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YOUTH MINISTRY
WYD ‘11 MadridOur pilgrimsare back!
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SOCIAL CONCERNS
Building Bridges, Not Walls
FEATURE
Ordination of DeaconPaul Crowe
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Beatitudesfor living!
Complimentary Vol 7:5 October 2011
C A T H O L I C E D U C A T I O Ni n c o r p o r a t i n g
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Archbishop Doyle writes 1
News in Brief 2 – 3
Features
Ordination of Deacon Paul Crowe 4-5
Youth Ministry
World Youth Day 2011 Report 6-7
General News
Willson Training for success 8
Senator’s delight for Stitch 12
Faith in Action
From forensic science to straw huts 9
Catholic Aid
Hear My Voice on World Mission Day 11
Social Concern
Building Bridges Not Walls 13
Connections
Cover image by Isabella Hickling 15
From the Director 15
Polo without horses! 16
PhD in Psychology takes Kelly to Europe 17
Catholic Schools respond to the call
– Catholic Education Week 18 – 19
Hearts of Hope – Stella Maris Catholic Primary School 20
Feast Day Fun at St Thomas More’s 21
Betta Bee and the 4Bs – St Aloysius Catholic College 22
Fly on the wall
Buzzing around a happy bunch 23
Edgeways
A shrunken God? 25
Pastoral Life
Valuing lives and stories 26
Acolyte Les Ennis – faithful servant 27
Fifty years of service – Society of Christian Doctrine 28
Five minutes with Maureen Clarke 29
Celebrations
Wedding – Margaret Watts and Dean Chatwin 30
The Baby Corner – Sophia Grace McNulty 30
Kids’ Page 31
Lifestyle
Book and film reviews 32 – 33
Obituary
Mieko Carr 34
Darlene Haigh 35
Jack O’Rourke and Terry O’Rourke 36
L-R: St Aloysius students Matthew Giff ord, Zach Wills and Nicholas Paine with Betta Bee, the primary school campus’s mascot, whose motto is ‘Better be safe, better be a learner, better be fair and better be respectful’.
Read about Betta Bee and the 4Bs on page 22.
This is the last Connections supplement for 2011. The next supplement will appear in the March 2012 magazine.
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“Catholic is what we are, not
something we belong to.”
Dear Friends in Christ,
For two weeks, during the month of
August, I was away from Tasmania,
enjoying the company of the Tasmanian
Pilgrims to World Youth Day 2011, which
took place in Madrid, Spain. The pilgrims
had left for overseas a few days prior to my
departure, and they spent the first four days
in Italy, mostly in Assisi and Rome. We all
met up at the airport at Toulouse in France
and together we travelled to Lourdes for a
two-night stay.
One of the many highlights of our short
stay in Lourdes was to attend a twilight
re-enactment of some of the Gospel scenes,
which took place on the steps and the
forecourt of the basilica which features in
many of the pictures that we see of Lourdes.
The presentation was designed around a
request on the part of Bernadette to Mary
to explain to her the Gospel stories and their
place in the life of Jesus.
On leaving Lourdes, we travelled into Spain
and made a stop at Loyola, the birthplace
of St Ignatius, the founder of the Society of
Jesus. There is something very solid about the
character of the buildings where St Ignatius
spent the early years of his life before he
answered the call to follow Jesus, and to bring
a new group of followers along with him.
The next stop was in the city of Bourgos,
which is the last main city through which
all pilgrims pass en route to Santiago de
Compostella, the final destination of all those
who travel along the Way of St James. The
familiar yellow arrow which guides the pilgrims
is painted on the wall of the refugio where the
pilgrims are able to be accommodated before
starting out on the last big leg of the journey,
over 500 kilometres.
Finally we reached Madrid which was to be
our home for the next week. It soon became
obvious that thousands of young people
were descending upon the city from all over
the world, and that in itself is an experience
which is very profound for all the young
pilgrims, including those from Tasmania. For
the pilgrims, the accommodation is quite
basic, and that is all part of the experience. It
was not made easier by the fact that each day
the temperature would rise to 40 degrees in
the afternoon.
The leadership of our group was in the
competent hands of Rachelle Smith and
Michael Hangan from Catholic Youth Ministry,
well supported by Fr Michael Delaney, as
chaplain, and the Team Leaders. Over a
number of years now, a good system has
been developed in which the participating
pilgrims are assigned to a small group, with
an older person acting as Team Leader. It is a
very effective way to ensure everyone is safe,
taken care of, and in contact with the other
pilgrims at all times.
Pope Benedict arrived from Rome in Madrid
on the Thursday, and there was a welcome
ceremony later that day. It must be a very
uplifting experience for the Pope to see many
thousands of colourfully attired young people
gathered before him, but his message is about
Christ. It was in accordance with the theme of
World Youth Day 2011, “Planted and built up in
Jesus Christ, firm in the faith.” (Colossians 2, 7.)
In his homily at the final Mass on the
Sunday, Pope Benedict challenged the
young pilgrims: “You have been given the
extraordinary task of being disciples and
missionaries of Christ in other lands and
countries fill with young people who are
looking for something greater.”
As one young pilgrim said: “Catholic is what
we are, not something we belong to.” The
young pilgrims from Tasmania have been
challenged by the words of Pope Benedict
and I have every confidence that they are
equal to that challenge.
As their bishop, it was a privilege and an
inspiration to be with them for much of a
period of ten days. Thankfully all arrived back
home safely in Tasmania, and with memories of
an experience they will never forget –nor will I.
Yours sincerely in Christ
ADRIAN L DOYLE AM
Archbishop of Hobart
Archbishop Doyle Writes
All revised Mass texts to be prayed on the First Sunday of Advent
Communities throughout Australia will be asked to use
all the prayers in the newly translated Roman Missal
from the fi rst Sunday of Advent this year at all Masses.
Up until now parishes have been using the new
people’s responses and singing the new music settings only.
From 20th November this year, all the revised texts in the
Mass will be prayed, including the Eucharistic Prayers. The
newly printed ritual books are being distributed throughout
the diocese this month, ready for the fi nal stage of
implementation.
To assist with the introduction of these texts, international
expert on the revised translation, Fr Paul Turner will speak on
the Missal at public gatherings in Launceston (2 November)
and Hobart (5 November). Fr Turner will also spend some time
working with the priests of the Archdiocese.
Fr Turner was secretary to the bishops and scholars who worked on the revised
translation and is featured on the DVD resource Become One Body One Spirit in Christ.
The gatherings in Launceston and Hobart will be vital sessions for those who seek a
better understanding of these prayers prior to their full introduction in Advent.
Please phone OCLAM offi ce on (03) 6208 6232 for more information.
Fr Paul Turner
from USA will
speak on the
revised Missal:
2 Nov – Launceston
5 Nov – Hobart
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Sisters of St Joseph Tasmania
DATE CLAIMER24th May 2012
125th Anniversary of Foundation at Westbury
The Anniversary Mass will be celebrated at Holy Trinity Church, Westbury at 2.00pm
on Thursday 24th May.
This will be followed by after-noon tea in the Town Hall and
the launch of the History of the Sisters of St Joseph in Tasmania.
Sisters of St Joseph Tasmania
67 Clare Street
PO Box 38
New Town Tasmania 7008
Ph: (03) 6278 1503 Fax: (03) 6278 2338
E-mail: ssjadmin@tastelfi bre.com.au
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Margaret Silf returns
Hear one of the most popular and accessible spiritual writers of
our time as Margaret Silf returns to Tasmania for the first time
in three years.
Margaret will present two talks at the Josephite Mission and History
Centre in New Town on Tuesday, October 25. From 9.30am to 12.30pm she
will present The Challenge of Change: Finding God in Times of Transition and then from 6.30pm
to 9.30pm Margaret will speak on the theme Faith in the Future.
There will be time for group discussion following her presentations. Please make your
booking by October 18. The cost is $10.00 (or affordable donation). Phone (03) 6278 1503 or
email: [email protected]
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The Flickering Flame launch
A new Tasmanian book, The Flickering Flame – Catholicism in North – East Tasmania 1877 - 2011,
will be launched on October 19, 2011 at Scottsdale.
This self-published book, lovingly and
painstakingly researched, details the rich
history of how the Catholic people of
Scottsdale and North – West of Tasmania
– clergy, religious and lay-people, past and
present, have sacrificed much to keep the
flame of faith burning.
Much of this history also gives thanks to the
ministry of the Missionary Sisters of Service
who served the people over such a vast area.
The pages also relive the despair of the loss
of two church buildings to fire at Ringarooma
(in 1890) and at Scottsdale (in 1992).
There are also a good many photos
from past and present, including clergy,
religious, some artefacts and a few wedding
celebrations from St Augustine’s and St Mary’s.
Order forms will be available from various
parishes, or the book can be ordered by
contacting either Fr John McKay or Margaret
Fairburn, parish secretary on (03) 6343 1875 or
via mail order to Catholic Parish of Scottsdale
PO Box 222, Scottsdale 7260. The book costs
$15.00 plus $4 postage.
And the winners are...
Thank you to all those school students, along with their teachers, who entered our
Colouring in Competition to win copies of the new Australian Children’s Mass Book.
We received a mountain of colourful and creative pages of colouring in. Well done to all of you!
Pre-School and
Kindergarten:
1st Prize – Aurora Giuliani,
St John’s Catholic School
2nd Prize – Anastasia
Hoskinson, St Paul’s
Catholic School
Prep and Grade 1:
1st Prize – Aryana
Samarakkody, Our Lady
of Lourdes
2nd Prize – Olivia Barnett
St Finn Barr’s Catholic
School.
Grades 2 and 3: 1st Prize
– Kelsey Anderson, Stella
Maris Catholic School,
Burnie. 2nd Prize – Frankie
Roberts, Stella Maris
Catholic Primary School,
Burnie.
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Silver lining for L’Arche
In August, 90 people gathered to celebrate
the 25th anniversary of the Beni-Abbes
Community (L’Arche Hobart).
During the celebration it was recalled
how from 1982 Fr Terry Yard and the Sacred
Heart Parish laid down a
wonderful foundation for
the Community involving
many people, particularly
Phil Vincent, Lilian Sutton
and Ken Lowrie, and
established connections
with many other churches
and groups.
1986 marked the
b e g i n n i n g o f t h e
Community with the
welcoming of its Core
Members (members with a
disability) and live-in Assistants.
Over the years it has grown
to have three houses and a
Tenancy Support Service. It is one of the now
140 communities of L’Arche spread across
the world, inspired by the initial vision of
Jean Vanier.
The Beni-Abbes community.
Your Tasmanian Catholic wins Gold!
The Australasian Religious Press
Association (ARPA) has awarded its
Best Regional Publication Gold Award
to The Tasmanian Catholic.
The judges said: “These awards
recognize the publications that spoke
best to the worshipper in the pew,
rather than to church officialdom.
“The Tasmanian Catholic is profoundly local, but with a good
seasoning of stories from beyond Tasmania ... Gives a good view of
what Catholics are thinking and doing in Tasmania.”
We would like to offer our sincere thanks to all our valued
contributors, our printers Foot and Playsted in Launceston, as well
as our faithful advertisers – all of you make our magazine possible.
Support at Pontville
The Southern Tasmanian Faith Communities Support Group
– under the umbrella of the Tasmanian Council of Churches –
recently met to examine how they can best minister to the asylum
seekers at Pontville.
