Catholic Life - April 2011

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Publication of the Diocese of Sale ISSUE 149 April 2011

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Help restore St Mary’s CathedralBishop Christopher Prowse has launched an appeal to raise up to $1

million to restore and enhance the Mother Church of the Diocese of Sale.Please be generous in your giving.

Send donations to Cathedral Appeal, Reply Paid 508, Sale, 3853* Credit card form can be downloaded at www.sale.catholic.org.au. Fill-in on line, print, sign and post.

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Students go green forSt Patrick’s DayNEWBOROUGH - The St Mary’s Catholic School Com-munity celebrated St Patrick’s Day.

The children investigated the story of St Patrick and they par-ticipated in special activities to remember St Patrick’s work.

The Grade Prep children ate green apples, pears and grapes.

The children also ate green jelly and green spearmint leaf lollies and enjoyed green cor-

dial. The children did their story

writing in green pencil and they participated in a number of green art activities. They even sang a special ‘Irish Blessing’ Song.

The teachers enjoyed green treats at recess including green cake, green dip and green fairy bread. And at the end of the day some green ‘bubbly’ was sampled in fi ne Irish spirit.

AMARLI enjoying the green glasses during St Patrick’s Day at Newborough.

THE Bishop of Sale, Bish-op Christopher Prowse has issued offi cial guidelines to be followed for Catholic funerals.

The guidelines draw a clear distinction between a Catholic funeral and some of the secular funeral services and those cele-brated by other denominations.

Funeral Masses or requiem Masses in the diocese are to fol-low the approved book Order of Christian Funerals in which

those present pray for the re-pose of the soul and forgiveness of sins of the deceased.

Funerals with several eulo-gies, Powerpoint presentations, poems and popular music will no longer be allowed.

Bishop Prowse said the Cath-olic Church had developed since ancient times a richness of liturgical prayers and Bibli-cal readings for use at funerals.

The new guidelines make it clear what is appropriate for a Catholic funeral:

• Terms such as ‘words of re-membrance’ or ‘refl ections on the person’s life’ are pref-erable to ‘eulogy’,

• It is not necessary to have a eulogy. The priest can be giv-en some information or notes about the deceased for him to use in his homily.

• Words of remembrance should be kept to fi ve minutes and no more than 10 minutes. This can help a Funeral Mass or Liturgy of the Word, but nu-merous and/or lengthy refl ec-tions can undermine funerals.

• Content should include a cou-ple of appropriate refl ections that will bring out the Chris-tian character of the person, rather than too much histori-cal detail.

• Memories of the life of the deceased could be shared at

a viewing, in a separate mo-ment before the Mass or Lit-urgy of the Word.

• Powerpoint photo presenta-tions are not appropriate dur-ing a Catholic funeral. The recommendation is to do this at the wake or some other time with the family.

• The title page of a booklet and media announcement should read: ‘Mass of Christian bur-ial for.....’ or ‘Funeral Mass for.....’ or ‘Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of ....’ A simple service, i.e. not a Mass, should be called: ‘the Funeral liturgy of......’ or ‘Rite of Christian Burial of .....’

• A Catholic Funeral should not be called ‘a Celebration of the life of ....’ , because it does not express the full

depth and meaning of our un-derstanding of funerals.

• Funeral directors are to be reminded that they tell their clients it is not necessary to have booklets for the funeral service

• Music for a Catholic funeral is liturgical and appropriate hymns or music should be chosen. Romantic ballads, pop or rock music, political or football club songs are not appropriate, but a song like that could be used after the burial service.

• While burial is the preference of the Church, cremations are allowed and it should be ex-pected that these take place after the funeral Mass with-out prayers. Care is to be taken to ensure that the ashes are interred in an appropriate place. See full policy P9

- Catholic Life, April 2011

IN their encounter with the Easter Lord Jesus, the men on the road to Emmaus described their experience by stating: ‘Did not our hearts burn within us’.

These weeks are the most impor-tant in our Liturgical Year. In Holy Week we allow the Lord in His Living Word to Easter within us as He re-presents His life, death and resurrection in the Liturgy. May I encourage all to participate fully in Holy Week in your parishes. May our hearts burn within us too as he explains afresh the scriptures to us!

Easter is the culmination of our Lenten penitential journey. As the beautiful Exsultet proclaims at the Easter Vigil – “The power of this Holy night, dispels all evil, washes guilt away, restores lost innocence, brings mourners joy”.

The Lord’s plentiful mercy reach-es out to our penitent hearts and sets us free. This is true conversion. The Easter Lord is victorious in us. Alleluia!

Over these Lenten weeks with you in the Diocese of Sale, I have expe-rienced many ‘little Easters’. There have been times when, “our hearts burning within us”, the Lord broke through our stubbornness to reveal his redemptive mercy.

Three particular moments come to mind:

First, along with about seven priests, I celebrated in the Second Rite, the Sacrament of Penance with many students from our Catholic

Secondary Schools. It was a mini-Retreat. It was conducted at Marist-Sion College, Warragul. The young people responded deeply and in large numbers in coming to Confes-sion. There was a profound experi-ence of repentance and conversion in the Liturgy. It gave us all great hope. Confounding the sentiments of the sceptics, it has been my per-sonal experience that young people respond so well to the Sacrament of Penance when given the oppor-tunity. “World Youth Day” experi-ences witness this; so too beautiful-ly prepared liturgies as at Warragul. Thank you, my dear young people, for opening your hearts to the Risen Lord entering the depth of your be-ing with Easter forgiveness.

Secondly, the Rite of Election at the Sale Cathedral was a moment of grace too. Over fi fty adults came from their parishes’ Rite of Chris-tian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) groups. They will become Catho-lics over Easter. Before the Rite of Election, I was able to meet with the Catechumens and Candidates infor-mally. It was a moment of grace. It was a moment when “our hearts

burned within us”.I asked them what attracted them

to the Catholic Church. Their re-sponses were varied; some because they worked in Catholic Schools and were inspired by their Catholic colleagues; others said because they were to marry a Catholic. Some others mentioned the inspiration they received from the local par-ish when their Catholic loved one died. A few intellectually curious testifi ed to the truth they discovered in studying the Catholic faith – es-pecially our teaching on the Sacra-ment of the Eucharist. Another was fi rst drawn to the Catholic faith be-cause a friend invited her to a par-ish function. She was so impressed how the Catholics really cared for each other, especially the poor and marginalised. What a joy (a ‘little Easter’) I experienced in listening to these testimonies of the awakening of Catholic faith!

Thirdly, the Regional Forums be-ing conducted in the Diocese are another occasion of a ‘little Easter’ among us. These gatherings are in response to my Pentecost Letter, “Finding Home in Jesus’ (2010).

Communities are offering me initial feedback to the Letter.

I have been touched by the respect and prayerfulness of these listen-ing sessions so far. Parishioners are bearing testimony to their Catholic Faith and offering so many sugges-tions as to where pastoral priorities can be directed in the Diocese of Sale in the years ahead.

As Pope John Paul II stated, all such pastoral initiatives must be based in relation to holiness in our Catholic life [Novo Millennio In-eunte (2001), 30]. The deep Catho-lic piety and love for our faith has been expressed many times in these sessions. Thank you for your love of the Faith! Thank you for giving way to each other in the love of our Easter Lord! May we go forward in maturity of faith and a love that knows no bounds.

For these three ‘little Easters’ that I have witnessed in these weeks, I thank the Lord Jesus with all my heart. May the Lord continue to Easter in us as we open our hearts to His Redemption and saving grace in these wonderful days of hope. May we be Emmaus people too and proclaim with Mary, Our Heavenly Mother, “did not our hearts burn within us.”

God bless you all this Easter!

+ Bishop Christopher ProwseCatholic Bishop of Sale

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Volunteers identify key issues for the communitySOCIAL justice offi cers from local groups of St Vincent de Paul Society volunteers in the Latrobe - Baw Baw region at-tended an annual social justice forum on March 19.

The forum was hosted by the Trafalgar Conference at St. John’s Parish Centre.

Key issues facing families and individuals throughout the

region were identifi ed and dis-cussed by the offi cers gathered.

They included housing avail-ability, affordability and access to public housing, access to mental health treatment, soar-ing utility costs and continued bushfi re recovery (includ-ing psychological trauma and mounting debts)

Information was shared be-

tween conferences and strate-gies developed regarding how best to assist the families we support.

The society spirit was well and truly alive on the day, with members able to tell the stories of the marginalised and disad-vantaged in our community.

The mission of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia is

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We seek to cooperate in shap-ing a more just and compas-sionate Australian community, and to share our resources with our twinned countries.

Our preferred option in this mission of service is to work with people in development by respecting their dignity, sharing our hope and encouraging them to take control of their own des-tiny.

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The homeless and despairing will fi nd hope at EasterFOR many months now we have all witnessed the enormous natural calamities that so many have en-dured in Australia and the world.

Tsunamis, fl oods, earthquakes and bushfi res have left so many homeless and despairing.

Through the media, all of us have participated, to some degree, in these natural disasters.

For those in Gippsland, raw memories of our horrifi c bushfi res over two years ago have been re-awakened.

It is futile to seek reasons for

these natural disasters. The Earth will do what the Earth has always done.

What is important, however, is to participate in the great outreach of practical help to those most af-fected.

Recently, for example, I listened with great admiration to some members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society who continue to as-sist those still traumatised by the Gippsland bushfi res of two years ago.

They are people of hope. They

give hope to those despairing of meaning and in need of practical resources.

Givers of hope to the weary are Easter People. They imitate the Risen Lord Jesus.

He took upon himself our mis-erable and sinful state in His Life and Death on the Cross. In rising from the death at Easter he trans-forms our many ‘deaths’ into His one great act of Salvation.

For Christians, in the Risen Christ, death is never the last word upon life.

Easter offers us all life eternaland in great abundance. There isjoy, hope and an eternal future.

