Just a few thoughts
· You know doubt have picked up my interest in
what Fr Frank Brennan has to say.
I often link his homilies and articles. I respect his opinion.
About the USA elections he wrote “Most of
those who voted for President Trump do not engage in his objectionable antics,
nor do they approve of them. Despite
Trump’s antics and despite 10 million COVID cases, they think he acts
ultimately in their interests, many of them feeling disempowered by the elites.”
In Australia many people also feel that our government is not listening to
their problems. Privileged elitism is in charge it seems, when government
should be about servicing the common good. – Servant Leadership is desperately
needed.
· Being NAIDOC Week we contemplate the problems
our First Peoples face in this modern world. For decades they have implored
governments to allow them to make decisions in their own local communities. But
always governments have insisted that they know better - with dismal results.
Reflection
The
Signs Of The Times
Ø Going
back to today’s Gospel - While there may
not be any real lepers in our own society, today is an occasion for us to
reflect on who could be regarded as lepers, outsiders, outcasts, and
untouchables among us at the present time. And to ask whether I personally
treat any person as an outsider in my home, in my work, in other places where I
meet people. Such exclusion is totally contrary to what we celebrate in the Eucharist.
The
Parish Choir members are saying ‘Hello’
¯ One of the
songs by indigenous people that had a real impact was by Archie Roach - Took The Children Away
¯ Some other
songs by our indigenous people that have made an impact can be found here
Bits
& Pieces
v This Day – St
Leo the Great; World
Science Day for Peace and Development; 1995:
Execution of nine Nigerian environmentalists and human rights activists.
v 1918 - Today is Remembrance
Day, marking the end of World War 1, in 1918.
v
1908 - Sir Hans Heysen
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