The Demons

Just a few thoughts

·         Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday Resources

·         For the homeless facing the hardships of winter, that they will be given the shelter and sustenance they need.  --  Let us pray to the Lord.

Reflection.

ü Does this strange story have any relevance to your life and mine?

ü Saints Peter and Paul  --  Fr Richard Leonard

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Australians want Indigenous recognition  --  CathNews

Ø  Church continues fight for a fair minimum wage

Musical Reflection

¯ Companions On The Journey

¯ God of Wonders

Bits & Pieces

v  1917   German schools closed

 

Poor Peter!

Just a few thoughts

·         So we are back into a period of Covid restrictions. The clear message is Keep your distance!!; Get vaccinated!!

·         For the people of impoverished nations, that they will receive a just and timely allocation of COVID vaccines.  --  Let us pray to the Lord.

Reflection.

ü If the Church is to remain relevant, if it is to continue speaking in a meaningful way to rapidly changing world, if it is to keep up with the new knowledge and ideas which change our ways of understanding the world in which we live, it has to renew itself constantly

ü Peter was highly changeable, and a very living being.

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  A sharp challenge  --  Fr Andrew Hamilton

Ø  The Shadow in Christianity  --  Fr Richard Rohr

Musical Reflection

¯ Blest Are You Lord, God of All Creation

¯ Do Not Be Afraid

Bits & Pieces

v  1869   St Peter's Cathedral

The call of Jesus still involves a total commitment.

Just a few thoughts

·         So good to see the video about the Diocesan Assembly at Mass yesterday. But no follow-up promotion of a parish initiative. We have more than a month to discuss and present a parish response to the invitation.

·         For spiritual leaders around the world, that they inspire many to seek the wisdom that brings true peace of heart.  --  Let us pray to the Lord

Reflection.

ü Sunday Homily- Fr Frank Brennan

ü Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly

ü What Is Love Asking Of Me Now?  --  Fr Ron Rolheiser

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  The upholding of human rights in Australia did not improve last year  --  CathNews

Musical Reflection

¯ Let All the Peoples Praise You

¯ Come as You Are

Bits & Pieces

¯ ‘I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do’ -a voter speaking to a politician

Do not fear, only believe.

Just a few thoughts

·         For regional and remote communities, that they will have access to the services they need to thrive.   Let us pray to the Lord.

·         Your voice is important.

·         Your input matters!

Reflection.

ü Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly

ü Living the Shadow  --  Fr Richard Rohr

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  The inhumane logic of Australia’s refugee deterrence policy  --  Fr Andrew Hamilton

Ø  Embracing new arrivals helps Australia evolve  --  Eureka Street

Musical Reflection

¯ Precious Lord, Take My Hand

¯ Pan de Vida (Bread of Life)

¯ Lord You Give The Great Commission

Bits & Pieces

v  1951 – Birthdate of Mary Patricia McAleese; née Leneghan is an Irish politician who served as the eighth President of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. She is a Catholic academic and author and holds a licentiate and doctorate in Canon law.

Let it be done for you according to your faith.

Just a few thoughts

·         There is quite a lot of information that seeks your responses. So please take your time to reflect and respond.

·         Your voice is important.

·         Your input matters!

·         For state and federal public servants, that they will fulfil their responsibilities with integrity, courage and expertise.  --  Let us pray to the Lord.

Reflection.

ü The faith that Jesus expects is not an acceptance of religious doctrines. It is rather an act of total trust and surrender by which people commit themselves to the power of God – in this case, the power of God in Jesus

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Sowers of Hope

Musical Reflection

¯ Tend the Ground

¯ Christ in Me Arise

Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him

 

Just a few thoughts

·        Day of the Seafarer

·        For seafarers around the world, that their right to safe working conditions and just remuneration will be respected.  --  Let us pray to the Lord.

·        Last night I joined a Zoom meeting organised by the ‘SA Catholics For An Evolving Church’. There were 43+ people attending. The theme of the meeting was ‘Synodality and The Adelaide Diocesan Assembly’. I found it very interesting, and I can see that the Adelaide Diocese has a big challenge ahead in order to hear the voices of the “people of God”. I wish that our parish had been preparing us for this months ago.

Reflection.

·        Good News

·        Living Space

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Climb every mountain  --  Columban Media

Ø  Keeping refugee advocacy alive  --  Eureka Street

Musical Reflection

¯ Glory to God

¯ Stay with Us, O Lord

¯ 10,000 Reasons

Bits & Pieces

v  1947 - Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl was first published, appearing in the Netherlands under the title Het Achterhuis (“The Secret Annex”); it became a classic of war literature.

v  1867   The Torrens Lake

The Birth of John The Baptist

Just a few thoughts

·         Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. - Serbian Proverb

·         For the church in Australia, that dioceses holding local synods this year will be blessed by the fire of the Spirit and the light of God’s word.  --  Let us pray to the Lord.

Reflection.

ü Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Helping churches navigate moral disagreement  --  CathNews

Ø  Diocesan Assembly planning under way

Ø  SA Catholics For An Evolving Church

Musical Reflection

¯ On Jordan's Bank

¯ Joyful, Joyful

¯ This Is My Song

Bits & Pieces

v  1870 - Adam Lindsay Gordon - Australian author

1887   Patawalonga gates

Jesus is calling on us today to be really genuine people.

·         For all displaced persons and refugees, that the observance of World Refugee Week will spur nations to take collective action to address their plight.  --  Let us pray to the Lord.

·         Today we celebrate the UN-designated Public Service Day, but public service also refers to an attitude that looks toward the good of society.  The two meanings of public service

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Reflection.

