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As the Christmas CrossRoads is prepared for the printer, it is that time of the year that Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans call the ‘silly season’, on account of the higher than usual number of parties along with a higher than usual consumption of alcohol.

This festive time of Christmas (and New Year) is meant to bring out the best in people - whether they celebrate the birth of Christ, Hanukkah, or simply the end of another year.

People are meant to get together with work mates, families and friends, to share their stories, muse about their lives and maybe have a deep & meaningful encounter with their closest.

People are meant to think of others, especially people (even animals) less fortunate than themselves. Yet strangely, it can become a time that brings out the worst in some people - the festive season dissolves into the silly season, or even the ugly season.

The silly season is a time of over-consumption, over spending, high expectations, materialism, debt, waste, and stress. We are bombarded with messages telling us to buy more things we don’t really need.

Too many people believe that money and possessions hold the key to a happier life. Success is measured by material affluence. This attitude comes at a cost.

Namely, the destruction of the natural environment, social inequality, health problems due to overwork, difficulties achieving work-family balance, a struggle to find meaning in life, and reduced individual and community wellbeing.

Materialism (or consumerism) breeds not happiness but dissatisfaction, depression, anxiety, anger, isolation and alienation.

As materialism rises, the quality

of life falls! Beyond a certain threshold, money makes next to no difference to levels of happiness. After all, how many times, on a whim, can you fly in your private jet to Paris for a meal and show!

Yet, marketing continues to promote the myth that having more will make us happier.

At Christmas time, the advertisers go into overdrive. Their main task is to keep consumers feeling deprived and dissatisfied with what they already have and who they are and encouraging people to buy ‘stuff’ they truly don’t need.

Sadly, children may be bearing the brunt of the silly season as a large percentage of gift buying focuses on them. Kids are encouraged to rely on the nag factor (or ‘pester power’) to get parents to purchase products. Advertising relies on the creation of discontent amongst children that is meant to be resolved if they consume more. Television advertising is a significant influence in children’s lives and has been shown to influence their attitudes and consumption behaviour. There is enormous pressure on children to consume.

The end of the year could be a time for contemplation, reflection and review, and planning for the next year. Instead of waiting to make the (usually futile) New Year’s resolutions, why not fashion the festive season in ways that brings your real hopes for the future of your loved ones and for this world into an enjoyable, liveable present?

PS: In Europe, the silly season refers to the frivolous media stories in the news at the height of summer, when parliaments and other institutions head to the beach! It’s called the Cucumber season in some places!

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Around Australia cricketers paid their respect to Phillip Hughes who died tragically as a result of a bouncing ball striking his neck during a Sheffield Shield match in Sydney on Tuesday November 25. According to doctors, the injury is often immediately fatal, however Hughes was resuscitated on the pitch and was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital.

Doctor Brukner of St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, called it an incredibly rare injury. The blow caused Hughes’ vertebral artery, one of the main arteries leading to the brain, to compress. That caused the artery to split and Hughes experienced a “massive bleed into his brain”.

“I think in this instance, this was a freakish accident because it was an injury to the neck that caused a haemorrhage in the brain,” Dr. Brukner said.

“The condition is incredibly rare. It’s called vertebral artery dissection leading to subarachnoid haemorrhage, if you look in the literature there are only about 100 cases ever reported.”

The Under 14’s Ballajura Lakers Team. BACK ROW: Ethan Doyle, Lachlan Fisher, Jayden Monastra, Yuvam Mehnay, Jake Benger, Broodie Cross. FRONT: Emma Davidson, Dylan Vea, Adrian Monastra, Callum McVee, Blake Wyloe.

Only the birds singing in the trees, disturbed the Ballajura Lakers one minute silent tribute to Phillip Hughes, on Saturday morning November 29, one day shy of what would have been his twenty sixth birthday.

As the locals prepared to do battle with the Coolbinia Club all the under 14’s wore black arm bands as a sign of respect for their hero.

2014 marks the first year in which both Juniors and seniors (over 17s) have joined as one club.

The club numbers around 100 players in 8 separate teams.

Phillip Hughes wore the Australian baggy green Test Cricket cap Number 408 and he was on 63 runs when he met with the fatal bouncer. Markings at Ballajura.

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Margaret Besch’s (Nigal) parents recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Pictured Right: Edward and Krystyna Kapuscik married on the 19th of September 1964.Now fifty years later they renewed their committment to each other. In the months leading up to their wedding, Edward possibly sang the Beatles song “She Loves you Yeah Yeah Yeah” as he courted Krystyna!

Birthday Girl Jazmin Prior (in mum’s arms) wondered what all the fuss was about especially when Mini Mouse (Aunty Leanne Fredericks) made a guest appearance at her first birthday! Pictured with Dad - Brad, Mum Taryn and brothers Jaydon and Jaxon. Jazmin’s twin, Jada, who went to God at three months, was especially remembered by the family.

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Munn had lots of reasons to smile on Saturday September 27 - their wedding day. They tied the knot at St. Columba’s Church in South Perth and celebrated in style at Matilda Bay, Crawley. Jason a FIFO, works for Rio Tinto while Melissa is a Personal Assistant and has set up a mobile hairdressing business. A touch of sadness was that Melissa’s Nonno was seriously ill at Joondalup Hospital and the couple made a special visit before their photos.

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Ballajura friends celebrate with octogenarian Des Lazaro. Left to Right Don Roberts, Joyce and Desmond Lazaro, Sabrina Lynsdale, Rudy and Arlene D’Cunha. Burmese born Des was third oldest of four boys and his life saw him move first to UK and then to Oz. Father of three boys, (Trevor, Tony and Des) and a daughter Vanessa Johnston who all came to celebrate.

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With the Baptism ceremony over, baby Paris Giulia Hardingham was quite happy to let Nonna Elena McKean, Dad Damien and older siblings Reece and Prada organise her thirty eight children guests at her baptism party.

Despite all the noise her guests made having all the fun of the fair, Paris decided she would simply take a nap in mum’s (Sarah) arms!

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One could call it a ‘Men’s Shed’ except women are welcome to help as well. On the boundary of our readership area lies a unique recreational and conservation reserve that covers some 4,000 hectares of natural bushland - Whiteman Park.

Within the park there are five community groups with a transport focus. There are trams, locomotives, buses, farming machinery and motor cars, each with a museum or providing rides for young and the young at heart.

In each shed, volunteers, mostly retired tradies, are busily restoring, repairing and maintaining the various pieces of transport heritage.

These groups are the Motor Museum of WA, Tractor Museum of WA, Bus Preservation Society of WA, Western Australian Light Railway Preservation Association (operating Bennett Brook Railway) and the Perth Electric Tramway Society (operating the Whiteman Park Heritage Tramway).

The Park takes its name from Lew Whiteman (1903-1994) who bought land in the area in 1939 for the purpose of grazing cattle, before developing the popular picnic spot of Mussel Pool in the 1960s. He assembled a collection of wagons and machinery. From 1977 to 1990, land was purchased by the state government with the understanding

that it be owned and used by the community in perpetuity.

The Park was officially opened in 1986 and named in recognition of Lew Whiteman.

Areas west of Beechboro Road and along the Bennett Brook south to the Swan River came under Whiteman Park management in 1999 and 2001. In 2007, these areas were formally added to the Park, increasing the total area to 3811ha.