Let us reach out to Christ atEaster!Let Jesus Easter in us!Let us see him most in the home-less and despairing. Especially the victims of recentdisasters!Happy Easter to all!

+ Bishop Christopher ProwseCatholic Bishop of Sale

THE annual Bishop’s Family Foundation appeal will be held in all parishes across the dio-cese during May.

The foundation requires an annual injection of funds as a hedge against infl ation eroding the real value of its trust fund.

The foundation is rare among charities in that it exists to aid other agencies to provide ser-vices for families in the Dio-cese of Sale.

Another unusual feature is that every cent donated to the foundation is still held in trust so that it can operate along phil-anthropic lines.

Earnings from proceeds held in the trust fund are available for distribution each year and in recent years this usually amounts to about $100,000.

The foundation has no staff, as staff of various agencies are involved in day to day opera-tions with the diocese covering any funding needs.

Since it was established 10 years ago, the foundation has distributed almost $700,000 to organisations providing servic-es to families.

Donations can be made via envelopes which will be availa-ble at Masses during May. Cash may be placed in the envelope

or the credit card details fi lled out on the rear before placing them in the collection plate.

Donors are reminded to fi ll in their name and address so a receipt can be sent for tax pur-poses.

Applications from organisa-tions seeking funding from the foundation in 2011 will be tak-en in July and August and the trustees will announce success-ful applicants in November.

Application forms for 2011 will be available from the diocese Web site www.sale.catholic.org.au nearer to the date.

Deacon’s ordination delayedTHE planned ordination as a deacon of seminarian Tao Pham has been postponed until later this year.

He was to have been ordained by Bishop Christopher Prowse at Our Lady Help of Christian, Narre Warren on March 16.

The ceremony was cancelled after Tao was hospitalised for treatment to a serious infection which developed after he in-jured a hand.

A planned visit by 30 semi-narians to St Peter’s College, Cranbourne and St Francis Xa-vier College, Beaconsfi eld, was also cancelled.

The seminarians who would later attend his ordination had intended speaking to students about vocations.

No date has been set for the ordination but it is likely to be in the second half of the year.

Tao Pham

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NO date has been fi nalised yet for the foundation of the Angli-can Ord inariate in Australia.

Bishop Peter Elliott, Mel-bourne, who is charged with assisting lay Anglicans want-ing to join the Church said “In Australia we are quietly mov-ing to that stage when we hope the Holy See will establish an ordin ariate.”

It had been hoped the fi rst personal ordinariate would be established by June.

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Finding our home with God

Reflectionsby Jim Quillinan

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THE search for our roots, the search to discover who we are and where we have come from is becoming more popular by the day, if TV shows and me-dia advertisements are to be be-lieved.

Exploring our family tree, fi nding and even visiting the places where our forebears lived has grown signifi cantly.

There is something very sat-isfying about discovering our roots, where we have come from, why decisions were made to emigrate, what happened in the lives of those who have gone before us, documenting our family tree.

Some psychologists call it ‘fi nding our home’, and suggest that it is part of our desire to unravel some of life’s myster-ies, understanding more clearly who we are and what makes us tick.

Many people consider that it is what we do that really mat-ters. What we believe is an op-tional extra. In fact, it is what we believe that really matters – what we do follows from it. Our belief about the meaning of life is going to affect our response to life.

Gerard Hughes, in his won-derful book The God of Sur-prises, adds a further dimen-sion. He urges his readers to write their own faith autobiog-raphy.

For each of us, our faith jour-ney is complex – there have been infl uences on our faith journey, people, places and events that have shaped who we have become, what we be-lieve and how we act out those beliefs.

There may even have been times when our beliefs have been challenged, when we have become disillusioned and con-fused.

In identifying and refl ecting on those infl uences, those be-liefs and the stages of our jour-ney, we can come to know the hidden God-given treasures that lie within us and to discover what we are called to become.

For the Christian, this means responding to Christ who is close to us in everyday life.

Finding our home means not only discovering our roots, our family tree but it also means be-ing able to identify the deepest desires which are at the core of our lives, among them our desire to belong, to have a pur-pose in life.

We are restless, not ‘at-home’ or at peace with ourselves until these desires can be addressed.

Finding our home is about a particular vision of God who comes to us, who moves among us, inviting us into friendship; it is about God who is not afraid to enter into the world that hu-man beings have created, even when that world appears hostile to God.

The Incarnation, the coming of Christ alerts us to the realiza-tion that we are not abandoned, left to our own devices. The resurrection means that God is still with us.

Pope Benedict explained, ‘“I arose and now I am still with you,’ he says to each of us. ‘My hand upholds you. Wherever you may fall, you will always fall into my hands. I am pre-sent even at the door of death. Where no one can accompany you further, and where you can bring nothing, even there I am waiting for you, and for you I will change darkness into light.”’(Easter Homily 2008).

Our faith autobiography pro-vides us with a powerful way to refl ect on and come to appreci-ate more deeply the mystery of being alive in God’s love, com-ing to appreciate more deeply that God is a God of surprises, who at times breaks into our lives and our hearts calling us to a fresh vision and under-standing, if only we are open and willing.

Sometimes we can get stuck in a rut, stuck in the past or even in our doubts and confusion and miss the opportunities God pro-vides – miss the invitations to a contemporary meeting with Je-sus, ‘God with a human face’, as Pope Benedict calls him.

Because of the coming of Christ we are invited to a new fellowship with God and with each other. God sends Jesus so that we can appreciate even more fully, even more clearly what God is like, what God of-fers us and asks of us.

Finding our home is about our own deepest desires and motivations, what we want to discover in life.

Knowing where to look in this search can be a problem but, if we have the courage, in our coming to know Christ, “Whenever and whatever we read of Christ in the Gospel, we

are also reading our own self-portrait, for Christ is what we are called to become.” (God of Surprises, p114).

Too often in the past the di-vinity of Christ was stressed, tothe detriment of his humanity.Jesus is truly God and one of us. He is like us.

In Christ we can recognise our own deepest desires, moti-vations and needs. Christ in hishumanity reveals by his ownactions our deepest desires and needs and, at the same time, be-cause of his divinity, the nature of God’s relationship to us –loving, gracious, forgiving, rec-onciling. We fi nd fulfi lment, wefi nd ‘home’ in being and doingthe same.

St Paul’s spells this out in some detail. “Love,” he says, “is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is notirritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, butrejoices in the truth. It bearsall things, believes all things,hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). God is not content with our separation from him and, as God actively seeks to overcome this separa-tion, we must also seek ways to reconcile differences and resolve confl icts among our-selves. Just as God’s love for usis active and creative, so must ours be for each other.

Finding our home means rec-ognising that God continues to create. Creation is not fi nished. We are part of a creative, evo-lutionary process. We are calledto be co-creators, to preserve, care for and add beauty and or-der to an unfi nished world. Weare co-creators, developing andembellishing the planet – andwe grow in our understandingof God and God’s purpose inthe process.

Hughes ends with these words: “God is calling us toa radical conversion and to adepth of trust in him which will allow God’s power to be re-leased in our weakness, God’s wisdom to be revealed in ourbewilderment, God’s truth tobreak through our disillusion.” [p160]

Australia FairWE wonder why the second verse of our National Anthem is beginning to be sung more and more often.

Most now know the fi rst verse but when the second verse is sung, adults sound-lessly mouth words like a fi sh out of water.

In 1974 our National An-them became just the fi rst verse of Advance Australia Fair written by Peter Dodds McCormack in 1878, but two years later God Save the Queen was reinstated briefl y.

In 1977, following an incon-clusive national referendum, the Australia Council decided the new anthem should be verses one and three of Ad-vance Australia Fair.

So the second verse we now have is really the composer’s third verse and of course the fi rst line was changed from “Australia’s sons let us re-joice…” to “Australians all let us rejoice…”

Welcome changesTHANKFULLY they threw out verses two, four and fi ve or our anthem might take longer than some of the ceremonies at which it is performed.

Interestingly, the other verses were axed because the overall sentiment of the song is to keep Australia for those “from England, Scotia and Erin’s Isle,” sentiments which are no longer politically cor-rect.

Especially out of step is the

verse which begins “Should foreign foe ever sight our coast, or dare a foot to land, we’ll rouse to arms like sires of yore to guard our native strand.”

There has been a claim that Dodds wrote another verse which speaks of God but it is undoubtedly a later addition. This added verse was sung at World Youth Day in Sydney.

Used knowledgeINTERESTING to see the rapid demise of encyclope-dias.

Not so many years ago, they were a vital item on the book shelf for families with school children; then along came computer versions.

They too have been super-seded by the vast amount of information contained on the Internet, although much of that has to be sifted through to discern fact from fi ction.

The fate of the multi volume encyclopedia is sad as we saw this week a full set of World Book in mint condition in an opportunity shop for just $5.

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‘Make a meaningful gift to Project Compassion’ WARRAGUL – Donations to Project Compassion should be signifi cant contributions, not just leftover coins, Bishop

Christopher Prowse told the Sale Diocese launch of the an-nual appeal.

He urged the young people

to give something signifi cant when donating to Project Com-passion.

“Don’t just throw in the coins you don’t want. Don’t give something left over, give some-thing signifi cant.

“It is patronising the poor to throw in leftovers. Give some-thing that makes you conscious of the effort you are putting in.”

He also urged everyone to look for practical ways of doing things to help the poor in our midst during Lent.

Schools from across the dio-cese were represented at the launch which took place in Mc-Cartan Hall at Marist Sion Col-lege at the beginning of Lent.

Bishop Prowse spoke on the transfi guration and how things had changed for the apostles present when they went back to their friends.

He hoped that everyone pre-sent, but especially those in-volved in a Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Australia re-treat, would be changed peo-ple when they went home, re-freshed in the spirit of Jesus.

The bishop said he was pleased to hear the testimony

of a young man who went to World Youth Day in Sydney.

