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September 2008 Vol.6 No.3 the Year of St CA HO IC V LIFE Diocese of Lismore Tweed Coast to Camden Haven www.lismorediocese.org September 2008 Vol.6 No.3 The Year of St. Paul Bishop Jarrett Writes Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, he life of each of us is marked and need of a clear contemporary measured by its anniversaries, statement: Tthose moments of significance • belief in Jesus Christ that are good to remember. In recent who uniquely saves us months the Church has marked by His redeeming blood two fortieth anniversaries, both of and raises us by His teachings of ongoing significance for Resurrection; modern Catholics. The first is Pope • belief that Jesus Christ Paul VI’s Profession of Faith known by the Sacrifice of the as the Credo of the People of God Cross redeemed us from (30 June 1968) and the second a few original sin and from weeks later, his landmark Encyclical all personal sins. This Humanae Vitae, On the Transmission redemption is shared with of Human Life (25 July 1968). us by means baptism, even My own recollections of these events as infants and the sacraments are vivid, as they took place while I was of faith; • belief in the Church as Christ’s continuing theological studies for the Mystical Body through which priesthood in Sydney. the work and the sufferings of Archbishop Young entrusted this Redemption are continued Eucharistic mystery. Parents and period of my formation to the Marist throughout human history and teachers will find Pope Paul’s Fathers, for which I have retained a through which the truth which explanation useful in helping faith warm and enduring gratitude. While God has revealed to guide us to to be nourished by truth in growing the controversies and tensions of the eternal life of the Kingdom is young minds, getting them beyond that post-Conciliar period here and passed on, with the assistance of ideas that the Sacrament of the overseas pulled this way and that, the Holy Spirit; Eucharist is only a sign or a symbol I remember the atmosphere in the • belief that the Mass, offered by the or a token or a reminder of Christ’s seminary was marked by a stabil- priest in the person of Christ, is presence: that the Eucharist is in ity and peace, a balanced and calm the Sacrifice of Calvary rendered truth and fact Jesus Christ Himself. faithfulness to the truth of Christ and sacramentally on our altars and in Flowing naturally from this truth will the Church and a great charity among the real and substantial change by come deeply respectful and reverent the community. which bread and wine become the communions – “It is the Lord!” – not One of the community’s great Body and Blood of the Lord. received in just one hand, or ‘on friends of those days was Bishop Tom The teaching on the Real Presence the run’, or not consumed without Muldoon, ordained a priest of this stated in the Credo remains of “wonder and awe” before turning to diocese and at that time Auxiliary leave the altar. particular importance. Bishop of Sydney. Quite unforgettable Pope Paul makes a most arresting were the talks he gave on Pope Paul’s It needs emphasis and explanation statement: “This mysterious change Credo of the People of God, set against today, since it is evident that many is very appropriately called by the the confusions of the time. Catholic people either do not know Church transubstantiation. Thank God many aspects of those the truth about the Mass and the days are well behind us as the Church Real Presence or do not understand Every theological explanation with renewed energy and resolve what it means: for many it does not which seeks some explanation of this moves into the age of ‘the New appear to go beyond a vague idea that mystery must, in order to be in accord Evangelisation.’ Yet as a short and somehow the Eucharist is important, with Catholic faith, maintain that in clear statement of Catholic Faith, the but without a formed conviction that the reality itself, independently of our significance and usefulness of Pope captures the mind and imagination, mind, the bread and wine have ceased Paul’s Credo remains to the present or a fascination that leads to faithful to exist after the Consecration, so that day. For this reason it is reprinted for belief and practice. it is the adorable Body and Blood of personal reading and reflection in this “Wonder and awe in God’s the Lord Jesus that from then on are issue of Catholic Life. presence” is one of the gifts of the really before us under the sacramental Pope Paul’s Profession of Faith Holy Spirit received in the Sacrament appearances of bread and wine, as the builds and enlarges upon the Confirmation. It could be asked how Lord willed it, in order