Just a few thoughts
·
"The thing that is really hard, and really
amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming
yourself." -- Anna Quindlen
·
May all the young people attending World Youth
Day in Lisbon this week encourage one another to follow Jesus ever more
closely.
Reflections
ü Sunday reflection -- The
Pearl of Great Price and Its Cost
Ø The
Adelaide Archdiocese’s new vision and mission statements
Ø The
Australian Constitution is the only one in the world where the document, under
a slightly different name, was adopted sight unseen by a direct vote of all
citizens – which meant all non-Indigenous males, except in South Australia and
Western Australia, where women were able to vote.
The unfamiliar practice of a referendum could have been described as “risky”,
“unknown”, “divisive” and “permanent”. Nobody had any experience of a
referendum or a federation.
The document the colonists voted
for makes no reference to democracy, democratic practice or the system of
responsible government. -- The
constitution v the Voice