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Jesus in the Eucharist: heart of the Jubilee Holy Year VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II led a prayer service with 50,000 pilgrims to open the week-long International Eucharistic Congress, calling it the "heart" of the jubilee Holy Year. At an evening liturgy last Sunday, 18 June in St Peter's Square, the Pope said the focus on the Eucharist highlighted the essential message of the jubilee, which was dedicated to Christ as Saviour. It also showed the need for Christian unity, he said. "From this Eucharistic congress comes the invitation to renew our faith in the real presence of Christ In the sacrament of the altar," he said in a sermon. "At the same time it inspires an urgent appeal for the reconciliation and unity of all believers: Pope John Paul raises a monstrance 'One body..... one faith, one bapholding Jesus Christ, God and Man, tism!' Unfortunately, divisions and in the Blessed Sacrament at the Vat- disagreements still wound the ican last Sunday. Photo. CNS/Reuters body of Quist and prevent Chris-
Hans of different churches from sharing the Eucharistic bread," he said. The square was packed with members of various confraternities that had marched across Rome that afternoon, carrying giant wooden crosses, banners and elaborate processional platforms with statues of Christ and Mary. "I ask everyone, individual believers and Church communities from every corner of the earth, to share with us these moments of Eucharistic spirituality." the Pope said. The Pope closed the ceremony by kneeling in silent adoration of the Eucharist. • Archbishop Barry Hickey was due to preach this Sunday 25 June at the dosing ceremony for Australia's National Eucharistic Congress in Wollongong, New South Wales.
An unidentified woman holds the hand of Pope John Paul II during a lunch hosted by the pontiff for 200 of Rome's homeless and poor at the Vatican on Thursday, 15 June. Full report, Page 11. Photo CA.
ope beyond Simpsons By Peter Rosengren
The values portrayed in The Simpsons and Southpark, two popular television cartoon series high on so-called adult humour but watched by millions of Australian children, are not a favourite of Catholic religious order leaders in Australia, Perth found out this week. The Australian Council of
Leaders of Religious Institutes
held their annual meeting at the Mercure Hotel and discussed the state of Australian society using the two shows as examples how sarcasm, sexual innuendo, and the enjoyment of misfortune are promoted in society The one hundred and twenty heads of Catholic and some Anglican men's and women's religious orders also heard from 14-18 June that values associated with economic rationalism and its drive to elevate profit and the market above the conunon good and that of the individual were not wanted in a just society. From cartoons to economic theories, the Simpsons and South Park were the examples quoted
last week as what Catholic religious orders do not stand for - or, alternatively, as how they and their members are called to stand against the often-popular values of society and to be prophetic for the kingdom of God. In Australia there are approximately 200 religious orders with around 10,000 members between them, working in everything from parishes to the fields of health, education and welfare. ACLRI executive director, Josephite Sister Mary Cresp, told The Record, the gathering was also aimed at helping those who lead religious orders envisage the call of the Church and the world into the new millennium as well as delving into the purpose behind religious life. The gathering's overall theme challenges for creative religious leadership - saw much discussion generated, with Fr Gerard Arbuckle, a Marist priest and anthropologist, responding to presentations and facilitating discussion. Fr Arbuckle later told The Recordthat religious life had originally evolved as a challenge to both the Church and society to live out the Gospel values of justice, mercy and love. The term he often used for Reli-
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Archbishop Barry Hickey with outgoing ACLRI president, Brigidine Sr Margaret Cassidy, and the leaders of religious orders at the Mercure Hotel last week.
gious was `gap-finders,' he said, those who seek out gaps between God on the one hand and the way the Church and society is living on the other. But religious were also called to build bridges across that gap, he pointed out At the conference he had discovered much awareness of this dual task of religious life from participants, he said. Among the examples of work which religious do in Australia as gap finders and seekers he pointed to the grass-roots action for reconciliation with Aboriginal Australians and work with asy-
lum-seekers. And although there were declining numbers of religious in the Church, Fr Arbuckle said, the challenge was not to survive. "[The challenge] is the mission, and if that means congregations sometimes die, well, that's part of the story," he said. The question of how religious orders can survive had not emerged as an issue of concern for Order heads, he said. "We want to [survive], yes, but the message I'm hearing is 'we want to get on with the mission'," he said. Continued on Page 5
The leaders of Australia's Religious Institutes sent statements of support and solidarity last Sunday to the Religious of Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Meeting in Perth at their 24th annual assembly, members of the Australian Council of Leaders of Religious Institutes told their brothers and sisters in Fiji and the Solomon Islands they were "mindful of you in this time of pain and uncertainty." "Know of our desire to be of assistance in whatever way possible," they said. "Our prayers are with you in this time of need." Newly-elected ACLRI president Brother Michael Godfrey said religious leaders had heard first hand about the turmoil in both Fiji and the Solomon Islands through Fr Michael O'Connor from Suva and Fr Joachim Rego from Papua New Guinea who had both spoken at the Assembly. Continued on Page 4
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