Whiteman Park is reserved for parks and recreation in the Metropolitan Region Scheme, creating a space for the community whilst also protecting a major underground drinking water source, the Gnangara Water Mound, which supplies a large proportion of Perth’s drinking water.

Nowhere else in Australia is there an opportunity to experience such a wide range of transport heritage in one place.

Revolutions Transport Museum, Whiteman Park’s transport heritage centre, is the storytelling hub that aims to transform the way we think about transport and how it shapes our lives and our neighbourhoods. It brings all the modes of land transport together into one place and is also the home of the Whiteman Collection.

Gareth Watts and Magdalena Klimek inspect the undercarriage.

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The Whiteman family came from England in 1886 and Lew’s grandfather took up land on Jane Brook in Middle Swan, where Lew’s father established a brickworks.

Lew was born in 1903 to a family that made their fortune manufacturing bricks from the rich clay soil of the Swan Valley; but his heart was here in the sand country, where he chased brumbies around the freshwater lakes of Mussel Pool, Lake Gnangara and Emu Lake in his youth.

He first bought land around Mussel Pool in 1939, and owned up to 835 hectares in this area at one time. He used the land to graze cattle and as a place to ride horses. In 1963, Lew enlarged Mussel Pool and developed it as a picnic ground for friends, neighbours and later, the wider community.

After selling Whiteman Brick in 1966, Lew indulged his passion for collecting old machinery and draught vehicles, which he displayed at Mussel Pool, as well as antiques and curios, which he kept at his properties in Guildford. He owned three houses in a row to house his private collection which he opened to invited guests only, taking pride in showing them through his famous personal collection, in an era when interest in such things was uncommon.

Following his death in 1994, Lew made a generous bequest to the people of Western Australia.

Manton Lewis Cyril Whiteman known as Lew.

In an agreement with the Western Australian Planning Commission, selected objects from his collection, relevant to transport and development, were transferred to Whiteman Park, to be kept in perpetuity. The remainder of his exotic antiques and curios were sold at auction and the proceeds were donated to charity, with Princess Margaret Hospital being the major benefactor.

Manton Lewis Cyril Whiteman was well known in the district as an excellent horseman and a good Samaritan. Lew never married and he never lived on the lands here – he lived the first part of his life in Middle Swan, near the brickworks, and moved to Guildford in the 1950s where he lived for the rest of his days.

Clarry Ioppolo and Barry White of Ballajura re-build a railway wagon for fun rides around the park.


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On entering into the main body of the church at MacKillop the visitor encounters a fish shaped structure which is the Baptistry for both infants and adults.

The fish shape reminds us that the first Christian symbol was a fish. Not because most of the disciples were fishermen, but because it was an early ‘mini’ creed or statement of faith.

Until the middle of the fourth century the fish and not the cross was the popular symbol for the followers of Jesus. Two arched lines formed the shape of a fish. The ends of the right side extend beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish.

It was an early secret sign of Christians and now known colloquially as the “sign of the fish” or the “Jesus fish.” to represent the followers of Jesus. Occasionally spotted as a bumper bar sticker on vehicles today.

The Greek word for ‘fish’ - ichthus was made up of five letters which

formed the mnemonic - Jesus - Christ - God - Son - Saviour. ΙΧΘΥΣ (Ichthys). Greek for “Fish”.

The small basin also serves as the Blessing font for people to bless themselves on entry into the Church. This is a traditional ritual that Catholics perform on entering a Church.

Babies are baptised in the tail part of the fish while adults can choose immersion in the front part of the baptistery.

In Adult baptisms the catacumen descends three step symbolising the three days Jesus spent in the tomb. The paschal candle which is placed on the sanctuary during Easter, has a permanent home at the Baptistery once the Easter season ends. The white marble floor reminds us of the white garments worn by the newly baptised representing the life of grace. It leads to the Eucharistic table. At a funeral special bearers are placed over the larger basin of the baptistery and the coffin is placed on top of the Baptistery. This speaks

for itself, because the Christian believes they gain entry into the family of God in this life through baptism, it is also through that same baptism that the Christian believes that they rise with Christ in the glory of His resurrection.

When the water of the baptistery is emptied and needs to be refreshed it is emptied into the waterfall area (The 12th Station) which is situated on the side of the pathway leading up to the Church. Underground pipes from the Baptistery take the water into the garden and not into the town waste system.

The Easter Candle or Paschal candle is a special object in a Catholic Church. Often very decorative stands have been used to hold the Candle. Ours is a gift from the Claremont Parish and was given in memory of Ronald Daly Lang who died in 1934.

Right: Outdoor Blessing font and Baptistery Overflow. It is also the 12th Station of the Cross - Christ Dies on Calvary.

Above: The Easter Candle, also called the Paschal Candle has a permanent place near the font. A new one is blessed each year.

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Together with his wife Jeanette, Len Hendriks is Ballajura Shopping Centre’s longest tenant having started in a brand new newsagency shop back in 1989.

Len started with the Morley-Noranda paper round that took in the 30-50 deliveries in the Ballajura area when access was via a gravel surfaced Weir Road.

Since then he has nursed into existence a successful business that employes a staff of four and

Always busy, Len Hendriks, was even interrupted with a phone call in the middle of his photo shoot for CrossRoads with Sales assistants Jessica Wilkie and Shannyn Tiscell.

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includes all the services of a Post Office plus dry cleaning, stationery, cards, magazines and lotto.

He has found the constant updating of the electronic media a challenge that he has nevertheless kept on top of.

The challenge to the small business is that the larger retailers have their own set of rules that at times ride rough shod over the little guy. The big retailers can sell what the small guys have.

Local Postman Gary Parkinson (pictured) has been delivering mail since 1970, when he started as a telegram boy, on a bicycle, south of the river. Len’s place is a letter depot on the Postie’s run.

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You’ve all heard that well-known saying, “All the world’s a stage.” When it comes to residential sales and increasing the value in a property, every house is a stage as well.

While it’s true, you can’t control the Australian real estate market or buyer demand, you can add value to a property and control how potential buyers see a house through smart renovations. that don’t necessarily have to be complicated or expensive. With a little cash and sweat equity, you can boost your property’s value without breaking the bank. The following ideas give you a lot of bang for your buck:

Make a Good First ImpressionSpiff up the entrance of a residence

and you’ll send the message that the property is up-to-date and well-maintained. Paint the front door, put up new stylish street numbers, power wash the driveway, and replace the mailbox if needed. Tidy the garden, trim shrubs, fix fences, remove debris, and plant some flowers. Potted plants by the front door or along the walkway add a nice touch.

Open Up SpacesBy eliminating a non-structural wall

and opening up the living space, you can create a sense of flow and transform the look and feel of a house. Today’s buyers want big spaces and an open floor plan with the living room or great room directly off the kitchen. Sometimes this change can be made for under a $1000 resulting in huge benefits.

Don't Overlook Repairs and Maintenance

Okay, maybe fixing the roof, repairing plumbing leaks, or replacing windows isn’t very glamorous or exciting, but these kinds of repairs can substantially increase the value of a residence. Spending a couple of hundred dollars could easily increase the value of your house by a few thousand dollars. Repairing a property is not only a smart investment but can also be essential to

making a sale. Houses that get attention in this market are in pristine condition.