This group consists of representatives chosen by the respective
heads of Churches in Tasmania. The meeting was attended by Noah
Folau, program manager for SERCO, who talked about programs for
detainees and what we as members of the church may be able to do
to assist them.
Support Group member Margaret Donaghy said it is not the intention
of the support group to duplicate services being offered by other
volunteer groups.
“As a church we able to offer community engagement and everyday
life experience to detainees which may include community garden
work, volunteering or attending a parish barbecue,” said Margaret.
For information contact Margaret at the Tasmanian Catholic Justice
and Peace Commission on (03) 6208 6271 or [email protected].
Alternatively contact Graham Roberts, President of the Tasmanian
Council of Churches on [email protected]
Celebrations at their 25th Anniversary.
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The ordination of Paul Crowe to the permanent diaconate was a joyous occasion witnessed
by a vibrant Catholic community from whose ranks Paul has come. It was the second
such ordination in Tasmania, the first being Nick McFarlane’s five years ago. As senior
deacon, Nick wants to encourage many more men to take on this role and hopes that the
next will be much closer than five years away.
“Believe what you read, teach what you believe and practise what you teach.” Thus are
deacons exhorted as they are presented with the Book of the Gospels during their ordination
liturgy.
In the ceremony at Launceston’s Church of the Apostles on September 4, the Archbishop
told Paul that now he ‘must not only listen to God’s Word’ but he is also to preach it.
The contemporary event was linked with the original Apostles when the Archbishop laid
hands on Paul and this continuity with the ancient and continuing tradition of the Church was
echoed by the choir singing the litany of the saints and Adoramus Te Domine.
The lovely singing from both the choir and the assembly, the sounds of the organ and other
instruments, the smells of incense, the presence of many priests of the Archdiocese, three
seminarians, three deacons (including Deacon Paul Simmons from the Broken Bay Diocese
and Deacon Greg Kerr from Newcastle-Maitland Diocese) and two servers on the altar all
combined to mark the solemnity of the occasion. The words of the hymns, including Christ
be our Light and Come to the Feast, point to Paul’s spirituality and concern for social justice.
Paul’s family smiled proudly and lovingly as Paul received the Sacrament of Orders.
They helped robe him in the deacon’s stole and dalmatic. He paid tribute to the love and
encouragement of his wife Gordana, their children and other members of his family. (Gordana
had been asked to give written permission before the ordination could take place). Paul also
thanked everyone involved in his formation and in the celebration which filled the Church
of the Apostles.
We wish Paul God’s blessings in his new role as he continues to minister among us.
FEATURE
Serving the people of GodOrdination of Deacon Paul Crowe
If becoming a deacon is something which interests you, please speak with Deacon Nick MacFarlane on 0418 242 010 or [email protected]
Pope John Paul II once said “a deacon’s service
is the Church’s service sacramentalised”.
Gordana and Paul Crowe.
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FEATURE
Many people think of a deacon as a
‘lay’ minister, but this is not entirely
accurate. A deacon is an ordained minister,
but he is ordained to service in the Church,
not to the priesthood.
In the Catholic Church the ordained ministry
comprises three orders: bishops, priests and
deacons. Deacons make visible Christ who
serves. They symbolise a communion between
the wider world and Church
ministry – their ministry
comprises pastoral, liturgical
and charitable roles.
But deacons are first and
foremost living reminders
of what it means to be a
member of the Church and
to be a Disciple of Christ.
Deacon Paul says his
initial sense of being actively
called to serve came from
a conversation he had with
theologian Draško Dizdar around five years
ago.
“I felt I had more to offer the Church.
I wanted to know how I could make this
offering,” said Paul.
“I was already quite involved with the parish
helping those through the RCIA process and
catechesis on their way to becoming newly
baptised Catholics,” said Paul.
“One person whom I was instructing in
catechesis came to me and thanked me
for helping them understand the Church’s
teachings in a way they hadn’t before.”
Why I became a deacon“Then they said: ‘If only you were legit’.”
“I knew what they meant immediately,”
said Paul.
While all Catholics are called to fulfil a role
of evangelisation of the faith, not just priests
and religious, Paul understood this off-the-cuff
comment to mean: you have a particular place
in our Church.
Paul says, in his view, to be a deacon is
more akin to the notion of
the Apostles, particularly
Steven and Philip, meaning
‘one who is sent forth’ and
to spread the word of the
Gospel.
Pope Gregory the Great
was originally a deacon.
T h e p r o c e s s o f
becoming an ordained
deacon took around three
years for Paul. He is also a
Benedictine Oblate.
To say that Paul Crowe’s life is now busier
than ever is an understatement.
He is a prominent orthodontic surgeon in
Launceston with many years’ experience in
treating patients with cleft palates and cranio-
facial complications.
He is, with his wife Gordana, the father
of five adult children, Commissioner of
the Tasmanian Catholic Justice and Peace
Commission, past president of the Launceston
Rotary Club plus he is an avid reader!
“My wife and my children have been
extremely supportive of me,” says Paul.
He recalls one of the earliest ‘moments’
of realisation of a calling was witnessing the
life-changing experience that his son, Ben,
underwent as a pilgrim at World Youth Day
2002 in Cologne, Germany.
One of the most difficult things, says Paul,
has been how he and his wife have had to
re-work their relationship with each other to
include his new commitments. In the end,
he says they have found a way to strengthen
their Sacrament of Marriage alongside his
Holy Orders.
Paul says he has been overwhelmed by the
loving support he has received from his parish
and the wider community. “The applause at
the end of the ordination service just went
on and on.”
In his first ‘official’ weekend, Paul delivered
three homilies within the Launceston Parish.
“The homilies were brought to life by my
own experiences,” says Paul.
“My role as deacon for my Church will be
my ‘adventure with the Lord’,” says Paul.
Deacon Nick MacFarlane (left) with Vince Bannon.
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YOUTH MINISTRY
Palpable, Electric, Joyful, Prayerful,
The heat was a consistent 40+ degrees well into the balmy evenings, the music pumped
almost every night from the park across from our university dorm accommodation, the
streets were alive with thousands of friendly pilgrims from almost every nation on earth,
the movement of the Spirit was evident in every pilgrim, place, activity and corner turned
... this was WORLD YOUTH DAY 2011 in Madrid, Spain!!!
By Rachelle Smith, Pilgrimage Coordinator.
Thirty eight Tasmanian pilgrims, well
represented from right across the state from
Smithton to Cygnet, made this significant
pilgrimage to Spain, coordinated by Catholic
Youth Ministry.
After months of physical and spiritual
preparation our Tassie pilgrims boarded
23 hours worth of flights to land in Italy for
the first part of their pilgrimage experience.
Assisi, hometown of St Francis and St Clare,
was our first destination. After such a long
journey to arrive
in this place really
put pilgrims in the
peaceful, reflective
and prayerful place
they needed and
wanted to be for
their pilgrimage.
From here we
moved onto Rome, via a day trip that saw
us visit Siena, hometown of St Catherine
and Orvieto, home to the Eucharistic
miracle. Again, both beautiful towns, with
magnificent Cathedrals, relics and stories of
our saints and faith.
Rome was experienced at a much more
intense pace, with two full days overflowing
with sights, sounds and wonders all
amongst the hectic – very authentic and
alive Roman culture and atmosphere! We
were overwhelmed by the visit to many
churches on our first morning including St
Paul’s Basilica, St John in Lateran, St Mary
Major and the Holy Stairs. We were also lucky
enough to visit historic and popular Roman
sites such as the Colosseum, Panthenon, Trevi
Fountain and Piazza Navona.
One of the main highlights for a number of
our pilgrims came
the following day
in Rome. We visited
the Vatican. We
began our day
with Mass, which
Fr Mike celebrated
in St Joseph’s
Chapel in the main
part of St Peter’s Basilica, very, very close to the
main altar in the Basilica. It was a very special
Mass for us, and as Fr Mike said, “It’s the closest
he’ll ever get to celebrating Mass at the main
altar in St Peter’s”. We then visited the Vatican
museum, including the Sistine Chapel.
We were blessed with the great fortune
of being accepted to take part in a tour of
the Scavi Excavations. These excavations
are directly below St Peter’s Basilica. During
World War I, while searching for the tomb of
St Peter, a whole town was uncovered below
the Basilica. Today you can walk along first,
second and third century Roman streets, seeing
buildings and tombs that have remained
untouched since Ancient Roman times.
As we walked through these excavations,
the story of St Peter in Rome, as one of the
early founding fathers of our faith, unravelled
before our eyes. From Rome, we continued
onto Toulouse where we met up with the
Archbishop and bused onto Lourdes, a place
filled with such hope and faith as millions of
pilgrims a year come searching for peace,
reconciliation and healing. Again, pilgrims
named the serenity, the sense of dedication
to Mary, and prayerfulness of the candlelight
procession as highlights of their journey.
Arrival in MadridThe atmosphere in Madrid was unlike any
other I had experienced at a WYD before
(although being accommodated in the
centre of Madrid went a long way in helping
this!). One of our pilgrims, Di O’Rourke, used
these words in describing the atmosphere:
“Palpable, Electric, Joyful, Prayerful, Spirit-
filled”.
Being located so centrally, we were blessed
to be able to attend so much of the WYD
week. We heard from some charismatic
Bishops in Archbishop Tim of New York
and our own Australian Archbishop Mark
Coleridge, Canberra-Goulburn, in Catechesis.
We made it to a range of youth festival events
from informative speakers and panels to
an interpretation of the passion through
flamenco dancing and musical concerts.
When 2 million people went
completely silent during
the Consecration, I felt the
presence of God as I had never
before. Tom Burdick, Huon Valley.
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YOUTH MINISTRY
Spirit-fi lled: World Youth Day 2011
Each bringing passion, energy, life, faith and
formation in their own way.
Of course the magnitude, sound and
colour of the main WYD events brought a
sense of unity for our pilgrims and a greater
understanding of the worldwide Church, from
the Opening Mass to the arrival of the Pope.
When we arrived at the Opening Mass you
could not get close to the action due to the
size and location of the event in the middle of
an intersection in central Madrid. At this point
in the week there was no sound available
either, and limited visibility of any screen.
So, the Tassie group moved to a completely
separate square where the Mass was being
shown on a screen. During the Eucharist,
we took out our journals and began to sing
hymns together in the middle of this square.
We were the only pilgrims there – the locals
made their way around us. Eventually, people
stopped to look at what we were doing, and
began to take photos and videos of us. It was
quite an experience to feel a witness to these
people in this way.
The Final Mass was of course spectacular.
Attended by almost two million people, it is
incomprehensible and unexplainable.
Through making our way in the heat to
Cuatro Vientos, being locked out of the main
venue due the large numbers flooding in,
the dancing, the praying, the meeting new
people, the Vigil, the unexpected electrical
storm we endured, the sleeping on rock solid
lumpy dirt overnight, waking up to blazing
heat with millions of others, the final Mass
and making your way back home through
the heat and crowds, something truly special
and incredibly unique happens to you. It is
difficult to put into words. It’s a feeling of
unity, of love, and of true life that comes from
the atmosphere, the spirit, the inexplicable
and undeniable presence of God in that place
and in every single one of the people present
there that unifies the Church and affirms you
as a member of that Church and disciple of
Christ. This is the true grace of participating
in a World Youth Day pilgrimage.