to give Himself foundational Apostles’ and Nicene especially this wonder and awe might to us as food and to associate us with Creeds and focuses on some points be shown in a Catholic’s attitude, the unity of His Mystical Body.” of belief for which there was the belief and practice in respect of the continued on page 10 Catholic Life, September, 2008 3 CONTENTS Features Churches 3&10 Bishop Jarrett Writes AROUND 6 Director of Catholic Schools Article 7 Greening Redemption THE WORLD 8 River Peoples Journey At Woodlawn 11 React: Lismore Diocese Youth Weekend 12 Actions Speak Louder Than Words 13 Death of a Much Loved Priest 14 Mercy Membership Conference 16-18 The Year of St. Paul 19-21 Engineering a Life of God’s Work 22-23 World View – Iraq & Italy 24 Along our Spiritual Journey Regular Features 4 Churches around the World 5 Editorial 9 Our Country Churches 15 Liturgy by Father Brian Gleeson 28 As it Was School News 25 Trinity Catholic College Lismore Mt St Patrick College, Murwillumbah St. Joseph’s Regional High School, Port Macquarie Mt St Patrick Primary, Murwillumbahn 26 Our Lady of Lourdes Infants School, Lismore St Joseph’s Primary, Maclean Banora Point College, Banora Point St. Joseph’s Primary School, Laurieton 27 St Brigid’s School, Kyogle St Carthage’s, Lismore The Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche), Dresden The original plans were drawn up by Architect George Bahr who incorporated features of the domes F e a t u r e of Italian cathedrals. Construction began in 1727 but Bahr died in 1738. His successor was Georg Insert Schmid who completed the 90m high baroque structure with its cupola in 1743. The church survived the Dresden air raids of February 13 and 14 but could not survive the firestorm The Creed of that swept through the city after the bombing. The massive sandstone building collapsed on the People of God February 15, 1945. Reconstruction of the church began on May 27, 1994 and the building was completed on October 30, 2006. Golden Mosaic in the Editor and Publisher of Parish events: apse of the church of St. Peter Outside the “Catholic Life”: advertisers Email your planned Parish events, Walls (c.1220). IN CATHOLIC LIFE celebrations, anniversaries, etc., for Christ is flanked by Father Peter M Karam inclusion on our website and in the the Apostles Peter next edition of “Catholic Life”. Email: media@ (right), Paul (left). Email to: lismorediocese.org The advertisers’ support of this [email protected] Fax: 02 6622 1771 Advertising Enquiries: publication Howard Media 02 6621 6700 Visit our Diocese website: enables us to Printed by: www.lismorediocese.org provide it to you Lismore City Printery 02 6621 5371 Our website contains free of charge. Art Direction & Graphic Design: a daily news bulletin, [email protected] spiritual reflections and All photos and images used in “Catholic Life” daily Mass readings. Please support them. are copyright. No permission to reproduce these photos or images is given. Editorial From Pace to Ponder The Church sometimes sets aside an entire year to encourage all of us to change pace and focus on some particular and important aspect of our Faith. This year, we are given an opportunity to learn more about one of the great saints and founders of the early Church — the Apostle Paul. part from Jesus, St. Paul is the most prominent personality of the New Testament. Of the 27 Abooks of the New Testament, thirteen carry Paul’s name. All of them are letters. Much of what we know about Paul comes from these written sources, supplemented by stories from the Acts of the Apostles, in which Paul is prominent in the second half (chapters 9–28). His letters make up the single most important ‘’library’’ of personal testimony from the first Christian century. No one else has written more extant letters or more Image courtesy of John Garrett Publishing personal testimony than Paul. His writings are chronicles of faith that can lead us our faith in Christ? Pope Benedict thinks so when he recently said: beyond the fears of our time, to confront the despair “From St.Paul we draw a very important lesson: of today with a sense of mission that gives hope. what counts is to place Jesus Christ at the Pope Benedict, when he declared this special year, encouraged us to imitate the apostle’s fearless centre of our lives, so that our identity is marked missionary effort in living our faith. The Pope pointed essentially by the encounter, by communion out that with firm faith “we can overcome every form with Christ and with his Word. He is not a figure of fear.” These are encouraging words in our time, where fear has become a weapon of control and violent of the past that we remember with veneration.
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