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Mission Report Shows Progress
Thanks From His
In publishing the returns for the Propagation of the Faith and Holy Childhood for the year 1960, the Diocesan Director of Pontifical Mission Aid Societies, The Very Rev. Mgr. M. McKeon, wishes to express his sincere thanks to the Priests, people, teachers and children for making the grand total of £19,515/018 possible.
Holiness
On May 3, 1922, Pope Pius
The forthcoming celebration of the eightieth anniversary of His Holiness Pope John XXIII has furnished an outstanding opportunity for the Hierarchy. clergy, religious and faithful of the Catholic world to manifest their affection, devotion and loyalty to the Vicar of Christ, and their ardent desire to second the works of apostolate and zeal so dear to His heart. The munificent gift in the total amount of £ 1,818 which Your Grace and the priests and laity of the Archdiocese of Perth have forwarded for the Pontiff's acceptance on this occasion has therefore proven a source of warm consolation and comfort to His Holiness; and He would have me assure you of His heartfelt thanks and appreciation. In return, He invokes upon all those associated in this loving gesture an abundant reward of favours and graces from on high; and in pledge of that supernal recompense, He willingly imparts to Your Grace and extends to the devoted clergy, religious and faithful entrusted to your care. His paternal Apostolic Blessing. Gladly availing myself of the occasion to renew to Your Grace the assurance of my personal eshigh consideration, I remain Sincerely yours in Christ,
Widespread Charity In April, 1957, the late Pope Pius XII pleaded on behalf of the missions calling for greater charity and warning against parochialism "Stimulated by the charity of Christ," he said, "you will be happy to feel with Us the urgent duty of propagating the Gospel and of founding the Church throughout the world. THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT AND THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT ARE ONE AND THE SAME THING. Nothing is more foreign to the Church of Jesus Christ than division. Nothing is more harmful to her life than
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D. CARD. TARDINI.
Father Rearin, Parish Priest Of
Victoria Park, Dies In St. John's Rev. H. Kearin, P.P., of Victoria Park, died
in St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, last Wednesday morning, January 18, at the age of 74 after an illness of short duration.
isolation, retiring into oneself, and all the collective forms of egoism which induce a particular Christian Community or Parish to close itself up within itself." To these words might be added the words of Pope John XXIII taken from his Encyclical on the Missions, November 28, 1959-"There is a great need everywhere, on the part of souls, and from all parts there comes to us the cry, 'Help us.'" Year after year, Catholics throughout the world respond generously to the constant plea of Christ's Vicar on earth for help for the missions. Day after day, children at school and families at home pray for the missions and more prayer is needed as the conversion of the pagan world becomes every day more urgent. It is consoling to note that Catholics are annually increasing their financial aid to the missions, but there is still need for a greater effort on the part of some people-"from him to whom much is given, much shall he expected."
Last year the Holy Father was given £ 10,1111,0110 for distribution to the missions. It represents one -seventh of what was urgently needed on the missions. In 1950, when Catholics throughout the world contributed £10.6411,0410 to the Propagation of the Faith, Oonununist throughout the world contributed £1,350.000,011 to the propagation of Communism. In making his report, Monsignor McKeon said: "I am happy to See that the good people of the Archdiocese of Perth are year by
Vatican City, December 22, 1980 My Lord Archbishop,
XI instituted the Society for the Propagation of the Faith as a society under the care of the Holy Father by which alms of the faithful intended for the missions were henceforth to -be centralised. On that occasion the Holy Father made the announcment "In the fullness of Apostolic power, of our own free will, and with full knowledge of the case We statute and decree: The Pious Society for the Propagation of the Faith will be the organ of the Holy See for the collection everywhere of the alms of the faithful and their distribution among all Catholic Missions."