A huge THANK YOU to all who contributed
to, supported, and made this pilgrimage what
is was. To our small group leaders for their
dedication to the pilgrimage in watching
over their pilgrims and ensuring their safety
and well being, and walking with pilgrims
on their journey. To our pilgrimage chaplain,
Fr Mike Delaney, thank you for your time,
effort and support, and, for your willingness
to jump in and to commit to this role when
we needed you. Thanks also to Fr Richard
Ross who began this journey, for his guidance,
passion and inspiration in the planning and
early preparation of pilgrims. Thank you to
Archbishop Adrian for his full and ongoing
support of World Youth Day and youth
ministry and for his on-the-ground support
and guidance in Europe.
Many thanks to all of you for your practical
and prayerful support on our journey. Your
thoughts and prayers were truly felt and
recognised by our pilgrims, they helped
us through and we are very grateful for
them. Please continue to keep our pilgrims
in your prayers as they continue to process
this experience and build on the graces of
their pilgrimage. Pilgrims will be gathering
for a reunion retreat on the weekend of 8-9
October.
Our blog is still available to read: www.wydtas.blogspot.com
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Jodi Griggs wondered if a career in
education might be in her future when
she realised she spent most of her free
mornings helping at her own child’s family
day care.
As a parent, and not being quite ready to
make a commitment for full-time university,
Jodi sought the assistance of Fiona Excell
from Willson Training, the Catholic Church’s
Registered Training Provider (RTO).
Jodi had seen a Willson Training ad for
a teacher’s aide training course at her local
LINC (library) centre.
Jodi says Fiona encouraged every one of
the trainees from the start.
“She was very honest and up-front about
the training process and she stepped in
whenever it was needed.
“We also had the option of staying on
after the course was finished to develop our
interview techniques,” she says.
Following the successful completion of a
Certificate III in Education Support in June
of this year, Jodi undertook her practical
experience at St Aloysius School, Kingston.
Now, Jodi has work on a fairly
regular basis at St Aloysius as a
relief teacher’s aide and she is
more than pleased about this
outcome.
Willson Training has a track
record of taking on a wide range of clients for
training and vocational support.
Working in partnership with other agencies
including the WISE employment and the
Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service (CRS),
Willson Training employ trainers to teach
Administrative Support, Asset
Maintenance, Child Care, and
Teacher’s Aide courses to their
clients. They can also cater
training courses for equity
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Willson are also known in the training
industry for taking on the challenging cases,
the long-term unemployed and people with
mental illness.
“Now, Jodi has
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The second half of 2011 Willson Training
will deliver 34 funded job seeker programs
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GENERAL NEWS
FAITH IN ACTION
From forens ic scie n ceto straw huts
St Vincent de Paul Development Officer,
Danusia Kaska, left fourteen years of
DNA forensics behind to be where she feels
most at home: with the people of Timor-
Leste, north-east Thailand and other parts
of the Asia-Pacific region which experience
poverty and hardship.
“It’s the simplicity of living, which I really
enjoy,” says Danusia.
Danusia was in Tasmania recently to
share her volunteer experiences with school
students around the state. On this day she
kept a group of year eight students from
Mount Carmel College enthralled from start
to finish as they listened in silence to her
stories.
Danusia lived in communities with families
too poor to send their children to school.
Many of these children are sent to work from
the age of five or even younger to help feed
their family.
Although Danusia has no formal medical
training, one of her most unforgettable roles
has been caring for orphaned babies who
are dying from AIDS-related complications.
A heartbreaking role for many, but Danusia
says she is grateful for the opportunity to be
with these children, allowing them dignity
during their last precious moments.
Some families are forced to sell their
female children for dowries to survive.
“Just imagine if one day you, as a fourteen
year old girl, were told you had to marry a
man twice your age, just to help your family,”
she said to the students. Shrieks of horror
filled the classroom.
In Pakistan, children as young as five work
in brick kilns to help the family pay off their
peshgi (the illegal, yet common, advance
system of bonded labour).
Many children scavenge for commodities
like plastic bottles to resell.
But, says Danusia, these same families
welcome her into their homes when she
visits as if she were one of them.
partnership with volunteers like Danusia
and the St Vincent de Paul’s Assist a Student
program.
Education is now widely understood as
a key to enabling an individual to support
themselves, their families and their
communities independently in the future.
The Assist a Student program reflects
Vinnies’ mission at its core – to encourage
people to take control of their own destiny,
to respect people’s dignity and to provide
hope for the future. It provides funding
for an education scholarship to train and
educate a student for one year.
St Vincent de Paul members in partner
countries choose the neediest students to
receive the subsidies for their education.
By doing this they are empowered with the
autonomy to support their own people.
The St Vincent de Paul Tasmanian branch
directly sponsors Assist a Student programs
in Papua New Guinea. Nationally, St Vincent
de Paul sponsors around 7000 students per
year across the Asia Pacific region. But the
demand far exceeds the capacity.
“We can help these people by sharing
some of ourselves – what we have – with
those in need in our neighbouring countries,”
says Danusia.
For more information about St Vincent de Paul’s Assist a Student programs please
contact Merlene Cronin on (03) 6333 0822 or visit: www.vinnies.org.au.
Danusia Kaska and Tony Muir (Vice President of the National St Vincent de Paul Council)
are available to make school visits from time to time. Contact (03) 6333 0822 for more details.
“You may look at these photos and be
shocked by their poverty, but this is not the
whole story,” says Danusia.
“These people may not have much
material wealth but they have hope for the
future, a spirit of hope,” she said.
These are the people who are trying to
break the crushing cycle of poverty – in
L-R: Madeleine Leggett, Liz De Venuto, Danusia Kaska and Ashleigh Eyre. A child in Pakistan works off his parent’s debt.
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CATHOLIC AID
Hear My Voice on World Mission Sunday
Thamarrurr School WadeyeWhen you think of bilingual schools you
might think of countries overseas, in
Europe, perhaps, where English is taught as
a second language. You might even think
of some exclusive and expensive school in
Australia. You don’t necessarily think of the
Australian Outback.
Wadeye (Wad-Air) is a remote town a few
hundred kilometres away from Darwin at the
western edge of the Daly River.
A population just over 2,000 people, with
seven different languages from 20 different
tribes make up the townsfolk. In fact, Wadeye
is the largest Aboriginal community in the
Northern Territory.
The town itself is totally cut off during the
wet season, and only accessible by sea or air.
Thamarrurr (Tam–ah–Rrah) School has
a dedicated unit to develop educational
resources in the dominant Aboriginal
language of the town, Murrinh Patha.
Murrinh Patha (Moor–in–Putt–ha) is
taught to each and every student. It is the
predominant language used in Early Learning
Literacy for all students right through to year
three. English is a language they speak orally
until then.
From year four, students can only learn
Murrinh Patha in Religion class.
Sr Teresa (Tess) Ward OLSH has been
teaching at Thamarrurr School for many years
and says “It is very important for the students.
They have a right to learn in a language that is
their own mother tongue.” English, for them,
is not a second language, but a foreign one.
They begin at school only speaking
English, so they have a comprehension of
what they are saying. “It is impossible to
learn in a language you can’t speak.” Sr Tess
says. “You need to understand the meaning
of what you’re saying. Educationally and
ethically, it is important for the children too.
Research tells us that it is important for a
child’s development if they are learning in a
language that they speak at home.”
Even though they continue to learn
Murrinh Patha in Religion classes Sr Tess would
like to see the return of both languages taught
right through until Year 12, as once was the
case, rather than ending at year three.
Sr Tess is not afraid to say that she is
“Pushing the point, but not having much
success. This is doing a great disservice to
the children.”
Hear My Voice is our theme for this year’s
World Mission Month, where we hear the
voices of the world’s Indigenous peoples.
We celebrate their contribution around
the world with their unique cultures,
languages and spiritual traditions, all
enriching our Universal Catholic Faith.
Catholic Mission’s National Director
Mr Martin Teulan says:
“The World Mission Day appeal helps
sustain parishes and their priests, and
supports thousands of catechists who
share their faith and lead their local village
communities.
“We ask you to give generously for the
cause of bringing about God’s kingdom on
Earth through the work of missionaries and
local people working together in places where
resources are few but great acts of faith and
humanity happen every day.”
Be inspired on World Mission Sunday,
October 23, to Hear My Voice and share your
faith with the world!
Once all students were taught Murrinh
Patha right through to year 12, and Sr Tess
says “those former students have significant
jobs because they learned right through.” This
includes one of the school’s teachers who
qualified with a Bachelor of Arts in Teaching.
For now, they at least learn their Religious
classes in their native language.
“From their point of view, the child’s
development is better when they are
learning in the language they speak at home”
says National Director of Catholic Mission,
Mr Martin Teulan, “They learn spoken English
before they begin literacy in English which
gives the students a context to understanding.
From then they are learning their Religious
studies in Murrinh Patha which speaks to
their heart, their spirituality in a way that
English cannot.”
Catholic Mission supports Mission in
Australia, through the Home Mission Fund,
and around the world.
This World Mission Month we focus
on Indigenous people of Australia and
Guatemala. “We are many people speaking
many languages that express one faith,” says
Mr Teulan.
World Mission Day AppealAll over the world Indigenous communities
share their faith – our faith. Please give generously
in your parish or visit catholicmission.org.au
Freecall: 1800 257 296
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Senator’s delight for Stitch
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Samaritan Projects
Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary
Secretar y for Immigration and
Citizenship, visited Centacare in Hobart
recently to announce the results of the
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Funding Round for Settlement Grants
Program (SGP) for 2011 to 2012.
Senator Lundy appeared to enjoy the
informal atmosphere of being in the Stitch
room for the announcement and very much
enjoyed the homemade ‘Somalian Delight’
presented to her by Zahra Mahamed from
Stitch – a take away bag of “Somalian Delight”
was packed for the Senator’s flight back to
Canberra!
The Stitch Program for new entrant women
was the only project in Tasmania to receive
funding for two years until 2013. Stitch will
continue providing a program based around
life skills, arts, crafts, sewing, mentoring
and leadership skills which has become
such a successful formula for supporting
new entrant ladies.
We acknowledge
th e l e ga c y l e f t
by Sister Philippa
w h o o r i g i n a l l y
commenced the
Stitch project at
Centacare many
years ago. She had a vision to provide a safe
place for new entrant women to come and be
nurtured while working through many difficult
past issues and to learn new skills while sewing
– we are grateful for her heart for new arrivals.
In Southern Tasmania, Centacare has
been funded to provide a continuation of
Case Management services. A new SGP
Housing Worker has also
commenced to assist
clients on a more one to
one basis in locating and
securing accommodation
and providing assistance
with tenancy issues. The
inclusion of a Housing
Worker has recognised one of the main areas
of need that we have been advising the
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
about during our reporting on the programs.
By Aileen Hough, Coordinator Settlement Projects, Centacare.
In Northern Tasmania, Centacare has been
funded to continue to provide the HOME
Housing Worker project to assist new entrants
to locate and maintain accommodation in the
Launceston area – a highly sought after service
by those settling in the north of the state.
