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Flynn and the InterCongregational Aged Care Group for about four years. Ten Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions will settle into the home in November, along with 12 Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, three Presentation Sisters, I S Massa five Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition, one Pallottine Father and two Christian Brothers. "It is a huge thing for them to have to move; it is costing them emotionally," Sr Cabassi said. "They are part of our community; we will miss them." But Sr Cabassi said it was too expensive for religious Orders to rebuild and run separate aged facilities. The Josephites have a 97-year-old Sister and Sisters in their 90s, 80s and 70s in their nursing home and hostel in South Perth. "Our aged members are called once again to be pioneers, to start something new, to be part of coming together with other congregations in a community of a variety of charisms, all giving their particular expression to the Gospel," she said. "They have to be fairly dependent, at a higher care level rather than lower care. "They will have the option to have their own doctors, if they will visit."
City urged: pray for more rural rain Archbishop Barry Hickey has urged all parishes and communities in the Archdiocese of Perth to pray this weekend for consistent, farmer-friendly rain as the winter's first rains fell. "Farmers of Western Australia have been telling me that the situation is getting desperate," Archbishop Hickey told The Record last Thesday before the rain came. 'The planting of crops has been seriously delayed because of the extended dry spell. Unless the weather breaks in the very near future, with extensive rains into the wheatbelt, the livelihood of many of our farmers will be affected." "Ihope that all our city parishes and com-
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Orders join to care for aged embers An inter-congregational nursing home for Religious Orders is currently under construction in Shelley by Southern Cross WA Aged Care. The home is part of the Margaret Hubery Village in Fifth Avenue and there will be 33 beds for Orders out of a total of 60 beds. Margaret Hubery is a distinguished health professional, former head of nursing at Royal Perth Hospital and a former student of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, Highgate. Southern Cross WA Aged Care executive director Stuart Flynn told The Record the project was on track and should be completed by the end of October. He said they would be closing their facility at Two Pines. Spokesperson for the Orders, Josephite Sister Alma Cabassi, said it was a historic occasion to have Orders combine with a lay organisation. "Southern Cross WA Aged Care gave us the opportunity to join with them," she said. "There was a whole lot of work to come to agreement; even the congregations coming together in a mutually beneficial way was breaking new ground. Everyone was so willing to work together." Sr Cabassi has been organising meetings of the different congregations with Mr
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munities will show solidarity with the farmers and people in the country by praying for rain. Let us make the words of Psalm 64 our own: You care for the earth, give it water, You fill it with riches. Your river in heaven brims over To provide its grain And this you provide for the earth, You drench its furrows, You level it, soften it with showers, You bless its growth The hills are girded with Joy, The meadows covered with flocks, The valleys are decked with wheat, They shout for joy, yes, they sing.
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Archbishop Hickey answers school children's questions yesterday week.
By Peter Rosengren When Archbishop Barry Hickey faced an Internet camera last Wednesday to launch the LifeLink Day Campaign in Catholic schools, students' questions came from all directions and on every subject under the sun. Kids in schools throughout the archdiocese used a live Internet link to ask everything about the Archbishop's life and his opinions. For an hour or so they plastered him with questions: Does he have any pets? Does he pray? How does he decide which archdiocesan charities receive funding? Would he urge Prime Minister John Catherine Kingsley, Laura Ferraro and Zoe Howard to say 'sorry' to Aborigines for Baldwin from Our Lady of Grace School in past injustices? Does he enjoy being an North Beach ask Archbishop Hickey questions over the Internet Archbishop? But while students wanted to ask the as their own responsibilities as Catholics questions, perhaps it was the Archbishop to help those less fortunate than themwho was wondering how the whole exer- selves; and to provide practical support cise was going - after all, he could nei- by donating a small amount to the agenther see, nor hear, his questioners. cies: this year's target for arc.hdiocesan That was because while his audience schools is $50,000. watched and listened to him on their This year LifeLink will assist approxicomputer screens via the Internet in their mately 45,000 WA families and individuclassrooms, the archbishop was sitting als in some way at a cost exceeding $15 miles away in a boardroom 32 floors million. above Perth's central business district Donated funds will go to help homeless without any view of his interlocutors unemployed people, those seeking to and For Archbishop Hickey the Internet linkescape drug addiction or prostitution, up with students was a definite first and the physically and intellectually disAs questions were e-mailed in to the abled, victims of domestic violence and offices of WestNet, the Perth computer many others. consultancy which set up the link, the Brett Mendez, the consulting manager Archbishop was seen live, give a ten second break, answering the questions on for the LifeLink campaign, said that next year the Internet encounter between WestNet's website. All students had to do was log-on to the Archbishop and students would be organised so that the Archbishop will be site and send their questions in. By the end of the hour, several hundred able to see his audience and listen to 'hits', with each hit usually representing their questions as well. Apart from the LifeLink Day itself, many a class or a school, had been received on the site - including some from overseas. schools will also organise a range of extra The interactive session saw the Arch- activities throughout the June to Decembishop not only answer questions but ber appeal period to raise funds for archemphasise to students the importance of diocesan agencies. Mr Mendez said that one outstanding the Archdiocese's LifeLink campaign which raises funds for the Archdiocese's example was Corpus Christi College in welfare agencies each year. Bateman which raised approximately The day in schools also had two pur- $12,000 last year and split the proceeds poses: to educate students in the impor- equally between the Telethon appeal and tant work of the LifeLink agencies as well LifeLink.