This man had been surprised to see some of the Mother Te-resa sisters in their distinctive blue and white habits scaveng-ing through bins and collecting small tins of tuna which has been given to pilgrims as part of their lunch packs.

Three weeks later he saw hundreds of tins of tuna in the kitchen pantry of the sisters and realised that they had saved the food from being wasted so they could give it to Sydney’s poor.

The bishop said that for this young man, the experience of seeing this was a highlight of World Youth Day. He had gone thinking it might be a feel good experience but after initially misjudging what the nuns were doing, he realised that much good was being done.

Bishop Prowse said the sis-ters were a remarkable order who worked with the poorest of the poor, with children with disabilities and regularly took in children who were dumped by parents unable to look after them.

Importantly, the sisters treat-

ed each person they met as if heor she was Christ.

He said Project Compassion was therefore not just an appealto support poor people around the world but was an opportu-nity to support Jesus Christ in the world today.

As Christ said in the Bible “when you do it for the least of my brothers and sisters, you do it for me.”

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Berwick fete a big successBERWICK - St Michael’s Catholic Primary School com-munity were treated to a won-derful, colour and eventful day at the St Michael’s bi-annual fete on March 27.

Smiles, joy and laughter were the theme for the day along with wonderful entertainment.

Events included a display from the local CFA, wonder-ful performances from the chil-dren, various rides and a show of drag cars which were quite impressive!

Luke Ball, Collingwood AFL player supported the fete by holding interviews and accept-ing autographs; with the com-mencement of the 2011 football season, Luke’s visit was em-braced with great enthusiasm by all who attended.

It was delightful to witness our community embracing the diversity of many talents and interests. ANNE Marie and Grace in colorful attire for the St Michael’s fete.


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RECENTLY I came across a thought-provoking state-ment made about our Catholic church’s work with refugees.

The speaker I was listening to said, “We don’t help these peo-ple because they are Catholics. Indeed most of them are not. Rather, we help them because we are Catholics.” I thought that the same principle might apply to our work in Catholic schools, too.

Catholic education is an ex-traordinary gift that we have to offer to our society, to our world.

It is a gift that invites people into relationship with God, that invites them to grow in faith, learning and their full human-ity, wherever they be on their own personal life journey. It is a gift that shows what it means to be truly and fully human.

Of course, we are called fi rst (in Australia, at least) to offer that gift to members of our own Catholic community and we must always be true to that call.

The gift is offered in its rich-est form, not through words, but through the experience of a living Catholic community. But, because we are Catholics, we are called to offer the gift to all who are open to receiving it.

In this column, I have often quoted the Roman document The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millen-nium.

I quote again one of its most confronting statements: The Catholic School, the docu-ment tells us, “is not reserved to Catholics only, but is open

to all those who appreciate and share its qualifi ed educational project.” ( #16).

That certainly refl ects the principle with which this ar-ticle began. Because we are Catholics, we offer to all who appreciate and share its goals the invitation to deepen faith, learning and authentic human growth whether they are Catho-lic or not.

Like the disciples in John’s Gospel, we offer the invita-tion to, “Come and see” (John 1:46). I am confi dent that in our schools, people who do “come to see” will fi nd a community committed to their Christian life, committed to truly loving those young people for whom they share with parents the awesome responsibility of writ-ing on their very spirits.

But let us consider for a mo-ment the words that go before that quotation from the Roman document. They remind us that the Catholic school must be, “clearly and decidedly confi g-ured in the perspective of the Catholic faith.” But what does that mean?

I suggest that it means, at its simplest level, the existence of an effective formal program of religious education based on the teachings handed down to us by the Church through the ages.

It also means that the spirit of Jesus is alive in the school and can be seen and experienced in the relationships evident there. They are relationships perme-ated by love, tolerance, respect, generosity, forgiveness and

compassion. As a result the Catholic

school that is “confi gured in the perspective of the Catholic faith” is a place where all can experience peace, joy, hope, justice and love.

It is a sacred place, where God is named and honored in prayer, in symbol and in ritual.

It is a placed imbued with the missionary spirit inviting people from all walks of life, whether Catholic or not, to “come and see.”

We are privileged to offer all of that, not because our students and their families are Catho-lic, but, rather, because we are Catholics.

Our own Bishop’s pasto-ral letter of last year, “Find-ing Home in Jesus”, reminds us of our fundamental duty to evangelise, to offer to everyone whether Catholic or not, the in-vitation to “come and see”.

And, he reminds us that “all baptised are called to evange-lise.” Catholic schools have the opportunity and the privilege to do this by their very nature.

Of course, the effectiveness of this mission is heavily depend-ent on the strength of the spirit of Catholicism in the school community – and that surely is a function in some part at least of the number of Catholic peo-ple – staff and students - present in our schools.

While it is clear that open-ness to all who share our vision is a fundamental part of our mission, we have a particular responsibility to Catholic fami-lies, to Catholic children.

And, quite simply, the best

way to increase the propor-tion of Catholic children in our schools is to increase the num-ber of Catholic children en-rolled in them.

It is disturbing to realise that across Australia (and it is no different in the Diocese of Sale) nearly 50 percent of Catholic children are in schools other than Catholic schools.

How wonderful it would be to bring those young people into our schools, to offer them our gift but also to strengthen and build our essential Catholic na-ture.

Yet, schools are relatively powerless to do much about that! Those children are out-side the immediate reach of the Catholic school. The school does not know who they are.

So where does this informa-tion lie? It lies, I suggest, in the parish offi ce, not in the school offi ce. It is in baptismal regis-ters and in parish censuses.

The parish, in fact, is far bet-ter placed to engage with those

families and to encourage themto send their children to our Catholic schools.

Who knows how many ad-ditional Catholic families maychoose a Catholic school for their children if a contact ismaintained, by the parish.

That might be, for example,by sending a card to each pre-schooler marking the anniver-sary of his or her baptism each year? Or what impact might be achieved by a visit from the par-ish to each baptised child just at enrolment time?

I suggest that increasing thenumber of Catholics in our schools is not a task that rests with the schools alone but isone that can be and should be shared with the whole parish community.

We all need to be workingtogether to issue the invitation to “come and see”, simply be-cause we are Catholics.

Our Church is at the service of the mission of God. It is our responsibility as Catholic to ad-vance that mission as widely aswe are able.

There are few more powerfulways of doing that than throughthe Catholic school.

We are privileged to offerCatholic education because we are Catholics.

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PUBLIC NOTICEWith the favour of God and His Blessed Mother,

Monsignor Allman PA hopes to celebrate with thanks to God for his vocation and his 60 years of priesthood this year with a Mass in St Michael’s Parish, Traral-gon, on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 11.30am.

As it is impossible to send personal invitations to so many people who have shared this priesthood, it is his desire to extend an open invitation to all parish-ioners, friends and relatives to pray with him at his Jubilee Mass in Traralgon.


I WAS chatting with a long time client the other day and she re-marked that my advice was far more conservative than it used to be. It started me thinking.

As there are fi ve “ages” of Investing - “Single”, “Mar-ried with no Children and Mortgage”, “Married with Children and Mortgage”, “No Mortgage, Children left Home and Approaching Retirement”, “Retired” so there are corre-sponding styles of advising that match them.

Each age has a decreasing tol-erance for risk.

A professional adviser will be able to advise clients as to the best approach for each of the ages of investing, but will obvi-ously have a better rapport with clients with whom they have some things in common.

Most likely this would be in the matters of age and fam-ily situation although there are many things possible.

When I started advising some decades ago. I was very effec-tive in fi nding and recommend-ing smaller industrial compa-nies which would recover and make my clients substantial returns.

As well I advised in warrants, options and some of the more speculative shares, too. I could

be aggressive with some of the better companies. In other words, I was advising on invest-ments that had a higher level of risk, and were more appropriate to the earlier ages of investing.

As I’ve aged and as my cli-ent’s have aged at a similar rate, I needed to be reminded that my advice, both strategic and specifi c, also has become far more conservative.

This advice is quite appropri-ate for my longer term clients but their children require more aggressive, growth orientated strategies. I can and do still provided these but my advice in these areas requires more thought and consideration.

In our offi ce we have some quite young advisers who are still establishing their client base and their careers. They need to be “out there” or they won’t succeed.

I listen to them and their ad-vice reminds me of what I used to be, That’s a good thing, be-cause they allow me to do my job better. As they say, to keep young at heart, surround your-self with young people.

However, at my age I wouldn’t make a success out of advising 20 year olds on their investments. Overall my toler-ance for risk has declined too

much to be of interest to them. Conversely, my knowledge

of investment structures has in-creased and I can make a big-ger difference in that regard to a younger investors.

Collectively the younger ad-visers and I together can bring great benefi ts to our clients. They will help me get better re-turns by reminding me of what I used to be and how I used to work and I can give them the benefi t of my experience.

If only I could get them to lis-ten! Some of their investment

calls I will take to my clients which adds to their benefi t. Ob-viously at my age I’m not as aggressive as I used to be, but fortunately the younger mem-bers of my staff prevent me be-ing too conservative.

Getting back to the start of this article, my client has giv-en me a “heads up” to remind me that being too conservative isn’t necessarily a good thing at whatever stage of advising I’m at. Retired investors still need good growth in their assets, even if only to keep ahead of

infl ation and tax.So, when you look to an in-

vestment adviser, fi rst look toyourself. What style of investor are you? Will your adviser re-fl ect this and so be able to offerappropriate advice.

Better yet, do they have expe-rience or some youth availablein their offi ce to ensure that theadvice is effectively balanced between conservatism and ex-citement!

• This report is intended to provide generaladvice. In preparing this advice, David Wells and RBS Morgans did not take into account the investment objective, the fi nancial situation and particular needs of any particular person.Before making an investment decision on thebasis of this advice, you need to consider, withor without the assistance of an adviser, whether the advice is appropriate in light of your particu-lar investment needs, objectives and fi nancial circumstances.