We thank the clients from the Stitch group
and the Hobart Baptist Burmese community
who were keen to come and meet Senator
Lundy and provide her with valuable client
feedback. We are most appreciative of
receiving this funding as it affords us the
opportunity to continue the good work that
is already being done in Settlement Projects
– assisting and supporting new entrant clients
as they begin their new life in Tasmania.
“Stitch ... was the only project in Tasmania to receive funding for two
years until 2013.”
L-R: Senator Kate Lundy, new entrant Zahra Mahamed and Senator Lisa Singh.
GENERAL NEWS
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Building BridgesNot Walls
Knocking on Prison Walls – It’s time.
Archbishop Adrian Doyle launched the 2011 Catholic Social Justice Statement
in Hobart on the 21 September. The address to the Statement was given by
Greg Barns, barrister and president of National Lawyers Alliance. The statement
title, chosen by the Australian Catholic Bishops, is Building Bridges, Not Walls:
Prisons and the Justice System. The Statement points out serious shortcomings in
Australia’s prisons and justice systems, and challenges citizens and politicians to
search for a more constructive way forward. The Catholic Bishops invite the Australian
community to extend Christian love to those who are often despised and forgotten.
In his talk Archbishop Adrian Doyle pointed out that in the 25th chapter of the
Gospel of Matthew, Jesus gives a list of the people who deserve our special attention.
If we offer that attention, it is as if we are doing it for Jesus Himself. One of the gestures
mentioned is that of “I was in prison, and you came to see me”. As part of the Church
there are chaplains, visitors and mentors reaching out to those in prison. Archbishop
Adrian Doyle celebrates Mass at the prison each year on a day close to Christmas and
again soon after Easter Sunday. The Archbishop stated that our actions can assure inmates
that they are not forgotten; that there is hope and the opportunity to begin again.
WHO BECOMES IMPRISONED?Greg Barns observed in his address that the main message in the Statement is that
prisoners are our brothers and sisters. Greg’s experience working in the criminal justice
system concurs with the comments from the Australian Bishops that those imprisoned
are “from the most disadvantaged sections of the community: Indigenous people, the
underprivileged, and those suffering from mental illness”. Most prisoners are released
back into society. Greg stated that prison is a brutal system where often there is little to
do, and very limited contact with family or friends. Therefore it is difficult for a person to
leave prison a ‘better’ person. When they are released they are often homeless and have
lost their jobs. Those who have been in prison on remand, who may not be convicted
or receive a prison sentence, can also face the same difficulties.
Generally the rate of crime is not increasing, but the rate of imprisonment is. More
people are going to prison and prison sentences are longer. Society does need a
prison system, but research suggests it is not effective in rehabilitating and deterring
offenders. It is easier for the political system to be ‘tough on crime’ rather than ‘tough
on the causes of crime’.
HOW DO I LIVE NOW?The statement tells the story of Jason, who entered prison as an angry aggressive 17
year old. He has grown from a boy into manhood in a violent environment. Jason is the
exception who has taken advantage of every opportunity and turned his life around
without any support as counselling is not provided until he is eligible for parole. He is
a person who has spent more than a quarter of his life in prison and states that on his
release he would not know how to live like a normal person. As people of goodwill
how do we reach out to help people leaving prison who see no hope?
PRODIGAL SONS NEED OUR HELPThe Statement argues that it is time for all Australians to revisit the needs of prisoners,
their loved ones and those who work with them. It is time to commit ourselves to
reducing the number of Australians held in prisons and making better provision for
ex-prisoners to become law abiding and constructive citizens. It is time to knock down
the walls of social exclusion that increase the prospects that a person will end up in
jail. In no way does the statement seek to justify crimes or minimise the terrible impact
crime can have on innocent people.
In the parable of the Prodigal Son it is easy to understand the anger of the hard
working son who remained by his father’s side. This parable challenges us not to judge
and condemn, but recognise that God has unconditional love for all people.”Again and
again in the Gospel, we read how Jesus reached out to the marginalised and rejected,
and called on his followers to do the same.” It is time that we do.
The Statement and associated resources can be downloaded from the Tasmanian
Catholic Justice and Peace website: www.hobart.catholic.org.au/TCJPC
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From the Director
Catholic schools are places of Good News that gather
young people from the community together in Jesus’
name in order to introduce them to the kingdom of God.
While we work so hard to ensure that our schools are
places of educational excellence, in touch with the latest
developments in curriculum and technology, we are
always conscious that Catholic schools have been founded
explicitly to announce the Good News of salvation.
During Education Week, all our school communities
shared in the Eucharist led by their Archbishop,
experiencing once again the enduring sign that we are the
“People of God”, nourished by the Bread of Life!
I am oft en privileged to experience fi rst hand how
our schools provide for students to grow in wisdom,
knowledge and grace, opening their minds and hearts to
new ideas and stretching themselves beyond their comfort
zone. Recently I shared in a Mini Vinnies day at
St Aloysius College when the students “walked in the
shoes” of those who are less fortunate, dialoguing through
shared workshops with former refugee
students from Hobart College and
spending time in refl ective prayer. While
visiting Guilford Young College, I met
students who were discerning how to
make good judgments in facing complex
ethical issues. At St Dominic College,
students explained to me how their
Horticulture courses can be carried out
respecting the cycles of nature.
Constantly I see skilled teachers planning collaboratively
so that learning can be meaningful for students in their
lives and support them to develop good character and
acquire the virtues of Jesus as true disciples. In this way,
schools are engaged in building the Kingdom of God
within a community of life and faith.
As the Church teaches in Evangelii Nuntiandi (par 16),
we who have received the Good News and who have been
gathered by it into the community of salvation can and
must communicate and spread it.
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Catholic Colleges,
including MacKillop, Mount
Carmel, St Virgil’s, Sacred Heart,
Dominic, St Mary’s and Guilford Young,
make up a large percentage of teams
who participate in the roster of the Tasmanian
Water Polo Inc Schools and Colleges Winter
Competition.
The winter competition starts after Easter and continues
to the end of August each year, with a break in the roster for
the June school holidays. Even though the season is held over
the colder months, all games are conducted in the warmth of the
Hobart Aquatic Centre on the Hobart Domain. Game nights are on
Fridays and are played in both the 50m pool and dive pool, with the
fi rst games starting at 6:30pm.
Most schools train on Tuesday nights at the Hobart Aquatic Centre or
the Clarence YMCA Pool. The players warm up with swimming drills –
with and without the yellow balls, dribbling the ball from one side of the
playing area to the other, picking up and passing the ball, catching and
passing the ball (in pairs and in groups), shooting the ball at the
goals, eggbeater kick treading water, etc.
The age groups are from Grade 7 to College, with both girls’
and boys’ teams. Each team has seven players, one of
whom is the goalkeeper, and each team can have up
to six substitutes.
A goal is scored when the ball passes
completely over the goal line in the goal
area. When a goal has been scored the
players move back to their own halves
to restart the play. The players
cannot stand on the bottom of
the pool, so it is good to have
confi dent swimmers. The
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Polowithout horses!team members wear coloured
caps that should be numbered from one to thirteen
with the goalkeeper always wearing a red cap number one.
Catholic schools and colleges have enthusiastic staff and parents,
who, along with older students, are happy to put up their hands and
get involved organising their school’s teams for the competition.
Tasmanian Water Polo Inc is a volunteer organisation off ering the
Schools Water Polo roster and also has a Club Water Polo roster for all
age groups that starts each September. Further information is posted
on their website at ... www.taswaterpolo.asn.au
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Mount Carmel girls preparing for a match at the Hobart Aquatic Centre.
GYC team after their match at the Hobart Aquatic Centre.
Mr Peter Kube, sports assistant at GYC and ‘backbone’ of their water polo eff o
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Kelly Limbrick enjoys
her time in Europe
while presenting at an
international conference.
PhD in Psychology takes
Kelly to Europe“The best experience my degree has given me so far was
enabling me to attend the International Conference on
Alzheimer’s Disease 2011 in Paris, France, in July this year”
says Kelly Limbrick, former Guilford Young College student.
”I was lucky enough to receive a travel fellowship from the
organisers, the American Alzheimer’s Association, as a result
of my current research into the area. The conference was
very interesting and informative, and gave me the opportunity
to present my work to conference attendees from all around
the world.”
Kelly is completing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at UTAS,
where her research focus is on looking at the brain and age
related changes. “Particularly, I am looking at the eff ects of
a cognitive training program in older adults, specifi cally in
relation to brain activation patterns.”
As well as presenting in Paris this year, Kelly’s time at UTAS
has opened up many other opportunities for learning and
broadening her professional networks, including national and
international conferences, “Being able to attend conferences
has enabled me to not only share my research, but also to
learn from, and make contact with, many leading researchers
and specialists in the fi eld.”
While Kelly is now well advanced in her university study, she
recalls that her choice of degree was inspired by her learning
at Guilford Young College. “I chose to study Psychology at
university as it instantly took my interest when I fi rst studied
it in years 11 and 12. There are always new areas emerging,
and new topics to be studied, and it enables you to help
people of all ages and characteristics in many diff erent ways,
through both research and practice.”
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Catholic Education Week is celebrated each
year across Tasmania in August, presenting
a special opportunity for Catholic schools
and communities to celebrate their proud
traditions of achievement and excellence, their
partnerships with families, parishes and wider
community and their faith and commitment to
Gospel values.
This year’s theme, “Responding to the Call”,
provided a wonderful opportunity for us to
refl ect on who we are, on the gifts and talents
that we have and on the invitation that God
extends to us to use these gifts and talents for
the good of our school communities.
During the week, Archbishop Adrian Doyle
visited each of the three regions in what was
his last Catholic Education Week as Archbishop.
• At a Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral in Hobart,
he was presented with a custom made rugby
‘leaver’s’ top with the emblems of each
school in the Southern region embroidered
on it.
• The Northern schools gave the Archbishop a
lovely card and a contribution towards a new
easy chair for his retirement which begins
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ols respond to the call• In the North West region, at Sacred Heart
Catholic School in Ulverstone, the Archbishop
was presented with a wonderful album of
photos from his trips to the schools there.
There were special Masses, lunches, events and
concerts in all centres. In Huntingfi eld, St Aloysius
Catholic College held a ‘Walk in the Shoes of
Others Day’ where there was an exhibition of
shoes from well-known people including the
Archbishop, Bob Brown, Andy Griffi ths, Jack
Riewoldt, Maggie Beer and Kylie Kwong. On
Friday evening, the Arch’s Archies artworks were
judged and prizes awarded, while the Tasmanian
Catholic Education Commission
presented its annual awards in
events across the regions during
the week.
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In Term
One Grade 4 at
Stella Maris Catholic
School in Burnie completed a
Religion unit on Compassion. It coincided with
the many natural disasters that we were witnessing
on television and in the newspapers. We discussed how
feeling pity for another’s suff ering was not enough.
We related the Jesus aspect of doing something to help.
We know we will not rid them of their pain and suff ering, but
we can soften it by taking action and trying to give hope and
make a diff erence to their shattered lives. So, compassion
isn’t only a one time thing or a thought. We have to show
compassion all the time, just like Jesus; and take action.
He was a man of ‘action’.
We discussed the types of action we could do. We had
thought about having a ‘Compassion Cupcake’ stall. This
we thought may be diffi cult for children with food allergies
to be a part of, so we tried to think of something that would
involve all children. For Mother’s Day we had made earrings.
