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No. 2068. PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1978

ANCULATIONS

Perth Aberdeen Street

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Telephone 328 1118

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Gosnells sale

of Church and school complex On

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unprecedented for the Archdiocese of Perth, the Gosnells parish facilities ore to be sold to the City of Gosnells to enable relocation. o

This week an agreement for growing school needs. required facilities. will be signed by which the The unsatisfactory sitIn December, 1977, the City of Gosnells will pay ing on a busy road of the shire increased its offer by $425;000 for the 2.1 acre presbytery and its limita- $50.000 and this is considsite on Albany Highway. tions for accommodating ered by the parish to be an along with the church, pres- more than one priest. acceptable offer. bytery and school buildings Last Sunday night a speThe presbytery showed its The Church of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament at currently on the site. Gosnells. limitations last year when cial general meeting of the The parish will be entitl- the proposal to have a sec- parishioners was held in ed to take all the church ond priest at Gosnells had the church and the vast mafurnishings, altars and other to be abandoned because it jority voted in favour of fittings, plus the stained was too small and for a the sale. glass windows. The proposed new centre time it was felt that it might It is believed that the be necessary to buy a home - of the parish will be on the church building may be unit residence some dist- nine-acre site at the corner A set of weekly enflection and teaching on converted to a library by ance from the church. of Southern River Road velopes will replace the justice and development. the city. and Corfield Street. The approach to the shire traditional cardboard The old wooden church, This week's agreement is was facilitated by the fact On its own behalf, ACR the result of twelve months that since June, 1973, the which was built in 1918, collection boxes for has promoted the production will be moved to the new this year's Project of negotiation. Catholic Church had owned The overall theme for raised more than $7 million and distribution of films In January, 1977, with nine acres on Corfield Street site and will become a com- Compassion Lenten op this year's appeal Li "Work- in the 13 years since it was dealing with its concerns, thus part of peal. the concurrence of Father for the eventual relocation munity hall sponsored seminars and oring Together fOr rustice." the history will be preserved. established. Thomas Prendiville, parish of the school. Envelopes for each week Gosnells became a parish The money raised has ganised study tours. As an extension of this, priest at Gosnells, the With a Commonwealth in its own right in 1949. of Lent up to and includhelped fund many different the weekly themes, outlinAs well as these activities. Archdiocesan Chancellor, grant plans were made to The school and presby- ing Easter Sunday will be ed on each envelope, are: types of projects, particu- some Project Compassion Father Peter McCrann, was move the upper primary distributed in churches to larly in developing coun- funds are ear -marked to Working authorised by Archbishop grades for the commence- tery were built in 1953 and all together for families attending Satthe new church was built in tries. assist in emergency relief. justice with: Goody to explore the possi- ment of 1978. urday vigil Or Sunday 1963. bilities of a sale to the Emphasis is placed on The poor, who inakc deNew school buildings are Masses, this weekend. Immediate aid is given to shire. self-help development. mands on our nearly completed for the victims of wars and natural Archbishop Gleeson, and mir time. resources Among the Principal reasons influ- opening this week. which projects disasters such as typhoons, chairman. of Australian The hungry, with whom have been funded by ACR floods, droughts and earthencing such an initiative Without a sale, the school Catholic Relief which sp6nREDUCTION we are asked to share our are development schemes in quakes. were; was faced with the fact that sor3 the annual Project daily bread. The increasing traffic for some time in the future agriculture, small-scale inCompassion appeal, said this Sometimes major appeals Those who weep, the vic- dustry, marketing of handihazard on Albany Highway activities would have to be IN SIZE *Oak it was hoped the entims of disease, war and crafts, health services, and for these funds arc mountat the church and school en- split between the two sites. velope system would gis e ed s- fot example the Lebfamine. trance, making it difficult vocational and leadership As a result of the church's Due to production parishioners a clear underanon and Italian earthquake Those who are hated for training. not only to enter the site on approach, the shire replied problems, the size of The standing of the appeal's speaking the truth. some occasions but also with an initial offer of Record has been reduced ACR also helps support appeals. aims. Those who are driven Action for World Developimpossible to make an exit $375,000. letnporarily to eight But ACR is able to meet He said that a weekly put. particularly the .refu- ment and the Catholic requests immediately in peak traffic conditions. Diocesan and parish au- pages. The normal size gees. The accepted inade- thorities felt that this was will he restored nerd theme would be printed on Commission for Justice and through a special fund set each envelope to give each Those who are abused and Peace in their efforts to aside for emergency relief. quacy of the site to cater insufficient to replace the week or, at the latest, family the chance to discuss -denounced as criminals, the following week. prank* the Church's re- .,( E 3) e the purposes of Project as Jesus was. Compa_ssioa. Project Compassion has -*5

PROJECT COMPASSION; A NEW APPROACH

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ice - presidential bench is empty

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nesota (NC). The vice presidential bench at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Waverley, Minnesota, will be empty in the weeks ahead. Because Hob. best H. Humphrey will not be stopping by to attend Mass as he often did In the past. Two priests associated with St. Mary's remember Humphrey, who died last month of cancer, with fondness.

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Father Martin Shall-

better, present pastor of the parish, saw the former Vice -President just nine days before he died. The two also prayed together during that visit at Humphrey's home in Waverly, and Father Shallbetter told him that all the parishioners at St. Mary's were praying for him. "He shed a few tears and said it was beautiful," the pastor said. Father Wallace Hermes, pastor at St. Mary's from 1967W70, %It?, ==

Mr. Humphrey was Vice -President, said that he attended Mass there 10 or 15 times while he all held the nation's Num- Ill! her Two position. The parishioners felt they should recognise Mr. Humphrey's special post and manufactured a vice-presidential bench, which was to be occupied by Mr Humphrey whenever he visited. Over the years Mr. Humphrey was "very IIII helpful to. the parish in many ways," said FathHermes.

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