Replace or Restore FlooringA whopping 94% of real estate pros

recommend spending some money on flooring. If you need to replace the entire floor, try calling carpet and flooring retailers and ask whether they are selling any discount or end-of-the-line inventory to save money. However, sometimes you can simply make inexpensive repairs to flooring and substantially increase the value of a property. Replacing broken tiles, cleaning dirty carpets, or buffing and polishing hardwood floors can make a big impact. Or, if a vinyl floor is a horrific color or damaged, replace it with some vinyl stick-on squares in a light color.

Upgrade LightingYou don't have to go wild here, agents

say. Just replace anything damaged, dated, or distracting. Unless your house is priced in the upper end of the market, spending $100 or less should do the job. Another inexpensive trick: replace light bulbs in darker rooms with a higher wattage to better show a property.

Easy Bath UpgradingModernising a bathroom is a sure

way to add value to a property. Although major renovations are expensive, some improvements won’t cost a lot. Replacing a toilet, sink, tapware, doorknobs, and cabinet pulls can instantly update a bathroom. Even simply cleaning the grout, removing rust stains, replacing the toilet seat, or applying fresh caulk can make a tired bathroom feel revitalized. Try spray-on tile paint on ugly existing tiles and a grout pen to paint over discolored grout. If nothing else, replace an old musty shower curtain with a new fabric one and buy an attractive set of decorative towels.

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Mary MacKillop Primary School develops children’s talents on every front - especially the arts. Pictured TOP Left: Drummer Riley Fisher, TOP Right: Guitarists Kane Markham and Alyssa Maybury, ABOVE left: Nicholas Maybury. ABOVE Right: Chloe Lazaroo, Jordan Nguyen and Joseph Firth

At a twilight music recital at MacKillop some 75 people gathered to listen to the young talent of pianists, singers and guitarists. Their teachers Vanessa Hince, Matt Stapleton and Sam Musca were there to encourage them. LEFT: Dyarnedha Kriegeta.

BELOW: Ella Harris, Ryan Truong, Anisha Join, Jordan Nguyen and Joshua Gethin.

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The training restaurant at BCC in the Hospitality Department becomes a hive of activity at 7.30am every Thursday morning as the staff prepare breakfast for up to 300 students and anyone else in the BCC community who cares to join the ‘BCC Breakfast Club’.

It is a free breakfast for the students provided once a week and is sponsored by the local Rotary Club to the tune of $2,500.

By 8am the first few students arrive and by 8.15 it is full on at the 2 metre servery. Its more than just tea and toast. Recently the menu consisted of pancakes, toast with egg, apple turnovers, fresh fruit, toasted cheese buns, milo and more.

It began some seven years ago on the initiative of the then school Chaplain Pauline Kinsey and

Top Breakfast for Students at BCC Every Thursdayoperated out of the Student Services Department. This year it has moved to the College restaurant. A much nicer setting according to Adam Taylor, Coordinator of Year 9 and Student services.

While most people know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, current research suggests that one in four children skips breakfast.

A hungry child can lose concentration in class, have no energy for sport and snack on unhealthy chips and biscuits.

Factors such as food preferences, cultural backgrounds, religious beliefs, poor food preparation, eating habits and time available after waking all influence what a person eats at breakfast and even if they eat at all.

Left to Right Caleb Samuels, Dylan Kennedy, Tony Le, Ethan Lester-Roberts and Lance Hudson.

Left to Right: Alesha Quinn, Kristy Lockhart and Ebony Frast

The Breakfast cooks are Left to Right Adam Taylor, co-ordinator of Student Services and Yr 9 co-ordinator, Chaplain Di Norris, Sharon Andrews, Carol Findlay - Hospitality Staff and Len Aguss yr 7 co-ordinator.


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Ballajura Library at the corner of Illawarra Cres. and Kingfisher Drive will host several fun events for children once school breaks up. They include the following:-

A Christmas Story Time Party on Monday 22 December 10.30am for children up to the age of six.

A Drawing Workshop on Tuesday 13th January at 1pm for children aged 8-14 years old.

A Pirates Adventure Event with a ‘real’ pirate coming, on Tuesday 20th January for children aged 4-8 years old.

For more information ring Jess on 9249 1488

Library members can surf the internet for up to two hours on one of the seven computers available at the Ballajura Library. Pictured at the computer are (left to right) Laken Stephens and Tema Vea.

Users can reserve a session up to seven days in advance, but usually people just turn up and are prepared to wait their turn.

Documents can also be printed. The cost is 20c for A4 sheets in black and white and $1 for a colour A4 sheet. Library members with their own devices can also avail themselves of free WI-FI up to 100 MB.

Another popular service that the library provides is the regular availability of a Justice of the Peace every Wednesday at 5pm until 6.45pm. Anyone needing documents witnessed can just turn up at that time at the library.

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The Art of Christmas - Holy Innocents


Source: The Art of Christmas A journey in paintings through Advent and Christmas by Sr Wendy Beckett. Redemptorist Publications 2008

This painting ‘The Massacre of the Innocents by Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665) a classical French Baroque style artist may shock some as a Christmas piece, but given the reality of the violence in our world today it may have a message for this age.

Just a few days after Christmas, on 28th December, the Church remembers the Holy Innocents.

In the liturgy, they are described as proto-martyrs, but this is poetic licence. The babies whom Herod slaughtered were too young to be able to choose martyrdom, or, indeed to refuse it. They were pure victims; and so were their mothers, agonising not only over the death of their children, but over their helplessness to protect them. This day is not a celebration but a commemoration, and it commemorates human cruelty and human vulnerability, the terrible ubiquity of suffering.

Most painters show a crowded canvas where mothers and children and executioners are involved in a vast and terrible confusion. Poussin highlights only the three categories involved in the tragedy.

We see the soldier, the man of violence, one hand brutally thrusting back the mother as he wrenches her head away, tugging at her hair. He does not even look at her: she is an excrescence, a nuisance, too weak to be any sort of hindrance. (His arm is brown and sinewy, hers is pale and graceful.) His other hand, lifted high, grasps the sword while his foot presses on the crying child, keeping it in position for the death blow. His other foot tramples the mother’s dress, crudely jammed between her knees. Visually, this is a symbolic rape, not of her chastity, but of what is dearest to her heart, her child.

The soldier’s face is appropriately shadowed by heavy and authoritative pillars, but a cold, clear light shines full upon the pale horror on the face of the mother, seemingly

frozen in a soundless scream.

Beneath the power of the upraised sword, and the helplessness of her outstretched arm, lies the child, eyes shut, small legs hopelessly kicking, about to be murdered.

We may try to prettify Christmas and concentrate- quite understandably- on the joy that Jesus is to us. But, as he was to tell his followers, he “came not to bring peace but a sword”. His birth was the crucial event of human history. Will we “grow up to the measure of Christ”, or will we continue in our pettiness, flaunting the label of Christian but not accepting the profound consequences? As the Gospels make painfully clear, it was because of Jesus that these babies

were killed. Obviously, it was not his “fault” – it was the fault of a ruthless and ambitious man. It was also the fault, we could say, of his employees who chose to keep their military jobs rather than follow conscience. (And do we always follow conscience?)

What the Church is determined that we should recognise is the inescapability of human suffering, and the need to come to terms with the full pain of it. Every parent who has lost a child, whether through sickness or accident, or human evil, has entered deeply into the experience that we commemorate as we remember the massacre of the innocents. They will have tasted the bitterness of their own inability to protect and save; they will have known the bewilderment and even sense of betrayal that Poussin shows so vividly in this mother, and the three grieving mothers in the background.

