PUBLISHED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH 120 OBAN ROAD, NORTH RINGWOOD 3134. PHONE 9876 3717 - SCHOOL 9876 1103 TO INFORM, TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND COMMUNICATION VOL 32, NO. 3 - SEPTEMBER 2017 RENOVATION @ HOLY SPIRIT- it’s DIVINE! Dear all committed to the Divine Renovation hospitality culture of the parish. Not to with anybody & everybody. Especially Project, alarm any newcomers, but to create a highly look out for newcomers and /or visible, tangible and authentic welcoming intentionally say hello to an existing I hope you and yours are well and coping atmosphere that cannot go unnoticed or parishioner that you don’t know very well. with the variances of our Melbourne experienced by them. winter. Thank you so much for your • Return your Name Tag to the stand. continued prayerful and active support So far we have about 80 people on the DR • Repeat this action every time you come of the Divine Renovation initiative. As has email list, with an average of 20 – 25 per to mass from now on! been communicated in THE WORD recently, mass time. With that many of us engaged Let our existing community and those who much has been happening and moving in the steps below, I’m sure we can achieve visit see clearly that we are intentionally forward behind the scenes and changes this aim. building a more meaningful community by are beginning to emerge outwardly. The Sign up roster sheets will be available at the giving active witness to all who join us each obvious one being the embracing of name back of the church soon. Below is an outline weekend. tag wearing at weekend masses. This of the extra elements… practice continues to grow with new names being added to the board each week. Thank • Participate at the mass of your choice. you to one and all for your enthusiasm and (everyone) co-operation so far. The challenge now is to • Get to mass 10 mins early (everyone) keep the momentum going and to entrench • Put on your Name Tag (everyone) the practice as the norm not a novelty. Don’t • Assist with name tag finding either worry if you wear your name tag home, side of the board (2 people) just have it ready to wear back next week. • Welcomer outside at the top of the Also, we are currently exploring options for steps – weather permitting (1 person) Finally, there will meetings in the coming a more permanent user friendly name tag • Welcomer at either side of the entrance weeks regarding the follow-up on display - watch that space. door giving out the WORD (2 people) expressions of interest in the renewal of • Welcomers throughout the congregation various areas of Parish life. Further to this Divine Renovation warm (everyone else) welcomers initiative, we hope to also Blessings, • Stay for 20 minutes after mass for a intentionally develop other elements to Mary (Ryan) - Chairperson cuppa and a chat (everyone) to mingle maintain and imbed this action into the Divine Renovation Leadership Team

Find it hard to get a parking spot at the fete? Happy Fathers Day Not sure where to park?

Today we with all of our Fathers, and Father figures • Running 10am til 5pm here with us today , and all fathers who are in our • Professional driver thoughts on this very Special Day a very Happy and • Gold coin donation • Details of pick up / drop off Meaningful Fathers Day - points can be found at www.holyspiritfete.org.au or Never underestimate the impact you, as fathers have • Ring Dale 0403 458 451

in our world, and always remember to share your gifts with those whose Fathers cannot be with them. Why not try the Fete Shuttle bus service? Saturday 14th October 2017 2 SEPTEMBER 2017