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Bringing children to Jesus

CSYMA at Nagle“CHALLENGING”, “inspir-ing”, “spiritual”... just a few words to sum up how we feel about our Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Australia class.

To start off our CSYMA ex-perience we helped participate in the leadership Mass.

We got involved by ushering guests to their seats.

We had the opportunity to go on the diocesan CSYMA re-treat; “Catch the Wave”, where we made new friends and got involved in drama.

Some of us also participated in the Don Bosco Youth Day at Brunswick. This was to cel-ebrate the visit of the relic of St. John Bosco. It was a day which we thoroughly enjoyed.

Currently, we are planning a reconciliation day for our Year 7, 8, 9 and 10s at the end of term.

As part of this our CSYMA group will perform a drama as well as participating in the readings and music.

Also a few of our CSYMA family are fl ying to Spain to participate in World Youth Day August 5-28, 2011.

We are all excited about the possibilities this has opened up to us.

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NARRE WARREN – Bring-ing children to Catholic schools was likened to the Bible story of bringing the children to Jesus at the opening on new facilities at Trinity Primary School.

Vicar General Fr Peter Slater said at the opening and bless-ing on March 18, that just as Jesus welcomed little children, a school like Trinity was also a welcoming place.

Parents wanted to bring their children to Jesus and today one of the ways to do this was by enrolling their children in a Catholic school, so the children could grow in their faith and learn about Jesus.

He said that Jesus was always present in a Catholic school, was always welcoming, and re-ceived and blessed the children.

“Everything children do and learn at school is linked with faith in Jesus and God.”

Fr Slater said Catholics be-lieved in the Trinity – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit – and it was fi t-ting that the third school in Our Lady Help of Christians parish was named Trinity.

Following the blessing of the new hall, library and classrooms

provided by funding from the Federal Government Build-ing the Education Revolution, principal John Williams spoke of the rapid growth which had taken place at the school.

He said that 10 years ago the school started with 129 chil-dren and 79 families and it had now grown to 550 children and 386 families.

Before the allocation of the $3 million in BER funding the school was overcrowded by portable classrooms and there was nowhere the children could gather as a whole school.

Mr Williams said the new facilities had given the school a new lease of life and would also extend into the community with the hall being available for a range of functions.

He announced the naming of the various facilities and school houses.

The Maria building and the blue house was named after in-augural principal Mary Howl-ett, the Allen building and red house was named after Fr John Allen who was parish priest when the school was estab-lished, and the Readman library and green house was named af-

ter Fr John Readman who wasthe Narre Warren fi rst parishpriest.

He said the Joyce buildingcontaining the library and thegold house had been named af-ter long-time school caretakersLeo and Margaret Joyce whohad cared for the building liketheir own home.

Children carried new housebanners onto the stage andstood behind each of the peo-ple after whom the houses werenamed.

INSPECTING the new facilities during the blessing ceremony are (from left) Vicar General Fr Peter Slater, former parish priest Fr John Readman, director of Catholic education Peter Ryan, inauguralTrinity principal Mary Howlett, Anthony Byrne MHR, Holt, Judith Grayley, MLA, Narre WarrenSouth, and principal John Williams.

Marian eventin TraralgonTHE annual Marian conference at Traralgon will be held on May 14.

Bishop Christopher Prowse will celebrate Mass at noon.

Speakers this year are Fr John Speekman who will talk about Our Lady’s messages and Fr Nicholas Dillon who will talk about Our Lady Mother of the Blessed Sacrament.

The day begins at St Mi-chael’s Church, Traralgon at 9am and concludes at 3.15pm.


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West region farewells Fr Mannakulath

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NARRE WARREN - Priests and religious of the Western Region of the diocese met at the Narre Warren Presbytery for lunch on March 28 to farewell Fr Thomas Mannakulath who has returned to India.

Fr Thomas has spent the past three years in Sale Diocese ministering in the parishes of Traralgon, Sale and Iona–Koo Wee Rup.

He was a delightful presence and was quick to adjust to the challenges that were asked of him.

He imparted a Benedictine spirituality with passion and worked hard creating life-giv-ing communities.

Fr Thomas was grateful for the love he has received from the diocese and made par-ticular mention of Bishop Jer-emiah Coffey and Deacon Jim Erskine’s initial contact and the ongoing care from Bishop Chris Prowse, Vicar General Fr Peter Slater and the priests and religious of the diocese.

He thanked his parish priests Fr Peter Bickley and Fr Bernard Buckley for their support.

Fr Thomas said that it was his decision to return home and

gratefully received a gift of an Akubra hat.

He added that the hat will be a welcome addition as he walks around supervising the estab-

lishment of six new monaster-ies in his home region. Thank you, Fr Thomas for your gen-erosity and courage in building God’s kingdom

FR Thomas Mannakulath (centre front) surrounded by clergy and religious at his farewell. Standing (from left) Sr Doreen Dagge, Fr Jacob Thadathil, Fr John Readman, Fr Michael Willemsen, Fr Peter Slater VG, Sr Christina Scannell, Deacon Peter Stringfellow, Fr Andrew Wise, Fr Denis O’Bryan, Fr Mathew Joseph. Seated: Sr Grace Onaivi, Fr Bernie Mahony, Fr Mannakulath, Sr Mercy Akoh, Fr Dariusz Jablonski, Fr Peter Kooloos and Fr Brendan Hogan.

No room in the inn for Pope John Paul’sbeatifi cationMASSIVE crowds are expectedin Rome for the beatifi cation ofPope John Paul II on May 1.

Accommodation is reported to be booked out for the whole region around Rome.

Tour operators took blockbookings at hotels when the date of the beatifi cation wasannounced and despite manyhotels increasing room prices by up to 400 percent, they havebeen snapped up by people wanting to be present at theevent.

Virtually the only hope ofsecuring accommodation is to book one of the few remaining places through one of the tour operators.

Reports from Rome suggest thousands of people will make the pilgrimage for the event,intending to “sleep rough” at railway station and other publicfacilities.

A massive number of Polishpeople are expected to travel to Rome for the event.

Next month’s Catholic Life will contain a feature on the be-atifi cation of Pope John Paul IIwho afterwards will be known as Blessed John Paul II.

Investigation of other mira-cles said to have taken placeafter his name was invoked are progressing and if confi rmed, may eventually lead to him be-ing made a saint.


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“In the face of death, the Church confi dently proclaims that God has created each per-son for eternal life and that Jesus, the Son of God, by his death and resurrection, has bro-ken the chains of sin and death that bound humanity.” (Order of Christian Funerals, Intro., 1)

Funerals in theCatholic Tradition

In the Catholic tradition, a Funeral Mass (sometimes also called Mass of Christian Burial or Requiem Mass) is celebrated for the deceased loved one. For pastoral reasons, a Liturgy of the Word could be more appro-priate.

We pray for the repose of the soul and the forgiveness of sins of the deceased. We thank the Risen Lord for the life of his/her life and offer prayers of comforting hope for the be-reaved (cf. General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 379-385).

The Priest or Deacon asked to celebrate the funeral deter-mines the content and form of the funeral liturgy, keeping in mind the wishes of the family.

We use an offi cially approved book: Order of Christian Fu-

nerals. This book gives a won-derful selection of prayers, readings and rituals that can be used.

Some people have experi-ences of secular funerals made up of eulogies, photo presen-tations, poems and popular music. However, the Catholic Church has developed, since ancient times, a richness of li-turgical prayers and biblical readings.

We offer some guidelines, therefore, of what is appropri-ate for a Catholic funeral.

• Terms such as ‘Words of Remembrance’ or ‘Refl ections on the person’s life’ are prefer-able to ‘Eulogy’,

• It is not necessary to have a EULOGY. The priest can be given some information or notes about the deceased for him to use in his homily.

• If the family would like some words of remembrance we suggest ONE written out (it can be emotional and diffi cult to say what should be said). It could be shared with someone else (to avoid repetition) or even read by someone else.

• LENGTH – we ask that Words of Remembrance be kept to 5 minutes and no more than 10 minutes. This can help a Funeral Mass or Liturgy of

the Word, but numerous and/or lengthy refl ections can under-mine funerals.

• CONTENT: a couple of ap-propriate refl ections that will bring out the Christian charac-ter of the person, rather than too much historical detail.

• Memories of the life of the deceased could be shared at a viewing, in a separate moment before the Mass or Liturgy of the Word.

• POWERPOINT photo pres-entations are not appropriate during a Catholic funeral; our recommendation is to do this at the wake or some other time with the family.

• The title page of a book-let and media announcement should read: Mass of Christian burial for..... or Funeral Mass for..... or Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of .... A simple service, i.e. not a Mass, should be called: the Funeral liturgy of........ or Rite of Chris-tian Burial of .....

• We do not like calling a Catholic Funeral “a Celebration of the life of ....” , because it does not express the full depth and meaning of our understand-ing of funerals.

• Funeral directors are to be reminded that they tell their cli-ents it is not necessary to have

booklets for the funeral service

MusicMusic for a Catholic funeral

is liturgical. Appropriate hymns or music should be chosen. Ro-mantic ballads, popular or rock music, political or football club songs are not appropriate. But a song like that could be used after the burial service.

CremationWhereas the burial or inter-

ment of earthly remains is the preference of the Church, cre-mation is allowed. If a crema-tion was to follow the funeral Mass, it would be expected that prayers would not be prayed at the cremation. Care is to be taken to ensure that the ashes are interred in an appropriate place.

PrayerEternal rest grant unto them,

O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.

Please ensure that these guidelines are made known to local funeral directors.

Bishop Christopher C ProwseCatholic Bishop of SaleApril 2011

Guidelines for Catholic funerals inthe Diocese of Sale

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In a circular to subscribersstation manager Deb Bye says that without an urgent injection of funds the station could be off the air by Easter.

The station has been oper-ating from its Sale studio for seven years and can be heard 24hours a day on 103.9 FM over much of the Gippsland area.

Funding has been a constantbattle and for a long while staffeither volunteered their services or worked for minimal wages.

