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Publication of the Diocese of Sale ISSUE 148 March 2011

Deacon to be ordained

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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SEMINARIAN Tao Pham with Bishop Christopher Prowse.

SEMINARIAN Tao Pham will be ordained a deacon for Sale Diocese at Narre Warren on March 16.

Originally from Vietnam, the 41-year-old has been studying at Corpus Christi since 2005.

Principal celebrant will be Bishop Christopher Prowse.

The ordination in Our Lady Help of Christians, Narre War-ren, will be at 7.30pm on the vigil of St Patrick’s Day.

Up to 30 seminarians from Corpus Christi are expected to attend in support of Tao.

He grew up in a farming fam-ily in Vietnam and after com-pleting his schooling worked as a farmer for several years be-fore studying at Saigon Univer-sity in Ho Chi Minh City.

In 1999 he entered a Catholic monastery and in 2000 became a novitiate, taking religious vows in 2002.

His desire to become a priest in Vietnam was thwarted by government policy which strict-ly limits the number of ordina-tions to the priesthood which can take place.

In 2005 he sought to come to Australia to train for the priest-hood and following an accli-

matisation period the following year, entered the seminary as a student for Sale Diocese in 2007.

On the day of his ordination seminarians will lead voca-tional talks with students at St Peter’s College, Cranbourne, and St Francis Xavier College, Beaconsfi eld.

It is expected that about 30 seminarians will be available in pairs to talk to students during the fi nal period of the day.

Sale Diocese has had two more students enter the semi-nary this year, bringing the total number of our seminarians to four. The men come from Mor-well and Pakenham.

A little more than 12 months ago Tao Pham was our dio-cese’s only seminarian.

It is hoped that later this year we will also benefi t by the ar-rival of another seminarian from India who met Bishop Prowse during an overseas trip last year.

In addition several priests from Nigeria, India and Sri Lanka are currently working through the visa process and it is hoped they will arrive to work in the diocese later this year.

Project Compassion launchWARRAGUL - The annual Lenten Appeal, Project Com-passion was launched for Sale Diocese yesterday at Marist Sion College, Warragul.

Bishop Christopher Prowse attended the launch, along with several priests from surround-ing parishes and representa-tives of various schools from around the diocese.

Our launch is traditionally held on Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent.

Those attending were offered pancakes for lunch, in keeping with the tradition of using up the rich foods before the period of fasting during Lent.

Project Compassion is run by Caritas Australia which sup-ports many worthwhile pro-

jects around the world where it works with locals to provide community building projects, as well as emergency aid.

Project Compassion kits and cardboard donations boxes are available from parishes.

Families and individuals are asked to give generously dur-ing Lent and then return the boxes after Easter.

Softwear updateREADERS may have noticed some slight changes in the past couple of issues as Cath-olic Life changes progressive-ly to new production softwear.

The program in use up un-til now has been the same one since we established the newspaper as a free publica-tion back in 1997.

We have tried to replicate the newspaper without doing a full overhaul.

Several readers have picked up a change of font used in the

text which is slightly larger and therefore easier to read.

Last issue about a third of the pages were done with the new program and after a few hiccups in producing high quality images required for the printer. this month only a couple of pages remain in the old program.

The changeover has neces-sitated that most advertise-ments be recreated or, when possible, changed over to the new format.

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THE Lenten liturgical season has begun.

Lent is our liturgical journey to the Easter Mysteries of our Faith.

Through intense prayer, fasting and almsgiving we ask Jesus to con-vert us more deeply into His saving death and resurrection.

During the Lenten period we re-spond generously to the increased offer of the celebration of the Sac-rament of Penance in our parishes. Project Compassion helps us with our almsgiving for those in real need.

We think seriously of ways in which we can fast – it will help our deeper hunger for intimacy with Jesus, the Eucharistic Lord. Silent adoration before the Blessed Sacra-ment in our parishes is a wonderful way of praying in a more intense manner during Lent.

Pope Benedict XVI, in his Lenten Message for 2011, links this period with Baptism.

He writes: “By immersing our-selves into the death and resurrec-tion of Christ through the Sacrament of Baptism, we are moved to free our hearts every day from the burden of material things, from a self-centred relationship with the “world” that impoverishes us and prevents us

from being available and open to God and our neighbor.”(n.3)

POPE BENEDICT XVI – “VERBUM DOMINI”

THE Pope offers us a profound sug-gestion for Lent. He says: “What could be more appropriate than al-lowing ourselves to be guided by the Word of God?”

Our teaching Pope has given us a wonderful guide in doing just this. In September 2010, His Holiness published Verbum Domini. It is the Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on “The Word of God in the Life and the Mission of the Church”.

I read it with great intensity re-cently. It is a wonderful catechism of the Word of God in the Catholic Tradition.

May I recommend it to you all. It is truly a great guide to following Jesus by loving the Bible.

Benedict XVI starts in Verbum Domini (The Word of the Lord)

by a meditation on “The God who speaks”. He then moves to “The Word of God and the Church”. He ends by teaching us about “The Church’s Mission: to proclaim the Word of God to the World.”

I know that many parishes will be gathering in groups during Lent for Lenten Bible Groups. This is most encouraging to witness. It would be wonderful if the group leaders could possibly read Verbum Domini dur-ing this time and offer some of its gems to the groups.

A NEW TRANSLATIONOF THE ROMAN MISSAL

The privileged time when Catho-lics listen to the Word of God is dur-ing Mass. I am sure that you have heard already that a new translation of the Roman Missal (third edition) is about to be published after 10 years of intense worldwide prepara-tion.

I am delighted to see have the Dio-

cese of Sale is preparing to welcome the new translation.

In-services have been offered to our priests and deacons. Public gatherings with experts have been offered. Our own Sophy Morley is making herself available to groups throughout the diocese to inform us of all that will happen.

Please take advantage of some of these opportunities offered. Our love of the Mass will be strengthened. It will give us hope and deeper faith.

The liturgical changes will be slowly introduced in the Diocese of Sale. They will start from Pentecost (June 12, 2011) and will be intro-duced gradually till the end of the year. Cards will be provided for pa-rishioners to assist with the changes.

You will observe that the changes for the people will be minimal. The new translations will enable us to penetrate more deeply into these an-cient prayers of our beloved liturgy.

You may wish to learn more about these changes. May I invite you to go to our diocesan website and read further for yourselves (www.sale.catholic.org.au then go to Liturgy).

Let us pray for each other during this precious Lenten season.

+ Bishop Christopher Prowse Catholic Bishop of Sale

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St Brigid’s Better BuddiesOFFICER - The Prep children at St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School in Offi cer celebrated Better Buddies Week with their new senior buddies.

The Prep and 4-6 class have teamed up, with the senior chil-dren of the school helping to instil the values of the Better Buddy Program: caring for oth-ers, friendliness, respect, valu-ing difference, including others and responsibility.

Children learn these values with the help of their buddies, through formal and informal activities together.

The school has implement-ed the Alannah and Madeline Foundation’s Better Buddies Framework in 2011 as an initia-tive to maintain the friendly and caring environment that was established in the school com-munity last year and as a pro-active and preventative measure against bullying.

Principal Ken Gale said “The Better Buddies Program gives our young children a sense of safety and security in our school. The program allows the children to feel valued and re-spected.

“It’s a great way to start, knowing that our older students are modelling for and assisting the younger members of our school community.”’

Prep student, Taylah was very excited about the program. “I liked my best buddy. She was nice and she was lovely. She helped me and I helped her out-side.”

Grade Six student, Jasmine understood her role in being a Buddy. “Our job is to take care of them (our buddies). We teach them responsibility and respect.”

BETTER Buddies Taylah (left) and Jasmine are a team at St Bridg-id’s in Offi cer.

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Please help families in needThe Bishop s Family Foundation assists families within Sale Diocese

by providing funding to various charities. Please help us continue our good work by donating generously. Send donations to: Bishop s Family Foundation, PO Box 508, Sale 3853

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Indian priest returning homeIONA – Fr Thomas Mannaku-lath OSB returns to India at the end of this month to become a founding member of a new Benedictine Monastery.

