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"God's Work -Must Truly Be Our Own"
'IONA" - OPENING NEXT SUNDAY
Says First Catholic U.S. President
ON SUNDAY NEXT, February 5, His Grace the Archbishop will bless and open the new secondary school of the Presentation Sisters, "Iona." Mosman Park. The time of the opening is 3.30 n.m. and the Sisters cordially invite all narents of present pupils,
John F. Kennedy assumed the duties of President of the United States with a solemn warning to his countrymen that "here on earth God's work must truly be,our own." He had taken the oath of office, his left hand resting on a Douay version of the Bible that has been in the possession of his grandmother, the widow of former Boston Mayor F. Fitz-
gerald. Before that Richard Cardinal offered a Prayer "that we may know . . our personal responsibilities" as men, as Arriericans, as citizens of the world, as children of God. The Archbishop of Boston also asked God to give President Kennedy, his cabinet, the Congress and the courts "and all of us" the grace "to perform with full personal responsi-
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President Kennedy began inauguration day by walking some three blocks from his Georgetown home to Holy Trinity church, where he attended a Mass offered at 9 a.m. by Father Anderson E. Bakewcll, S.J., Father assistant pastor. Martin J. Casey, S.J., the the then pastor, greeted President-elect. A half-hour earlier, Cardinal Cushing offered a Pontifical Low Mass in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, across the city, for the welfare of the nation, and for the ofhis
Dwellingup To Rebuild: Appeal Made Mass was said last Sunday in the Dwellingup Post Office where 25 people gathered and recited the Rosary while exploding drums of petrol and the roar of the fire which destroyed the town filled the air with hideous sound. "It was the Rosary that saved us," they said.
ficials of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the government. The Cardinal also recited two prayers at the Mass. One was the traditional Prayer for Civil...Authorities, composed by Archbishop John Carroll, the first United States bishop. The other was a prayer to the "Father of Natiohs," composed by Cardinal Cushing. Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle of Washington was in the sanctuary at this Mass.
Representatives of three other faiths offered prayers et the inauguration ceremony, asking divine guidance and protection for President Kennedy and his administration, noting the troubled times in which it comes to authority. His Holiness Pope John XXIII sent a cablegram to President Kennedy on inLuguraticn clay, invoking "divine assistance for the high mission to which you have been called." The Holy Father also sent a cablegram to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was terminating eight years cs President, President Kennedy is the first Catholic to occupy the office of President of the
Two women had to be forcibly restrained by their families from making an attempt to enter the burning church to save the Blessed Sacrament. They were dragged to safety minutes before the superheated air inside the building exploded and pushed out the whole side of the building causing
United States. At 43, he is also the youngest man elected to the presidency. President Theodore Roosevelt was younger, 42, when he took the office for the first time, but he was advancing from the vice presidency following the death of Presi-
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So intense was the heat that the windows melted. Twelve heaps of molten glass fused with nails and wire now lie alongside the heap of ashes that was once St. Matthew's Church. The small congregation, mainly forestry and timber workers, was proud last week when the last £5 of the church debt was paid. Now they will have to start again. Within one hour of news being received that Dwellingup was in danger, arrangements were made to turn St. Joseph's School, Pinjarra, into a receiving centre for evacuees. Cots, prams and mattresses were rushed to the school for the women and childrn who were evacuated before the fire struck. Classrooms became nurseries and babies slept as their mothers silently awaited news from the hills 15 miles away which were then a sheet of
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dent McKinley in 1901. President Kennedy's swearing -in was preceded by some of the worst weather the capital had seen in 50 years, but the day itself was bright with sunshine, though veiy cold. ' It was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, inaugurations, with visitors bulging all of the city's accommodations. seSome 5,000 persons cret service men, members of the armed forces, uniformed and plain clothes police -formed a security guard In: the occasion. Manholes in the streets along the route between the white House and Capitol were lifted, inspected and sealed several days before the inauguration. Chief U. E. Paughman of the U.S. Secret Service said incoming Presidents usually receive threats, but that "they 'have been more vicious this time on both religious and political grounds." 1 The inauguration went off without untoward incident, however. President Kennedy also became the first Presiden: since Andrew Johnson who has served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives; the first man born in the 20th centu.y to become President; the second man in American history to become President while both of his parents were living. Ulysses S. Grant was the first. It was the first time two parents had seen a son inaugurated.
Cathedral Recital Of Dr. Ford's Works On Sunday 12th
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BARBECUE to assist Lord Mayor's Relief Fund -See Page NINE.
On Sunday week Feb.( 12th) at 8.30 p.m. after Devotions, a performance of works by Dr. C. Edgar Ford for choir and organ will be
given in St. Mary's Cathedral. Tne performance will be given by the Society. of St. Cecilia, conducted by Rev. Father Albert Lynch, with Mary Kerr at the organ. The works chosen are "Ecce Sacerdos Magnus," the "Mass in D. Minor" and the "Te Deum." These were written for St. Mary's Cathedral in 1943. These works are not only filled with a massive impressiveness suitable for great occasions, but also have many passages of tender and devotional beauty. Of all Dr. Ford's many compositions, these are the most beautiful and the most profound. He is a Doctor of Music of Oxford, and has been well known in Australia, -India, Africa and other parts of the world as an efathiner for Trinity College. He have given many organ recitals in the cathedral over the past forty years and his improvisations have been accounted as equal to those of any organist in the world.
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Next day the school looked like a battlefield first aid post. Smoke -blinded firefighters were led in and bedded down on mattresses on the floor. Some were so exhausted that they had to be spoonfed from tins of baby foods. Women used over a ton of ice in making cool drinks and icepacks for the victims. Ambulances ran a shuttle service to the hospital with the more serious cases. The Anglican and Methodist Ministers and their congregations helped the Catholics in this pressing urgency. The prompt care from the voluntary workers and the medical teams saved many from serious shock and collapse. The spontaneous charity and generosity of so many has made up to us for our loss, many victims said. The Dwellingup church was insured for £1,800. "This will give us a start," said Father Harry Brennan, narish nriest. "but it will not be nearly enough, especially as those who would have helped us have lost everything they owned." A temporary chapel will be set up immediately. and Father Brennan has asked for donations of linen, brassware and altar furnishings to replace lost items.
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SISTER GERMAINE MARIE, of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, will join companions from other Provinces of the Congregation carrying out mission work at Ubon, in Thailand. After a novitiate at the Mother House, Sister Germaine Marie spent some time in the English Scholasticate before coining to Australia four years ago. Since then, she has taught various grades in the primary school. This occasion marks the second time the Australian Province has contributed staff towards mission expansion in Asia, where the apostolic spirit of the Sisters finds expression against a background of oriental religions and pagan cults.
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Society Of St, Cecilia Will Sing Mass Many of his songs and orchestral works have of late found much favour. A short time ago The University Choral Society and the Perth Symphony Orchestra gave a fine performance of his cantata ''The River." The river incidentally is our own Swan and the authoress of the poem Dr. Ford's wife, Judith Kean. 'The Society, of St. Cecilia is not the Cathedral's own choir, but a relatively small body of singers, with voices of the power necessary to be equal to big works, and at the same time to retain something of the freshness and beauty of the individual voices, that is necessarily lost in a choir of large dimensions. The choir sang this Mass and Te Deum at a Mass celebrated on the occasion of its conductor's Sacerdotal Jubilee last year and the Professor of Music of the Perth University (Mr. Frank Calloway), who heard one of the rehearsals, thought it a pity that the public in general should .not have a chance to hear these works. It was accordingly arranged that a performance would be given in the Cathedral as part of the 1961 Festival of Perth, to which everyone is invited.