It costs about $20,000 a month or $650 a day to keep Life FM on the air and the sta-tion has been struggling to meet each, month’s bills for sometime, no doubt compounded by other demands on people’s generosity due to the Australian fl ood and international earth-quake appeals.

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The fi shermen of Corner Inlet in a new book

with Patrick Morgan

GGippslandHistory

CORNER Inlet in South Gipps-land has three fi shing ports, Port Albert, Port Welshpool and Port Franklin, the last being the smallest, with a population of about 120 people over the last century.

Its general store and public hall are its only community buildings – it has no church or pub.

A book on the history of Port Franklin and its fi shing fl eet, They Fished in Wooden Boats by Neil Everitt, was launched on Sunday, March 13 in front of a large crowd at Port Franklin.

The port was named in 1845 by Lt Governor Latrobe after the Tasmanian Governor Sir John Franklin. John Amey, a former convict from Van Die-men’s Land, was the fi rst settler in the district in 1857.

In 1854 a sawmill was estab-lished on the Franklin River to supply building timber to Melbourne, then expanding rapidly during the goldfi elds decade. Blackwood timber was later sent out, as well as railway sleepers, some of which were sent as far away as India.

Then gold was discovered nearby at Stockyard Creek (Foster) in 1870, and the sub-sequent rush meant increased shipping activity in Corner In-let.

By the 1880s a fi shing indus-try had developed with up to 30 men fi shing commercially. The inlet is an enclosed stretch of water, like Western Port and

Port Phillip Bay, with one rela-tively narrow entrance to the sea. In the early years fi sh were sent to Port Albert to be cured by Chinese fi shermen and then sent to Melbourne and the gold-fi elds. Curing overcame the problem of lack of refrigera-tion.

The Great Southern Railway was built in the early 1890s. The section above Cornet Inlet was built from equipment, includ-ing a locomotive, and sleepers brought in by boat through the inlet to the Port Franklin and other jetties. The station on the Franklin River was named Ben-nison after an early settler.

In the early decades fi sh were conveyed from the jetty to the railway station by a horse drawn tramway. Fish, packed in wet seaweed in wicker baskets, were sent directly to Melbourne by rail.

Many fi sh were stolen on the way or declared unsuitable for sale, so fi shermen got less re-turns than they should have. In the 1920s the fi sh were taken to Melbourne by road at night when the temperature was cool-er.

The boats used in Corner In-let were adapted to its condi-tions. Corner Inlet has tides of up to three meters.

When the tide runs out mud-fl ats and mangroves are ex-posed and the water runs into gutters which are full of fi sh.

Because the area is so tidal, fi shermen had to go out on a high tide, net at low tide when the fi sh were in the gutters, and then return to the jetty on the next high tide.

Wooden boats which have a very shallow draft to glide over the mudfl ats were used. They are low and wide, with one sail (before inboard motors came in) and sit low in the water, without any superstructure which might catch the wind, thus being very stable in storms. They have a small retractable hood for shel-ter during rain, wind and rough weather.

A jetty built at Port Franklin was demolished by comman-does during the second world war. Local folklore says this was to prevent the possibility of it being used by a Japanese invading force.

Port Franklin developed as a

close-knit community. Fathers handed their fi shing businesses on to their sons and many of the fi shing families intermarried. It was a hard life with only basic rewards. Much time was spent repairing nets and boats.

The author lists essential items which were found on eve-ry boat - water jug, tucker box, fi re pots, matches, hurricane lamps, knives, claw hammer, pliers, bilge pump, anchor, gaff hook and hessian bags.

The dominant family at Port Franklin was the Cripps.

Joseph Cripps, who had 10 children including seven sons, moved from Stockyard Creek to Port Franklin in 1882 and set up the Cripps dynasty, whose fi ve generations have fi shed Cornet Inlet down to the present over 130 years.

Over 25 Cripps men have been fi shermen. At any one time there were about 30 Cripps adults in the district. The family and its characters has a legend-ary reputation among Victorian fi sher folk.

After the Second World War some of the Cripps fi shermen moved to fi sh for shark in the waters of Bass Strait outside the inlet. Mutton birds on the islands of Bass Strait were also caught. The Bass Strait fi shery was a lucrative business but hazardous, and many fi shermen preferred to fi sh inside the inlet.

Two Port Franklin fi shermen of the Soderlund family were lost outside the entrance in Bass Strait in rough seas in 1951.

The well known Olympic woman sprinter Winsome Cripps came from the Port Franklin family. She is re-membered for being part of the ‘dropping the baton’ relay disaster at the Helsinki Olym-pic Games in 1952, but she had many triumphs in her athletic career.

In addition to the Cripps and other families there was a largecontinent of Scandinavian fi sh-ermen at Port Franklin - theMattsons, Soderlunds, Bergs, Selbergs and Pettersons from Sweden and Finland. Many hadcome to Australia as seamen.

The extraordinary tranquilbeauty of Wilson’s Promontoryand Corner Inlet meant boats were often used for recreational fi shing, picnics and day toursto Doughboy Island and to the northern beaches of the Prom like Chinaman’s Beach.

The author Neil Everitt’sfamily owned one of theCripps’ boats and he enjoyed decades of recreational fi shing and camping on the inlet. Like the author, I had 30 years of marvellous experiences goingout fi shing in Corner Inlet from Stockyard Creek in a typicalshallow wooden boat.

The fi shery boomed in the 1980s when Melburnians began to patronize fi sh restaurants,which consumed large quanti-ties of whiting, fl ounder, snap-per and other fi sh.

The number of profession-al fi shermen in Corner Inlet peaked at about 50 in the 1950s, but declined to about 20 by 2000as the government bought backfi shing licences to preserve fi shstocks. Since then the number has diminished even further.

The author Neil Everitt hasdone a wonderful job in re-searching and collating a greatamount of information on this important topic, and in present-ing it in an easy-to-read form.

Neil Everitt They Fished in

Wooden Boats: A history of the Port Franklin District andthe fi shing families, availablefrom the Foster and DistrictHistorical Society, PO Box 231, Foster, 3960, for $28 plus$15 postage.

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A Bible for young readersTHE LION CLASSIC BI-BLE, retold by Andrea Skev-ington, illustrated by Sophy Williams, published by Lion Children’s Books, distributed by Rainbow Books, hard-back, 256 pages, rrp $24.99.

THIS book is perhaps mis-named in that it is really not a classic Bible, laid out in num-bered chapters and verses as we have come to expect.

Instead it as a collection of Bible stories, retold in easy to understand language.

The publishers have resisted calling it a Children’s Bible which is a good move because the term conjures up simplifi ed Bible stories for under eight-year-olds.

This book is very well written and would appeal greatly to an upper primary school student or even lower secondary student.

It has some good color illus-trations but these are not over-done.

More importantly the stories of the Old and New Testaments are faithfully told and an avid young reader will learn much about our faith from devouring the words.

Mark this down as an ideal present for a confi rmation can-didate.

THE CARDINALS by Mi-chael Walsh, published by Canterbury Press, distribut-ed by Rainbow Books, hard-back, 249 pages, rrp $54.95.

WHEN we fi rst saw this book

we thought it may have been a novel or perhaps one of those exposes on the happenings be-hind the Vatican walls.

However, we were pleasantly surprised to fi nd an informative book on the offi ce of cardinal and pen pictures on 79 cardi-nals who have made their mark in history for various reasons - not all of them for the best.

The author was inspired to write the book after being asked to revise the Oxford Dictionary of Popes and found that very little had been written about the men in red whose principal role nowadays is to elect a new pope.

The introduction goes through the main history of the offi ce of cardinal, including the fact that a cardinal could be a layman.

Even as late as the 1917 Code of Canon Law, a deacon could become a cardinal and remain so, but today a cardinal must not only be priest but must be a bishop before elevation to this important role of Prince of the Church.

It was Pope John XXIII who instructed that cardinals should be bishops and increased the number of cardinals to 72.

Paul Paul VI stipulated that

once cardinals reached 80 years they could no longer vote and set a new maximum of 120.

Pope John Paul II created many cardinals, taking the number over 120 but he is said to have interpreted the 120 ceil-ing as being cardinals under 80 years.

SAINT MARY MACKIL-LOP, FRIEND OF JESUS by Judith M. Steer, RSJ pub-lished and distributed by St Paul’s Books, hardback, 48 pages, rrp $14.95.

THIS book is just one of about a dozen released on Australia’s fi rst saint St Mary of the Cross MacKillop.

It is aimed at primary aged children and tells the MacKil-lop story in beautiful, simple language.

Considering its Josephite ori-gins, it is somewhat disappoint-ing that she is called St Mary MacKillop instead of her offi -cial title.

That aside, it is a book worthy of any school library shelf as a great resource for assignments about this great saint, or for that matter any home where young-sters can learn about her life.


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By Sophy Morley

THIS year marks a signifi cant event in the liturgical life of the Church.

In Australia, from Pentecost Sunday onwards, we will com-mence using a new transla-tion of prayers, responses and litanies from the new English translation of the Roman Mis-sal.

The Missal is the book which priests use for Mass and other liturgical celebrations. It con-tains the texts of the Ordinary of the Mass (penitential rite, Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, Eu-charistic Prayers & Acclama-tions, Lord’s Prayer, Lamb of God etc) and the Proper of the Mass (Sundays, Feasts and So-lemnities of the Liturgical Year including Collects, Prefaces, Entrance and Communion An-tiphons etc).

The 2010 Roman Missal translation is being introduced by the English-speaking Catho-lic Bishops Conferences in 11 countries where English is the language used in the liturgy of the Roman Rite. This version of the Roman Missal will also be used in countries where English is widely used but not the pre-dominant language.

Many people will have ques-tions about the introduction of the Missal and some will be anxious about the changes, whilst others look forward to them. Here are some basic questions and answers that have been posted up on the new na-tional website www.romanmis-salaustralia.org.au

Why is there a new transla-tion of the Missal?