Fr Mannakulath came to Sale Diocese in 2008 on a temporary placement from his Order.

He has been recalled to India by his Superior General who is establishing six new monaster-ies in the south and west of the country.

Fr Mannakulath said it had not yet been determined which monastery he would go to, but it was probably in Andhrapradesh where he had previously served as priest before coming to Aus-tralia.

He said it was disappointing to be leaving Australia but as a Benedictine he accepted that he would be sent to wherever there was a need for his services.

“I came here for a minimum three years and when I leave it will be three years and three months.”

He said that after the new monastery was established he would be happy to come back to Australia if there was still a need.

“I have been enriched by my Australian experience and have learned much on how the Church operates here.”

Fr Mannakulath offered his special thanks and prayers to the parishioners who had read-ily accepted him during his stay particularly those in Traralgon, Sale, Rosedale, Stratford, Bri-agolong, Loch Sport, Iona, Koo Wee Rup, Maryknoll, Nar Nar Goon and Lang Lang where he had celebrated Masses.

He also extended a big thank you to the priests of the diocese for being so friendly and broth-erly towards him.

“I will continue to cherish every sweet memory of my

time in Sale Diocese. It was a highly enriching experience, both personally and spiritually, and has widened the horizon of my priestly ministry.”

He has promised to keep fol-lowing the successes of Gee-long Football Club, after being introduced to them by the fa-natical Cats supporter Fr Peter Bickley when in Traralgon.

Fr Mannakulath said Ben-edictines were well known for their hospitality and so any people from Sale Diocese were welcome to his monastery if they were visiting India.

He has asked that his Indian contact details be made avail-able.

Letters can be sent to him c/- Asirvanam Benedictine Monas-tery, Kumbalgudu Post, Banga-lore, 560074, India. Emails can be sent to either mcthoma-sosb@yahoo.co.in or thomas-mannkulath@yahoo.com and his mobile telephone number will be 00 11 91 9035 501 945.

THE death has occurred in Malta of former Sale Diocese priest Fr Emanuel (Manny) Spi-teri, 77.

He died at Gozo, on February 17 and was buried there four days later.

Fr Spiteri was born in Malta and studied at the seminary there before being ordained at St Mary’s Cathedral, Victoria, Gozo, in 1960.

He came to Sale Diocese in 1963 and was appointed assis-tant priest at Yallourn for the fi rst year.

He then served as assistant in Bairnsdale, Morwell, Yarram and Trafalgar before his fi rst appointment as parish priest at Yallourn in 1977.

He became parish priest of Yarram in 1980 and then Mor-well East in 1984.

He oversaw the Morwell and Morwell East parishes combine

in 1995 and then in 1997 re-turned to Malta.

While in Sale Diocese he was the priest in charge of Australi-an Catholic Record for 16 years and was president for the Soci-ety for Sick and Infi rm Priests.

Fr Spiteri dies, age 77

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‘As if’ - A challenge for all

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VACLAV Havel is an extraordi-nary man.

This internationally famous philosopher-playwright was, in so many ways, the face, the embodiment of East European conscience during communist rule.

He was jailed repeatedly for expressing his views. He was allowed employment only in endless, mind numbing jobs, and he was banned from writ-ing or publishing his plays or poetry.

Performance of his plays was forbidden. His writings, often smuggled out and performed in other countries, courageously exposed the dilemmas of life under totalitarianism.

He became known as Czech-oslovakia’s ‘Dissident of Dissi-dents’, the leader of a peaceful and non-violent movement that ultimately led him to the Presi-dency after the fall of commu-nism.

Perhaps his greatest infl uence in this period of peaceful revo-lution is that he chose to live ‘as if,’ that is, as if he were free.

With stoic persistence, he re-fused not only to be shackled by the denial of his freedom and rights, but he lived in such a way that others might see what it was like to have rights, to be free.

No matter what his detractors or jailers hurled at him, he lived ‘as if’ the revolution had come and he was free to live in peace.

He lived ‘as if’, he wrote ‘as if’, he spoke ‘as if’ and others came to see life as he could see it, to believe it was possible. And the revolution began.

So many years before, St Au-gustine had a similar message.

In one of his many great in-sights, Augustine wrote that no-one can choose nothing over something. He described his struggle of not being able to re-ject old ways because you can-not choose nothing.

When he looked at the life he was living, he wanted to change but could not opt for ‘nothing’. There was no use, Augustine said, in exhorting him to change his life.

He already knew he should do that – he could not be shamed into change as he was already crushed by shame.

He had to be able to imagine the alternative. What would this

new life look like? When he could imagine this new life, he opted for it.

In a vision, he saw others who had lived as he wished, he saw what his new life might look like, how it might be lived, what he would do. Then he was able to make the change.

Augustine and Havel show us a powerful message. Firstly, imagination is not some dream, some journey into unreality.

It is very much grounded in the here and now, it calls us to respond to the world as it is, to treasure what is right, what is positive and uplifting and to work to change what is destruc-tive of human nature, of free-dom, of our basic rights.

It also calls on us to envision what would the world be like if we chose to believe ‘as if’ - as if the message of Jesus was a reality, that we had been re-deemed, that the Kingdom had come, that the vision of God was no longer just a vision.

Living such a life is not just an exercise in self-delusion – it means going back to God’s original vision and seeing life, seeing our world as Jesus sees it, not as we see it.

If we have the courage to do that, we may see astonish-ing possibilities, new ways of responding to our world, new ways to bring Jesus’ message and to live Jesus’ message.

It requires a strong belief that God is at work, even in situa-tions that challenge us and take us out of our comfort zone.

Living ‘as if’ may require us to rethink, it may call us to live differently, it may call on us to question and disturb our com-fortable routines.

Sometimes Jesus’ statement to Peter that: “You are Peter and upon this rock I will build

my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” canbe interpreted as a call to com-placency rather than a call to action. It is not.

Rather we are still being called forth to ‘save’ our world – not alone, not by ourselvesbut with God.

That means that in our own lives, in our parishes and in ourinstitutions we need courage, imagination and a willingnessto try new ways, new ideas, newplans.

Vaclav Havel’s courage re-minds us that we ought not get used to conformity, to uniform-ity. If we are to respond to ourworld and its needs today, wecannot just accept the status quo, to do what we have alwaysdone. It is not working.

It calls us to imagine a better way, a new way of living theGood News.

Looking again at the vision of Jesus, living as if we are re-deemed and trying to embody the vision of God asks us to live differently, to disturb our com-fortable routines, to reach out to others, even to those who do not share our way of looking at the world.

It calls on us to treasure the vision of Jesus but to question and to re-evaluate. We carrywithin us great fear of change but everything about religioncalls us to explore new depths,new ways.

We are called to live ‘as if’ atthe beginning of this new cen-tury – to bring the Gospel mes-sage to life to the people of this age.

No wonder we need to fi nd our home in Jesus who gives us the courage and the vision to embrace this wondrous chal-lenge ... to live ‘as if’.

Beware of scamsMOST of us with email and telephones are getting used to the fl ood of scams.

But is seems that sometimes parishes and dioceses are fall-ing for some of the pitches di-rected to them.

So much so that the Apos-tolic Nuncio, the Pope’s man in Canberra, has had to issue a warning.

Apparently there has been a fl ood of letters, often on let-terheads which look genuine, asking for fi nancial support because of exceptional cir-cumstances or for some fi cti-tious project.

It reminds us that some years ago the diocese received a phone call from a man pur-porting to be a overseas priest who claimed some connection with our diocese. He said he was fi nancial embarassed and needed to borrow $700 for his airfare home.

Of course, he would return the money when he arrived.

We didn’t fall for it but ap-parently others did.

Another warningONE priest we know of re-ceived a call from “Micro-soft” telling him they had de-tected something wrong with his fi rewall which could leave his computer open to attack by a virus.