CONTENTS Thank You from the Editor Page 1 Divine renovation Page 2 Thank you from the Editor I sometimes find it hard to believe how quickly the NEXT edition of The Page 3 Around the parish - NAIDOC Sunday Spirit comes around, and I am sure many of you who contribute would Page 4 NAIDOC – Languages matter because people matter – agree. Andrew Hamilton Page 5 Around the parish - Baptism Welcomings I do appreciate how hard it is to find the time to get articles, photos, Page 6 Around the parish – Wedding Anniversaries. and stories together in time for the NEXT deadline, and I, and our Page 7 Remembering My Dad Leo Brophy– Cathy Donnison readers Thank you for your efforts. For a little Parish magazine we get a Page 8 My Dad – Simple Man, Simple Faith – Lawrence Cecconello wonderful amount of positive feedback about our publication, so please Page 9 Why Fathers are Special – David Ahearn keep up all of your contribution efforts. It is only because so many of you The Spirit New Masthead Competition. make such an effort that it becomes a worthwhile read. Page 10 Holy Spirit Community School - MY DAD As always there is plenty happening around our parishes – Page 12 World Refugee Day – Andrew Hamilton The Divine Renovation team has been so busy and the early results of all Page 13 Around the Parish – Shelah Batson their hard work are already visible every Sunday as people take the time Reading Links to stay after Mass and have a chat – If you haven’t already taken the time Page 14 Evergreens to do this – Give it a try next Sunday! Page 15 Everyone needs to hear the Good News - The Tablet Holy Spirit Fete time is almost upon us. Time to start now – How can you Page 16 Institutional Abuse - Homily – Fr Frank O’Dea help? Our Fete has become a benchmark for many other organizations Page 18 Twenty-First Sunday - Mike Bowden and so we need to maintain our great standards and improve every Page 19 Dear Mamas in the School Yard year to continue to achieve the outstanding results we have all come to Page 20 HOLY SPIRIT COMMUNITY FETE expect. Page 22 The History of Rosebank - Sponsored. Page 23 Viewpoint on hypocrisy– David Ahearn BUT, there is no way we can continue to do that, if we don’t have the flow Our Journey through Vietnam – Sponsored. of new volunteers to assist. There are so many areas in which you can help –cleaning out your cupboards for the various stalls – Be discerning Page 24 First Communions please! Good quality books, clothing, toys, Trash n Treasure etc is the way Page 26 A Snapshot - Bryony May to go. Around the parish Page 27 I AM WHO I AM – Len Moore Or, perhaps you can assist on one of the many stalls for a couple of hours Page 28 The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows on the day – There is something for everyone and you will get far more Vinnies Need YOU! back than you ever put in! The secret ingredient for our Fete is that it is, Page 29 Loreto – Margaret Mary Flynn and has always been about the people and guess what? That translates into profit! Page 30 Cars 3’ has a message for kids – and for grownups. Page 31 Around the parish – Fr Mogg We can’t all leave it to someone else. The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. THE FETE SHUTTLE BUS – No more parking issues and no more carrying Page 32 HOLY SPIRIT FETE – HELP NEEDED those heavy bags full of purchases BACK to your car – take the time to Page 34 Child Safety Standards - For EVERYONE tell the team if you intend to use the service – You can email or drop a Page 35 Vale Gail Gaine note in to the Parish House – It’s not a taxi service but hopefully with your Opening of St Pauls Church Ringwood support it will become another Fete tradition. Page 36 Pope Francis on being “Noisy” The Masthead Competition for our illustrious Spirit Magazine is open to Page 37 Sudoku everyone – so get your creative/artistic juices flowing and amaze us all. Page 38 Advertising in The Spirit We thank Tobin Brothers Ringwood for their generosity in supplying the Page 39 Childrens Page prize. Page 40 HOLY SPIRIT FETE Fathers Day – Happy for some, very sad for others – please remember this and where possible share your day with those for whom it may not be a The Spirit Magazine is published four times a year. great day. Take a moment to speak to a family who may be missing their Editor: Helen Konynenburg E-mail: [email protected] Dad – Little things count! Publisher: Minuteman Press Mitcham Email: [email protected] The contents of this magazine are printed in an effort to support community awareness Finally safe travels to Fr Joe and the group departing for the Holy Land and communication and do not necessarily represent the views of the editors, our Parish Priest, or the people of the Holy Spirit Parish. Tour and thanks to Catherine Stone and the team at Rheom travel for Letters to the Editor, enquiries re distribution information and sourced contributions all their efforts in putting the tour together – I’m sure the experiences should be sent to: Holy Spirit Parish House, 120 Oban Road, North Ringwood (address above) the travellers have will translate into benefits for all of our community – Average circulation 700 copies - Not for profit Standby for Travel Movie nights with ALL our photo’s!! Only joking really -. NOW AVAILABLE IN FULL COLOUR ONLINE: http://www.holyspiritparish.org.au/TheSpiritMagazine.aspx Thank you to all Printed by Minuteman Press Mitcham - Shop 2, 535 Whitehorse Road Mitcham, Vic, 3132 - Phone: 9873 2888 www.mitcham.minutemanpress.com.au Email: [email protected] Closing date for next edition: Tuesday November 14, 2017 Helen Konynenburg Focus for next Edition: What are your hopes for 2018 and beyond. - IN NOTES SEPTEMBER 2017 3 Around the Parish NAIDOC SUNDAY

Again our Liturgy team prepared a beautiful and very meaningful display and liturgy to celebrate NAIDOC Sunday 4 SEPTEMBER 2017