The missal we currently use was published in 1973 and has served the Church well for nearly 40 years. However over that time there has been much discussion of the need to re-vise this initial translation of

the Latin into English in order to recapture more accurately the meaning and poetry of the original Latin texts and their al-lusions to Scripture. In 2001 the Vatican published guiding prin-ciples for translating the Latin Missal into other languages. This new translation follows these guidelines and will ad-here more closely to the Latin text. It will be more formal at times but will provide a richer and more nuanced translation of our rich heritage of prayer that is contained in the Roman Missal.

Who has done the transla-tion?

The translation has been done by a group of bishops specialising in translation and linguistics. The International Commission for English in the Liturgy has translated the Latin into English and then submit-ted the drafts to all the Bishops of the English speaking world. Finally the translation has been approved by the Vatican Con-gregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments with the as-sistance of a committee called Vox Clara.

Is this Missal the Vatican II Missal?

It is most defi nitely the Vati-can II Missal. It is the same missal which was produced in 1970 and revised on two later occasions. It is the translation into English that has changed not the original prayers of the Mass.

Will it sound very different?Yes, it will. Not only will the

people’s responses change but the prayers said by the priest will also change. The Eucharis-tic Prayers will sound different. Remember, it is not the original Latin Missal that has changed only the translation. So it will be the same Mass that we have had since Vatican II but it will sound different.

Note that the Lectionary read-ings have not been altered.

The Bishops Conference has determined that the new Order of the Mass will be introduced in Australia with the new trans-lation from Pentecost Sunday this year. This will be intro-duced in Dioceses according to local arrangements.

Our Diocese has been pre-paring for these changes for the past two years. In Febru-ary 2009, we had in-servicing days for the clergy and dioc-esan leaders. In October 2010, following the Australian launch of the DVD resource Become One Body One Spirit in Christ, the Diocese was hosted several sessions for parishes, diocesan agencies and the clergy in the use of the DVD to help prepare people for the revised Missal. Each parish should have at least one copy of this comprehensive and well-crafted resource to as-sist their preparation.

The introduction of the re-vised Missal gives us an oppor-tunity to learn more about the Mass and its history, the vari-ous parts of the Mass, what the Eucharist means to us as a peo-ple in Christ and how it shapes us to act as Christ’s messengers in our daily lives.

The timeline for the introduc-tion of the revised Roman Mis-sal is as follows:

Since January 2011 – We can sing the new Mass settings (there are six Australian set-tings that have been promoted and recommended for use by the Australian Catholic Bish-ops). We can learn to sing the new texts of Lord Have Mercy / Gloria / Creed / Holy, Holy / Acclamations / Lamb of God.

From Pentecost Sunday, June 12, 2011 – We can start to introduce the spoken texts (Greetings, Lord Have Mercy / Gloria / Creed / Preface dia-logue/ Holy, Holy / Acclama-

tions / Lamb of God). In our Diocese, there will be a coordi-nated process for all parishes so that all Masses on a given Sun-day in the Diocese, you will be using the same texts. The words for the People’s responses will be on a People’s Mass card that will be sent to parishes in early May.

From All Saints Day, No-vember 1, 2011 – The new texts of the Mass become the offi cial texts and its use is man-datory.

Introduction of the complete missal will include the Presi-dential texts (Collects, Pref-aces, Eucharistic prayers etc). As the Missal is currently be-ing prepared for publication, these prayers will be approved for use at a date to be set by the Bishops of Australia.

In 2010, the Australian Cath-olic Bishops invited Australian composers to submit music for the new texts of the parts of the Mass. Six Mass settings have been selected and recommend-ed for use in parishes in order to introduce a common repertoire around Australia.

Of these six, the Diocese has suggested three settings for im-mediate use. This will enable people to have some familiarity with Mass settings when they visit other parishes in the Dio-cese.

For the past couple of months, I have been travelling around the Diocese to parishes and re-gions, presenting workshops on the Roman Missal and show-casing the new Australian mu-sic for the Mass.

It has been most heartening to see the level of interest and participation and I have very much enjoyed meeting people, answering their questions and presenting music and some teaching on the Mass.

I still have a number of work-shops to present and am looking forward to encouraging partici-pants to explore the Mass and to deepen their love of it so that they may be energised to con-tinue to live Christ-fi lled lives.

The Diocesan Liturgy Team is currently preparing a resource pack to assist each parish in the implementation of the Roman Missal texts. Resources will include People’s Mass Cards /Bulletin Bits/Commentaries / Homily Notes / Prayers of the Faithful. These will be sent out after Easter.

In all of this preparation, I would like to refer to the short,but meaningful title of a book-let written by Fr Paul Turner in Chicago in preparation for the revised Missal: New Words,Deeper Meaning, Same Mass.

I think that it captures so wellthe essence of why a new trans-lation of the Mass is being in-troduced. I hope that with theseNew Words, that we awakento a deeper meaning about themystery of Jesus’ gift to us as we celebrate the same Mass.

If you would like to knowmore, visit the Australian Ro-man Missal website www.romanmissalaustralia.org.au . The Diocese of Sale’s web-site also has updates and local information http://www.sale.catholic.org.au/liturgy/roman-missal.html.

The New Zealand RomanMissal website has download-able versions of New Words,Deeper Meaning, Same Mass. http://www.nlo.org.nz

Sophy Morley is the Dioce-san Pastoral Coordinator. Shemay be contacted at the Dioc-esan Pastoral Offi ce on 51261063 or fax 5126 4399

Welcoming the new English translation of Missal

NEWBOROUGH - Caritas Australia is the Catholic Church International Aid Organisation who help families who are less fortunate.

Recently, St Mary’s School community supported Caritas through a range of ac-tivities. Each family and class at school were presented with a Project Compas-sion box, in which they were encouraged to contribute what they could to help other people less fortunate. The school arranged a ‘Crazy Hair Day’ fundraiser for Caritas.

The children were encouraged to bring along a gold coin donation for the privi-lege of wearing crazy hair to school.

Religious education co-ordinator Trish Mulqueen said “It is part of our Catholic School tradition to support people who are less fortunate than ourselves. The children had a lot of fun and they felt very privileged to be helping other peo-ple in need.”

Crazy hair day for Caritas

CHARLOTTE looking a little pink for Crazy Hair Day.


A Page for Youth‘Planted and built up in Jesus Christ, fi rm in the faith’ (Col 2:7)

Good Youth Newswith Jess Denehy & Kelly Lucas

WITH only four months to go until the youth of the world descend on Madrid for World Youth Day 2011 there is a fl urry of pilgrim preparations going on in Australia at the moment.

If you would like to join the Diocesan “Sale to Spain with Spirit” pilgrimage group to WYD2011 you need to get your skates on! Registrations close April 15. All the details can be found by following the Youth Ministry Offi ce links on the diocesan Website www.sale.catholic.org.au.

As you can imagine WYD fundraising efforts are in full swing. The youth of St Agatha’s Cranbourne have been organis-ing zumba nights to raise funds for their wyd2011 pilgrims. A young pilgrim from Lumen Christi Churchill has been of-fering lawn mowing and gar-dening services for a donation towards his WYD fund. WYD cake stalls have been held in many parishes and young peo-ple have been taking their turn running sausage sizzles outside popular hardware stores over the weekend.

The Australian Catholic Bish-ops Conference and Sevenhill Cellars have partnered to raise money for the Australia Pilgrim Support Program. All monies

raised via this wine drive will got to assisting Aussie pilgrims who would not normally be able to afford to go to WYD, attend WYD 2011 Madrid. If you would like to support this effort please go to www.seven-hill.com.au to place your order.

Check out the ‘Aussie Pil-grim’ merchadise - the offi cial merchandise for Australian Pilgrims at WYD 2011 Ma-drid. This small range of mer-chandise has been developed to identify and unify Australian Pilgrims at WYD 2011. Orders can be placed at www.wyd.org.au/merchandise and will be delivered in July to pilgrimage group offi ce locations around Australia.

There is plenty happening for those not making the trek to Madrid too!

During the Easter school holidays students participating in youth ministry teams or in leadership positions are invited to attend Oxygen 2011, a stu-dent youth ministry leadership retreat. All the details can be found on the diocesan website.

In May Sam Clear will be the special guest speaker at re-fl ection afternoons for young teachers hosted by parishes around the diocese. The Young Teacher Refl ection Afternoons

will be held at St Patrick’s Par-ish Centre, Pakenham, 2-6pm, Monday 23 May; the Marion room, St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Warragul, 2-6pm, Tuesday May 24; St Laurence’s Parish Centre, Leongatha, 2-6pm, Wednesday May 25; St Vincent’s Parish Hall, Morwell, 2-6pm, Thursday May 26; and at Chapter House, Sale, 2-6pm, Friday May 27. For more infor-mation please contact your par-ish offi ce.

RE 4 the Rabble is just around the corner too. RE 4 the Rabble is a series of catechesis sessions for ordinary, every-day young people. There is no cost to attend RE 4 the Rabble and everyone is welcome.

This year our special guest speaker, Fr Brendan Hogan, will explore the World Youth Day 2011 theme “Planted and built up in Jesus Christ, fi rm in the faith” (cf Col 2:7). Please join us either 12.30pm-2.30pm Sunday May 15 at St Ita’s Hall Drouin (including lunch with the Bishop), OR 4.30pm-6.30pm Sunday May 22 at St Mary’s Hall, Maffra.

And before we sign off this month we’d like to wish you all a happy and holy Easter from the Youth Ministry Offi ce!

Sion social justicegroup in action

THE Year 8 Social Justice Group at the Sion Campus of Catholic College Sale recently held their fi rst fundraising ac-tivity for the year to raise mon-ey for Project Compassion.

Project Compassion falls across the six weeks of Lent and raises funds for Caritas Australia.

The money raised allows Car-itas to work with communities across the world to stop hunger, poverty and injustice.