He told them to call back, which they never did.

This is a common ploy at the moment, as we received a similar call a week or so ago.

They want you to download a patch to fi x your computer but you are really download-ing a program which will give them access to your Internet banking so they can clean you out.

Yahweh reminderHAVE notice several times lately that the hymns with the word Yahweh as still being sung.

After an agreement between all Christian churches and the Jewish faith, a directive was issued about three years ago that the word Yahweh not be sung or spoken as it is offen-sive to Jews who do not say it aloud.

Usually the word can be re-placed by “God” or “the Lord” to fi t in with the music, but of course the congregation must be made aware of the change.

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UP to 1500 people are expected to attend the National Fam-ily Gathering Share the Dream at Xavier College, Kew, from April 15-17

This event is the third of its kind in Australia and is hosted by the Melbourne Archdiocese of behalf of the Bishops’ Com-mission for Pastoral Life.

Matthew MacDonald from the Life, Marriage and Family Offi ce in the Archdiocese of Melbourne said that the event aimed to draw together families from across Australia to cel-ebrate their role in evangelising society.

“We hope to try and give families something that’s a lit-tle like World Youth Day. The idea is to give people a sense that they are not alone in their faith. Even though they might feel like fi sh out of water or that they are all alone and swim-ming against the tide – there are many who share their vision and values as well as their trou-bles and challenges”, he said.

Pope John Paul II held the fi rst World Meeting of Fami-lies in Rome in 1994 and it has become an international event which takes place every four years. Australian families who attended the 1998 event in Rio

de Janiero suggested it was something that could be repli-cated here.

Chair of the Bishops’ Com-mission for Pastoral Life Bish-op Eugene Hurley, Darwin, said that this event was ex-tremely important for families, to inspire and encourage them.

“These events give people a sense that they are not alone in the world. Our culture can be very individualistic and we re-ally want to affi rm families”, said Bishop Hurley.

“In 2000, there was a con-ference called Dare to dream, which was a similar format to what Share the Dream will be. The fi rst event was very well received and around 1300 peo-ple came along. In 2004, they ran a similar kind called Living the Dream.

“These events are titled as such because we do dream of a society in which the family is held up as the most important institution and we want to en-courage people to dare to have that, live that and share that dream”, he said.

The conference is extremely inexpensive, the same price whether you have one child or 10, with early bird family regis-tration just $250.

Keynote speakers include Secretary to the Pontifi cal Council for the Family Bishop Jean Laffi tte, Melinda Tank-ard Reist, Byron and Francine Pirola, Dr Brigid McKenna and Dr Adam Cooper. A variety of married couples, religious, and different people who are ex-perts in their fi eld will conduct workshops on a wider variety of relevant topics.

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SYDNEY - On January 6 in the Mary MacKillop Chapel in North Sydney, 37 Sisters of St

Joseph celebrated 50 years of Professed religious life, renew-ing their vows before their Sis-

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from Ireland, New Zealand and all States in Australia to gather for seven days to share their memories and enjoy time to-gether.

Three other Sisters of the group were unable to be pre-sent and six had died during the 50 years. After renewing their vows during the celebratory Mass their candles were placed on Mary MacKillop’s grave, in-dicating their gratitude for the 50 years and a renewal of their commitment to Josephite life for as long as they lived.

Six of these sisters came from Victoria and some are well-known in Gippsland.

They are Srs Doreen Dagge, Mary Fermio, Margaret Barry, Camillus Parker, Moya Un-

thank and Marie Hanger. They will celebrate with their fami-lies and friends in Victoria on March 12 at Our Lady of Vic-tories Basilica in Bourke Rd., Camberwell.

With them will be fi ve sisters celebrating 60 years: Srs Ag-nes Nunn, (who recently lived at Yarram) Catherine Burke, Mary Luscombe, Anne Cahir and Joan McCann. Sr Eileen McHugh who spent many years at Morwell East is celebrat-ing 70 years and Sr Helena McGuire who lived for many years at Leongatha, 75 years.

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It analyses the social setting in which schools fi nd them-selves today – and re-affi rms its purpose, namely, the promotion of the human person in the way of Jesus Christ in whom the fullness of truth concerning hu-manity is to be found.(#9)

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Some years ago, schools de-veloped a way forward in their work, through the document, “Catholic Schools Journeying

Together 2004 – 2008.” It was a rich document that served us well. But its very title suggest-ed that it was limited in time and was intended to expire in 2008.

We have waited until our new bishop is established in the dio-cese before venturing in to a new set of directions. We have not called it a “plan”, but rather a “Directions Document” that schools can use as a resource in their planning, rather than as a tightly framed guide.

The Vision for Catholic Ed-ucation:

We are committed to coura-geous renewal and to the pro-motion of the human person through the provision of stew-ardship and leadership that are credible, contemporary, accountable, sustainable and transparent. This will enable schools to be contemporary centres of excellence, equity and evangelisation that reach out to all. In this environment, students are empowered to be-come successful lifelong learn-ers, confi dent and creative indi-viduals and active and informed citizens who contribute to the Church’s mission to proclaim

the Good News of Jesus Christ.The Mission of Catholic Ed-

ucation:Our mission is to enable all

students to reach their full hu-man potential where:

• They are brought to a fuller knowledge and love of God, as revealed in Jesus Christ and expressed in the Catholic tradi-tion.

• They experience an environ-ment that promotes healthy so-cial and emotional development where their learning is maxim-ised.

Our work is centred on three core educational goals and two enabling goals. The core edu-cational goals are:

Faith – bringing every stu-dent to a knowledge and love of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and mediated to us through the Catholic Church

Learning – enabling every student to learn so that he or she can lead a fulfi lling life and contribute positively to a healthy and just society

Growth – enabling every stu-dent to thrive in an environment that enhances his or her social and emotional growth

The core enabling goals are:Leadership – building the

capacity for visionary leader-ship throughout the system and the school to achieve our faith, learning and growth outcomes

Stewardship – developing soundness in our management so that we do the right things right and use sound processes to achieve our purposes of faith, learning and growth.

Seven major focus areas are identifi ed in the document, each having a number of elements.

They are:Strengthening Catholic

identity• Communities recognise and

embrace the Catholic school’s fundamental duty to evangelise.

• Religious education teach-ing recognises the wide range of religious experience of stu-dents in each classroom.

• The Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project instru-ment is an integral part of the Catholic School Renewal pro-cess.

• The role of the religious ed-ucation coordinator is clarifi ed and promoted.

Improving school and stu-dent performance

Teachers understand the na-ture and scope of contemporary learning.

• Leaders, teachers and sup-port staff adopt contemporary pedagogy that empowers per-sonalised learning to improve student performance.

• Wellbeing is understood as central to learning.

• All schools exhibit a culture which embeds performance and development.

• The capacity of teachers to provide quality education (in-cluding Religious Education) is enhanced.

Engaging the government reform agenda

Government-mandated cur-riculum is implemented in each school, acknowledging our fo-cus on indigenous history and culture, Asia and Pacifi c and sustainability.

• Schools engage meaning-fully with the accountability and transparency agenda of the government.

• Schools meet the govern-ment milestones for student and school performance.

• Schools have ICT infra-structure that enables every stu-dent to engage with the digital world.

Building leadership capac-ity

The school education com-munity in the Catholic Diocese of Sale is seen as a leader in learning.

• School leaders in the Dio-cese of Sale exhibit excellencein leadership in faith, learningand wellbeing appropriate to their role.

• Leaders in the Diocese ofSale exhibit exemplary stew-ardship appropriate to their role.

• There is a strong pool ofapplicants for leadership posi-tions.

Ensuring sustainability and growth

There is a rational approach tothe provision of Catholic school infrastructure in the diocese.

• Schools and CEO Sale havesound and consistent fi nancialmanagement practices.

• A decision is made regard-ing the provision of early child-hood education.

• The Integrated Catholic On-line Network (ICON) is imple-mented.

