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Perth, Thursday, Sept. 29, 1960
Student Nurses Hold Conference And Attend Cathedral -inMass
reference to the patistudents in Perth for the ent's corporal recoveryone thing is necessan, "but CatheMary's at St. Student Nurses' Conference attended Mass his soul." a nurse does Granted, dral. her pro-
On Monday lost, Catholic nursing
enter and practise fession in order to heal the yet if the pursues i.'r rk as a truly Christian nurse in the spirit of !he of her holy faith, she ministers to the body only because she hopes she cart thereby benefit the soul. While her whole attention in nursing is apparently devoted to the body, to the restoration of health and the relief of pain, her funds' mental motive in doing all this is her solicitude for the cure or improvement of the patient's soul.
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The Town Hall is opposite.
We Charge More We Give More SINCE JULY, 1951, "THE RECORD" HAS BEEN SELLING AT SIXPENCE PER COPY AND THE MANAGEMENT HAS ENDEAVOURED TO KEEP THE PRICE AT THIS FIGURE FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
However, over the past years, with production costs rising sharply, the difference between cost of production and return from advertising and sales has grown wider and wider.
Reluctantly therefore the price must be increased to ninepence with the publication of next week's issue. We are one of the last Catholic weeklies in
Australia to increase our price.
AS SOME COMPENSATION, HOWEVER, FOR THE INCREASE IN PRICE, THE NUMBER OF PAGES WILL BE INCREASED TO 20 WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER PAGES AS SOON AS THIS IS PRACTICAL.
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With this sublime and inNew features scheduled for the bigger paper are spiring outlook upon her the greater use of photo services, the use of synditherapeutical service, she is cated articles-The Foreign Commentary by the qualified to say the words of Jesus: "My kingdom is noted D. G. M. Jackson and two others from She not of this world." America. wants her greatest achieveWe aim to boost our circulation by a further ments in the ward to be and this is possible among the 9,000. copies eternal rather than tempoCatholic families of the Archdiocese of Perth alone, rary, to be spiritual rather account the other dioceses in into without taking than corporal, not so much distributed. the West where "The directly as indirectly. Wilson Joanne (Qld.), Mallon Peggy (Perth), (Left to right): Cecilia McGillivray She does not pose as a modernisation of the printing plant in the With (Vic.), Rolton Margaret (Vic.), Wilson Barbara Free (Vic.), Ursula dramatic preacher of the "The Record" factory-long overdue-we have the truths of salvation, nor does Rev. P. McCrann. capability of producing the number of pages in the she affect to pose as a priest. paper that the economy of the firm can permit. She has good enough sense well repaired after an i 1- to know that a nurse's spiriThis we intend to do. R EV. P. McCRANN, Chaplain to the Catholic Nurses so and yet ness or accident tual efficacy is usually the Advertising has always been the financial backGuild, offered the Mass and preached for the soon, so very soon, they bone of any newspaper and, as is obvious from the occasion. Apart from visitors,, there was a representa- again fail and weaken and greater and the farther more silent, the reaching, pages of "The Record," there has been a steady tion of Catholic Nurses at the Mass. finally cease and decay. the more virtual, the more decline in advertising over the years. This is Why then be warmly de- unobtrusive it is. In his sermon to the tion to the sick and by His mainly caused by the policy of firms and agencies student nurses, Father efficacious concern for their voted to and highly elated She exerts it not profesin advertising only in larger circulation and secular over the restoration of sionally but implicity, as a McCrann compared their relief and cure. The nurse who pursues something that is doomed to rule even unconsciously. journals. Some forms of advertising we cannot vocation to that of Christ love in the her profession be very shortlived at the Always with saintly stealth, accept. Therefore a Catholic paper has to rely Our Lord in His compassion for the sick and suf- and spirit of Our Divine best, and the condition of FO to say, and holy diplomore on sales to cover the cost of production. Lord says, as it were, with which even in this teasingly fering. macy, displaying it much Readers of "The Record" can assist by patronising accordMaster, her Divine "By this act of charity," ing to her capacity: "Come brief period of life is every mere by her personality and advertisers in the paper and also by being constant pretantalisingly so moment exemplary conduct rather he said, "Christ revealed to me, all you that labour in their acquiring and reading of "The Record." Himself and His mission of and are burdened and I will carious? than by her formal words In this matter we can and express admonishments. No Catholic paper in Australia sets out to comsaving souls in a very tell- refresh you." logically accommodate the pete with the secular press for news coverage. The me, she can believe And, ing way. So very often do While she will rarely, if words of Jesus and say: purpose of a Catholic Press is to inform on the we find Him making use of only do this if her own soul ever, be used by God for the the miraculous cure of some working of miraculous cures What doth it profit a sick is