The Social Justice group cooked and sold pancakes for a very supportive and hungry

group of Year 7s and 8s. Theyraised $164.50 which was afantastic effort.

What a motivated group ofyoung people we have who arewilling to give up their time toraise money for those less fortu-nate than us.

We can all do more to helpothers. Every little bit helps ina huge way and is greatly ap-preciated. Project Compassionis one way that we as a schoolcommunity can help others lessfortunate than ourselves.

SFX students lead Hobart retreatMEMBERS of the Senior Youth Ministry Team at St Francis Xavier College, Bea-consfi eld, went to Hobart to run a retreat for students year 9 to 12 students from fi ve Tasma-nian schools who are beginning the Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Australia course at their schools.

St Francis Xavier College Senior Youth Ministry Team students; Danelle Dias, Will Aupito Iuliano, Cassie Gawley, Ashleigh Schneider, Dominic Velten and Daniel Grulke were accompanied by James Fitzpat-rick, Rhonda O’Connor and Kevin Woodhouse.

The SFX students were asked assist in a range of activities: leading icebreaker games and small group discussions, pre-senting drama’s, sharing short testimonies about their faith, growing in their gifts and the sacrament of Reconciliation.

All this combined with fan-tastic music led by Kevin Woodhouse, Daniel and Domi-nic.

The retreat was a great suc-cess and gave the Tasmanian students a wonderful model of what youth ministry is about and how young people can live their faith in an active, fun-fi lled and joyful manner.

Congratulations to the six students who led the retreat- their professionalism, respect and enthusiasm made them ex-ceptional role models for the younger students.

The weekend was fi nished off with a wonderful trip up Mt Wellington and a snow ball fi ght! A big thank you to the Archdiocese of Hobart’s Cath-olic Youth Ministry Team for their invitation and hospitality, in providing this opportunity for the SFX students.

ALLY Orr and Kathryn Pickett cooking up a storm.

It’s a long road to Licola

THE CSYMA class at St Fran-cis Xavier College sent two groups of leaders out to their Year Seven camp at Licola last month.

There for the day the Year 11 students assisted in the camp activities, talked to the year sev-ens and had a lot of fun.

The Year 11s also helped pre-pare the Mass for the camp.

They presented the Gospel of Zacchaeus (Luke 19.1-10) through drama with the mes-sage of forgiveness coming through loud and clear.

The Year Sevens where atten-tive throughout the whole Mass

and the Year 11s buzzed the whole way back to Beacons-fi eld.

It was great to see the CSY-MA students acting a true role models and doing peer ministry within their own schools.

THE Year Seven students display their raft-building ability at Licola.


For the Young and Young at Heart

A DRUNK gets on a bus, staggers down the aisle and sits next to an elderly lady.

She looks the man up and down and announces loudly “I’ve got news for you. You are going straight to hell.”

Suddenly the drunk gets up and lurches forward shouting “Stop. I’m on the wrong bus.”

LITTLE Johnny was prac-tising the violin in the living room while his father was trying to read the paper.

When the screeching sound of the beginner’s ef-forts reached the ears of the family dog it started to howl.

The father listened to the dog and violin as long as he could, but eventually could take no more. “For pity’s sake, can’t you play something the dog doesn’t know!”

AN elderly couple were going on a holiday of a life-time and were in a queue to board the boat when the old lady announced “I wish we had brought the kitchen ta-ble.”

Her husband replied “You’ve already packed too much.”

“I know,” said the wife “but the tickets are on the kitchen table.”

WHAT do you have if you’ve got a dyslexic agnos-tic insomniac?

Someone who sits up all night wondering if there is a dog! (Think about it)

THE motorcycle police-man draws up beside a car being driven by an elderly lady who is steering her car with her elbows so that her hands were free to do some knitting.

“Pull over,” shouts the po-liceman.

“No,” replies the lady. “It’s a scarf.”

A GORILLA walks into a milk bar and orders a banana milkshake.

The shop owner thinks “What can a gorilla know about money?” so he hands back a single dollar in change to the beast.

As he hands over the milk-shake he says “You know we don’t get many gorillas in here!”

“No wonder,” says the go-rilla “you charge too much for milkshakes.”

A LITTLE boy came

home crying after his fi rst day at school.

“Mummy, they called me a three-headed monster!”

“There, there, there,” re-plied mum.

A MAN asked his par-ish priest if he could offer a funeral Mass for his dog which died yesterday.

The priest was outraged. “We don’t offer funeral Masses for animals here. You might try that new reli-gion down the road.”

The man thought for a while and said “how much do you think I should give them for giving my dog a de-cent send-off. Do you think $1000 would be enough?”

“Now wait a minute,” said the priest, “you didn’t say the poor dog was a Catho-lic.”

AN amateur archeologist rings up the museum and tells them that he has found a 4000-year-old mummy which had died of a heart at-tack.

While impressed with the fi nd, they doubted that the amateur could ascertain the cause of death.

Finally after months of painstaking research, the museum decided that a heart attack was the likely cause of death.

They phoned up the ama-teur to detail their fi ndings.

“One thing I want to know,” said the museum di-rector “how come you were so sure the mummy died of a heart attack?”

“That’s easy. When I un-wrapped him I found a slip of paper with a note on it. When I deciphered it it read ‘I bet 10,000 shekels on Go-liath’.”

THERE once was a man called Odd.

He had been teased about his name all his life and so told his friends that after he died he didn’t want people still making fun of his name.

He asked that he be buried with a blank tombstone.

And so it was done. Now when people walking around the cemetery see the blank tombstone they re-mark “That’s odd.”

WHAT chord would a pi-ano make if it was acciden-tally dropped down a mine shaft?

A fl at miner.

Time for a Laugh Easter colouring contest

Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Age . . . . . .

Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Send entries to: Colouring Contest, c/- Catholic Life, PO Box 183, Sale. 3853

Who’s awinnerthis month?AFTER much deliberation over several equally-worthy entries in last month’s St Patrick’s Day colouring con-test, we have decided that Pheobe Cunningham, 9, from St Mary’s Primary in Maffra is the latest winner.

We will deliver the prize to her after the school holidays.

Pictured at left is the pre-vious month’s winner Julia Interligi who attends Trin-ity Primary School in Narre Warren South.

FINALLY, what happens to illegally parked frogs?

They get toad away.

And, what do you get if you cross a frog with a dog?

A croaker spaniel.

See you next month !!


Quick calendarWhat’s on & whenApril7 - Valley region meeting,

Traralgon, noon8 - School holidays begin9 – Regional forum for East

Region, Bairnsdale, 10.30am12 – East region meeting,

Lakes Entrance, 10.30am12 – Heart region meeting,

Sale chapter house, 4pm13 - Council of Priests and

Consultor meetings, Sale17 – Palm Sunday18 – Serra v Priests Golf Day,

Sale20 – CDF Board meeting22 – Good Friday23 – Holy Saturday24 – Easter Sunday25 – Anzac Day public holi-

day26 – Public holiday in lieu of

Easter Monday27 – Finance council meeting27 - Second term begins

May2 – Deadline for May Catho-

lic Life2-6 - Diocesan priests’ re-

treat, Millgrove8 – Mother’s Day9 – Labor Day holiday11 - South region meeting,

St Laurence’s parish centre, Leongatha, 11.30am11 - May Catholic Life pub-

lished14 - Marian conference, St

Michael’s Church, Traralgon, 9am17 – Central Region meeting,

St Ita’s parish room, Drouin, 7.30pm25 – West Region meeting, St

Michael’s new hall, Berwick, 10.30am

June6 – Queen’s Birthday holiday6 – Deadline for June Catho-

lic Life14 - Heart region meeting,

(venue TBA), 4pm15 - June Catholic Life pub-

lished15 – CDF Board meeting16 – Valley region meeting,

Morwell, noon.19 – Special collection in all

parishes for St Mary’s Cathe-dral restoration and enhance-ment appeal21 – Shortest day22 – Finance Council meet-

ing

July1 - School holidays begin11 – Deadline for July Catho-

lic Life18 - Third term begins19 – Central Region meeting,

St John’s parish centre, Tra-falgar, 7.30pm 20 - July Catholic Life pub-

lished

August1 – Ramadan begins8 – Deadline for August

Catholic Life9 - Heart region meeting,

(venue TBA), 4pm9 – East region meeting,

Bairnsdale, 10.30am9-13 - Sale Diocese clergy

retreat10 -26 - Bishop in Madrid for

World Youth Day10 - South region meeting,

St Laurence’s parish centre, Leongatha, 11.30am17 - August Catholic Life

published17 – CDF Board meeting18 - Valley region meeting,

Moe, noon.22 – Finance Council meet-

ing24 – West region meeting St

Michael’s new hall, Berwick, 10.30am

September4 – Father’s Day5 – Deadline for September

Catholic Life7-9 – Australasian Catholic

Press Association conference, Adelaide9-11 – Australasian Religious

Press Association conference, Adelaide13 – Central Region meeting,

Marian Room, St Joseph’s, Warragul, 7.30pm14 - September Catholic Life

published19-23 – Sale Diocese clergy

in-service, Corpus Christ Col-lege, Carlton23 - School holidays begin

October3 – Deadline for October

Catholic Life7-24 - Bishop Prowse in

Rome for ad limina visit at Vatican10 - Fourth term begins11 - Heart region meeting,

(venue TBA), 4pm12 - October Catholic Life

published19 – CDF Board meeting20 - Valley region meeting,

Newborough, noon. 26 – Finance Council meet-

ing31 – Deadline for November

Catholic Life

November1 – Melbourne Cup holiday1 – All Saints Day2 – All Souls Day8 – East region meeting, Or-

bost, 10.30am9 - South region meeting,

St Laurence’s parish centre, Leongatha, 11.30am9 - November Catholic Life

published11 – Remembrance Day15 – Central Region meeting,

St Ita’s parish room, Drouin, 7.30pm21 - Australian Catholic

Bishops’ Conference plenary, Sydney.23 – West Region meeting, St

Michael’s new hall, Berwick, 10.30am27 – First Sunday of Advent 28 – Deadline for December

Catholic Life

December1 – Valley Region Christmas

break-up, Morwell Club, noon6 - Heart region break up

(venue TBA)7 - December Catholic Life

published14 – Joint meeting of CDF

Board and Finance Council (tentative)

Bishop’s DiaryApril 8 - Australian Angli-

can-Catholic National dia-logue, Melbourne

April 9 - Regional fo-rum, St Mary’s, Bairnsdale, 10.30am

April 13 - Council of Priests and Consultors meet-ings, Sale.