So many who lose faith, or never accept the truth of Jesus, lay the blame on the mystery of evil. Why, they ask, why, why? How can God allow this massacre and all the massacres that darken the pages of history? Jesus gives no answer. What he does is to come into the world and suffer with us.

Even though he escapes this first massacre, he will nevertheless die an equally terrible death thirty three years later. The Church wants to remind us that among the very first sounds heard by the newborn Jesus were the cries of other babies and the shrieks of their mothers.

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Among the most popular items in the shop is ‘BP-5 Compact Food’ which is a high-calorie, vitamin fortified, compact, compressed and dry food, often used by relief agencies for the emergency feeding of refugees and internally displaced persons.

People grow to like the biscuit that they first have as refugees and continue to enjoy it once they leave the camps. Because it is easily digestible, neutral tasting, and contains no dairy or meat products the food may be widely used, even for people with severe malnourishment. As it has a shelf life of 5 years it may be just the thing for the glove box or emergency kit.

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Catholic Children attending Government schools need not miss out on learning about their Christian faith. Every Wednesday at 3.45pm to 4.45pm special classes are offered at Mary MacKillop (Corner Pelican Pde and Cassowary Drive). Children are also prepared for the Sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation. It is important that parents start these classes in year one and continue up to the reception of Confirmation as it takes time to cover all the necessary lessons and practical preparation.

The Pilgrim way of St James in Spain has recently gained world attention after being popularised in the Hollywood film “The Way”. It is over a thousand years old.

A less known Pilgrim way, which only started 7 years ago by two hiking enthusiasts, (Maoz Inon, a Jewish Israeli guest house entrepreneur and David Landis, a Christian American hiking specialist) is called “The Jesus Trail” and is much shorter than the 900Km Spanish trek. The Israeli one is only 65Km.

The main part of the trail begins in Nazareth and passes through Tzippori, Cana, the Horns of Hattin, Mount Arbel Cliffs, the Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Tabgha, and the Mount of Beatitudes. An alternate return route passes by Tiberias, the Jordan River, Mount Tabor, and Mount Precipice. It is currently managed and promoted largely by volunteers, and is a non-profit project.

The trail or pilgrim way takes in the paths that Jesus most probably walked himself. These paths and

tracks follow the land contours and are often quite obvious. Both beasts of burden and humans shared these paths.

Just as an aside, it is interesting to note that in places like our hot North, (eg the Bungle Bungles), our indigenous people traversed those parts for over 40 thousand years and their foot prints are hardly seen. They did not leave recognisable paths and tracks. Only the rock paintings still attest to their passing a particular way. And since white settlers came, the indigenous tracker could see a footprint that few others would recognise.

Europeans, on the other hand, have been quick to put down permanent roads - often just to facilitate the movement of an army from one place to another to maintain power.

But I’m distracted. Back to the Jesus Trail, which is designed in the tradition of pilgrimage hiking trails around the world such as the Camino de Santiago de Compostela (the Way of Saint James) in northern Spain or the more recent Saint Paul Trail in Turkey. The medieval practice of religious pilgrimage has seen a resurgence in recent years, with almost 200,000 hikers per year on the Camino de Santiago in the first decade of the 21st century.

The trail is geared for Christians who seek a pilgrimage route that allows for a more personal experience of the Galilee area

and sites from the life of Jesus, but integrates historical sites from different eras, sites sacred to other religions, nature sites, breathtaking panoramas and hiking for those who seek a physical challenge.

The Israeli Government seemingly wants a piece of the action and in November 2011 opened “The Gospel Trail” which is similar to the “Jesus Trail’, after all Christian tourism accounts for two-thirds of all incoming tourism to Israel.

The Israeli Government in recent years has turned previously languishing sites of Christian significance into National Parks, particularly in Palestinian East

Jerusalem. It does appear to be just a rue for controlling or taking over Palestinian land. There are no parks in West Jerusalem but suddenly five in East Jerusalem. The “City of David” National Park is a recent Park in Silwan.

Recent troubles in Jerusalem were fueled by the occupation of the first house by Jewish settlers near the “City of David” National Park in the middle of the Palestinian village of Silwan in East Jerusalem.

The settlers arrived at 2am in the

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Recently excavated Roman Cardo (Main Street) in Sephoros a few Km from Nazareth on which the young Jesus may have walked with Joseph who likely found employment here.

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The Daughters of St. Anne run a home for dependent children in Sepphoris, near Nazareth, pictured above. Interestingly, it is just a few metres away from the possible site of the home of Mary’s parents Joachim and Anne.

The home is a highly structured residential care centre that offers therapeutic and educational services for 70 needy children and troubled teens, without distinction of ethnicity, religion or gender. It is the first of its kind in the field as it remains the only referral and

The first stop on the Jesus Trail is the Roman city of Sepphoris over the hill and beyond the trees in the scene below. Here, Joseph found work, after the family’s return from Egypt to live in Nazareth.

Mary was proably born on the outskirts of Sephoris. The ruins of a crusader church marks the possible site.

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St HippolytusAntipope (170 - 236 AD)

Taken from“Saints Behaving Badly” by Thomas J Craughwell

A few days before Pope John Paul II died, another “pope” passed away in Spain. Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, who called himself Pope Gregory XVII, died March 22, 2005. Domínguez y Gómez believed the Church of Rome was so hopelessly corrupted by Freemasons, Communists, and heretics that he and his followers were the only true Catholics left in the world. In 1978, he proclaimed himself pope.

Domínguez y Gómez was not the only antipope of our time: there is another, living in an undisclosed location, probably somewhere in the western United States. In 1998 a group calling itself the True Catholic Church elected Father Lucian Pulvermacher, O.F.M. Cap., pope. The conclave was held in a remote cabin in Montana. Since most of the electors – all lay men and women – could not make the journey to such an isolated location, they phoned in their votes. Father Pulvermacher took the name Pius XIII.

As antipopes go, Gregory XVII and Pius XIII have been harmless. Farcical, certainly, and a little sad, but since their influence doesn’t extend beyond a handful of oddballs they do no injury to the Catholic Church or to society at large. During the Middle Ages it was a different story.

Between 1058 and 1449 twenty-two antipopes afflicted the Church.

Unlike the eccentrics who claim to be pope today, the medieval antipopes were ambitious, unprincipled men whose grab for power caused disruption throughout the Catholic world. The worst was the Great Schism, a traumatic period that dragged on from 1378 until 1419, where there were two, and then between 1406 and 1417 three, rival popes. The situation was so confusing even saints had a hard time determining who was the legitimate Holy Father: St Catherine of Sienna backed one contender, while St Vincent Ferrer backed another.

On a day-to-day basis the antipopes’ effect on the Church proved disastrous. Rival popes created rival colleges of cardinals; each insisted that papal revenues belonged to them. When a diocese needed a new bishop, or a monastery a new abbot, each pope made an appointment, so two or three men showed up at a cathedral or an abbey, each claiming that the office belonged to him.

And then there were the spiritual issues. In theological debates the pope declared what was true doctrine and what was heresy. The spiritual authority of bishops and archbishops came through him. He disciplined wayward priests and princes, granted indulgences, canonized saints, and approved new religious orders. But

only a legitimate pope could exercise such authority. In the next world, what would happen to Catholics who gave their allegiance to the wrong pope? It was a question that tormented consciences in every corner of Christendom.