Building sound governancestructures

Appropriate authority, re-sponsibility and accountabil-ity relationships are established and clarifi ed between CEOSale, parish priests and schools.

• Schools and CEO Sale workin partnership with parents, par-ish and the wider community.

• School boards are effectivestructures in all schools.

This is an exciting documentthat spells the way forward forour already successful schools in the diocese. It can be ac-cessed in full on the Catho-lic Education Offi ce website (www.ceosale.catholic.edu.au)

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We have to make the differen-tiation between streams within superannuation and those out-side that very tax system.

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If in an SMSF there is an en-hanced capacity for fl exibility to increase returns depending on the markets.

Unfortunately there is also the increased volatility in the funds capital position due to the underlying volatility inherent in the share market.

Investing in commercial property within the super fund doesn’t alleviate this.

To avoid this level of vola-tility, some people use annui-ties. An annuity is an income stream which is purchased by the benefi ciary and it does have some restrictions.

The income is set at the be-ginning of the annuity and is unchanged for the duration of the agreed term. At the end of the term, the value is zero.

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Investing outside super and an annuity, the investor looks to earn fully taxable dividends or rent. This is the same as all investors prior to retirement so there is no difference to normal.

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Regional forums beginREGIONAL forums to discuss the questions raised in Bishop Christopher Prowse’s pastoral letter have begun.

The fi rst was held at New-borough last week and involves parishes, groups and individu-als from the Central, Valley and Heart regions.

The next will be for South re-gion at Leongatha Parish Cen-tre on Saturday, March 19, be-gining at 10am and concluding with a shared lunch.

The West region forum will be at St Michael’s Hall, Bain St., Berwick on Saturday April 2 at 2pm.

The fi nal forum will be for

the East region at St Mary’s Primary School, Bairnsdale, on Saturday April 9 at 10.30am.

Groups and individuals at-tending are asked to have writ-ten responses to the questions at the end of Finding Home in Jesus, so that others could read and refl ect on the comments.

The diocesan pastoral council could use the written responses to form the basis on new pasto-ral initiatives.

Finding Home in Jesus can be found on the diocesan Web site www.sale.catholic.org.au under Bishop Prowse’s statements and also the June 2010 Catholic Life.

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Theologian Pope writes on the Word of GodTHE release of Pope Benedict XVI’s Verbum Domini has been praised by critics as showing his extraordinary teaching abil-ity.

Some believe he will go on to be regarded as one of the great-est teaching Popes in history.

Pope Benedict XVI presents a concise synopsis of Catholic teaching on the Word of God but it may take several read-ings to understand the depth of meaning behind his words.

The document has its basis in the 2008 Synod of the world’s bishops on the theme of the Word of God in the life and mission of the Church and as such is the Pope’s summing up of the fruits of the synod.

He gives the background about the Synod, reminding us that “we fi nd ourselves before the mystery of God, who has made himself known through the gift of his word.”

In speaking about the joy ex-perienced at the synod in shar-ing the word of God, Benedict wants to encourage all the mem-bers of the Church to renew our living relationship with Jesus Christ, the Word made fl esh.

The Pope traces some history of how the Church has grown in its appreciation for the Word of God.

He points out that the Church has always “found strength in the Word of God” and goes on to speak of important develop-ments in the past century.

He refers to Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on Scripture, Provi-dentissimus Deus and points

out that the important docu-ment of Vatican II Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, spurred the Church toward a deeper appre-ciation of Scripture.

In his exhortation, Pope Bene-dict often refers to the Prologue of St John’s Gospel where “the Word became fl esh.” He sees in this profound Scripture passage a synthesis of the entire faith.

The Pope also hopes that the ongoing effect of the synod will be that it has a real effect in the life of the Church, on our personal relationship with the Scriptures, to liturgy, cateche-sis, and scholarly research.

Verbum Domini has been de-scribed as a “masterful, mysti-cal, and missionary” document which shows that the Pope is a theologian of the highest order.

This apostolic exhortation is a fi ne summary of the Catho-lic understanding of the Sacred Scripture and is destined to be-come a manual for theological studies for many years to come.

He writes in the introduc-

tion, “being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a defi nitive direction.”

The Pope teaches us all the way to live our lives immersed in and transformed by the Word of God.

The Pope concludes this 194 page mini-course on the Bi-ble with a stirring missionary charge: “I remind all Christians that our personal and communal relationship with God depends on our growing familiarity with the word of God.”

He exhorts everyone to be si-lent in order to hear the Lord’s word and to meditate upon it, so that by the working of the Holy Spirit it may remain in our hearts and speak to us all the days of our lives.

In this way the Church will always be renewed and rejuve-nated, thanks to the word of the Lord which remains for ever. Pope Benedict XVI

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Early artists and their love of Gippsland scenery

with Patrick Morgan

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MANY artists visited Gipps-land in the second half of the nineteenth century.

With its mountains, lakes, forests, wooded valleys, and wild, rugged coastline, Gipps-land was the most picturesque part of Victoria. Artists were at-tracted to this dramatic type of scenery as well as to the plains country of the rest of Victoria.

The locations they favored in Gippsland for their paintings were Walhalla, the Omeo dis-trict, the Alps, Lakes Entrance, Wilson’s Promontory and the Lake Tyers settlement with its indigenous inhabitants.

The two most important art-ists to come to Gippsland - Eu-gene von Guerard and Nicholas Chevalier - were both of Cen-tral European descent.

Eugene von Guerard was born in Vienna in 1812, the son of a painter at the court of the Hapsburgs. After studying painting as a young man in Italy and Germany, he came to Vic-toria, lured by the gold rushes, in 1852.

His fi rst years here were spent at Ballarat. Then he established a business base in Melbourne, while travelling and painting on extended forays into the coun-tryside.

Nicholas Chevalier was born in 1828 in St Petersburg of a Swiss father and Russian moth-er. After studying in Switzer-land and Germany he arrived on the Australian goldfi elds in 1855.

Like von Guerard he set him-self up in Melbourne, producing paintings and wood engraved drawings. Both artists had been infl uenced by German romantic

paintings of the European Alps which were fashionable at the time.

This training stood them in good stead when they came to paint in Gippsland.

Von Guerard and Chevalier attracted work on commis-sion from wealthy patrons and showed their paintings in ex-hibitions. They produced large scale paintings of the Austral-ian Alps, which are today seen in the National Gallery of Vic-toria and other places.

In 1858, before any of them had been to Gippsland, the scientist and explorer Alfred Howitt led a small expedi-tion, including Von Guerard and Chevalier, on a walk from Ferntree Gully to the Baw Baw mountains.

They eventually reached the headwaters of the Latrobe Riv-er before returning via the Yarra River.

In 1860 Howitt led a govern-ment prospecting party to the Dargo area and the Alps look-ing for new gold fi elds. On this expedition his second-in-com-mand was another important painter, William Short senior.

During this trip Howitt met up again with von Guerard. In letters written at the time Howitt describes von Guerard sketching on the Moroka River,

and at the Snowy Bluff on the Wonnangatta River:

“With the strata of slate look-ing bare and brown in its preci-pices, you look between the jutting ends of the two table-lands which drop a level edge in precipices of hundreds of feet – up a wide misty gorge with the dim outline of mountains and plains beyond.

“This is the Moroka Valley… I call the place from where this view is seen de Guerard’s Range…Guerard sits down to sketch among the rocks.”

Von Guerard was in fact one of the later explorers of Gipps-land, as he was one of the How-itt party who were the fi rst Eu-ropeans into some parts of the province.

Both Von Guerard and Chev-alier produced paintings of Gippsland which were convert-ed into chromolithographs.

Lithography is process by which a work of art is repro-duced by etching it with acid on stone. Chromolithography was in the 1860s a new process, by means of which the image was rendered in color.

Collections of paintings by the two artists were published in book form. Sheets from these books are now available individually from art dealers. Von Guerard’s album of litho-

graphs, Australian Landscapes, was published in Melbourne in 1867.