Amongst the beads were some heart-shaped beads. Then
the idea came about to use them to make heart charms. The
name, Hearts of Hope came about from how our feelings
and actions are related to our hearts – these feelings being
compassion and sadness at another’s suff ering. Our hope
is, to have a heart, and give hope and make a diff erence to
those in great need. The money from the sale of these charms
will go towards supporting others. So this month we are
doing Hearts of Hope. For Hearts of Hope we have over 300
Hearts ofHope
“Our hope is, to have a heart,
and give hope and make a diff erence to
those in great need.”
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charms that we have made and are selling to raise money
for people who are suff ering. Most of the charms are two
dollars. Others are $5 and $7. In our eff ort, we take on the
Mercy charism of Catherine McAuley, ‘dare to step out make
a diff erence’. Catherine’s desire is to bring about a more just
and compassionate world. This we know we can do.
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Too much
On June 22, St Thomas More’s Catholic
Primary School in Newstead, Launceston,
celebrated their Feast Day with a whole-
school focus. In the morning, students from
Prep to Grade 6 were put into mixed groups
where they completed two art activities,
supervised by a teacher or a teacher-aide.
The students worked on completing two
artworks; a mosaic crucifi x and a collage of St Thomas More.
These designs were chosen by the 5/6 Team, who were in
charge of running the day. It was fantastic to observe the
children working across the grades and utilising many of
the qualities of their Patron Saint, such as co-operation,
perseverance, problem solving and friendship.
After recess, the school community gathered in the Church to
pray and give thanks to God with a school Mass, again lead by
the 5/6 leaders who read beautifully and decorated the Church
with eye-catching posters of St Thomas More.
At lunchtime, everyone was very grateful to Mr Rik and Mr Nas
who had been busy cooking sausages on the barbecue! Each
class took turns to come and get their sausages, and they were
all happy to be served with a friendly smile from a Grade 6
student. In the afternoon, all the classes relaxed in their rooms
and were happily surprised with a cupcake for each person!
The whole community greatly enjoyed learning more about
their Patron Saint, spending time with friends in other grades
and giving thanks to God for their school and each other.
Our Catholic schools are busy places with so many good news
stories to share that we are overfl owing!!!
We’ve put some bonus articles on our website for you.
Click on www.hobart.catholic.org.au for:
Our Lady of Lourdes – Living with Community.
St Virgil’s boys at Australian Brain Bees Challenge.
Gumnuts to Buttons at MacKillop College.
Maths Action at St Finn Barr’s.
Phil Glendenning challenging students at Sacred Heart.
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Betta Beeand the 4Bs
“ It is an approach to creating a safeand productive learning environment where teachers can teach and allstudents can learn.”
At St Aloysius Catholic College – Kingston Campus we actively
teach and reinforce desired behaviour through our 4Bs and
Betta Bee. We consider behaviour support to be an opportunity
for valuable social learning as well as a means of
maximising the success of academic educational
programs. Preserving and building student self-esteem
and self-image, as well as encouraging self-monitoring
of behaviour are fundamental components of our
positive approach to behaviour support.
Staff at the campus worked together with their
respective classes to condense some of our more
detailed school expectations to four: Be a Learner,
Be Safe, Be Respectful and Be Fair. We wanted to
ensure that these expectations were understood by all
and transferred to all situations. In an eff ort to assist
with this, our Grade Four students came up with a
special motto “better be safe, better be a learner, better be
fair and better be respectful”.
This then led to the creation of Betta Bee, our very special
mascot for the Kingston Campus, who assists us with the
reinforcement of our behaviours. Betta Bee received his
name from Mr Damien Lowe and his Grade Four class who
also created the initial design for Betta Bee. Leonie Brothers
then further developed the design to a cartoon character.
Mrs Judy Donnelly, a previous staff member and current
parish volunteer, then took the creation a step further and
created a Betta Bee mascot for the campus.
at St Aloysius Catholic College-Kingston Campus
Betta Bee makes regular appearances at Campus Assemblies
and has his own voice. His expectations in a variety of
diff erent class and play situations are presented through
videos created by Grade 4L and Mr Lowe, the Environmental
Committee, puppet shows and role modelling by our Grade
Four students. Betta Bee has also interviewed key staff at the
campus, such as our utility offi cer to talk about what Being
Respectful looks like in our school environment and the impact
our actions have on the cleaning and maintenance staff . After
his appearance at assemblies Betta Bee then visits a class
for a week to assist with the expectations in that particular
classroom. Mr Ben Morgan and Grade 3M have also created
a song for Betta Bee that the students at the campus are
learning.
The 4Bs and Betta Bee have allowed us as a campus to
focus on improving our ability to teach and support positive
behaviour for all students. It is an approach to creating a safe
and productive learning environment where teachers can
teach and all students can learn. Betta Bee posters and the
4Bs are on display in all areas of the campus and consistent
language is applied by all staff , at all times, in all locations in
the school. This is certainly a key to the program’s success
with our students.
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FLY ON THE WALL
Buzzing around a happy bunchWhen one of the Sacred
Heart College Parents
and Friends saw the photo
of the group from a recent
gathering, she quipped,
“We are a happy bunch,
aren’t we!”
T h is is e xac t l y th e
impression I gained from
flying around them as they
held a meeting in the College
library one Monday evening.
There were twelve of them,
all women, although they
assured me it’s not always
so. Like most meetings
I ’ve at tended as your
correspondent, the setting
was fairly informal, but
efficient. The agenda was
clearly set out on sheets around the tables
along with copies of the minutes from the
previous month – which, I found, are also on
the College website in a Parents’ section.
When everyone had gathered and greeted
each other, the president opened the meeting
by reading a prayer, welcomed everyone
and took apologies. The format was a
familiar one of confirming minutes,
business arising from last month,
correspondence, reports and various
agenda items.
What was discussed was practical and
relevant. This is a forum where problems
and concerns can be aired frankly: toilet
break policy, use of netbooks in classrooms,
fundraising ideas, changes to uniform, canteen
procedures, four term years, recycling of
textbooks and safety concerns in neighbouring
streets. Everyone present had a say at some
point in the proceedings and no topic was
off-limits.
Problems and recommendations are
referred to the college principal who is usually
present at these meetings and who takes the
concerns of this important body very seriously.
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who was acting as liaison. One useful initiative
was a Q & A sheet (available on their website),
compiled by the president from concerns
raised by parents and answers provided by the
college. Other schools can take note at www.
shc.tas.edu.au/news-events/parents.html.
The meeting was most convivial and
productive and I’m sure everyone left
afterwards feeling that it was time well
spent to benefit all their children. Don’t
be afraid to get involved in your school’s
P&F! It may well be the easiest way to sort
out any potential problems as well as a way
to share good ideas and work together for
everyone’s betterment and ... you might well
find a happy bunch too!
“Don’t be afraid to get
involved in your school’s P&F!”
Current members of the Sacred Heart College Parents and Friends Association.
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EDGEWAYS
If my God is small, I will inevitably try
to shrink other people’s; I myself will
remain puny, and seek to mould others to
that puniness. One of my least favourite
characters in Greek myth is the giant
Procrustes, an inn-keeper with only
one bed; tall travellers were lopped and
short ones stretched to fit. Procrustes is
a fundamentalist; he gets his power by
stealing it from others. He’s the ultimate
control freak; he describes the world as, say,
a small orange square and bans all other
configurations. I don’t care if someone
believes the earth is a small orange square.
What does matter is if they attempt to
impose that belief – spiritual, political,
economic, racial, cultural, sexual – on others.
Religious fundamentalism is one of the
scariest things on this planet; gods dressed up
in jackboots to hide their own powerlessness
and fear. The God of the Old Testament is
frequently fundamentalist, giving the Children
of Israel a divine mandate to ethnically cleanse
Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites. (I can say this without
fear or favour. Genetic/genealogical research
has revealed my solidly English father’s lineage
to be of the kohen, the hereditary Israelite
priesthood; my ancestors were probably right
in there, ranting against the heathen). In our
own time, Christian and Muslim extremists are
mirror-images of each other, still trapped in a
script dating from the Crusades when both
sides were taught
to view the other as
the embodiment of
evil, and promised
treasures in heaven
for slaughtering one
another. The Crusades
also unleashed anti-
Jewish pogroms in
Europe, when whole
communities were burnt alive in their own
synagogues. Today, anti-asylum seeker
rhetoric arises from the same pernicious root.
Rwanda, Ireland, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Gaza are all
modern embodiments of Procrustes, armed
now with cluster bombs and land mines.
And then there ’s env ironmenta l
fundamentalism; by destroying our planetary
life-support systems, we’re annihilating
the future. We’re not just selling our own
birthright for a mess of pottage, like Esau,
but our children’s. Is this not the ultimate sin?
There’s a control freak in all of us; it’s
always salutary to walk through town and
see who I’m damning and excluding today.
It takes conscious, unrelenting effort to keep
pushing back my horizons, challenging my
own boundaries to keep my heart from
rusting over.
I love the concept of entelechy, the sum
of our potential; the entelechy of a caterpillar
is a butterfly. One of the ways I try to enable
that evolution in myself is to read steadily
on science (knowledge of the seen) and
theology (knowledge of the unseen). I like
to enlarge myself, blow my circuits with facts
like these. If you have a hundred pianos, each
tuned an octave higher than its neighbour,
t h e h u n d r e d t h
p iano is made of
light. Molecules of
chlorophyll – the
stuff that makes plants
green – are identical to
molecules of human
blood except that
chlorophyll has a
magnesium atom at
its heart and blood has iron. Doesn’t that
make trees our cousins?
It’s taken a year to begin to grasp the first
two chapters of physicist Paul Davies’ book, The
Goldilocks Enigma: why the universe is ‘just right’
for life. I keep falling flat on my face with awe.
It seems we live in a multiverse, a staggering
and infinite mosaic of universes whose laws
of physics may be radically different from ours
(rain falling upwards? time non-existent?);
that mathematical laws underpin everything
– beetles, sunflowers, spring, galaxies; and
that ninety percent of the universe is made
of ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’ that no-one
knows what is. We live in a vastness, a mystery
beyond our wildest imaginings. My jackboots
don’t stand a chance.
“…there comes a moment when the risk
of staying tightly in bud is more painful than
the risk of blossoming.” Anon.
At the theological end of the spectrum, I’m
currently in love with Jan Frazier’s When Fear
Falls Away. It’s a luminous, humble account of
an astonishing spiritual journey. An ordinary
woman, struggling with a failed marriage,
major health issues, a mortgage, thorny
teenagers, finds herself almost overnight in
the state of seamless, ecstatic communion
with all life that I imagine Christ inhabited,
and which the Buddhists call enlightenment.
Many of us have glimpsed this state, through
prayer, art, nature, making love. It’s the
treasure that mystics of all traditions have long
sought; Julian of Norwich when she became
an anchorite, Rumi and Kabir in Islam, the
Jewish Kabbalists. It’s where Jan Frazier now
lives, every second of every day, in the peace
that passes all understanding. I’m particularly
moved by her realisation of how much room
she’d given over to fear, and how spacious,
how vast her being is without it. One of the
reasons she wrote the book is because if the
human and the divine can fuse in her, it can
happen to each and every one of us.
Meister Eckhardt says, “God is at home.
We are in the far country.”
