The Common Good

Hi Tranmere Community.
Today I have been distracted from my usual routine.
I have just a few links, but I feel that they are all very significant in the context of Catholic Social Teaching. That means that the focus is on The Common Good and Human Dignity.

Sursum Corda!

Ø  Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century is a book that features twenty-one saints who walked the earth in the 20^th century and were canonized in the 21^st century.  Read about the first radical saint

Ø  My sister Annie was Sister of St Joseph in the peer group of Sr Michele, so we have always been very interested in her wonderful work supporting South Australia’s Aboriginal people. The issue of the proposed Nuclear Waste Dump near Kimba has occupied vast amounts of their time and energy.

Michele Madigan is a Sister of St Joseph who has spent over 40 years working with Aboriginal people in remote areas of SA, in Adelaide and in country SA. Her work has included advocacy and support for senior Aboriginal women of Coober Pedy in their successful 1998-2004 campaign against the proposed national radioactive dump.

The excellent Catholic publication Eureka Street features a progress report  from Sr Michele on the proposed Nuclear Waste Dump.

Ø  Justice, dignity not just ‘privilege of the rich.  Time and time again we learn about the assumed privilege of the rich and powerful, as we have seen this month in our home state.
More detailed report here

So I have offered you some sources that are perhaps challenging and uncomfortable, but never forget that it is impossible to be a comfortable Christian!

The Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’.

·         Next Sunday our Offertory hymn is We Come To Your Feast– Perhaps somewhat unfamiliar as a congregational hymn. So have a practice singalong!

·         I have been focussing on the Slavonic version of The Lord’s Prayer during the last few weeks. It is always sung so beautifully. Here is a Russian melody sung in English – still beautiful, but much shorter. Enjoy!!

·        We Shall Overcome!

Boredom busters

ü  Exercising is very, very good for you!