Of Von Guerard’s 51 chro-molithographs only four depict Gippsland scenes: ‘The Moro-ka Falls’, ‘The Junction of the Buchan with the Snowy River’, ‘The Snowy Bluff on the Won-nangatta River’ and ‘Mr An-gas McMillan’s Station, Bushy Park, Gippsland’.

There are in addition three chromolithographs depict-

ing various aspects of Cape Schanck. Ohers depict rivers in the north east of the state, in-cluding the Mitta Mitta, Acher-son, Goulburn and Ovens Riv-ers.

The original painting of Bushy Park by von Guerard is now displayed in the National Gallery of Australia in Can-berra.

Chevalier’s best known Gippsland paintings and chro-molithographs are: ‘Fern Tree Gully, Mt Useful’, ‘Wentworth River Diggings’, and ‘Dargo High Plains’.

Later on artists, including Chevalier, produced draw-ings which were reproduced as wood-block engravings. This was a process by which the painter’s original image was carved by an engraver on to a block of wood, which was then inked and used to reproduce the work of art in illustrated news-papers and magazines.

Scores of these engravings survive and can be bought from galleries, dealers and Op shops.

The originals were in back and white, but some are now tinted to make them more at-tractive.

The Gippsland Lakes were

drawn before the artifi cial en-trance ruined the shore line vegetation.

Kalimna, Metung, the slit jet-ties on Lake King, lakes’ fi sh-ermen and regattas on the lakeswere other favorite subjects.

Aborigines were seen as ex-otic additions to the landscape and were often including in drawings, especially of the Ramahyuk and Lake Tyers mis-sion stations, and around the lakes.

Scenes of alluvial gold min-ing at Walhalla, Dargo and Omeo, and timber haulage in the mountains were frequently drawn. Picturesque river loca-tions, such as the junction of the Latrobe and Thomson Riv-ers near Longford, were com-mon. The Sale Art Gallery has an impressive collection of his-torical wood-block engravingson Gippsland.

Von Guerard and Chevaliermixed in artists’ circles in Mel-bourne. In this group was an-other Swiss painter, Louis Bu-velot. Buvelot did not paint inGippsland, but there is a Gipps-land connection.

The dramatist Louis Buvelot Esson, named after him, made a trip to South Gippsland inthe early 1900s with his uncle, the painter John Ford Paterson, who was a friend of Buvelot.

It was on this trip that Essonwrote his play about struggling Gippsland selectors, Dead Tim-ber.

Von Guerard returned to Eu-rope to live in 1882. He died inChelsea, London, in 1901. Likevon Guerard Chevalier spenthis last years in England, dying in London a year later.

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Help for the sight challengedTHE CATHOLIC PRAYER BOOK (Large Print Edition) compiled by Mgr Michael Buckley, printed by Servant Books, St Anthony Messenger Press, distributed by Rain-bow Books, paperback, 354 pages, rrp $27.95.

WHEN people get older it is normal to struggle with reading fi ne print, no matter how often you go to the optometrist to get a new pair of spectacles.

Large print books are a God-send for such people and it is why more and more of the most popular books are being re-printed in large type.

Recorded versions have their place but with them it is too easy to nod off and miss a vital part of the story line.

The large print version of a top-selling American prayer-book will be extremely wel-comed by many of our older readers.

There is a rich diversity of prayers taken from the tradi-tion of the Church which in-clude personal prayers, family prayers, liturgical prayers and some for special occasions.

A word of warning with the liturgical prayers is that they are based on the 1973 Roman Missal and not the new transla-tion which comes into being for Masses later this year.

However, as this book is re-

ally for personal prayer, and not for use during Mass, it will be an important resource for many older people.

No doubt, another large print edition will roll of the presses in a year or two with the latest translations, but meanwhile en-joy this very reasonably priced book.

GENESIS, introduced by Ste-phen Cottrell, published by Darton, Longman & Todd, distributed by Rainbow Books, paperback, 167 pages, rrp $17.95.

THIS is an interesting pocket-sized book which is really just a reprint of Genesis from the well-known Jerusalem Bi-ble with a short introduction from the Anglican Bishop of Chelmsford.

He admits in this introduction that Genesis is a puzzling book which seems to be a collection of stories that are neither sci-ence or history.

However, if we accept the

obvious discrepancies such as two creation stories, and treat Genesis as a library of stories rather than a single book, then it can begin to make sense.

After all the Bible itself is re-ally a library - a collection of books and letters written for different audiences in different languages, by different authors and to express different things about God, the Jewish people and Jesus.

Bishop Cottrell points out we can learn much from the cast of characters in Genesis, most of them woeful failures.

Their lives can be seen as a parallel to the lives of people today.

But an important thing to re-member is that God showed as-tonishing faithfulness to these wayward people, amid all their confl ict and failures.

It is suggested that Genesis be reread with your own weakness and failures at the back of your mind so you can see how God reacts to other struggling peo-ple in the book of old.

EUGENE Von Guerard’s beautiful depiction of the Moroka RiverFalls, north of Licola.

IN a small village in Vietnam’s Hue province, Bach, 42 lives with his wife and four children.

Bach lost his fi ngers in a mining acci-dent as a boy and his 22 year-old daugh-ter - Dao requires constant care as she is deaf and paralysed from an accident as a baby.

Like most families in Hue, until recent-ly Bach relied on casual work and agri-culture, struggling to make ends meet. “My wife and I take care of our disabled daughter and three other children but we had low living standards because I am disabled too,” he told us. “I had no chance to do the jobs that I wished and couldn’t make enough money to support my family.”

In 2009, Bach was invited to a work-shop about a Disability and Develop-ment program run by the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD), supported by Caritas Australia. The pro-ject supports 750 people with a range of disabilities and their families in fl ood-prone Hue, one of Vietnam’s poorest provinces.

Disability is both an important cause, and consequence, of household poverty. More than 32,000 people are thought to live with a disability in Hue yet sadly, most people with physical and mental disabilities live isolated from their com-munity. The project therefore works to improve the health, livelihoods and so-cial integration of people with disabili-ties by encouraging them to form Dis-ability Support Groups where they can meet other families with challenging situations and gain practical social and vocational skills.

Bach explained that in his village: “We people with a disability started to come together, which had never happened be-fore. We learnt to form a group and cre-ate plans for our households. We shared our experience of taking care of our child and started to feel confi dent, com-municate more and access information for our daily life.”

As healthcare is an immediate concern for people with disabilities, Bach’s group prioritised their needs for equipment, medical checks, and disability care train-ing for their families. Caritas Australia’s local partner provided a healthcare and rehabilitation fund for each group to

manage which helps each member live more independently.

Every group also receives agriculture trainings according to their plans and small loans to improve their livelihoods. “I lacked money and knowledge on culti-vation and animal husbandry until these trainings,” Bach explains. With new skills and ideas: “I also received fi nance skills and a loan to buy a pig to raise.”

Bach has now been elected Deputy Head and Accountant for his group. He records the revolving loan fund and vis-its members’ houses to help when need-ed. With increased confi dence, Bach willingly gives to others: “I help other people with disabilities to participate in the group meetings and trainings. I en-courage them to be more confi dent, to look for opportunities and relevant jobs and take loans for agriculture.”

SRD helps each group register with lo-cal authorities and facilitates workshops with community leaders to build aware-ness and policies for disability issues in village meetings. Local government representatives and other organisations now often attend the Disability Support Group meetings.

Caritas Australia also funds the prov-ince’s Disability Vocational Training and Employment Centre, training staff to teach employment skills to people with disabilities from around the province. Ramps have been installed and equip-ment for social activities provided. Bach hopes that one day his daughter may be able to join these activities.

Bach’s confi dence has grown mark-edly since he joined the program. “Par-ticipating in the group has increased my hope in life and willingness to improve,” he explains. “I’m having success raising my pig and I’m earning an income from growing cassava, rice and beans. I want to invest more in pig raising.”