Jan Frazier has come home. I for one am
weeping with homesickness.
“The tree in the seed, that art Thou.
The running water, that art Thou.
The sun in the sky and all that is, that art
Thou.” Hindu scripture.
By Annie March
“We live in a vastness,
a mystery beyond our
wildest imaginings.
My jackboots don’t
stand a chance.”
A shrunken God?
PASTORAL LIFE
Valuing lives and storiesMt St Vincent Nursing Home and
Therapy Centre in Ulverstone operates
from the philosophy that each person has
inestimable worth in their own right, and
this value is not assessed by their usefulness
or by the contribution they can make to their
family and/or society.
Every resident, regardless of the extent
of their disability, is treated with respect and
dignity. There is a chapel and an auxiliary of
local volunteers. There are older and younger
residents. It’s not just for the aged, but for
anyone in need of the care they provide.
John Speight, who suffers from cerebral
palsy, came to the Home at 27 years of age and
has been there for 42 years.
His cheery face and playful
banter brighten up the
corridors. Sandra Stanton,
who recently featured in
the Advocate newspaper,
is only 49 years old. Freda
Hughes may be 80 years
old, but she knits a square
a day. Every resident has a
story to tell. For instance,
Elma Appleby owes her
unusual name to being
called after her mother’s
maiden name. The residents and their stories
are all valued and cared for by the friendly
and qualified staff.
The St Vincent de Paul Society took
over the former Ulverstone Convalescent
and Nursing Home on January 1, 1969, and
renamed it Mt St Vincent Nursing Home. On
November 30, 2001, Mt St Vincent Nursing
Home took over Adaihi Nursing Home as
well. The Home is managed by a Committee
of Management selected by the St Vincent
de Paul Society led by the chairperson. It is
the only nursing home run by the Society in
Tasmania and is part of the Society’s ‘hand of
love’.
The facility is in a tranquil rural setting
and boasts a hydrotherapy pool and lovely
gardens. Residents are assured of being safe
and well provided for in an environment
where every effort is made to ensure their
happiness.
John Speight
Elma ApplebyFreda Hughes
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PASTORAL LIFE
AcolyteLes Ennis... faithful servantNot many of us are still working at ninety,
but Les Ennis – born Leslie Warwick
Ennis on February 9, 1921, at Montagu in
the far North-West is! He’s busy serving the
Church as an Acolyte at Our Lady of Lourdes
in Devonport and intends to stay working
until he dies!
Acolytes were more common at one stage,
but in Devonport now there are just two, Tony
Muir and Les. They were commissioned by
Archbishop Guilford Young to support the
priests by setting up before and assisting
during Mass. Les has seen many priests come
and go at Devonport – among them were
Fathers Tom Bresnehan, Peter Nicholls, Mark
Freeman, Denis Allen, Terry Yard and now
there are Fathers John Girdauskas and Felix
Ekeh.
he set off to work in Launceston at the age of
fourteen. He had stints in the Army and the
Railway. In 1959, he resigned from the Railway
and bought a cane farm in Bundaberg, where
he lived for two years. When he returned to
Launceston, he worked at Paterson’s Furniture
Store, eventually moving to Devonport in 1969
as the manager of the Paterson’s store there.
On the doorstep of the church one Sunday
morning in 1945, Les met Audrey Smith and
her mother. They invited him home that day
and... Les and Audrey were married in 1946.
They were together happily for 28 years until
Audrey, who did not enjoy good health, died.
They had four children: Murray, Gerard, Joy
and Mary. Ironically, Joy is now a dairy farmer,
the calling that Les rejected; Mary is a nurse
and Murray and Gerard both teach.
Les has been president of the Holy Name
Society, a member of The Lions Club, first
president of the Parents and Friends at Our
Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, member of
the Knights of the Southern Cross and the
St Vincent de Paul Society. This year he
received a plaque recognising 50 years service
with the Knights of the Southern Cross.
Through his service to others and his calm
presence, this gentle and faithful man is a
visible sign of the continuing presence of
Catholic practice and ethos in one part of
Tasmania.
There have been many changes in the
Church, too. From Latin when young Leslie
was taught to serve at Mass by his uncle, to all
the changes of The Second Vatican Council –
which Les is happy to endorse – to the present
situation of girls serving and a priest from
Nigeria presiding.
Les has been an acolyte for over 23 years
and a Minister of the Eucharist for nearly 40
years. As well as that he is a cheerful greeter of
those who enter Our Lady of Lourdes church.
Les started life on a dairy farm and
attended the local school at Montagu. As a
young boy, he spent a lot of his time with the
priests and the Church has been a major part
of his life. Not interested in the life of a farmer,
“Through his service to others and his calm
presence, this gentle and faithful man is a visible sign of the continuing presence of Catholic practice and ethos...” Les Ellis (L) pictured with Fr Felix Ekeh.
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PASTORAL LIFE
The Society of Christian Doctrine (SDC)
will celebrate fifty years in Tasmania in
November 2011.
Founded by St George Preca in Malta
in 1907 as a catechetical movement of lay
members, the Society of Christian Doctrine
began its work in Australia in 1952. On the
invitation of Archbishop Sir Guilford Young,
ministry was set up in Hobart in 1961, with
three Maltese members settling in Hobart.
Besides the cross culture tensions
the members experienced, these were
challenging days for them as their expressions
of faith were often misunderstood. The
members however always viewed themselves
as part of the wider Church; evangelization
for all, especially the young.
Under Maurice Mifsud’s leadership, they
persevered and today we are able to give
thanks for the enduring work over fifty years.
The ministry had its base from the community
house at Lower Sandy Bay, known as Preca
Centre, and the first meetings began in the
now demolished St John’s church on Main
Fifty years of service: An enduring mission
Road, Glenorchy. Following the collapse
of the Tasman Bridge in 1975, the mission
increased on the eastern shore in Warrane
and surrounding areas.
Over the years the dynamics of the ministry
have changed from supporting Catholic
families in the early days, pre-evangelization
and education in faith in the 1970s through to
the 1990s. Today the emphasis is on smaller
groups who seek the faith.
Archbishop Guilford Young, champion
of lay initiatives, who was a mentor and avid
supporter of the SDC in Hobart, visited the
generalate of the SDC in Malta during a break
in Vatican Council II. During a Mass in 1986
to celebrate 25 years of the SDC’s mission in
Hobart, he said that the work of the members
was impossible to measure for they came
quietly and asked for nothing.
During the 1980s, the SDC was growing
Australia-wide and was able to extended
its mission to Brisbane – a member from
Hobart formed the foundation group for
this new ministry.
In 2009, Charles Caruana left to retire in
Malta. Maurice (who died in 2010), Charles,
and the members continued to work tirelessly.
Now the legacy has been passed onto local
members to continue.
This leaves a challenge as members joining
the SDC are not forthcoming. Although much
reduced in numbers, the SDC in Hobart still
remains devoted to reveal the faith as a
welcoming place of action, not just words.
A Mass to give thanks will be celebrated
at St Canice Church, Lower Sandy Bay on
Saturday, November 12, commencing at 11am.
All are welcome.
Br Ben Brooks, Hobart Centre coordinator.
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Having been a midwife most of her life,
caring for sick neonates and premature
babies, has helped chaplain Maureen Clarke
settle into her role as a hospital chaplain
with the Mersey Community Hospital at
Latrobe in the north-west of Tasmania.
As a sixteen year old, Maureen started
her nursing training at St Vincent’s Hospital
in Launceston in the 1960s. She then went
on to complete her midwifery training in
Melbourne.
Always thinking she would enjoy being a
hospital chaplain, Maureen graduated from
her chaplaincy training in 2002. Working
as a part-time chaplain, she continued her
midwifery until 2005 when she retired.
In 2010, Maureen took on the role of
coordinator at the Mersey Hospital, with the
support of four chaplains of various faiths.
Chaplaincy is a very important role,
supporting the emotional and spiritual health
of patients (who often feel vulnerable) facing
up to issues which are connected
with illness. Chaplaincy or pastoral
care is personal and individual.
Chaplains feel very privileged
to be part of people’s lives.
Maureen is a member of
Spiritual Care Australia, the
professional association for
chaplains. The Tasmanian
Launch for Spiritual Care
Australia was held in Hobart
in July this year.
Spiritual Care Australia
chaplains work in hospitals,
detention centres, schools,
prisons and welfare agencies,
nursing homes and the Australian
Defence Forces.
“Chaplaincy is a very important role, supporting the emotional and spiritual health of patients ...”
PASTORAL LIFE
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30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Jesus’ law of love yourrneighbboour
Show your love
I show love for others when I ....
Whenever we show kindness, love and pect for others, we are loving God.
Draw a picture of yourself doing something that shows love for God.
Fill in the missing words to complete the story.
An expert in the Jewish law tried to _ _ _ _ Jesus. He asked, “_ _ _ _ _ _ _ , what is the most important _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ? ”
Jesus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ : “Love the Lord your _ _ _ with all your _ _ _ _ _ , soul and mind.” This is the _ _ _ _ _ and most important commandment. The _ _ _ _ _ _ is like it : “ _ _ _ _ your neighbour as much as you love _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ”.
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Most books are available from Fullers, and the
Window on the World Bookshop in Ulverstone. Between the lines
As a March HareDances of personal and cultural transformation
Author: Annie March
Publisher: Walleah Press, walleahpress.com.au
ISBN: 97818770010156 RRP: $29.95
The author of this idiosyncratic offering is a regular contributor
to The Tasmanian Catholic and there are echoes of some of her
columns here, but much more.
Annie compiled this book as gift to herself for her 60th birthday. As soon
as I’d read it once, I wanted to read it again, but – be warned – it is not
to everyone’s taste and it is certainly not an apologia for Catholicism,
although Annie’s relationship with Catholic spirituality and the Church
is integral to the book.
As a March Hare is a very apt title, as you’ll discover from reading Annie’s
frank account of her breakdowns and struggles to overcome mental
illness. It’s personal, it’s erudite and it’s challenging. It mixes letters to the
Guardian Weekly with music and fantasy fiction and autobiography and
general musing about life. Annie’s philosophies and political leanings
are on show, along with her delightful use of language and whimsy.
The graphics are lovely, and given such a diverse mix of material, the
overall design draws everything together quite coherently. There are
four ‘dendrites’ and sections within the dendrites with titles such as:
‘transforming’, ‘ravelling’, ‘birthing’ and ‘harrowing’.
Annie believes she has a ‘vocation for heresy’, so I wouldn’t read this
book if you are afraid of having your beliefs challenged, and yet, for
thinking Catholics, it is worth following Annie’s journey into Catholicism
to read such gems as ‘The Eucharist, distillation of the luminosity
and fragrance and mystery and anguish of all creation, continued to
anchor me at depth.’(p 117) and ‘Catholics are right; the mystery is so
immense that it must be mediated by ritual, made homeopathic in the
sacraments so humans can approach it in safety.’ (p 142)
Annie’s blog asamarchhare.org is a worthy adjunct, with details of
where to purchase the book included.
Annie is a talented writer and this book is her gift, not just to her sixty
year old self, but also to us.
Reviewer: Mary-Anne Johnson
When Angels CookTraditional Italian cooking for body and soul
Author: Sister Germana’s Cucina
Publisher: St Paul’s Publications, (02) 9394 3400
ISBN 9781921032745 RRP: $34.95
Sister Germana is Italy’s Margaret Fulton. Translated into fifteen
languages and with two million copies sold in Italy alone, hers
is an essential bible for lovers of traditional Italian cooking.