Given the disgrace to the Church and what was at stake for the ordinary Catholic, it comes as a shock to learn that the first antipope appeared in 217. His name was Hippolytus, the most brilliant theologian in Rome, a man of limitless ego, a rigorist who did not know the meaning of the words “compassion” or “forgiveness”. Faults and foibles aside, Hippolytus enjoyed a wide-ranging reputation as a man who grasped subtle distinctions in any theological argument. About the year 212 when Origen, the most learned Christian theologian of the time, travelled to Rome from his home in Egypt, he made a point of going to hear Hippolytus preach.

Hippolytus began his slide into schism during the reign of Pope St Zephyrinus (reigned 198/9 – 217). In one of his books Philosophymena, Hippolytus writes off Zephrinus as a man of no education. Compared to Hippolytus, the new pope probably was a mediocre scholar. Certainly he could not follow Hippolytus’s complex theories on the relationship between God the Father and God the Son, nor did he try. Zephyrimus affirmed, in simple terms, what the Church had always taught: that there was one God in three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. More intense theological speculation of the type Hippolytus enjoyed did not interest the pope – as long as it was not heresy.

But Zephyrinus the dullard pope was not the only person troubling Hippolytus. He had an irrational hatred for Callixtus, a former slave, embezzler, and troublemaker who had repented and been appointed by Zephrinus as supervisor of the Christian cemeteries outside Rome.

When Zephyrinus died in 217, the Roman clergy elected Callixtus pope. This was too much for Hippolytus. He believed that he should have been elected. As he nursed his grudge, he

convinced himself and others that Callixtus held unorthodox opinions about the nature of Jesus Christ, and that he was corrupting the

Church by absolving penitent adulterers and fornicators and readmitting to the Church heart-broken Christians who, out of fear of torture and death, had caved under the pressure of the Roman authorities and denied their faith. With the backing of other anti-Callixtus Christians in Rome, Hippolytus severed his ties to the Church and permitted his followers to elect him pope.

Five years later a pagan mob attacked and murdered Callixtus in the streets of Rome’s Trastevere neighbourhood. Yet Hippolytus did not relinquish his claim to the papacy. The orthodox Roman clergy elected St Urban I pope. During this peaceful reign (Urban is one of the few early popes not to have died a martyr) Hippolytus still adamantly refused to return to the Church. In 230 St Pontian was elected pope, and five years later Rome got a new emperor, Maximinus. Almost immediately the emperor launched a new persecution of Christians, taking special care to target the leaders of the Church. Pope Pontian and the antipope Hippolytus were both seized in the roundup and deported to the mines in Sardinia. For the sake of the Church, Pontian resigned the papacy so a new pope could be elected. This act of selfless concern for the good of the Church appears to have pricked Hippolytus’s conscience. In Sardinia he repented his schism and begged Pontian to reconcile him to the Church.

Within a few months of Pontian’s resignation and Hippolytus’s repentance, both men died of the harsh treatment they suffered in the mines. Pope St Fabian (reigned 236-250) arranged for the bodies of the two martyrs to be brought back and buried in Rome, where the Christians of the city accepted the onetime anti-pope’s repentance, forgave him his schism, and venerated him as a saint – thus showing themselves to be more like Callixtus than Hippolytus.

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Patrick Francis Cunningham a senior Catholic priest of Perth and a friend of the Mary MacKillop community died

peacefully at Royal Perth Hospital on Friday November 7, after post operative complications.

Patrick, better known just as ‘Pat’, indirectly inspired this publication and helped in the choosing of the name ‘CrossRoads’. Back in 1979 he encouraged the current CrossRoads editor to improve his writing and compliment his photographic interests on a regular weekly basis.

Pat was the only child of Frank Cunningham and Rita Faulkner born on March 17, 1929 at home 18 Learoyd St Mt Lawley WA. Baptised at St Brigid’s Northbridge. He attended the new Montessori school in the neighbourhood at the age of three years. Then the Christian Brothers in Highgate and Aquinas. He responded to (Archbishop) Launcelot Goody’s initial canvassing to found St Charles Seminary Guildford at the age of 12 where he completed his secondary and philosophy studies and then sailed to Rome with 11 others from around Australia to study Theology at Propaganda Fide College Rome in 1948.

His deep devotion to Francis of Assisi helps to explain his uncomplaining attitude to life, unassuming manner and genuine interest in people. “A very decent human being” said one of his second cousins.

His brilliant mind shone in his written and spoken words. For 24 years the reading Catholic population of WA devoured his printed words in “The Record” newspaper while church goers always delighted with his common sense inspirational homilies.

He taught dozens of people the art of better communications in word and

images through his work as editor, journalist and photographer.

A raconteur of note, a family man loved by his cousins, a people’s person. The Majellans, (a young mother’s group), the Vincent De Paul society and various lay groups and Church agencies trusted his astute advice and counsel. Both the Catholic and Christian Press associations considered him a founding father of their respective groups. In recent years he said Mass at the Catholic Education Office Leederville and Mercy Aged Care Wembley.

Classical music, art and the cathedrals of Europe saw him enjoying travel. He understood and taught that the human art and architecture and good music is just a shadow of the work of the Divine architect, artist and singer. And that, while a Cathedral could seem, to be just a waste of space to a humanist, a person of faith could find a window to God and have their souls raised high!

In the 63 years of priesthood, he worked in the following parishes, namely, Applecross, York, Narrogin, Subiaco, Leederville, Chidlow Wundowie, Kensington, Nedlands and Mundaring.

Pat ‘The Happy Pilgrim’ on the Pont Saint-Bénézet, the famous medieval bridge in the town of Avignon, in southern France spanning the Rhone between Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Avignon was built between 1177 and 1185.


ABOVE: Statue and fountain at the entrance to the Hindu Temple in Marshall Road

Early this year Sister Flora was able to spend a month in the Holyland and she enjoyed visiting the various sites associated with the life of Jesus. She said she was surprised to see so many Pilgrims at all the Holy Places. The troubles in the middle East has not dampened the spirit of the pilgrims.

See if you can find Sr. Flora and her sisters who are pictured in different places throughout this magazine. Can you find them?

Sister Flora recently told the CrossRoads Editor that she and her sisters will be praying for all the readers of CrossRoads and remember them at the Altar and the crib.

She is especially delighted with the generous response that people have made in either preparing a Christmas Hamper for distrobution by the Vincent De Paul Society members or for leaving non prerishable items at Bazzo Real estate office.

Can You Find Sister Flora and Friends ?

A Fourteen pointed Star Marks Xmas in the Grotto The Grotto of the Nativity, an

underground cave located beneath the basilica of the Nativity (339AD) in Bethlehem Palestine, enshrines the site where Jesus is said to have been born.

The exact spot is marked beneath an altar by a 14-pointed silver star set into the marble floor and surrounded by silver lamps. This altar is denominationally neutral, although it features primarily Armenian Apostolic influences. Another altar (opposite) in the Grotto, which is maintained by the Roman Catholics, marks the site where traditionally Mary laid the newborn Baby in the manger.

The church, originally commissioned in 327 AD by Constantine and his mother Helena was completed in 339 AD and destroyed by fire during the Samaritan Revolts in the sixth century AD. A new basilica was built in 565 AD by Justinian, the Byzantine Emperor, restoring the architectural tone of the original. The site holds a prominent religious significance to Christians and Muslims.

The main Basilica of the Nativity is maintained by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The church features golden mosaics covering the side walls, which are now largely decayed. The basilica is entered through a very low door, called the “Door of Humility.”