Bach is now better able to support his family. As he and other people with dis-abilities come together and learn skills, they are gradually developing more con-fi dence. Lives and incomes are improv-ing. Every day Caritas Australia contin-ues to work with partners like SRD to mobilise awareness and solidarity so that people with disabilities have opportuni-ties in life equal to all other villagers.

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To witness such devastation at home and abroad in six short months, reiter-ates the fragility of life and calls for our ongoing solidarity with all those who are threatened by disaster the world over.

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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

PILGRIMS from the Diocese of Sale are in serious prepara-tion mode with World Youth Day 2011 Madrid only six months away.

Yesterday afternoon we had the privilege of meeting with young people who had gathered at St Michael’s Traralgon as part of their Pilgrim Boot Camp program and their enthusiasm and excitement were conta-gious!

As well fundraising and get-ting their travel documents ready young pilgrims are pre-paring themselves mentally and spiritually for their pilgrimage.

Mike Hansen, who complet-ed the Camino de Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage (also known in English as The Way of St James) in Spain last year, generously shared his experi-ence with WYD2011 pilgrims. Mike’s story, told with such passion, was mesmerising, em-phasizing both the trials of pil-grimage and the moments of unexpected grace and clarity experienced along the road.

Mike told of the simple kind-ness received from other pil-grims on the Camino which supported him during the dif-fi cult moments of his journey, and of the people and prayers he carried in his heart as he walked the route that pilgrims have trekked for over 1000

years. Mike helped WYD2011 pil-

grims develop their understand-ing of what it means to be a pil-grim rather than a tourist.

And WYD preparations aren’t the only things keeping young people in our diocese busy at the moment!

New students in Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Aus-tralia (CSYMA) from all of the secondary colleges in the diocese gathered for a retreat at Marist Sion College on March 7-8 to kick off their youth min-istry year. Over 150 students were expected!

The very fun and popular St Ita’s Fun Camp is once again happening March 26-27 in Ne-wry. The cost of the overnight camp is only $15 (or $30 for a family) and a good time is al-ways had by both participants and leaders!

For more info contact Christa 5145 1415 or Lauren lauren-gray@live.com.au.

CSYMA and student leaders are invited to a training / retreat camp during the school holi-days, April 11-13.

The National Evangelisation Team will be on hand to facili-tate a program designed to in-spire and equip student leaders in their ministry. If you would like to participate in this retreat please contact Kelly on 5126

1063 or kellyl@sale.catholic.org.au.

Invitations are coming from further afi eld too:

The Archdiocese of Mel-bourne has extended and invi-tation to young people in the Diocese of Sale to attend the “Foundations in Faith Lecture Series 2011: Unpacking the Faith for Young People”.

This is a free, fi ve-week short course for young people inter-ested in learning more about their faith. It will be held every Wednesday night in March, from 7.30pm - 9pm at the Aus-tralian Catholic University in Melbourne.

You can attend one or all of the lectures as best suits you. Go to www.cam.org.au/youth for all the details.

The national Sisterhood Con-ference is inviting registrations for their annual conference May 13-15 in Sydney. The vision of the conference is to equip, em-power and inspire young wom-an to return to their own parish, community or workplace and make a difference and live the gift of their femininity.

Go to http://sisterhood.org.au/conference_1.html for all the registration details.

Stay tuned for exciting RE 4 the Rabble news in next month’s Catholic Life!

Helping out on theMoe soup van

By Lauren Roche

THE St Vincent de Paul Society in Moe has been running their soup van service for the Moe and Newborough region for over 15 years.

Run weekly on Monday’s and Wednesday’s, up to thirty fami-lies each night are provided with food made by the passion-ate volunteer network at Vin-nies.

This service relies on the help from volunteers, including Marist-Sion College students and teachers from Warragul

who assist each Wednesday. Students involved with the

school’s Remar program, a faithand ministry group, travel toMoe after school each Wednes-day to provide much needed as-sistance.

Witnessing little children runup to the van with excitementand appreciation on their faces,grateful for the food their fami-ly is receiving is a moving thingto witness.

It is evident that the Soup Van service is making a differencein the community when fami-lies notify Vinnies that they nolonger require meal deliveriesas they are back on their feetagain.

Without the kind help fromvolunteers, this program wouldbe unable to operate so success-fully.

Sacred journey an education experienceMANY youth lament that by attending World Youth Day, they will miss out on important weeks of study at home.

Many forgo the opportunity to attend overseas World Youth Days because they will simply miss too much university.

However, at least for some Australian university students, this is about to change, with a new course being offered by the Broken Bay Institute and the University of Newcastle.

The course “Sacred Journey – the 2011 WYD Pilgrimage On-line Course” is being pioneered this year by renowned lecturer Dr Margaret Ghosn and the BBI team and can be credited toward a range of degrees, in-cluding degrees in teaching or theology.

The course can also be taken as an independent unit by any young person attending World Youth Day who wants to make an educational experience of it.

Cathy Martorana of the BBI says that the course is a brilliant opportunity to keep studying during the semester of WYD, and be spiritually refreshed by

it.“If you are a teacher, a youth

minister or a pilgrim, you can take advantage of the opportu-nity of going to Spain and re-ally use the refl ective nature of this course to set some time apart for God to move in you”, she said.

“We want this to be a faith ex-perience – for people to really refl ect on and use their World Youth Day experience outside of those three weeks in Ma-drid.”

“It’s my belief that in any time set aside, God will move in us. We don’t want World Youth Day just to be an amazing expe-rience, we want to ground that and let the spirit move in our work.

“We gather as a Church when we go to World Youth Day, and we need to really integrate that and allow it to become a reality in our lives.”

Cathy and those running the course believe it will be partic-ularly helpful for teachers and youth ministers.

The principle behind the course is that in the future, they

will have the formation and academic qualifi cations to help young people really experience how God works through events like WYD.

“Dr Margaret Ghosn will oversee the course. She has more than 13 years as a profes-sional in Catholic youth minis-try at parish, school, and dioc-esan levels.

She brings an experienced perspective to theological re-fl ection in the WYD Pilgrim-age Unit. She is currently BBI’s Youth Ministry Course Coordi-nator.”

The journaling aspect of the course will not only be the as-signment required, but it is also designed to help participants see where God is working in their lives.

“If people go on immersions and don’t have an opportunity to refl ect, the experience loses meaning.

“We want those leading groups to WYD and in future retreats and immersions to re-ally develop leadership skills, otherwise, we are simply the blind leading the blind!” said

Cathy.The course is ideal for young

people who are completing a Graduate Certifi cate in Reli-gious Education, anyone work-ing towards a Masters, and any-one doing teaching.

It is also helpful for any pil-grim doing academic studies, and it can be cross credited as a unit for a wide range of de-grees. This means that whether the pilgrim is studying law, journalism or engineering they could use the course as an elec-tive.

“Even for those who haven’t started uni, this is a good way to get your feet wet and really try it,” said Cathy.

Participants in the WYD course will develop an under-standing of the historical, spir-itual, and theological aspects of pilgrimage through readings provided on-line and refl ect on the importance of pilgrimage in the story of Christianity.

For further information or to enrol visit The Broken Bay In-stitute www.bbi.catholic.edu.au or contact Dr Margaret Ghosn at mghosn@bbi.catholic.edu.au

By Madlaline Pearson and Tori Hibbins-Brooker

NAGLE College, Bairnsdale,held its Year 12 Retreat at Feathertop Chalet, Harrietville, on February 7-9.

It gave us the opportunityto spend time with our peer group and get to know them ina relaxed atmosphere, beforelaunching into the stressful challenges of Year 12.

The theme of the Potter and the clay helped us to refl ect onthe wonders of God’s creationand develop a greater under-standing of the potential we all have if we allow God to workin us.

We really enjoyed our timeand recommend this to younger students as “an experience toexperience!”

Nagle’s Year 12 retreat toHarrietville

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For the Young and Young at HeartTime for a Laugh

A MARRIED couple intheir early 60s were cele-brating their 40th weddinganniversary is a quiet,romantic restaurant, whensuddenly a tiny fairyappeared on the table.