NAIDOC: Languages matter because people matter Andrew Hamilton | 29 June 2017

The National Aboriginal and Islander Day Language is much more than a means of replace the old. It is an organic process, Observance Committee (NAIDOC) week communication. It is an emblem of our tribe, often over some generations, in which originated in the conviction that the marking out those who are our near relatives the new culture is grafted on to the older Australia Day celebration presented a one- and those who are strangers. Language vine, with the result that both cultures are sided image of Australia’s history. shapes how we interact with others. To say enriched and modified. that our languages matter implies that no Australia Day celebrated uncritically the In celebrating NAIDOC Week this year, one language is given absolute precedence disruption to the culture and life of the that sophisticated understanding of the over others. Diverse languages may have earlier inhabitants of the land which transmission of culture and language must precedence in different areas of our lives. followed the arrival of the First Fleet at be kept in mind. Many Australians have Sydney cove. It did not celebrate the assumed that English is the only language cultures and peoples who were destroyed by “An Australia that is that is or should be used for communication European settlement. in Australia, and that other languages seen as multilingual should fall into disuse as soon as possible, as NAIDOC week embodies the desire of should other national customs and cultures, Indigenous Australians to celebrate their while sharing English as to be retained only as museum items. The own rich cultures that preceded the Indigenous Convention, which brought European conquest and continue to form an its common language, together the reflections of Indigenous irreplaceable strand of Australian identity. and as multicultural communities around Australia, each with This year Naidoc Week is particularly their own traditional language, shows how significant because it is held in the shadow and multireligious while vacuous is that view and how rich are the of the Uluru declaration by the First Nations sharing a common consequences when diversity is recognised. National Constitutional Convention. In NAIDOC Week celebrates Indigenous lives response to the desire that Indigenous national identity, is richer and culture. But, like those lives and that Australians should be appropriately culture, its message is a timely gift to all recognised in the Australian Constitution, and more enduring than Australians. At a time when public discourse representatives of Indigenous communities is impoverished, national identity is often met to make an agreed statement about one in which there is defined in terms that narrow, exclude and what that recognition should mean. one language, religion demean minorities, and oppose the national They made it clear that any action should be and indispensable English language to other more than symbolic. It should and culture.” languages, which consequently give Indigenous Australians a do not matter. status that guarantees them a An Australia that is seen as say in the measures that affect multilingual while sharing them. It was not acceptable English as its common to make them objects of language, and that is also government decisions, as they seen as multicultural and have been in the Intervention. multireligious while sharing They must be agents, not just a common national identity, talked about, but empowered is a richer and more enduring to speak authoritatively. nation than one in which there The theme of the week is ‘Our is one language, one religion Languages matter’. It lies at the and one culture that exclude heart of the Uluru statement. others. Ultimately languages It also poses questions about matter because people the way in which we conceive matter. In Australia Indigenous our identity as a nation, and so languages and Indigenous about how we should respond Language is also the medium through people have both been treated to the Uluru statement. which culture is transmitted. Culture for far too long as if they don’t matter. Both NAIDOC Week and the Uluru statement call To say that our languages matter implies includes our relationship with our own for a better way. that in Australia we communicate in many history, the customs and symbols of our parents, and the songs and stories that make languages. English is the language of Andrew Hamilton is up our heritage. business and public life, but many other consulting editor of Eureka languages, both Indigenous and introduced, When we enter the language and culture of Street. are the primary languages of groups of another society, the transmission of culture We acknowledge Andrew Australians. Many people speak more than that takes place is not simply a transaction and Eureka Street for this one language, an endowment to be praised, between teacher and student in which we contribution - Do you receive Eureka Street? not lamented. learn a new language and new ways that www.eurekastreet.com.au SEPTEMBER 2017 5 Around the Parish Baptisms Welcomings Mary Ryan’s 9.00AM Mass Sunday 18th June granddaughter Parents Connor & Jade Ryan with Luna Josephine born 3/3/2017

10:30 am Mass Sunday 18th June

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Apologies from the Editor for no names for some of these beautiful families. But YOU and your families will know you AND our COMMUNITY knows and cares for you all 6 SEPTEMBER 2017

Around the Parish Wedding Anniversaries

Sean & Carmel Hill celebrating 53 Years of marriage From: Carmel Hill [email protected] Subject: Fwd: anniversary photo Date: 20 August 2017 6:46 pm To: [email protected]

Helen I think this is the best of the recent ones...and it was on our anniversary

Carmel xx

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Fiore & Luigina D’Assisi celebrating their 70th Wedding Anniversary

Barry (Leonardo) Ward and Keith (Michaelangelo) Gysberts hard at work restoring out parish House. Excellent work as always. Thanks a MILLION Emma D’Aristotle – Eucharistic Minister, Mitcham Emma attended a training course to become an extraordinary minister of communion in June. Fr Joe presented her certificate at mass SEPTEMBER 2017 7