attuned to the love of Catholic position, to correct if necessary erroneous the most regain if he man physical malady to support in the strict sense of the God and her feet firmly set ideas given in the secular press concerning the and prove His claim to be word, yet through the lay- perfect bodily health and along the way of salvation. Catholic position, and the reporting of Catholic These are the thoughts I truly God as well as man." ing on of her hands in gen- suffer the loss of his own activities throughout the diocese, the country and Or what exchange wish to present to you as soul? Father McCrann then out- uine charity and warm sym- shall man give for his soul? the world. sixth annual begin this' you throughout pathy, she will seldom fail ho w lined Pope Pius X said: "In vain you will build Christ's public ministry He to comfort the heart, to re- The Soul Important convention of your Student churches, preach missions, found schools; all your would heal the sick and fresh the spirit and to soothe The Catholic nurse who, Nurses' Association, and I good works, all your efforts will be destroyed, if "have compassion on the the body of her patient; and in serving such a sick man, urge you in your ministrayou cannot at the same time wield the defensive because they what is more worthwhile, brought him back to com- tions to the sick to rememmultitude" underlying and offensive weapon of a Press that is Catholic. were distressed. she can often save the sick plete bodily health without ber always the person of the innate dignity loyal and sincere." The nurse, seeing in each person's soul, irrespective of profiting his immortal soul, whose broken frame you are patient the image of Christ, her success or otherwise in would be convinced that all tending and do not be utterWATCH FOR THE FEATURES: in was in his case her work corporal curing his ills. and inspirasolace take can automatic If a Catholic nurse were vain as far as her super - ly professional, tion from those words of D. G. M. JACKSON. and ultra -businesslike, but Christ: "As long as you did concerned only about the national intentions were rather be sweetly compasPictorial News of the Catholic World. it to one of My least bodily health of her patient, concerned. While she went attentive- sionate, tender, considerate, Living with Christ-By Father Syrianey. brethren, you did it to Me." and could benefit or restore about her duties on be- and then you will more Father McCrann went on: it only without doing the ly least bit of good to their half of her professional case, surely be truly Christ-like. "Even if He does not ac- immortal souls, there would she would feel as though tually reveal Himself in be very little indeed to en- Our Lord were chiding her, Person to a nurse in the thuse her in her profession. saying regretfully: "Nurse, selfless exercise of her lofty CARDINAL APPEALS TO WORLD'S CATHOLIC PEOPLE The body and its organism thou art careful and art profession, as He is said to and functioning may be ever troubled about many things" ies must show themselves to have done to St. Elizabeth Vatican City: The world's Catholics have be effective workers for of Hungary once when she progress and, "if necessary, was tenderly nursing what been urged to help the Church keep pace with witnesses unto heroism of she thought was a most charity and forgiveness." termission in place taking changes
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wretched and abandoned leper, still every nurse who really loves God is convinced that whatever charity and attention she is tendering to her patient is administered indirectly to Jesus, Who is, so to speak, in mystical hiding in every one of her charges, From all this it is evident that nursing the sick from a motive of true Christian charity is one of the highest and most sublime vocations on this earth. Christ Himself sanctified the nursing vocation by His own atten-
LAY HELPER URGENTLY NEEDED IN DERBY
A CATHOLIC GIRL, preferably over 18 years of age, is urgently needed to help in the hostel at Derby, conducted by the Pallottine Fathers, for a period of at least three months-from October to the end of December. The appeal is for someone who is prepared to work on a voluntary basis at the hostel, at which there are 33 native children ranging in age from six to 16. Keep and amenties are provided. Anyone interested is asked to contact Monsignor
McKeon, Catholic Missions, Catholic Centre, Vic-
toria Square, Perth. Telephone 23-1889.
the rapid ritories.
The appeal was made by Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. It was made in connection with Mission Sunday, to be held this year on October 23.
The Archbishop pointed out that in a changing world the Church as always "tirelessly carries out its work of evangelisation."
But now, he went on, "the hour in which changes are taking place with dizzying rapidity has struck for the world. In the face of these changes the Church feels it necessary to mobilise all the vital forces of the faithful in prayer and generosity." Sigismondi Archbishop said that Catholics in the established newly numerous nations in mission territor-
He urged Catholics to pray for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and to give generously to help the Church meet the challenge of the present. Of the approximately one billion persons in mission areas about 35 -million are Catholics. Another 3,500,000 persons are taking instruction in Catholicism prior to baptism. There are 28,000 missionary priests, and close to 5,000 major seminarians studying in mission lands.