She said “For being such awonderful married coupleand for being loving to eachother for all this time, I willgrant you each a wish.”

The wife answered “Oh, Iwant to travel the world withmy darling husband.”

The fairy waved her magicwand and poof - two ticketsfor an around the world tripon the Queen Elizabethappeared in the wife’s hand.

The husband thought for amoment and said “Well thisis all very romantic but anopportunity like this willnever come again. I amsorry my love but my wish isto have a wife 30 yearsyounger than me.”

The wife and fairy wereterribly disappointed but afree magical wish cannot beignored, not even by fairies.

The fairy waved her wandand poof! ... the husbandturned into a 93-year-old.

A POLICE officer stoppeda motorist who was speed-ing down the main street.

“Look officer, I canexplain why I was in ahurry,” he said.

“Just be quiet,” snappedthe officer. “I’m going to letyou cool your heels in jailuntil the sergeant gets backin later this afternoon.”

“But officer, I just wantedto say....”

“And I said keep quiet!You are heading for thecells.”

A few hours later the offi-cer looked in on his prisonerand said “Lucky for you thesergeant is at his daughter’swedding and he’ll be in agood mood when he getsback.”

“Don’t count on it,”answered the man in thecell. “I’m meant to be thegroom.”

A DOOR to door sales-man knocks on the door of ahouse and it is answered bya 13-year-old boy. He has acigar in one hand and a bot-tle of whisky in the otherand behind him, a salesmancan hear sounds of a party infull swing.

The salesman looks at theyouth and says “Good morn-ing, are your parents home?”

“What do you think?”replies the lad.

AFTER Mass one morn-ing a parishioner notices a

nasty cut under the priest’schin and asks how he got it.

The priest explains he hadbeen thinking about his ser-mon while shaving and cuthimself when he lost con-centration.

“Well next time concen-trate on the shaving and cutthe sermon.”

A NEWSPAPER editorwas in trouble for writing inan editorial that he thoughthalf the city councillorswere crooks.

Following threats of legalaction and a nasty letterfrom solicitors representingsome of the councillors, hedecided to publish a retrac-tion.

He wrote: “I acknowledgethat I over-stepped the markin last week’s editorial. Iwithdraw that unsubstantiat-ed statement and would likeit known that I believe thathalf the city councillors arenot crooks.”

HUSBAND to wife: “Ithought you were goingshopping.”

“I was, but the car is flood-ed.”

“Where is it?”“I left it in the swimming

pool.”

A MAN walks into thepub and orders three beers.

The bartender raises hiseyebrows, but serves theman three beers, which hedrinks quietly at a table,alone before ordering anoth-er three.

This goes on every nightand finally the barman askswhy he buys three beers at atime.

“Well you see, I have twobrothers, who have movedoverseas and we promisedeach other that we wouldalways order an extra twobeers whenever we drank asa way of keeping up thefamily bond.”

Then, one day, the mancomes in and orders onlytwo beers. The bartenderpours them with a heavyheart. This continues for therest of the evening - heorders only two beers at atime.

The bartender says to theman, “I want to offer condo-lences to you for the death ofyour brother. You know-thetwo beers and all...”

The man ponders this for amoment, then replies,“You'll be happy to hear thatmy two brothers are aliveand well ... It's just that Ihave decided to give updrinking for Lent.”

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

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And thismonth’swinner is...

St Patrick’s Day colouring

SMILING winner of our previous colouring contest is Tara Janke,8, who attends St Catherine’s Primary School in Berwick South.

JULIA Interligi, 9, whoattends Trinity PrimarySchool, Narre Warren South.

Last month we mentionedwe didn’t get many entries butthis month there was a floodofentries from all parts of thediocese, and beyond.

We even got one from over-seas, downloaded from theInternet by a child living in theUnited States.

Julia’s entry was the judgedthe best and showed she has alot of talent.

We will get the prize to her inthe next couple of weeks.

Congratulations to all thoseothers for their great entries.

IT is St Patrick’s Day next week, and these leprechauns are preparing to celebrate everything Irish.Colour-in the picture and send it in for a chance to win a prize.

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Quick calendarWhat’s on & whenMarch13 – Rite of election, St

Mary’s Cathedral, Sale, 3pm14 – Labor Day public holi-

day16 – Ordination to diaconate

of Tao Pham, Our Lady Help of Christians, Narre Warren, 7.30pm17 - St Patrick’s Day18 – Offi cial opening and

blessing of library, hall and 6 classrooms, Trinity Primary School, Narre Warren South, 9.30am19 – Regional forum for

South Region, Leongatha, 10am21 – Equinox28 – Deadline for April Cath-

olic Life

April1 – April Fool’s Day2 – Regional forum for West

Region, Berwick5 – Opening and blessing of

new facilities at St Patrick’s Primary, Pakenham, 10am6 - April Catholic Life pub-

lished7 - 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, 4pm17 – Palm Sunday18 – Serra v Priests Golf Day,

Sale19 - Mass of the Oils, St

Mary’s Cathedral, 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 Life8 – Mother’s Day9 – Labor Day holiday11 - South region meeting,

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

lished17 – 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 Life12 - Pentecost14 - 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 appeal

21 – 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, 10.30am10 - 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 Life10 - 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

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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, 7.30pm23 – West Region meeting

Bishop’s DiaryMarch 16 - Ordination

to diaconate of Tao Pham, Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Narre Warren, 7pm

March 18-20 - Offi cial visit to Foster and Yarram parishes.

March 19 - Regional fo-rum, St Laurence’s, Leonga-tha, 10am.

March 20 - Youth forum, Trafalgar, 3pm.

March 22-26 - Attend Fed-eration of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania ex-ecutive meeting, Port Mo-resby, Papua New Guinea.

March 27 - Masses at Narre Warren.

March 29 - Year 12 college

leaders meeting, Warragul.March 30 - St Mary’s Col-

lege Council meeting, Mel-bourne.

March 31 - Address RCIA candidates at Sale parish, 8pm.

April 2 - West region fo-rum, St Michael’s Hall, Ber-wick, 2pm.

April 5 - Blessing and opening new facilities at St Patrick’s Primary School, Pakenham, 10am.

April 5 - Blessing and opening new facilities at St Kieran’s Primary School, Moe, 2pm.

April 8 - Attend Anglican/Catholic national dialogue,

East 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, 4pm.

BairnsdaleBairnsdale, Saturday 7pm, Sunday 9am, 11am.Paynesville, Sunday 9amLindenow, 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays 11am

BerwickBerwick, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 9am, 10.30am6pm

ChurchillChurchill, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 9amYinnar, 1st, and 3rd Sundays 10.30amBoolarra, 2nd and 4th Sundays 10.30am

CowesCowes, Sunday 9amBass, Sunday 11amSan Remo, Saturday 6pm

CranbourneCranbourne, Saturday 7pm, Sunday 9am,10.30am, 6pm

DrouinDrouin, Sunday 10.30amNeerim South, Saturday 5.30pm

FosterFoster, 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays 11am. 2nd and 4thSundays 9amFish Creek, Saturday before 2nd and 4th Sundays7.30pm. Toora, Saturday before 3rd Sunday, 6pm.