The original Roman style floor has been covered over, but there is a trap door in the modern floor which opens up to reveal a portion of the original mosaic floor. The church also features a large gilded iconostasis, and a complex array of lamps throughout the entire building.

The wooden rafters were donated by King Edward IV of England. The same king also donated lead to cover the roof; however, this lead was later taken by the Ottoman Turks, who melted it down for ammunition to use in war against Venice. Stairways on either side of the Sanctuary lead down by winding stairs to the Grotto.

The church is administered jointly by Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic authorities. All three traditions maintain monastic communities on the site. Repeated brawls among monk trainees over quiet respect for others’ prayers, hymns and even the division of floorspace for cleaning duties is a scandal. The Palestinian police restore peace and order.

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An array of orthodox styled lamps around the star.

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People are at risk of heat illness in humid or hot climates.

Someone working in a hot environment, such as a boiler room, is at risk because it heats the body at a rate faster than it can cool itself.

In a hot, dry climate, evaporation is very fast; therefore the body can adapt to the higher temperatures. In a humid climate, evaporation is slower. Therefore it can be more difficult to maintain core body temperature in Cairns when it is 25c and humid than in Bourke at a dry 35c.

The Importance of Water

Heat can interfere with the body’s water balance. The body needs a minimum amount of water to carry out normal functions such as blood circulation and excretion of waste. For healthy adults in non-active, cool conditions, a minimum water intake of about 1.7 litres is needed each day. In hot climates, where physical work is being undertaken in the open, an intake of 15 litres each day may be required.

Heavy sweating removes water and salts from the body at a faster rate than normal. Total blood volume decreases because there is less fluid available for the plasma. More salt and water are retained by the kidneys. Collection of urine in the bladder is slower, with a higher concentration of waste products causing urine to be a darker yellow colour. This is a warning sign that plasma volume is falling. If this is not corrected, the body becomes dehydrated.

People do not always realise that they are not replacing fluid lost through sweating. They may not feel thirsty – or thirsty enough- to realise the importance of drinking more water. Because of this, troops on training exercises and people in fun runs or working out at gyms are taught and encouraged to drink water at regular intervals.

When moving to a hot climate a person’s daily intake of water needs to increase. Body salts may also be depleted, so extra salt may be needed in food.

If water is replaced but not body salts, the concentration of salt will be too slow, impairing normal functioning.

Heat- Induced conditions

Physical activity, particularly in hot conditions, may cause the body to become overheated. This can result in heat-induced swelling- feet and hands swell in warm weather.

Management of heat-induced swelling

1. Raise the patient’s leg2. Encourage the patient to

gently exercise3. Keep patient cool.

Heat cramps are a result of losing too much water and salt through sweating causing painful muscle cramps, usually in legs and abdomen.

Management of muscle cramps

1. Ask the patient to stop the activity and rest in a cool environment.

2. Gently stretch the affected muscle.

3. Massage gently if this assists in relieving pain.

4. Apply an ice pack.5. Give cool water to drink.

In addition to swelling and cramps, more serious heat-induced conditions can also develop.

Heat Exhaustion Heat Exhaustion results from

being physically active in a hot environment without taking the right precautions. It can affect athletes, workers who must wear heavy

clothing (e.g. firefighters, factory workers), the young, the elderly who compensate poorly for heat, those wearing unsuitable clothing on a hot day, and people suffering from dehydration.

Fluid loss through sweating reduces the amount of water in the body so that the blood volume falls. Increasing blood flow to the skin makes the blood volume even less effective, reducing blood flow to vital organs. As the circulatory system is affected, the body goes into a mild form of shock.

Signs and Symptoms

u Feeling hot, exhausted, weak and fatiguedu persistent headacheu thirst and nauseau giddiness and faintnessu rapid breathing and

shortness of breathu pale, cool, clammy skinu rapid, weak pulse

Management of heat exhaustion

1 Move the patient to lie down in a cool place with circulating air.

2 Loosen tight clothing and remove unnecessary garments.

3 Sponge with cold water.4 Give cool water to drink if

conscious.5 Seek medical aid if patient

vomits or does not recover promptly.

HeatstrokeHeatstroke is a potentially lethal

condition. Water levels in the body become so low that sweating stops and body temperature rises because the body can no longer cool itself. The brain and other vital organs, such as kidneys and heart, begin to fail.

Those most at risk of heatstroke include infants left in closed cars on a warm to hot day, athletes attempting to run long distances in hot weather, unfit workers, overweight alcoholics in hot climates, the elderly and sick.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

u high body temperature of 40C or moreu flushed, dry skinu initially a pounding, rapid

pulse which gradually weakensu headache, nausea and/or

vomitingu dizziness and visual

disturbancesu irritability and mental

confusionu altered mental state which

may progress to seizures and unconsciousness.

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1 Follow DRSABCD2 Remove the patient to a

cool place.3 Remove almost all clothing;

loosen anything tight.

4 Apply cold packs or ice to areas of large blood vessels (neck, groin and armpits) to accelerate cooling.

5 If possible, cover body with a wet sheet; fan to increase air circulation (stop cooling when body feels cold to the touch).

6 Call triple zero (000) for an ambulance.

7 If patient is fully conscious and is able to swallow, give fluids.

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First Communion & Confirmation at MacKillop

BACK: Deacon CJ, Ryan Truong, Vu Nguyen, Jordan Jenkins, Qlbqn Pham, Andrew Le, Jacob Rossi, Ethan Clark and Fr John Jegorow. FRONT Connor Brown, Allegra Piccolo, Alana Sabatino, Nicole Robinson, Laura Tabenara-Valle, Jasmine De Nicolis, Patrick Fanning.

Left-right: Ella Harris, Lauren Yovarche, Isabel Campione, Daniela Coppa, Brock Williamson, Daniel Logan, Alyssa Olivieri, Bailey Schotte and seminarian Mark Rucci. Front- left-right Jorja Mannitz, Leah Frisina, Jasmine Manng, Shelby Hardstaff, Jazmyn De Francesco, Daniel Italiano, Kayla Chircop.

ABOVE: Some of the ninety children who made their First Communion in September. Another 97 were confirmed by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe in November. LEFT: The Archbishop anoints Tristan Mumme with Chrism, pictured with his sponsor Mary Andryich. RIGHT: Frank and Elaine Campione with their daughter Isabel.

First Communicants Left-Right Reece Hardingham, Brayden Steele, Joshua Sangiacomo, Nicholas Loy.

First Communicants Left - Right Isobel McDonnell, Elizabeth D’Cruz, Laura Tabanera-Vale, Nicole Robinson


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The Advent wreath is a Christian tradition that symbolizes the passage of the four weeks of Advent, the first season of the Church Calendar and the lead up to the very short Christmas season.

It is a circular candle holder that typically holds four or five candles. During the season of Advent one candle on the wreath is lit each Sunday until all of the candles, including the fifth candle, are lit

go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” (Luke 2:7-15)

4th Candle – (purple) The Angel Candle or the Candle of Love.

The angels announced the good news of a Saviour. God sent his only Son to earth to save us, because he loves us! “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16-17)

5th Candle – (white) The Christ Candle.