Remembering My Dad…

Leo Brophy meant so many things to Dad worked long hours, getting up before Dad considered it sacrilege to put anything so many people but for me, he meant the sun rose and sometimes not getting other than butter and jam on a croissant remembering back to our days in home until we were all asleep but that and could never understand how anyone Liberia, West Africa. I attended Kakata didn’t stop him teaching us to swim at could enjoy a chocolate croissants or ham Demonstration School, which was a the Pan Am Swimming Pool in Monrovia, and cheese croissants. primary school that the United Nations Liberia’s capital city. Or when, on one of Dad worked long hours even when we Development Program build across the our trips back to Australia, we stopped over returned to Australia but Sundays was road from the teachers college where in Singapore, where he woke me up early his day to spend with his kids. After mass Dad’s office was located. Dad headed the to go and explore the markets with him. we often went on long drives to the Educational Development program in the Dandenong Ranges or Maroondah Dam or 70’s, setting up schools throughout Africa to see the sights at Port Melbourne where and teaching teachers to teach in them. he spent some of his childhood years. Dad I have fond memories of finishing school also loved to take in a show or two. As a at one o’clock and making my way across young girl, one of the many shows he took the dirt road to Dad’s office. Our school had me to see was the Russian Cossack Dancers a tin roof and with the tropical weather it at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda. We had was too hot to stay at school after one. Dad to fight our way past people protesting always kept his office like a freezer and my the Red Army. His grandchildren were sister and I would sit enjoying a small cold no exception, they still have a fond love glass bottle of coca-cola whilst he packed for theatre, pantomimes and of course, up and came home for lunch with us. We his favourite, the Australia Symphony would always sit at the table for lunch and Orchestra. Dad would pull out the Cuisenaire Rods When I finally found my path in life, Dad after lunch and then we would end with He didn’t wake anyone else or leave a note and I shared many long and stimulating me reading him a book, usually a John and for Mum, so we were both in trouble when conversations about ethics, social justice, Betty book. Part of Dad’s job meant him we return some hours later. It’s not many psychology, personal values, religion and and Mum often entertained dignitaries. 7 or 8 year olds that can brag about their equality. We had some great debates and One such dignitary was the President of Dad sending them down the road in Paris, there was lots of teasing particularly when Uganda, Idi Amin. He came for lunch and alone, to cross the road to a shop in the it came to equality, as I was never very after lunch I sat on his knee to read him my middle of a round-a-bout, to ask for “deux tolerant of the male chauvinist in him. Spot book. Who knew his regime would parquets de Benson and Hedges s’il vous When he was caring for Mum in her final be responsible for the human rights abuse Plait. And I have to chuckle when I think of years, I would ring each morning and ask and murder of thousands of people? Dad teaching his grandchildren many more how he was and his answer was always, I remember at one of the many parties French words than what I suspect their tongue in cheek, “I’m doing my woman’s we had, usually full of VIP’s, I had been teachers would have desired. work”. His last gift to me was a book on drinking what I thought was water from battling totalitarianism and one that Dad love attending Mass and writing many a Gin Bottle. In Africa we had to boil our advocates that women are the solution stories for the St Bridget’s Flyer and later water and then we kept it in all kinds of to tackling world poverty, disease and contributed a few to the Spirit. When he empty bottles in the fridge. I will never conflict. learnt I could touch type, he spent hours forget Mum screaming across the room to dictating, whilst I typed stories that needed Although, Dad pasted away in 2011, I often Dad, “Oh, Leo she’s drinking out of the Gin to be finished quickly to meet the Flyer feel his presence and see and experience bottle!” Or the time, my sister and I took deadline. In later years, when he moved so much of him, not only in myself but also the box of cigars, reserved for their many to Holy Spirit, he attended 9am mass and in the strong family values and beliefs that guests off the coffee table and hid in the would always check Gail had the right chair he passed onto his grandchildren. wardrobe of our playroom smoking them. or we would hear Kevin Green call out Although I love to unwind with a gin and Happy Fathers Day, Dad. “How are you, Leo the Lion?” Every week tonic, I have never been able to tolerate the Cathy Donnison (Brophy) after mass, Dad picked up croissants from smell of cigars, even to this day. the bakery and come over for breakfast. 8 SEPTEMBER 2017

