Be Alert and Be Careful

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34 active C-Virus cases yesterday – a positive sign. It could have been so much higher.
Remember that to be safe the best things to do are always:

1.      Stay Home!

2.      Wash Hands Thoroughly Frequently

3.      Cover Your Coughs

4.      If you feel unwell and think you have symptoms of COVID-19, seek medical advice and get tested.

5.      If you really have to go out to shop or whatever, keep your distance from other people and wear a mask.

Check for details here:

Ø  What you need to know about coronavirus (COVID-19)

Ø  Latest Advice

 Mass on Sunday – Limited to 100 people. No news on the parish website yet. Please check with the parish office about the arrangements.   Telephone: 8431 6932

Reflection

ü  Good News

ü  Living Space

ü  The Kingdom Is like a Mustard Seed  - Fr Richard Rohr

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’

¯ The kingdom of God is justice and joy

¯ Help Me Lord 

¯ I Will Be With You

Bits & Pieces

v  1933 - Christmas Pageant

v  1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull  Unam sanctam, claiming spiritual supremacy for the papacy.

COVID-19 Alert

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In Case You Missed It:-
The C-Virus has escaped back into the community!
Remember that to be safe the best things to do are always:

1.       Stay Home!

2.       Wash Hands Thoroughly Frequently

3.       Cover Your Coughs

4.       If you feel unwell and think you have symptoms of COVID-19, seek medical advice and get tested.

5.       If you really have to go out to shop or whatever, keep your distance from other people and wear a mask.

Check for details here:

Ø  What you need to know about coronavirus (COVID-19)

Ø  Latest Advice

 

ü  Let us pray that the whole community will work together to beat this outbreak

ü  Let us pray for the people at the frontline who are trying to keep us safe.

ü  Let us pray that the victims will all recover their good health.

Reflection

V  Living Space

V  Good News

V  The Reign of God – Fr Richard Rohr

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’

¯ I Will Be With You

¯ The Kingdom of God - Taizé

¯ Gurrumul - 'Jesu'

 

"Receive your sight; your faith has saved you."

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·         Was NAIDOC Week celebrated in our parish last week?

·         During the week, the Vatican released the long awaited 450 page report on Theodore McCarrick who was a cardinal and one-time archbishop of Washington.
Many in the Church knew he was involved in sexually abuse.
Pope John Paul II dismissed the concerns and appointed him as bishop anyway. Then he appointed him as a cardinal. McCarrick was such an insider that his supporters were able to circumvent the usual checks and balances.
The findings of the McCarrick report are devastating. Our leaders like Pope John Paul II failed to acknowledge and act on his abusive activity.

Reflection

ü  Living Space

ü  God, the Lover of Life – Fr Richard Rohr

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Failings revealed in damning McCarrick report

Ø  McCarrick report shows Vatican failed to take abuse seriously

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’

¯ Ave Maria – Nigerian language

¯ The Great Bell Chant (The End Of Suffering)

Bits & Pieces

v  International Day of Tolerance

v  1920 - Colin Thiele, Australian writer and author of 'Storm Boy', is born.

v  1840 - New Zealand becomes a separate colony, no longer administered by New South Wales.

 

How did you use the gifts and talents I gave you?

Reflection

ü  Today’s Readings

ü  Homily by Fr Frank Brennan

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  CathNews - Pope renews commitment to fight abuse

Ø  Dr Charles Perkins Memorial Oration

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’

¯ NAIDOC Week concluded yesterday. I would like to invite you to watch and listen to a Concert given in October this year in the Sydney Opera House by Spinifex Gum and more

Bits & Pieces

v  1872 - Sir Charles Todd

v  1838 - The perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre in New South Wales are acquitted.

 

The more we pray, the closer we come to God.

My apologies for the lateness of this post. We have just arrived back from a few days in Wallaroo.

Reflection

ü  Living Space

ü  Revolutionary Love

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  NAIDOC Week in the Vatican

Ø  A prayer from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) Leadership Gathering-1995

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’

¯ Gurrumul Yunupingu

¯ William Barton

¯ Stiff Gins

¯ Spinifex Gum

 

Bits & Pieces

v  1843  - Adam Lindsay Gordon

v  1840 – Birth of Claude Monet

v  1868 - Steele Rudd, Australian journalist and author of "On Our Selection", is born.

 

By living continuously and consciously in the presence of God, in the ever-present NOW, we are not going to be caught by surprise.

 

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·         Alright then, social media has exposed it! Yep, Daisy turned 80 yesterday!

·         From Australian Catholics - There is a dichotomy to the Catholic Church. On one hand the Church has numerous rules and traditions, on the other it celebrates the biggest rule breaker of all – Jesus.
It was love for God and love for neighbour that prompted Jesus' actions.

Reflection

ü  Living Space

ü  A Love Ethic  – Fr Richard Rohr

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’

NAIDOC Week - The following 3 songs are composed and sung by Torres Strait Islands Councillor Dolly McGaughey. – Audio only

¯ To You O Lord

¯ We Bow In Your Name

¯ Because He Is God

Bits & Pieces

1838 – Parsee wreck

1850 - Novelist and poet, Robert Louis Stevenson, is born.

“The kingdom of God is among you."

Reflection

ü  Living Space

ü  Love Is Our Deepest Identity – Fr Richard Rohr

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’

 NAIDOC Week

¯Special Treatment - Paul Kelly

¯ Here is the story of Percy Mumbulla - Aboriginal Elder and Mystic
Peter Kearney sings of Percy Mumbulla

Bits & Pieces

v  1991 -  Dili Massacre, Timor-Leste: more than 271 people killed

v  Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered around the world for his pioneering teachings on mindfulness, global ethics and peace.
“We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”