The white candle reminds us that Jesus is the spotless lamb of God, sent to wash away our sins! His birth was for his death, his death was for our birth! “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!‘” (John 1:29)

The advent wreath became quite popular in homes in post-Reformation Germany. It seems pretty certain that in many German homes families had a custom of lighting four candles during advent, candles placed in a wreath of evergreens. When these candles were lit, Scripture and prayer was part of the custom and the family devotion time was a time of instructing the children about Christ’s coming. Later, the custom crossed over different denominational lines and other faith traditions adapted its use. Today, you can find Advent wreathes in many Protestant and Roman Catholic churches.

You’ll find lots of help and hints on Google if you’d like to introduce the Advent wreath at your home.

Of course parental supervision is essential with little people.

on Christmas Day. Each candle represents an aspect of the spiritual preparation for the celebration of the birth of Christ. Most Advent wreaths use three colors of candles – purple, pink, and white. However, some may use blue in place of the purple.

1st Candle – (purple) The Prophecy Candle or Candle

of Hope. The prophets of the Old

Testament always remind us to

never give up. To always hope in the promises made by God who is always faithful and keeps His promises.

Isaiah says, ‘The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will hope in him.’ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:12-13

2nd Candle – (purple) The Bethlehem Candle or the

Candle of Preparation.

God kept his promise of a Saviour who would be born in Bethlehem. Preparation means to “get ready”.

Isaiah the prophet writes: ‘A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all mankind will see God’s salvation.‘ (Luke 3:4-6)

3rd Candle – (pink) The Shepherd Candle or the

Candle of Joy.

The angels sang a message of JOY! “…and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.’ Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests.’ When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let’s

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A Letter to Robin WilliamsDear Robin Williams,

I was so sad to hear of your sudden death in August. For many years, whenever I had to think of the people I had to invite to my ideal dinner party, your name was always on the list.

I imagined you sitting next to William Shakespeare. I am sure the two of you would understand each other’s wacky, chaotic, poignant and humane sense of humour. I also imagined Vladimir Putin on the same table, just to see if even you could get a laugh out of him. There is nothing as funny, in my experience, as someone with no sense of humour.

At the time of your death, one of your admirers posted an anecdote which recalled a time when you were confronted by an aggrieved friend or colleague who asked, ‘Why are you never serious?’ Your response was simply, ‘Why are you never funny?’, which is an equally important question. All this is to acknowledge the many different types of joy you brought to the world. It is tragic that, in the end, you seemed able to bring so little joy to yourself.

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threatening place. The young need this gift.

I also enjoy your old movie, Mrs Doubtfire (1993), the story of a dad who loves his children to the point of the ridiculous. When your character, Daniel, goes through a divorce, he disguises himself as a woman to get a job as a nanny so he can see his children every day. His plan calls for elaborate efforts of subterfuge and these make for great slapstick. But there was a touching side as well. Acting as someone else manages to bring the best out of Daniel. The film has a worthwhile message. It says that sometimes we need to change radically if we want to keep the things we love the way they are. Daniel says that the key to a serious marriage is laughter.

There is a lot to think about in your 1990 movie, Dead Poets Society. In that film, set in the 1950s, you play the part of John Keating, a liberating teacher who arrives at a stuffy boys’ school called Welton. The school is an anxiety factory and many of its students are driven by unrelenting expectations built upon a shallow and inflexible sense of tradition. The film has a

lot to offer those who come with possibilities of inner freedom for the young people in his care, urging them to ‘suck the marrow out of everyday of life’, a line you deliver beautifully. You say ‘we don’t read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are human and the human race is filled with passion.’

At one stage, Keating gets the students to stand on his desk, just to change their perspective and help them see their familiar surroundings in a different light. As the story unfolds, your character is unjustly scapegoated for a tragic death that results from the very pressure he is trying to relieve. Anyone who has seen the movie will recall the last scene of the boys standing defiantly on their desks.

They have learnt something.

Robin, I would like to be able to share with you the fact that my faith in God does the same thing for me. It helps me see the world in less obvious ways, lifting me out of the rut worn by a narrow vision of life. I believe that every life is a unique joke that God tells to delight the human family. This doesn’t mean we should treat ourselves lightly. On the contrary, like the best of your work, our lives should help others find wisdom and understanding.

Michael McGirr is the Dean of Faith and Mission at St Kevin’s College in Melbourne and author of Finding God’s Traces.



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By Fr. Frank Brennan

Gough Whitlam once asked me why there were so many social reformers to emerge from Queensland in the early 1970s. I told him it was simple. We had someone to whom we could react: Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen; and we had someone to inspire us: him.

I have written elsewhere about Gough’s contribution to Aboriginal rights, human rights and international law. Here, I reflect on the man who inspired me so affectionately, so supportively, and with such a sense of fun.

What he did for me, he did for countless other Australians who dreamt of a better world and a nobler Australia. Even his political opponents are forever in his debt for having elevated the national vision and for having given us a more complete and generous image of ourselves.

On Sunday I happened to visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I took the afternoon tour of American art. With pride, our guide ended the tour with Jackson Pollock’s painting No 10. I was able to tell her it was not a patch on Blue Poles, purchased by a visionary prime minister down under who copped all hell for spending a six figure sum on just one painting. That was our Gough. We are forever in his debt.

I will share three vignettes.

In 1980, I took a busload of boys from Xavier College to Canberra on a politics tour. Andrew Peacock was their local member. They gave him a hard time because of Malcolm Fraser’s boycott of the Olympics. I was anxious for them to meet Whitlam who was by then a visiting scholar at the Australian National University writing his large tome on the Whitlam years.

The boys, many of whom came from households very sympathetic to the politics of B.A. Santamaria, were testy. Why did I want them to travel across town to meet a 'has been'? They had met their fill of politicians up at Parliament House.

Gough wowed them. First he gave them morning tea, then he fielded their questions. The burly Dan Hess, with a passing wink to his school mates, asked, 'What was it like to be sacked?' Gough drew back and then moved forward, telling the young Christian gentlemen that the events of 1975 had to be seen in the context of the decline in traditions and institutions in our society. He then asked a rhetorical question in conclusion, 'For example, how many of you boys from Xavier College would ever contemplate becoming a Jesuit nowadays?' No one answered, but the remark had some impact on the now Fr Edward Dooley SJ.

In 1981, Gough was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters. I had written congratulating him on his receipt of an honour which was both appropriate and ideologically sound. It was some months before I heard back from him, having had no expectation of a response. Then some months later again, he worked his way across a crowded room to speak to me. We both had the advantage of being considerably taller than most of our companions in the crowd.

He asked, 'Did you get my letter?' I told him how pleased and honoured I was. He asked, 'Did it arrive with Vatican stamps?' Indeed it had. He had instructed the embassy officials in Rome that the letter had to be posted from the Vatican. The

envelope bore the crest of the English College. The letter commenced with words to this effect: 'It is with great pleasure that I write you this, my first letter from the Romans, and I do so from the most fashionable address in the eternal city.'

In late 1997, I landed at Sydney airport, having flown in from Broome, and was about to make my way back to St Canice’s Church in Kings Cross. Gough and the good 'Dame Margaret' (as he liked to refer to his beloved) were there.

He offered me a lift in their government limousine. On arrival at the church, I asked whether he liked mangoes as I had some splendid ones from the Kimberley. He replied, 'I do, and Dame Margaret loves them.'

A few weeks later, I was preparing for the funeral of Nugget Coombs in St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney. There had been a little tension in the background between Prime Minister John Howard’s office and Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson about what should be said in Dodson’s eulogy about Aboriginal self-determination and conflict with government. It was at the height of controversy over the Wik ten point plan. Some last minute changes were made to Dodson’s text.