The hardcover book is attractive and the recipes are short, simple
and easy to read, accompanied by some mouth-watering photographs.
Sister Germana’s food is simple yet elegant: Frittata verde e insalata
mista (Frittata with a tossed salad); Flan di Cavolfiore (Cauliflower Flan)
and the gracefully named Cozze Benedette dalla Vernaccia (Mussels
‘blessed’ with Vernaccia – a Tuscan white wine).
A highlight on each page is Tips from Sister Germana’s Cucina – often
coupled with a humorous hometruth: “To get children to eat liver you
can tell this story. There were some shy peas who were afraid to be
alone but then the liver arrived, strong and rich in iron ... and the peas
felt safe. So too will all those who eat peas and liver: they will become
strong and courageous” (p 208).
There are also special chapters to suit various readers: When
Grandparents babysit; When Children have no appetite and When
you live alone.
When little angels cook is designed for kids with some adult
supervision. Coccole di Patate (Potato Cuddles) : Gnocchi shells with
tomato and mozzarella cheese are a special treat for four and the
Tramezzini Del Perdono (Pardon sandwich) is an offering from cheeky
children to their parents! Reviewer: Pip Atkinson
SolutionsAn expert in the Jewish law tried to test Jesus. He asked, “Teacher, what is the most important commandment?”
Jesus answered : “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind.”This is the first and most important commandment. The second is like it : “love your neighbour as much as you love yourself”.
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Fr Richard Leonard presents
new to DVD titles. He is the
director of the Australian
Catholic Film Office.
ArthurStarring Russell Brand,
Jennifer Garner, Helen
Mirren, Nick Nolte, and
Luis Guzmán.
Director: Justin Winer.
Rated PG (Mild sexual
references, coarse
language and violence). 110 minutes.
It’s thirty years since Dudley Moore was
the cheerful, alcoholic ne’er-do-well,
Arthur, the New York billionaire. It’s thirty
years since John Gielgud’s Oscar-winning
performance as Arthur’s butler and nanny,
Hobson. No reason not to have an update.
Russell Brand. After making his name as a
comedian, Russell Brand has been appearing
as an actor in films as diverse as Get Him to
the Greek and The Tempest. He gave his voice
for the central Easter Bunny in Hop. Generally,
he sounds the same, a distinctive British
accent and tone that often can get away with
humorous murder. He uses it again in Arthur,
but there is much more in his performance.
In fact, there is quite an amount of nice
romanticism and sentiment in this version
of Arthur. Brand has no difficulty in showing
the irresponsible and indulgent side of
Arthur. But, he is also convincing in showing
an underlying intelligence (which he hasn’t
bothered developing) and the change from
philandering nitwit to falling genuinely in love
as well as showing a kindness to Hobson who
(after her change to Prospera in The Tempest)
is now played by Helen Mirren, Arthur’s
devoted but not exactly no-nonsense nanny.
Arthur’s mother – a steely performance by
Geraldine James – has had little time for her
spendthrift son who embarrasses her no end.
She offers an ultimatum: either he marry the
ambitious Susan (Jennifer Garner) or be cut off
from his inheritance. By chance, he encounters
Naomi (Greta Gerwig), an illegal tour guide
at Grand Central Station and is charmed and
then falls in love. Will he marry and keep the
money? Will Susan’s father (a gnarled Nick
Nolte) threaten him with his electric saw?
Could his mother ever change her mind?
Could Naomi really return Arthur’s love?
Zachary Gordon). Greg is a small but smart,
witty lad who is a talented cartoonist and
aims to be famous one day – but for the time
being is “stuck in middle school with a bunch
of morons”.
It’s his goal to be class favourite, but he
soon finds that his confident assumptions
of his own likeability and superiority are not
necessarily shared by others. His efforts to
connect with those he wants to impress
generally come to nothing, while the kids
who seek him out are those he looks down
on. Ain’t it the way?
Greg decides that his chubby, daggy
best friend from elementary school, Rowley
(Robert Capron), is a hindrance to his
new-found ambitions, which seems to be
confirmed when older students gang up to
deny them lunchtime seats at a table in the
school canteen. Greg even treats Rowley
dreadfully by letting him take the punishment
for one of his misdemeanours.
The movie charts his ups and downs
in dealing with sibling rivalry, making
friendships, girls, loyalty, social pressures,
Russell Brand is always good at one-liners
or toss-away funny and ironic lines and
there are plenty here to keep the audience
amused and on-side. Helen Mirren clearly
enjoys herself being strict, being indulgent,
commenting waspishly on Arthur’s behaviour
– and instructing him how to make tea with
a tea bag. Luis Guzmán is Arthur’s amenable
chauffeur (even to dressing as Batman and
Robin and driving a bat mobile). And the NYPD
shows amazing tolerance and understanding.
Greta Gerwig has the difficult job of
persuading us that Arthur is worth loving
despite his fickle past. She does it very nicely
and makes Naomi a pleasing, ordinarily down-
to-earth character.
And Arthur’s drinking and resolutions.
After a failed AA meeting where Hobson
strongly but gently chides him, he offers non-
stop comment on his progress.
And then, final credits and a new version
of Arthur’s theme that won the Best Song
Oscar way back then.
Reviewer: Fr Peter Malone MSC.
peer acceptance and other issues that will
shape his character, and it’s not revealing too
much to say that he emerges at the end as a
better-equipped human being.
Director Thor Freudenthal, working from
a deft script by Jackie and Jeff Filgo, Gabe
Sachs and Jeff Judah, keeps it gently amusing
throughout and avoids the worst gross
behaviour that bedevils many an American
film about the denizens of schoolyards. He
also gets agreeable, natural performances
from Gordon, Capron and his young cast, and
makes excellent use of author Kinney’s cartoon
creations in short animated sequences that
pepper the movie.
There is one puerile story thread revolving
around a piece of mouldy cheese that middle-
school lore says no student should touch
because it bodes ill of some kind, but on the
whole the film is engaging and satisfying
family entertainment that teaches in a
palatable fashion some significant life lessons.
Reviewer: Jim Murphy
Lights, camera, action!
Diary of aWimpy KidStarring: Zachary
Gordon, Robert
Capron, Rachael
Harris and Devon
Bostick.
Director: Thor
Freudenthal.
Rated PG (infrequent coarse language).
91 minutes.
This amiable, nonabrasive preteen
comedy is based on the book of the
same name by American cartoonist-author
Jeff Kinney which spawned a series of
sequels that have racked up sales of some
28 million.
Its landscape is middle school, the period in
the US education system between elementary
(primary) school and high school, labelled
“the awkward transition between child and
teenager”. The wimpy diarist of the title is
sixth-grader Greg Heffley (played with a
refreshing lack of precocity by 12-year-old
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OBITUARY
We will miss her kindness,
thoughtfulness and
generosity in untold ways.
Mieko Carr was a very special lady
- known, loved and admired
by many.
Her sister Emiko and her niece
Keiko flew out from Japan to care for
her in her final couple of weeks and
then say their tearful farewells. They
returned to Japan and Mieko hung
onto life until the early hours of the
following morning of September 20,
2011. Frequently visited by friends
– fellow residents of Guilford Young
Grove and many of her priest friends,
she slipped peacefully away to meet
her Maker whom she loved and served
so well.
Her 86 years of life, beginning in
Japan in 1925 till the time of her death,
were filled with faith, work and involvement
in many spheres of life and activity.
Mieko kept two large scrap books full of
newspaper clippings and information of her
many adventures in Japan in her early days
and in Tasmania for the last 50 plus years:
Evidence of numerous citations, certificates
of great variety, photos of civic receptions,
meetings with high dignitaries, involvement
with Hobart business people, reference to her
translation work in Court and elsewhere for
the Japanese fishing fleet, her long association
with the Japan/Australia association and the
furthering of the twin cities between Hobart
and Yaizu. Even today there’s a very strong
sister city association.
Photos showed Mieko as a very striking
young Japanese lady ... but there was
something more than physical beauty.
Something beautiful from within was
a hallmark of her whole life. She was so
gracious to all who knew her – close friends
and strangers alike.
In Japan in the post-war years, a young
Tasmanian man called Len (Curly) Carr who
was working as a manager of a Country Club
for American ex-Servicemen met Mieko and
fell in love with her. It was also in Japan that
Len introduced her to the Catholic faith. He
then swept her off her feet and brought her
to live in the distant and very foreign land of
Tasmania. It must have been strenuous for
her away from her own culture, language
and way of life.
Len, apart from many other things, taught
her the love of cricket and right up to recent
times she followed with great interest the
high and lows of the game. She proudly kept
his well worn bat at the door of her unit at
Guilford Young Grove. The bat and some of his
trophies are now on display at the Tasmanian
Cricket Museum located in the Bellerive Oval
complex.
As a translator, her care of and support for
the Japanese tuna fleet as friend and helper to
thousands of seamen was at its height in the
1960s and 1970s. She often appeared at the
courts to come to their aid. It was estimated
that she assisted some 14,000 sailors. On at
least one occasion, Mieko’s translation duties
took her out to the fishing fleet, and it was
said that she had been seen to be climbing
up the rope ladders with the best of them!
There was much more to Mieko than
simply being a demure little lady!
In 1979 she was prominent in the Hobart
celebrations of the Emperor’s birthday
which got coverage in the Japanese papers,
too. In 1980 she
received a certificate
of appreciation from
the Japanese Foreign
Minister for her efforts
to encourage the
Japanese language
here in Tasmania .
Mieko was also invited
to Japan as a guest
of the Japan Tuna
Fisheries.
The St Joseph’s
parish community
in Hobart knew and
loved Mieko from the times long ago
when she, along with fellow parishioner
Jane Cook, provided flowers and
decorations for the church. Her floral
arrangements were meticulously
crafted and especially beautiful. It is
said there are so many photographs of
her arrangements that she could have
published her own book.
Mieko for many years was very
involved with her community at
St Joseph’s. Not only did she adorn the
sanctuary with her stunning flower
arrangements, she was involved in
many ways - in welcoming people to
Sunday Mass and she also valued her
involvement in her Family Group. Mieko
became a much loved friend of the
Passionist community.
Despite having no children herself, kids
seemed to relate well to her and many of these
children and families continued to visit her at
her home at the Grove, where Mieko lived for
the past eleven years. There, as sacristan to
St Canice’s Church and the GYG chapel, she
was a constant until it became too much
for her over the past six months. She was a
companion and friend to all the villa, hostel
and nursing home folk.
She was also a hidden worker at Credo,
the Catholic Bookshop opposite St Joseph’s,
until its closure.
We will miss her kindness, thoughtfulness
and generosity in untold ways.
But more than anything else it was her
Catholic faith and love of God and neighbour
that she is most remembered and revered.
We thank God for the gift of Mieko.
Gracious, generous lady of faith
25.5.1925 – 20.9.2011
Mieko pictured with other Credo volunteers in 1998 – taken at a special Thank you Mass.
There will be a Memorial Service for Mieko at St Joseph’s
Church, Hobart on Saturday, November 5 at 10am, after
which her ashes will be laid to rest next to her beloved Len.
