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The Town
Hell Is opposite
New Trinity Chapel Blessed: Protestant Pastor's
Official Opening In March
Unity Plea Warns Against Sentimentalism
ONE of France's foremost Protestant leaders has warned that
t h e sentimentalism which overlooks real obstacles to Christian unity con make that unity harder to achieve. "Let us beware of bringing into the search for ('hristian unity a sentimentalism which has nathing to do with true lo"e and obscures the immense difficulties which today are
insurmountable,
Pastor
Mare Boegner advised in an article published by the national daily newspaper Le Figaro. Pastor Boegner is president emeritus of the Protestant Federation of France. He has been in the front rank of Protestant exploring avenues to Christian unity. He referred to a talk given recently in Paris by Cardinal Bea, president of the Holy See's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
No Ambiguity
A view of the island altar of the circular College Chapel. ON SATURDAY, February 11, His Groce the Archbishop blessed and opened the new Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity at Trinity College, Perth. The ceremony of blessing was followed by High Mass, celebrated by Rev. R. Kelly, with Rev. J. Chauncey and Rev. T. Tomich as Deacon and Sub Deacon respectively. The three priests, together with the preacher of the occasional sermon, Rev. J. McNamara, are all past pupils of Christian Brothers' College, Perth. Assisting His Grace were the Right Reverend Monsignori J. T. McMahon and F. O'Connor. The St. Mary's Cathedral choir sang the Mass and accompanied the ceremonies under the direction taf Rev. P. Ahern. with Mrs. A. Goerke at the organ.
Some Unique Featwes The new chapel, circular in shape, is in many ways unique and hag been designed by the architect, Mr. James Thompson, of the firm Henderson and Thompson, as the focal point of the college building group. The circle has a radius of 40 feet and is 23 feet high at the walls. The sanctuary is directly in the centre of the chapel and as the roof is supported from the walls, nothing can impede the full view of the congregation, which is grouped around three sides of the altar. Immediately behind the altar are the sacristies and confessionals with the choir gallery above them. The major advantage of this type of structure .is that it lends itself to a more complete participation by the congregation-in this case the College students-in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The chapel will seat 340 boys, none of whom will be more than six benches from the sanctuary, which is raised above the floor. The external walls of the chapel are of Toodyay stone and internally they are faced with salmon brickwork divided into panels by white columns. The windows of the chapel are unique in that they are the first type of concrete and glass windows used in Australia. They were designed by
the London stained glass artist Mr. Carl Edward and were executed locally by Gowers and Brown. The glass pieces, about one inch in thickness, are inserted in white concrete and it is to their unusual thickness that the brilliant colouring is attributed. Each window is designed with its own theme, with special emphasis being given to the Persons of the Most Holy Trinity, and the Principal Patrons of the Christian Brothers' Institute, the Boy Jesus and the Blessed Virgin. The lower sections of the windows open to a height of six feet and are fully glazed in amber antique glass. The effect of lighting to the chapel has been considered in great detail with the main natural lighting from the lantern over the altar in the sanctuary. The lantern is suspended over the altar and is faced with natural timber boarding of blackbutt and wandoo. Natural timber is used extensively also in the seating and balustrading. The main floor is mosaic parquetry, while that of the raised sanctuary is in black marble. All the marble, together with the stone facing, was executed by the Westralian Marble and Granite Company. The builders were Messrs. Greenhalgh and Hewitt. The Crucifix, designed by the sculptress M:s. Margaret Priest, is in aluminium. Mrs. Priest also was responsible for the semi -abstract Stations of the Cross and is at present working on the aluminium statues of Our Lord and His Blessed Mother for the side altars. To harmonise with the aluminium of the crucifix, the altar ornaments are silvered instead of the usual brass.
Free Standing Cross Greets All A band of white stone pebbles completely surrounds the chapel, which is connected with the other buildings on the site by covered ways. Standing in front of the chapel, at the head of the main drive, is a great white free-standing Cross, a sign to all who see it that this is a Catholic College whose aim is the complete education of youth, enshrined in the love, knowledge and service of God. The official opening of the whole College as a complete unit will take place towards the end of
March.
"I am among those who thanked Cardinal Bea for the precise way he spelled out, at the beginning of his conference, the dogmatic position of Rome in the face of the problem of unity." Pastor Boegner said. He added that in making the Catholic position clear, Cardinal Bea "barred the road to all ambiguity." Four thousand people of all religious faiths came to hear the Cardinal, he said.
Pastor Boegner said this year's week of prayer for unity had achieved an 'unprecedented success. He styled the development of an ecumenical climate "one of the most meaningful facts of the 20th century." For the filial success of the ecumenical movement :the Protestant pastor prescribed study of Christianity's diverse forms.
Imperfect Knowledge "With rare exceptions the faithful of the different Christian religions still know other churches very imperfectly," he asserted. "Those Protestants who make of Roman Catholic teaching nothing but strangely false ideas should take the trouble of seriously studying th e catechism taught in every diocese," he said. For Catholics whose ideas of Protestantism are drawn from "remnants of a polemic rejected by all Catholic theologians today," he prescribed Roland de Pury's "What is Protestantism?" Pastor Boegner remarked: "We do not see today how to resolve these fundamental divergences on the infallibility of the Pope, teachings on Mary and especially on the respective authority of revelation given in the Bible and the tradition of the Church. "The most elementary ecumenical loyalty demands that we study these serious divergences with lucidity and courage, but also with humble faith and trust in the God to Whom nothing is impossible."
Dealh March Becomes Pray March Manila, The Philippines: Thousands of pilgrims moved by truck. bus and on foot along the route of the Bataan Death March to hear Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C.. preach in San Fernando on
the Family Rosary. Some of the pilgrims came from Capas, 65 miles away, where Filipino and U.S. soldiers who survived the Death March of 1942 were interned by the Japanese. Father Peyton's threemonth Rosary Crusade in the Philippines will end March 17. The Diocese of San Fernando is the 301st to bring in the Rosary Crusade, which has already obtained more than 16,400.000 pledges for Family Prayer. The pledge reads: "In order to obtain peace for the nations of the world, and the love and protection of God and Mary for myself and the members of my family, I promise to recite the daily Family Rosary."
Clerical Changes His Grace the Archbishop announces the following clerical appointments: Rev. M. T. McCaul to be "locum tenens" Palmyra. Rev. H. Brennan, S.T.L., to be "locum tenens" Cloverdale. Rev. E. McKenna, BA., to be "locum tenens" Carlisle. Rev. J. McNamara to be Parish Priest Pinjarra. Rev. J. Dowling to be Administrator Guildford. Rev. J. Lyons to be Assistant at Nedlands. Rev. N. McSweeney to be Assistant at Maylands. Rev. J. Moore to be Assistant at Victoria Park. Rev. C. O'Malley to be Assistant at St. Mary's Cathedral. Rev. R. Doyle to be Assistant at Highgate. Rev. C. Tory to be Assistant at Kalgoorlie. Rev. C. Deglorgio to be Assistant at Subiaco,