April 15 - Mass at Fulham Correctional Centre.

April 17 - Passion Sunday Mass, Sale.

April 18 - Serra Golf Day dinner, Longford.

April 21-24 - Holy Week and Easter, Sale.

April 27 - Catholic Educa-tion Commission of Victoria board luncheon, Warragul.

April 27 - Diocesan Fi-nance Council meeting, Sale.

April 28 - Catholic Educa-tion Week Mass, St Mary’s

Cathedral, Sale, 11am.April 29 - Catholic Edu-

cation Leadership Mass and dinner, St Michael’s, Traral-gon, 6pm

April 30 - Confi rmations at Wonthaggi, 6.30pm.

May 1 - Confi rmations, Wonthaggi, 10.30am.

May 1 - Divine Mercy Sun-day Mass and celebration of beatifi cation of John Paul II, Cranbourne, 2pm.

May 2-3 - Diocesan priests retreat, Millgrove.

May 4 - Meeting of Na-tional Aboriginal and Tor-res Strait Islanders Catholic Council.

May 5-12 - Australian Catholic Bishops’ Confer-ence plenary meeting, Syd-ney.

May 13 - Visit confi rma-

tion class at St Mary’s, Maf-fra.

May 13 - Confi rmations at Maffra, 7pm.

May 14 - Marian confer-ence, Traralgon.

May 15 - Confi rmations at St Ita’s, Drouin, 10.30am.

May 15 - Youth gathering for Finding Home in Jesus, Drouin.

May 15 - Confi rmations at St Joseph’s, Warragul, 2pm.

Warragul facilities opened

WARRAGUL - New buildings at St Joseph’s Warragul, which were completed at the end of last year, were blessed and opened on March 4.

Bishop Christopher Prowse celebrated a liturgy with the community of St Joseph’s school and their new hall was full of students, teachers, par-ents and parishioners.

It was a very special and sig-nifi cant occasion for the whole school and the event really marked a new beginning and endless possibilities for learn-ing in the new areas.

Included in the building pro-ject were two new classrooms, a new multi-purpose room, a fantastic new library and a great hall/stadium, with a kitchen in-cluded.

The teachers and students have already done so much in the new hall including whole school masses, school concerts and bush dances, Italian day celebrations and, of course, lots and lots of sport activities!

Bishop Prowse spoke very highly of the students at St

Joseph’s and the students par-ticipate very well and made wonderful displays throughout the school related to what their school means to them.

There were also offi cial members from our local parlia-ment, representatives from the Catholic Education Offi ce, the architects and the builders pre-sent as the offi cial party for the occasion.

As St Joseph’s school has

continued to grow they are very lucky to have such wonderful facilities to give their children the best possible learning expe-riences, it is really amazing to see just how engaged students are when using the technol-ogy and resources available in the new library and when tak-ing part in sporting lessons and class Masses together in the hall.

AT the opening of the new facilities at St Joseph’s Primary, Warragul, are (from left) Russell Broad-bent MHR, McMillan, Bishop Christopher Prowse, principal Dominic Ryan and assistant director of Catholic education Lorraine Barlow.

Easter Mass times pleaseCOULD parishes which are yet to supply Holy Week and Easter service times to Catholic Media Gippsland please do so as soon as possible.

The times are being published on the diocese Website.

With more than 400 visits a month checking out our normal Sunday Mass times, we can ex-pect this number to skyrocket over the next couple of weeks.

Flooding in the north of the state inundated many caravan parks which are still out of ac-tion and so more holiday mak-

ers are expected to come into Gippsland for the extended Easter break.

To minimise the number of phone requests for Mass times, parishes should make use of our Web service.

Email the times to [email protected] or fax them to 5144 3855.

Thank you to the many par-ishes which have responded to requests for Easter times.

Those who have not respond-ed will have their telephone number listed.

THE Diocese of Sale has closelinks with Christchurch whichwas devastated by a massiveearthquake on February 22.

The fourth Bishop of Sale,Patrick Lyons was previouslyBishop of Christchurch.

The earthquake has virtuallydestroyed the Blessed SacramentCatholic Cathedral but in newsabout the disaster, most of thefocus has been on the Anglicancathedral which is a landmarkon the city’s central square.

Blessed Sacrament Cathedralhad been closed since it wasbadly damaged in another earth-quake last September and fortu-nately no workmen were injuredin the latest quake.

The two front bell towers col-lapsed, bringing down most ofthe façade, and inspections haverevealed that the ornate copperdome over the sanctuary willalso have to be demolished as itis damaged, with its weight put-ting undue stress on the ornatecolumns which hold up the roof.

The cathedral which opened in1905 is built from concretesheathed in limestone. It is in anItalian Renaissance basilica stylewith a Byzantine apse and theroof supported by columnsdown each side.

Bishop Lyons was appointedBishop of Christchurch in 1944and served there six years beforereturning to Australia as anAuxiliary Bishop of Sydney in1950.

He was appointed coadjutorBishop of Sale in 1956 and suc-ceeded Bishop Richard Ryan onhis death in 1957.


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THE ruins of Christchurch’sBlessed Sacrament Cathedralafter the February earthquake.


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Catching the wave

WARRAGUL - Last month 190 students and staff from all the secondary schools across the diocese ‘caught the wave’ of faith at a retreat hosted by Marist-Sion College, Warragul.

For the students in year 10 or 11 who have begun the Catho-lic Schools Youth Ministry Australia program in their RE classes this year, the ‘Catch the Wave’ Retreat was an opportu-nity to start refl ecting on their journey of faith.

Students were asked to think about their faith using the anal-ogy of surfi ng – they had to pic-ture themselves somewhere on the beach.

They were asked to circle where they were regarding their faith – watching from a distance, dipping their toes in, paddling out slowly or surfi ng the big waves.

All students were encouraged to be open to discover their faith and the Gospel message of God’s Love for them in a new way. The response and partici-pation of all the students was exceptional and they are all to be commended for their partici-pation.

Catch the Wave also featured an awesome band from St Fran-cis Xavier College, hilarious dramas from everyone, moving testimony, intense discussions and lots of fun.

One of the highlights of the retreat was on the Tuesday morning with celebration of the Sacrament of Reconcilia-tion with Bishop Christopher Prowse, Fr Herman Hengel, Fr Bernie Krotwaar, Fr Tom O’Connell, Fr Bernie O’Brien OMI and Fr Bernard Mahony.

Fears unrest may spreadPOLITICAL unrest and at-tempts to overthrow govern-ment in northern Africa and the Middle East has aid workers in other parts of the world worried that the unrest will spread to other developing countries.

Caritas Australia offi cer Joanne Thomas who last week visited Sale Diocese to pro-mote Project Compassion, said the concerns were particularly strong in southern Africa.

She was able to gauge these concerns during a trip last month to Zimbabwe where she reviewed progress being made on a Caritas emergency water and sanitation project in three regions most affected by a chol-era outbreak.

Ms Thomas said the Caritas partners were already fearing the worst because if political destabilisation spread to south-ern Africa to could have a dras-tic effect on projects delivering vital services for the people.

The area was in need of peace building enterprises but the fall-out of civil disturbances would be more suffering and loss of life.

She said Caritas staff were being given training in security and self preservation for when they fi nd themselves confronted while working in the fi eld.

Unfortunately good inten-tions were sometimes misun-

derstood and a priest in Zim-babwe who had been giving peace and confl ict training had been jailed.

Social justice groups were trying their best to ensure that Caritas staff would have guar-anteed security.

Ms Thomas said there were enormous threats to the people of Zimbabwe is political insta-bility spread there.

Most observers believed that if an election was to be called it would lead to a lot of unnec-essary confl ict and bloodshed which would be greater than what occurred in 2008.

It was unfortunate that the people were reacting to the news they were hearing from north Africa and this had made the government very uneasy.

She said the Catholic Bish-

ops’ of South Africa had re-cently said it would not betimely to have another electionin Zimbabwe before there was great political stability.

Joanne is the program co-ordinators for Africa and Latin America and while she has only been with Caritas for a fewmonths she has wide experi-ence working for non-govern-ment organisations in Guate-mala, Ghana, Afghanistan, East Timor, Pakistan and Syria.

She is a physiotherapist who worked in the health sectors inAustralia and the United States before embarking on interna-tional maid work.

While in our diocese she spoke at Masses in Leongatha,Warragul, Drouin and Traral-gon and visited secondary schools around the diocese.

CARITAS Australia Lenten visitor Joanne Thomas (right) with Sale Diocese missions offi cer Susan Grout.

Bishop’s message in Easter video

BEACONSFIELD - Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Aus-tralia students from St Fran-cis Xavier College recently travelled to Warragul to fi lm Bishop Prowse as he refl ected on “What does Easter mean to you?”.

The Bishop’s refl ections will be incorporated into a larger video where students and staff from St Francis Xavier College will also share their refl ections

on the meaning of Easter.The video will form part of

the College’s Easter celebra-tions which incorporates Sta-tions of the Cross presented by the Remar gold caravel and the College choir.

These ceremonies will also be celebrated at St Michael’s Par-ish Berwick following the 7pm Mass this evening, Wednesday April 6

BISHOP Christopher Prowse with students from St Francis Xavier Cololege, Beaconsfi eld, after recording his message in the school’s Easter video.

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