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Father T. J. Guy of Lutwyche, Brisbane, Queensland, Catholic Chaplain with 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, in North Malaya, celebrates Mass in a jungle base camp while Private John Giles, 21, of Campsie, N.S.W., kneels in prayer. Chaplains of each denomination attached to the Battalion fly into the Malayan jungle by helicopter to con(Army Photo)
duct services for the troops on operational patrols.
year making greater efforts to help the missions. Their generosity to the missions speaks eloquently for the faith of the people, and here I refer again to the words of Pope Pius XII: 'The Missionary Spirit and the Catholic Spirit are one and the same thing.'" "I should be lacking in I to omit a word of sincere thanks to the many non-Catholics who contributed generously to the mission in .the past year.
gratitude were
Children Thanked
"To the children in the schools I must say a special word of thanks. They are never found wanting in generosity to the Holy Childhood. Their generosity of course is proportionate to the zeal of their teachers in keeping the cause of the missions always before their eyes. Typical of the zeal of our teachers in this field was the zeal of the late Brother Quirke, who died last week. He called at my office regularly to give me the contributions made by the children in his
the year of the socalled credit squeeze, I hope and pray that our people will have sufficient faith to avoid Its application to the Propagation of the Faith. So great are the needs of God's poor, who are poor physically and poor spirituselfishness.' ally-with that greatest of all poverty, the poverty of paganism-and so boundless Advertising Pays "We are all aware of the is the Holy Father's love for high cost of advertising, them, that the sacrifices of whether it be on television the faithful are completely or in a newspaper, and used up each year. Your readers of 'The Record' may continued faith, your unwonder how much it costs ending charity are the only to advertise the missions reservoir that Christ has on each week through the earth to care for His poor. medium of the 'Mission May that reservoir be alNotes.' At this stage I wish ways full to overflowing. to express my sincere thanks Charity Saves You to the Managing Editor of 'The Record,' the Rev. F. May I end with the words Dillon, for giving me free of the Head of the Society space each week in the for the Propagation of the Diocesan Paper for 'Mission Faith, His Eminence CarNotes.' The value of this dinal Agagianian, addressed 'free space' is well known to me personally on the to me from the number of occasion of his visit to letters and cheques I re- Perth: 'Tell the people,' he ceive from the readers of said, 'that when they help these poorly-compiled notes. to save the souls of others, "And now for the year they save their own souls.' " school, and one day when I commended him and the children for their good work for the missions, he just said: 'Well, Father, it is no trouble to me, the children are very generous and it is good for them to think of others, it does away with
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tered now all over Australia and also around Auckland, New Zealand, where he was born and grew up. After working for some time in New Zealand, Father Humphrey Kearin left for Ireland to study for the priesthood, first at St. Patrick's College, Thurles, later at All Hallows, Dublin, and was finally ordained from in Propaganda College Rome. His ordination took place in 1914 when he was 28 years of age and before leaving Italy he was presented along with several other missionary priests to Pope St. Pius X whose glance and personality made a lasting impression on him. Arriving in Perth, the first appointment he received was that of assistant priest at Cottesloe to the late Father Richard O'Neill,
from the:e he was transferred to a similar position under the late Monsignor Fagan at West Perth. After this solid training he was placed temporarily in charge at Victoria Park from 1916 to 1918. On the return of the late Monsignor Hayes from war service, Father Kearin went to Beverley where he took over from the late Monsignor Moloney as parish priest.
Goldfields Work
At a time when the prospects of the goldfields were not bright, during the years 1920 to 1922, Father Kearin was sent as Administrator to Kalgoorlie where he carried out a difficult task with outstanding energy and zeal and succeeded in placing the finances of the parish on a sound basis. His assistant priest during this period was Monsignor Lang mead, now parish priest of Leederville. Continued on Back Page
Leederrille Talks For Married A CANA CONFERENCE IS BEING ARRANGED
TO TAKE PLACE IN LEEDERVILLE PARISH HALL. A preliminary meeting for men only will be held on Monday night, January 23, at 8 p.m. in the hall on the corner of -Franklyn and Oxford streets. Any men who are likely to attend the conference from Glendalough, Osborne Park, Tuart Hill. Mt. Lawley, West Perth or Leederville parishes are invited to take part in this Monday night meeting. A Cana Conference is a series of lectures by experts and discussions by married people concerning many of the problems confronting Catholic couples in the world of today.