HeyfieldHeyfield, Saturday 7pmCowwarr, 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday 11am

Iona-MaryknollIona, Sunday 11amMaryknoll, 4th and 5th Sunday 9amNar Nar Goon, 1st and 3rd Sunday 9am

KooweerupKooweerup, Saturday 7pmLang Lang, 2nd Sunday 9am, 4th Saturday 5.30pm

KorumburraKorumburra, Sunday 9.30amLoch, Sunday 5pm (6pm daylight saving)

Lakes EntranceLakes Entrance, 2nd and 4th Saturday 6pm,Sunday 9amSwan Reach, 1st, 3rd anmd 5th Sunday, 11am

LeongathaLeongatha, Saturday 5pm, Sunday 11amMeeniyan, 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays 9.30am; 2ndand 4th Sundays, 11amMirboo North, 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays 11am, 2ndand 4th Sundays 9.30amTarwin Lower, (at St Andrew s Union Church)Saturday 5pm (6pm daylight saving)

MaffraMaffra, Sunday 9amNewry, 2nd and 4th Sunday 11am

MoeMoe, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 8.30am, 10.30amErica, 3rd Sunday 10.30am (NB: 10am December,Christmas Day and Easter Sunday)

MorwellSacred Heart, Morwell, Saturday 7pm, Sunday10.30am. 1st Sunday, noon (Polish Mass).St Vincent s, Morwell East, Sunday 9am

Narre WarrenNarre Warren, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 8am,9.15am, 11am, 6pm

NewboroughNewborough, Saturday 7pm, Sunday 9.30amYallourn North, Saturday 5.30pm

OmeoOmeo, 2nd and 4th Sundays 9am. Liturgy of theWord with communion 9am other Sundays.Swifts Creek/Ensay, 2nd and 4th Saturdays6.30pm (alternating monthly). Liturgy of Word withcommunion at Swifts Creek 9am Sunday otherweekends and at Ensay 6.30pm other Saturdays.Benambra, 2nd and 4th Sundays 11am. Liturgy ofWord with communion 9.30am Sundays of otherweekends

OrbostOrbost, 1st, 3rd and 5th Saturdays 6pm, 2nd and4th Sundays 11amMallacoota, 2nd and 4th Sundays 5pmBuchan, 1st and 3rd Saturdays 9am

PakenhamPakenham, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 9am, 10.30am

SaleSale Cathedral, Sunday 9.30am, 5pm (6pm Nov-Feb)Rosedale, Saturdays 7pmStratford, Saturday before 1st, 3rd and 5thSundays 6pmBriagolong, Saturday before 2nd and 4th Sundays6pm

TrafalgarTrafalgar, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 10.30amYarragon, Sunday 9am

TraralgonTraralgon, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 9.30am, 6pmGlengarry, Sunday 10am

WarragulWarragul, Saturday 7pm, Sunday 9am.

WonthaggiWonthaggi, Saturday 6.30pm, Sunday 10.30amInverloch, Sunday 9am

YarramYarram, 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays 9am, 2nd and 4thSundays 11amWoodside, Saturday before 1st Sunday, 6pm

All Mass times at www.sale.catholic.org.au

Mass times around Diocese

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Missing Fr Carrolltrophy mystery

IT is hoped that somewhere ina presbytery the missing FrFrank Carroll Shield can befound before the annual Priestsv Serra Club Golf Day nextmonth.

The shield which is awardedto the winning team has beenmissing two years.

It is presumed it was takenhome by a member of the vic-torious clergy team in 2009.

Last year when the priestsagain won the trophy they hadto be content with being pre-sented with an older versionwhich has all its medallionspreviously engraved.

The Serra Golf Day has beenheld for many years on theMonday of Holy Week and thisyear it will be contested at SaleGolf Club on April 18.

Diocesan priests competeagainst Serrans for the maintrophy but there are alwaysplenty of prizes to go aroundfor Friends of Serra, ladygolfers and others.

In recent years the event hasbeen opened up to the Anglicanclergy who also vie for stable-ford points.

Those wanting to find outmore about playing in the eventor attending the dinner thatevening, both of which raisemoney for promotion of voca-tions to religious life, are askedto call Reg Carmody on 51443349.

Anyone finding the missingtrophy is also asked to makecontact with him.

THE number of religious in theworld has dropped over thepast year, said Rome Reports.

There are now 793,709 reli-gious across the globe, accord-ing to newly published data -8061 less than the previousyear, the program reported.

The number of women enter-ing religious orders is muchhigher than that of males.Some 739,000 religious arewomen and only 55,000 ofthem are men.

The majority of these activelife orders work in the fields ofeducation and healthcare.

Europe is the continent inwhich religious vocations hasdecreased the most. There are8700 less, compared to the pre-vious year - but it also has thelargest religious presence andhas a total number of 320,000religious.

Oceania has the fewest, withonly 10,878, which is 257 lessthan the previous year.

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Remar embarkation camp to start the yearBy Tim Price

JUST before school began the Remar youth ministry groups at St Francis Xavier College Beaconsfi eld and Marist-Sion College Warragul embarked on their journey for the year.

The Blue group, year 11’s and the Gold group, 12’s had a great time and two ‘rowers’ share their thoughts below.

On January 28, during the school holidays, the Marist Sion Gold and Blue Caravels embarked on an epic journey to Trafalgar East, at the Summit.

With all 15 Blues and eight Gold’s ready for anything, we arrived. It was quite the sunny day and hats and sunscreen were needed.

We settled in fairly quickly, then we were onto introduc-tions, were we met part of the Remar Ministry Team for 2011.

We were all excited for a good camp with these three lovely kiddos, Jake Stewart, Laura Potts, and our very own Hananananananananah Sil-berstein. Also, we had Jimmy Lalor accompany us as a post school leader.

As the fi rst session came, we had to introduce ourselves to the leaders, sharing our name and an interesting fact, and that in itself was funny enough. As we were trying to keep within ourselves, it was organised that

the Gold’s were in a group by themselves and the same for the Blues.

As we started our fi rst ses-sion, everyone seemed to just unwillingly open up to each other, showing the connection we show between each other after spending the last year to-gether.

It was a good fi rst session, followed with some afternoon tea and biscuits. Later on we had a great tea followed by a fi -nal session at night, keeping us up till about 11, but it was all worth it.

The next day was pretty much the same, but our fi rst chal-lenge as a caravel was to take on a judge, in court. Some were scared, and in disbelief, but I knew it was true, and when it came around to it, it was one scary judge.

We had to argue that Jesus was real.

We gave our evidence, some were told to step aside and count their toes and we fought for what we truly believed in.

The judge reckons we lost, but we knew we had it. It was good fun and a great start to the day, then there was lunch and then we had a bit of free time.

As it was quite hot day, the man himself Simon Cuckson had pulled some strings and or-ganised us to go for a swim or even on the waterslide.

It was epic. Thank you Mr Cuckson. It really did just make the day whole lot better. Then we all got cleaned up and had dinner, and it was some good din dins.

We then had our last session, which was a real eye opener. It was “an emotional journey” where we listened to others and heard what they had to say.”

It got really emotional and was a good session, everyone got to say what they wanted, and we all felt a little bit bet-ter in the end, it was almost like breaking point for our caravel. Everything in the past from then on was gone, we were one.

The next day was pretty laid back, we only had one session, but everyone was so happy af-ter the night before. Our session involved re-committing to Re-mar for the next year, which all Blues did. We then had lunch, with all our thank-yous to all the great people and teachers who assisted us in committing to Remar once again.

Overall the camp was a very inspirational time fi lled with many memorable moments.

By Will Shiels

BLUE Embarkation camp real-ly feels like it has strengthened our caravel.

We all admitted to the areas we believe are our strengths, but even harder was sharing our perceived weaknesses. It was quite emotional and many people were crying listening to

people tell their points. This was so special though,

there is not many places youcan hear young adults talk at depth about their fl aws and howthey see themselves.

We all felt honored to be therelistening and giving advice aswe saw fi t. There is a strongtrust and bond between our group which cannot be broken and I love these people as muchas anyone else in the world.

I feel that we can share ouremotions, problems and joywith each other and others will always try their best to help. Welearnt about Peter and how hewasn’t perfect but Jesus gavehim many chances.

We were challenged in shar-ing our ideas about Jesus and being shut down by a nastymock judge, which shows us how some people will reactwhen we talk about our faith inthe world.

We also refl ected on ourhopes for the future, what we did well last year and what we need to improve on. It was an amazing, unforgettable week-end. Thanks.

THE Marist-Sion Remar Blue Caravel at their camp.

LIZZIE and Jasmina enjoying dinner at the Remar camp.