BISHOP JOYCE’S SERMON

Press, Volume C, Issue 29525, 29 May 1961, Page 12

BISHOP JOYCE’S SERMON

Christian Attitude To Progress

The organisers of the Commonwealth technical training week in Christchurch were to be congratulated for their practical approach to the week by asking the blessing of God in their undertaking, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (the Most Rev. E. M. Joyce) said in his sermon at Solemn High Mass in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament yesterday. The observance of the week “must serve to deepen man’s appreciation of the dignity of work and deepen also a mutual sense of responsibility between employer and employee,” Bishop Joyce said.

Thanks were due to God for giving man the ability to achieve the marvellous technical progress of this age. he said. The Christian attitude, however, must not be one pf blind welcome to this progress.

“Technology must not be allowed to reduce man to slavery.” said Bishop Joyce “It must be so controlled that it serves the normal man, who subordinates his earthly life to the laws of God and uses al] things in accord with this.

“The dangers of materia] enrichment without any accompanying spiritual enrichment are very great. The search for profit must not be regarded as more important than raising the standard of life” Bishop Joyce appealed to all parents to co-operate with the aims of the week by doing all in their power to persuade their boys and girl? to resist the high wages offered at an early age for unskilled labour. "Today.’’ he said, “the temptation of the high wage is causing many of those leaving school to lose opportunities to be trained in skills that could greatly benefit their own future and that of New Zealand.

"It is a wonderfully rewarding thtog for young men and women, even at the cost of a smaller initial wage to learn thoroughly and understand the media of their trade or profession and so rise step by step as their capabilities and sense of resnonsibilitv increase. In this way. technical training car provide a valuable discipline that can help to form and happier New Zealanders.”

Controversy Over Basketball Team (N.2 Press Association) HASTINGS. May 28. “It is questionable if there will be another tour by the Latter Day Saints basketball team after this controversy,” the president of the New Zealand South Mission of the Latter Day Saints Church, Wellington (Mr Alexander Anderson) said in Hastings today. The New Zealand Basketball Council has refused permission to local association? to play the Latter Day Saints unless its tour programme—containing churen propaganda—is withdrawn.

Maddren, past-president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association. The Disabled Servicemen's League workshop at 42 Riccarton road will be open to the public daily this week from 10.30 a m. to 3.30 p.m. The Royal New Zealand Air Force No. 2 Trade Training School. Wigram, will be open on Thursday, June 1. from 10 a.m. to noon. 1 p.m to 5 p.m., and 6.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Training sessions of St. John Ambulance Brigade cadets and senior member’ will be open to the public at the brigade headquarters. Peterborough street, on Thursday, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Friday, June 2, the Christchurch Technical College will be open from 1.30 ■to 4 p.m.

The Schoo! of Engineering of the University of Canterbury will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 3.