With only minutes to spare, I made it out onto the front steps of the Cathedral to welcome the official mourning party, including Mr Howard, Mr Dodson and Sir William Deane. The TV cameras were in close proximity. Then up the steps came Gough, oblivious of all controversy. He grasped me firmly by the hand and with that glint in the eye said, 'Father, the mangoes were magnificent.' It was a blessed moment.

During the service, Gough, who was fond of describing himself as 'a fellow traveller – not so much a pillar of the Church but rather one of those flying buttresses you find on European cathedrals', came up onto the sanctuary to deliver his own eulogy.

This is how he commenced: 'Prime Ministers like to describe themselves as the servants of the people. The most striking claim of the Supreme Pontiff is to be the servant of the servants of God. If, in this setting, and as the last of the seven Prime Ministers whom Coombs served, I were to suggest an epitaph for him, it would be 'the servant of the servants of the people.' Everyone laughed; we were all at ease; Gough was in command. He concluded that eulogy with words I now apply to him:

At some time or in some place or in some way the life of everybody in this gathering and in our country would have been touched by Nugget's manifold activities and enriched by his talents. He was given many talents. He produced great dividends on them. All Australians can say, in the words of the parable, 'well done, thou good and faithful servant'.

We can all join a chorus of 'Amen, Alleluia' to that. Farewell loyal friend of many, dedicated leader of the nation, and visionary servant of the people in the great south land of the Holy Spirit

Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC, (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The Leader of the Labor Party from 1967 to 1977, Whitlam led his party to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He went on to win the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have his commission terminated in that manner

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ABOVE: MacKillop’s High achievers who presented displays on their chosen topic. Ballet was the topic for Isabel Campione, while Sophie Condo with paint brush in hand, displayed her painting and drawing skills, Daniel O’Hare has a special interest in the first world war while Angel Dela-Cruz presented life in the Philippines. Over thirty children presented a wide range of topics.

Aiden Maiolo (four from the right) can start his collection of ‘brag’ pics for his 18th birthday party. He is pictured with Grace Coates, Amelia Humphry, Kiara Lewis, Mia Devellerez, Havana Fortes, Lara Cheaib and Prada Hardingham.

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Many past and present teachers attended the Jubilee Dance and had a ball. Pictured Left to Right Angela Cox, Kris Bowden, Debbie Harris, Carmel Galic, Julie Halvorson, Julie Powell & Anna Rector.

Around the table from the left.Marie Filippis, Deacon Toohey, Peter Doss, Celina and Arek Szoska, Charles Fredericks, Deacon CJ, Bernice and Dermot O’Connor were among the 430 people at our Silver Jubilee celebration at the Italian Club on August 8.

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ABOVE: Mary MacKillop netballers did well in the current season. Pictured Nemesha Fernando, Emma Newton, Nicole Clements, Gemma De Filippi, Ahsia Markowska, Delta Meade, Charlize Terribile, Lara Corrie and Sophie Freeman.

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Living With Adult Children in a Cluttered Nest

Article from: Threshold Magazinewritten by Marriage Educators for Marriage Educators


by S. Julia Huterer and Hanan Al-Mijalli

When children become young adults (ages 22 to 28), and if those children are still at home, the parents are looking forward, increasingly, to seeing them completing studies, finding jobs, and starting their own lives, and becoming independent.

But parents also have more and more scepticism, worrying about that happening soon. In our survey, most parents expressed their relationship with children as loving and caring, and they want to keep this closeness; however, and most importantly, parents also want the freedom to live their own lives.

A friend once confided in me: “Before I was 21, my first husband left me and our 6-month old child for another woman. Not only had I an infant to take care of, but I had to support both of us. I shudder when I remember the miles I walked looking for work, the miserable apartments we lived in, and the rushing to pick my daughter up from day care before the surcharge rates kicked in. My bosses did not seem to understand the demands on a single parent. And time before and after office work was completely taken up with caring for my child and our living quarters.

Over the years I got pretty good at it and then, when she was 14, I had my second chance at happiness and re-married. Our marriage was wonderful; he was wonderful. A year later, I was a widow. I thought I would never emerge from the darkness.

“Now my child has graduated from university; she is a beautiful, intelligent young woman who still needs to follow her dream and go on academically to post-graduate level. But I am 51, and I need to be free, to follow my own dreams in the time left to me in life. I want to meet another wonderful man to spend the rest of my life with. Sometimes I ask myself if I will ever be free to fulfil

my own needs, although I love my daughter dearly.”

Young adults are staying at home much longer because of spiralling housing and education costs, the lengthy education required for specialised jobs, and the cost of high-end consumer goods, which can only be attained by living at home to cut expenses. Parents, on the other hand, now want independence from their children. For many families, it is a period that can be upsetting. In fact, the empty nest syndrome has become the cluttered nest syndrome or the revolving door.

Of course, there are parents of young adults who understand that their children are no longer children, just as their young adults living at home who are caring, considerate and trying to become independent.

Then there are young adults who want all the freedom of adulthood and all the parental support of childhood.

My friend, who is divorced, was taking care of and supporting her 22-year-old son, who went to university and lived at home. A year ago, her son’s girlfriend became pregnant and soon after they got married. For a while, her son (who was still at uni), his wife (who tried to work from home), and the baby all lived with my friend. It was particularly difficult on her because, not long ago, she went through a nasty divorce and had just started to organise her life back to normal when this happened.

However, it all ended well, with her son graduating, finding a great job and moving out.

Parents in our survey had several complaints:

“There is a lack of respect. We are being asked to give freedom, including sexual, to our adolescent children earlier, while supporting them morally and financially for longer periods”; “I feel my only option is to kick him out”. “How long should we support our children?”

Some parents are overly protective, especially with girls, because they fear violence and changes in society. Then there are those who keep forgetting that the 25-year-old is not a ‘child’, and if you do not let the ‘child’ out of the nest, the ‘child’ will have a real struggle with adulthood.

Many young adults do not leave or keep coming back home, because they can’t sustain financial independence, sometimes even when working.

Also they are marrying much later in life. And, because of the continuous need to upgrade employment skills in a fast-changing workforce, staying at home is becoming more common for young adults- and more worrisome for parents.

If your child is now an adult, is still living in your house, and has apparently, no intention of leaving, clashes are inevitable. So, what do you do? Can you live more peacefully under the same roof?

The first solution is to communicate openly and to draw careful boundaries around what is an acceptable arrangement for you:

• Discuss expectations,

yours and theirs openly, keeping in mind that you are not dealing with a

child.• Talk about obligations, ie

whether they need to participate in family duties. Be specific about what you expect them to do and stick to it.

• Stop doing everything for them. The days – and years- when they were children are over.

• Promote independence. Do not be overly protective.

• Encourage them to find work. Help them only if they ask.

• If they work, discuss whether you need them to share expenses, whether each person will shop for themselves, or share the shopping, whether they need to take care of their own meals. Be specific.

• Allow for failure. By telling a young adult what is expected of her and then stepping back and giving her the freedom to do it- and the freedom to fail- parents help her grow up.

• Do not allow rudeness. If your child is speaking to you rudely, let him know quickly that it is not acceptable, and that he will have to leave if it continues.

• Communicate. Go over the expectations again and be willing to follow through if the adult child refuses to do his part.

• Allow the relationship to mature into friendship.

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