students aducation in this State ask- other illustrious teaching Trains will leave Perth at travelling 3,000 miles just the "eternal weight of have the full benefit of the ed Bishop Rafferty. Arriving orders, said His Lordship. promised to those 1 p.m., 1.30, 2, 2.30 and so But it was interesting to to see this beautiful chapel." glory" unrivalled river scenery when the colony was but themselves on. This year arrangements So spoke an interstate who have spentof the Eter- have been made to transthat is afforded by the site. seventeen years old, they note that, with the Sisters in the service on viewlast week St. visitor of Joseph the of AppariThe variety of colour were the first in the field of port visitors from the railnal King. schemes found in each class- Catholic education, and in- tion at Fremantle, who ing the Castledare chapel To Sister M. Genevieve of way station to the Hospice room also adds to the at- deed amongst the pioneers arived nine years after them for the first time. St. Joachim's Convent, Vic - and return. tractiveness of the sur- in the whole sphere of edu- the Sisters of Mercy shoul"I should be greatly honroundings. cation in Western Australia. dered, for almost forty years oured, Brother, if you would A well-equipped science We who enjoyed the re- the formidable task of pro - allow me to take some room, which provides facili- sults of more than a century viding a Catholic education colour photographs of that ties for laboratory work in of development and progress for the rapidly increasing beautiful so building," Bishop Confirms Native Children the essential sciene subjects, had but hazy ideas of the child population of the spoke non-Catholic our colony. It was an heroic shown the forms part of the new build- difficulties and hardships friend on being ing. The other five rooms faced by the first colonists. chapter in the story of the chapel. form spacious classrooms The Sisters were no ex_ Church in these parts. No wonder the little boys with every facility for effec- ception, and by their It was a well-known fact at Castledare are so proud tive and ple.sant teaching patient and humble accep- that the Church in any re- of their Mother of Perpetual conditions. tance of the privations of gion would be what the Succour chapel. Spoken of Among the distinguished those early years, they de- schools made it, and it had with the greatest admiravisitors on the platform monstrated, in the manner very truly been said that it tion; perhaps you have not were His Lordship Bishop best understood by those was the desks in our schools seen it for yourself. Rafferty, the Rt. Rev. Mgr. about them, that they con- which filled the pews in the We invite you, on behalf J. McMahon, the V. Rev. J. sidered no sacrifice too great churches. the little orphans to see If this diocese had been of Hogan, S.J. (Provincial of in the pursuit of the lofty impressive building and the Jesuits), the Hon. W. ideals of their saintly blessed, as it had in every this the others at Castledare on Hegney, M.L.A. (Minister Foundess: the Christian edu- generation, with a loyal, de - Sunday, the October 12 for Education), Mr. N. Jones cation of the young, and the voted and deeply religious annual Field Day. (District Superintendent of care of the orphan, the sick laity, it was due, in great October 12, Keep Sunday, Education), Messrs. Le B. and the destitute. measure, to the self sacri- free and bring the family Henderson and Mr. G. fice, generosity and dedicat- out for the afternoon. You First In Schools Thomson architects) and ed labours of those pioneer will not be disappointed. From the beginning they builders for God. Mr. A. Power (contractor). For further particulars ring The story of the Sisters of 68 2380. His Lordship was wel- devoted themselves in a corned and introduced by special way to the work of Mercy was a long one that the chaplain, the Rev. L. education. The foundations had its beginnings in a cottage in St. Flynn, S.J., who alluded to were well and truly laid, humble the evident interest the and upon them there grew George's-terrace in the year Bishop had always shown in that system of Catholic edu- 1846. It was dotted with, He Wanted to Kill Guildford, 2 all the activities of the col- cation of which all were so place names Himself justly proud. York, Toodyay, Bunbury, Crisis in Education 3 lege. His Lordship, Bishop Rafferty is pictured above at From beyond the seas, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie 4 His Lordship congratulatWhitewashing Bandits 5 the rural chapel of St. Francis Xavier's Native Mised the Sisters of Mercy on and, in a very short time, which conjured up visions Book Reviews 6 sion, Wandering where he recently administered the the acquisition of a splendid from amongst their own of a people striving to es-, Of Interest to Women addition to an already mag- local pupils, there came, in tablish themselves in a new Jesuit Debates with Sacrament of Confirmation to 30 native children. 7 Jailers nificent building. It gave a steady stream, other gene- and strange land. Whilst at the Mission, His Lordship also blessed the 8 and joy Corner of souls, and willIt had its pages ready Children's them badly needed class- rous shrine of Our Lady of Schoenstatt and the new bell preroom accommodation which ing to join the pioneer band its pages of sorrow, of suc- Bishops on Traffic .. .. 9 sented to the Mission by the head house of the Pallottines would facilitate and render in a life of dedicated service cess and heart -breaking Dr. Rumble's Radio 10 in Germany. Replies more efficient the grand in this remote part of the disappointment, but it was The bell is housed in a small tower on a hill overwork in which they were Master's Vineyard. always a proud story of self- Modification of Nuns' 11 looking the Mission. Habits sustained devotion, As time went by and the less engaged. .. 12 Who could measure the State developed, said His effort and unswerving loy- Les Darcy Story .. 13, 14 Local News .. contribution which the Sis- Lordship, the Sisters of alty to God and Church.

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