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OBITUARY
[she] stood proudly
by her political
independence.
Darlene Ann Haigh was a woman of
strength, determination and dignity,
and a woman who loved her adopted home,
the City of Hobart. These qualities still being
evident until the very last moments of her
journey in this life when in the early hours
of August 15, 2011, she lost her battle with
breast cancer, surrounded by family.
We were especially blessed to have Fr Quinn,
in the absence of Fr Nichols who had been
visiting Darlene until his departure overseas,
with us on her last Friday night and returning
to be with us all in her final minutes on earth.
It was while saying the Glorious Mysteries of
the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
in the decade named The Assumption, that
Darlene entered Eternal Life, on the Feast of
the Assumption of Our Lady.
Her death on the Feast of Assumption was
very fitting for a woman who throughout
her life held a close affinity with Our Lady.
Throughout her home there
were beautiful figurines and
pictures of Mary and in pride
of place in Darlene’s garden
surrounded by her beloved
roses was a sandstone statue
of Our Lady of Lourdes.
One of her favourite things to listen to in
past years was the Blessed Pope John Paul
II reciting the rosary in Latin. Her cassette
tape broke a few years ago but thankfully for
YouTube we enabled her to still hear him over
the last couple of days of her life. Her affinity
with Pope John Paul II extended to the Marion
cross on her coffin, something which only came
to fruition through the help of Brian Andrews
of the Pugin Foundation.
Many people remember Darlene as an
Alderman of the City of Hobart. Her funeral
at St Mary’s Cathedral, planned herself in the
last few weeks, was a celebration of her public
life. A long-standing friend and colleague,
Roger Viney, gave her eulogy with the Lord
Mayor, providing a moving tribute.
Her achievements as an Alderman are
numerous. As mentioned by Roger and
the Lord Mayor she set in train a more open
decision making process in Council’s planning
committee; she supported Council’s moves
towards greater community services for young
people, including Youth Arc. Darlene was
also chairman of the Tulip Festival and she
also championed the physical extension of
Salamanca Market.
The great love of her life was however
the restoration of Hobart’s historic trams
and the re-establishment of a working
tramway. As the Lord Mayor said: ‘she
would travel absolutely anywhere to
recover lost pieces of our historic trams.
I know, because she would ring me and ask
if I was up for a road trip to Mt Seymour near
Oatlands to look at Tram No 39, or to go with
her to look at tram poles in various back yards
in New Town!
I also remember many phone calls to home
for assistance on everyday matters. While she
struggled in the last few months, she treated
every request as important and put all her
efforts into resolving the problem no matter
how small or big. She always remained firm
to her beliefs of what was the right or wrong
thing and as recognised by many people,
stood proudly by her political independence.
The Lord Mayor recognised in his tribute that
“A feisty woman who spared no one when
campaigning for a better deal”, while Roger
reminded us that while she could be described
as a “little prickly” you always got a straight
answer and never left you
wondering.
In her final few months,
when defiantly she would
never publicly admit that her
health was failing, she would
rest at home all week so that she still could
attend Council meetings.
We also remember the Darlene of family.
Darlene (or Darla as she was known) was born
into a family of nine, with seven sisters and one
brother. Educated at Sacred Heart Convent
School in Ulverstone, she left school to work
with her older sister Molly before moving to
Hobart in 1961. She then met and married
Tony Haigh at St Mary’s
Cathedral in 1963.
One of my aunts at
her burial in Ulverstone
remembered with love
the birth of Darlene’s
three daughters, Amanda,
Joanne and Emma (me)
and the times together
with Tony they spent
staying with Nanny Amy
and Pop Ken over holidays and spending time
with the extended family. Of one memory of
Darlene and Tony with Aunty Chrissie and
Darrell floundering near Dolphin Sands, Tony
and Darrell had the correct spears but Darlene
and Chrissie successfully used toasting forks!
She provided love, support and strength for
Tony and we three girls throughout the course
of their marriage and when Tony became an
Alderman of the City of Hobart in 1972 was by
his side through all the success and challenges.
It is fair to say that after the death of Tony
in 1986, she redefined herself. Left with the
challenge of seeing my sister Joanne through
to adulthood, supporting my eldest sister
Amanda, who was 21 at the time and bringing
me up as a single parent, her strength and
determination only increased. As a married
woman and mother myself, it is only now that I
can truly understand what it would have taken.
As my sister Joanne and her husband
Daniel had children she became a loving and
loved ‘Narnie’ to Anna, Alex and Gina. They
all remember with great fondness how, if they
were home sick from school, she would run out
at lunch with a pie and vanilla slice to help them
feel better! Indeed an excessive amount of
food at any family gathering was her hallmark.
After birthdays, Christmas, Easter lunch there
were enough leftovers of pavlova and trifle
(something that the grandchildren are always
telling us we just can’t
replicate) for breakfast,
lunch and dinner the next
day!
I h ave s o m a ny
personal memories of her
that I couldn’t possible
begin to tell them; of
sides that not everyone
was privilege to witness.
My defining memory is of
strength in the face of considerable adversity.
In 2007 when challenged by a second bout of
breast cancer, constant chemotherapy, a major
operation and a major stroke she fought on
even in the face of persecution by others. She
survived that for another four years and was
there to meet her fourth grandchild, Chloe,
who is now old enough to remember her.
Darlene was a shining light and while her
substantial presence in our lives will never be
filled, particularly for her family, we know that
she is now safe in God’s hands.
A shining light safe in God’s hands
30.8.1940 – 15.8.2011
[As] ‘Narnie’ to Anna,
Alex and Gina ... (if they
were home sick) she
would take them a pie
and vanilla slice to help
them feel better!
By Darlene’s daughter, Emma Riley.
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In August this year, two much-loved brothers, from a large family
of ten children, were lovingly farewelled by their respective
families.
Jack and Terry O’Rourke grew up in Cygnet and were the sons
of Aileen (Benson) and Hilary O’Rourke. They loved life in Cygnet
and always fondly recalled their childhoods, even though it was the
Depression. They had a firm grounding in the Catholic faith from
their parents, which guided and shaped their lives.
Jack O’Rourke 22.6.1925 – 2.8.2011
Terry O’Rourke 27.9.1929 – 6.8.2011
Jack was born in 1925, the first son of Hilary and Aileen. Jack would
regale his own children with adventurous stories of Cygnet life: fruit
picking over the summer, dogs, horses, cows, ducks, being chased by
neighbouring bulls, his mother’s fear of both snakes and swimming.
Central to these stories was the constant theme of family prayer and
the church.
Jack won a bursary to attend St Virgil’s College in 1938. He proved to
be a great student who found it easy to learn and study. His prowess at
football came to the fore at school where he excelled in this endeavour.
Upon leaving school he had brief employment at EZ working and
training in chemistry, a short interlude as teacher monitor but found
neither to his liking. Answering ‘the call’, he enrolled in and attended the
seminary in Werribee. He loved his time there and made life-long friends.
Returning to Tasmania Jack focused on football and family. He played
in the historic Cygnet team in 1947 which won all of its matches that
year as well as challenge matches with premiers from other Leagues
in the State. He went on to play for North Hobart for several years,
winning the Best and Fairest in 1949.
Jack met and married Margaret Lillian Wickham when she was on
a working holiday in Cygnet and they were devoted to each other
for the next 45 years. Jack and Margaret moved to Queenstown to
coach football and work in the mine office. This was the pinnacle of
his football career. He loved hearing the stories of ex-teammates in
later years about how he terrorised the opposition and led his teams
to historic and famous victories.
In 1958 Jack brought his family to Ulverstone where he worked for
International Canners (now Simplot). His football career continued as
coach of the Under 19s who managed to win seven premierships in a
row. He ended his involvement as president of the club in the 1980s.
In the late 1960s Jack started his own business selling real estate
which proved very successful. He opened two offices in Devonport and
Ulverstone in partnership with George Waterhouse, and later Dennis
Leary and Jim Woodhouse.
In his later life he loved golf and fishing and shared these passions
with long-time friend Tony Bellchambers. He was passionate about
his garden and shared the joy with his family. He worked tirelessly for
the Sacred Heart Parish in Ulverstone and lived his faith by attending
every Mass possible, joining the Knights of the Southern Cross, being
a member of the Parish Council, and president of the local St Vincent
de Paul Society. He took Communion to the sick and elderly and was
a friend to everyone.
Primarily, he was a family man. He raised his family in partnership
with Margaret, loving and supporting them with all of their ambitions
and passions particularly education and sport. He was a great umpire,
referee, tutor, coach, and chauffeur.
Jack lived alone for nineteen years after Margaret died. He loved his
family and they loved him. He is survived by his sons, Robert and John
and daughters Aileen, Marian, and Margaret, twelve grandchildren and
twelve great grandchildren. He is sadly missed.
Terry was born in 1929, the fifth of Hilary and Aileen’s ten children.
Terry was taught by the Sisters of St Joseph at the local Catholic primary
school, and numbered many of them as his friends throughout his life.
In 1942, a bursary saw Terry begin boarding at St Virgil’s College. He
made lifelong friends among the boarders and remained associated
with St Virgil’s right through his life as an active member of the Old
Virgilians Association. It was at St Virgil’s that Terry developed his skills
as a footballer, eventually playing in the Tasmanian Amateurs and
coaching many school teams and local clubs as a young man.
Following two years at the ANM factory at Boyer, Terry went to
university and so embarked on the route that would see him become
a teacher in 1953 and take him all around the state as teacher and later
vice principal and principal of many government high schools. His first
posting saw him back in his home town at Cygnet Area School, then to
Huonville High and, shortly after, King Island High. In 1958 he began
his long association with Burnie when he was appointed to Parklands
High. Taroona and George Town postings followed before he was
promoted to Vice Principal at Huonville High in 1967.
There, Terry met a young art teacher, Barbara Williams, from
Launceston and at the end of that year they married in the Church of
Apostles. They went on to have five daughters: Angela, Julia, Rosemary,
Melissa and Fiona; bringing them up in Huonville, then Queenstown in
1973, where Terry was appointed Principal and from 1975 onwards, their
Turner’s Beach home. Terry was back working in Burnie as Principal of
Burnie High in 1975, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. He
always held the Burnie community closely in his heart. Many members
of his own family, including his mother, were now living on the North
-West Coast. Terry also forged strong links with his children’s schools:
Sacred Heart Convent School in Ulverstone, and Marist Regional
College in Burnie.
Terry was a deeply religious man, devoted to the Mass and the
rosary. He was an active parishioner in the Ulverstone Sacred Heart
Parish (now part of the Mersey Leven Parish) for over 35 years and for
many years Barbara and Terry volunteered as mentors in the FOCCUS
Engaged Couples Program.
Terry was a great recorder of life’s connections. He wrote daily in
his diary, he had been composing his memoirs for his children and
his last big achievement was to self-publish the book Recollections of
a Centenarian, honouring the stories of his mother Aileen, who was
such a influence on his life.
Terry loved people, and his family and friends remember with love
and affection, his detailed conversations, his loyal interest in others, his
recording and nourishing of relationships, his faithful correspondence
and his prodigious memory of people, which allowed him to weave
so many connections.
Terry was farewelled at Sacred Heart Church, Ulverstone with a
concelebrated Mass on August 11, just a few days after the funeral of
his beloved brother Jack.
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