World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation

Just a few thoughts

·        "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."  --  Benjamin Franklin

ü Today’s gospel - Jesus stepped into Peter’s boat, and he taught from there.

ü From Fr Richard Rohr:
Jesus is described as the light of the world in John 8:12, Jesus also describes us as having that same light. He says, “You are the light of the world” in Matthew 5:14. . . .

That light is not something you necessarily see; it is something that allows you to see other things. The Universal Christ helps us to see that we can follow the embodied Jesus, accept the suffering fact that “in this life, you will have trouble” [John 16:33], [while also] knowing that all creation is moving and evolving toward more diversity, creativity, and wholeness

The Signs Of The Times

Ø Complaining and blaming others is a waste of time; the way to defeat evil is to conquer it first within our own hearts.  --  Pope Francis

Ø Our moral duty towards Afghan refugees

Ø The Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform held its second Convocation on 26 August, just five weeks before the church begins its historic Plenary Council summit meeting.

The presentations reflect and echo many of the points made by ACCCR, which has stated that the Plenary Council agenda ‘offers limited scope for necessary and wide-ranging reform and renewal’, in part because it ‘suggests an unrealistic picture of our Church with little recognition of its current perilous state’.

Among the proposals ACCCR has advocated for the Plenary Council are:

• o   Endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart
• o   Require Inclusive Language to be in all church liturgies
• o   Pursue with the Holy See the ordination to the priesthood of women and married men
• o   Adopt Laudato Si as a blueprint for leadership and action
• o   Legislate for the establishment of Diocesan Pastoral Councils in each diocese and Parish Pastoral Councils in each parish
• o   Resolve that the Australian bishops fund social housing initiatives
• o   Affirm the role of personal conscience
• o   Adopt, as a core principle, engagement in social action on behalf of marginalised and vulnerable people as an authentic expression of faith on a par with regular Mass attendance

I hope to be able to bring summaries of the varies speakers soon.

Musical Reflection

¯ Touch the Earth Lightly

¯ Let All Things Now Living

¯ Sing Out, Earth and Skies!

¯ All creatures of our God and King