ü Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly

ü Embracing Shadow and Light – Fr Richard Rohr

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  UN says Church must do more to stop abuse  --  CathNews

Ø  The Church should learn from democracy’s spirit of equality and participation  --  Eureka Street

Musical Reflection

¯ For the Beauty of the Earth

¯ Lay your hands gently upon us

Bits & Pieces

v  1866   Oil drilling on the Coorong

v  1995 - Death of Jonas Salk; an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximise its global distribution.

In everything do to others as you would have them do to you.

Just a few thoughts

·        What a lovely sunny day we enjoyed yesterday, the “shortest day” of the year.

·        We all know that our bishops, as a leadership group, have lost their credibility as moral authotity in Australia since the Royal Commission, but it was still great to note that Bishop McCarthy asks PM to return Tamil family to Biloela

·        For all people on earth, that the whole human family will learn to respect and live in harmony with the world of nature.  --  Let us pray to the Lord.

Reflection.

ü Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly

ü Praying through Pain

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Refugee Week runs from Sunday 20 June to Saturday 26 June

Ø  A Eucharistic Prayer – Fr Ron Rolheiser

Musical Reflection

¯ Beautiful Savior

¯ How Can I Keep From Singing

Bits & Pieces

v  1878   Sir John Cleland

v  1633 - Accused of heresy by the Inquisition, Galileo was forced to recant his support of the Copernican system, which held that the Sun was the centre of the solar system.

v  1995 – Death of Yves Congar, French Dominican priest who was widely recognised in his lifetime as one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.

 

Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.

Just a few thoughts

·        At Sunday Mass I learnt that on Tuesday evening a Youth Consultation will be taking place at Hectorville Parish in preparation for the Diocesan Youth Assembly planned in August. Why such short notice?
We were not told if any parish youth representatives have been elected/ selected/ volunteered for this Consultation. Why not?
As far as I know nothing has happened in our parish to prepare for this Youth Assembly nor the General Diocesan Assembly in preparation for the Plenary Council. Why not?

·        Great work from parishioner Sue W. in presenting the great story about the artist Voitre Marek and his connection to our parish church. Check it out here
This story should be made part of our parish website.

Reflection.

ü Sunday Homily - Fr Frank Brennan

ü To judge others is to trim them to your own measure.

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  The German Catholic Church has conducted a Synodal Plenary Council. It seems to have run into trouble because it ignored or did not recognise the limitations of its power/influence. The Australian Plenary Council also seems already to have struck the same problem during its current “listening” stage.
Synodal way has 'birth defect' says top cardinal

Musical Reflection

¯ Beautiful Savior

¯ How Can I Keep From Singing

¯ Together As One  --  Audio track and Lyrics

Bits & Pieces

v  1908 – Death of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Composer. Here are 2 versions of a short popular piece of his music: Piece version 1 and Version 2

v  1948 – Birth of Lionel Rose. I hate the brutal violence of boxing, but we all loved Lionel Rose.

"Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"

Just a few thoughts

·        Because of the coronavirus, Pope Francis gave his extraordinary blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world) in an empty St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 27, 2020. He said:

 Like the disciples in the Gospel we were caught off guard by an unexpected, turbulent storm. We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other. On this boat … are all of us. Just like those disciples, who spoke anxiously with one voice, saying “we are perishing” (v. 38), so we too have realized that we cannot go on thinking of ourselves, but only together can we do this.

Reflection.

ü Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly

ü The Church then is like a small, fragile boat in a huge and often hostile world. Sometimes storms broke out and threatens the boat-Church. The early – and also the subsequent – Church suffered many persecutions and movements determined to wipe it out.

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  What does a more discerning media look like?  I like the message of this Eureka Street Ad.

Ø  Refugee Week

Musical Reflection

¯ I, The Lord Of Sea And Sky

¯ Beautiful Savior

¯ Te Deum  --  Charpentier

Bits & Pieces

v  1866  --  Adelaide Town Hall

v  Xanana Gusmão  --  President Of Timor-Leste

Are we often so busy regretting the past or worrying about the future that we never get to enjoy life?

Just a few thoughts

·         Yesterday I referred to Catholic Social Teaching and its relevance in the world that the Church faces today.
Catholic Social Teaching is based on Gospel values. The fundamental teachings focus on 4 essential values:- Human Dignity; The Common Good; Subsidiarity; and Solidarity.

Reflection.

ü "Even though you are trembling, take the path of faith."

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Agenda of Plenary Council Assemblies calls for missionary, Christ-centred Church

Ø  Plenary Council Agenda

Musical Reflection

¯ Eagle's Wings

¯ Fly Like a Bird

Bits & Pieces

v  1969:  Affirmation by Arbitration Commission of the principle of equal pay for women performing equal work   [52 years later and women are still seeking wage justice!]

v  1838 - Sir George Kingston

There is nothing so bad for your eyesight as wealth.

Just a few thoughts

·         This blog project has made me so much more aware of Gospel Values and how they relate to life today.
I am convinced that the life of the Catholic Church today should be centred more around Catholic Social Teaching then ancient traditions modified into dogmas and set in concrete.
Tradition is not fixed. It grows and develops in the context of life/culture of the day – The Signs Of The Times!

Reflection.

ü This reflection by Fr Richard Leonard is amusing. It promotes an interstate fundraising project, but it has much to say apart from that .

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  Who writes our country’s history?  Such an important question.
Unsettled – seeing First Nations histories represented in the Australian Museum

Ø  A must read article - Moral Bankruptcy and Cruelty in the Treatment of the Biloela Family.

Musical Reflection

¯ Open My Eyes

¯ Open My Eyes That I May See

Bits & Pieces

v  1927   Angorichina Hostel

v  1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.