My Dad – Simple Man, Simple Faith

My dad was born in 1920, in a place called Padova (Padua), which when I was 12 or 13). Not a day goes by without some thought or is located in the north of Italy, just west of Venice. He was one of 5 memory of what he might have said or done in a particular situation, siblings, and in the traditional way, shared his family home with not passing through my mind. I often remember how, shortly after my just his parents and siblings but grandparents, uncles, aunts and mother died, he would take off on his bicycle and start work at 7:00 cousins, all under the one roof. in the morning, rain hail or shine; he would get home in the evening in time to cook dinner and then begin his ‘second’ job, repairing Growing up in an agricultural environment, life was certainly not shoes at home in a small workshop he had set up. This lifestyle easy in his early years, with lots of farming duties before and after continued on for many a year, virtually until he retired, and yet I school; then came the depression years, followed not too long after, don’t recall ever really hearing him complain about anything – he by WWII. Being of just the right age (late teens, early twenties), like just got on with what he considered to be important for his family. many of his generation, he went off to war and lived through the And importantly through all the difficult times, he never lost faith. I many horrors and atrocities of those days. don’t recall even once that he didn’t go to Mass on the weekend. Being fortunate enough to survive the war, he came back to his If I now think back on his faith profile, I would say that his faith was home and after a few years married, built a small house in the same terribly simple, non-complicated, non-theological, non-cerebral. city and had a couple of kids. It was just a simple, unshakeable belief in what is good, what is Italy in the post war years was not an easy place to bring up a family, fair and what is right under God’s law, no matter what! And from a with much economic and social uncertainty, so my parents took the personal point of view, I can categorically say that at least some of very brave decision to migrate to a country far far away, which they those qualities have definitely rubbed off onto my way of looking knew very little about in terms of language, culture and prospects, at the whole faith thing. I know that I can speak confidently when I leaving behind family, friends, familiar language and culture, all in say that his life was very much guided and governed by these two the name of a better opportunity for their family. fundamental principles Of course this is a very common migration story, one that can be Love of God and Love of neighbour told by many millions of people from many different countries, and And after all, it can be said that these principles represent the I wouldn’t presume to say that my parents’ experiences were any pinnacle of what it is to be follower of Jesus. Yes, I owe much to my more difficult than someone else’s. dad, in all aspects of life, not the least of which is my belief and trust Fast forward nearly 60 years, and the influence that my father has in our God. had on my life is nothing short of profound (my mother passed away Lawrence Cecconello

Around the Parish Preparing for First Communion

Candidates being presented at 9AM Mass on Sunday 30 July SEPTEMBER 2017 9

WHY FATHERS ARE SPECIAL David Ahearn

Father’s Day will be celebrated on Sunday Dad took out the garbage each week and or hear about a person sentenced for a September 3. When I was growing up it mowed the lawns while mum prepared serious crime who comes from a broken seemed more fuss was made of Mother’s the nightly meals. Mum stayed home to home. Day. I believe there is still more of a focus look after me and my five siblings and dad There have been no serious role models in on celebrating the role of mothers in was the bread winner. It was more of a their lives and they have gone off the rails. society but this is not a criticism, just an traditional upbringing. That’s how it was This is no excuse for committing a crime as observation back then. we are all responsible for our own actions No one would question the absolute Times have changed and all but it may go some way to explain how importance of mothers in bringing up roles are now up for grabs. individuals can reach such a low point in children. But fathers also need to be their lives. celebrated for the essential role they play There are stay-at-home dads And if a child grows up in a household in family life. and there are mums who where domestic violence is rife, there I was fortunate to have terrific parents earn the money. Women play is a real danger the cycle of violence so both occasions were celebrated with football at a senior level and will continue into the next generation. much enthusiasm each year. True to say men flock to cooking classes. Another reason why a caring, attentive that as a child if I cut my knee or had a and loving father is such an important role fight with my older brother I would seek There are single mums and mode. solace in my mother’s arms. There was single dads and there are On September 3 fathers will have their always something special about a kiss and homes with just mums and day. It may involve a brunch, lunch or cuddle from mum. The world was a safer homes with just dads. dinner celebration, a family day out at the place and the tears and the hurt were soon football, or a drive in the country. Fathers, forgotten. While the past 40 years have brought many changes one thing that hasn’t like mothers, are special. Whatever you Dad’s role was different. We would enjoy a changed is the need for children to be have planned, Happy Father’s Day! kick of the footy in the backyard, and he’d nurtured and loved. The main ingredient Majellan Publications show me how to shave and how to cook here is love. [email protected] meat on the barbecue. He was always fun to be around and while he loved nothing Mothers and fathers have a vital role in P.O. Box 43 more than a barbecue and a beer or two, supporting their children as they mature www.majellan.org.au the steak would always be served the into adulthood and grapple with all of life’s Brighton. Vic. 3186 same way, very well done to near burnt. ups and downs. Too many times we read

Could you design an update for the masthead of the Spirit Magazine? Could you use a $100 Eastland voucher?

We are looking to update the Banner for the Front Page of The Ringwood North VIC 3134. No late entries will be accepted. Spirit Magazine and are calling for submissions. Email - [email protected] The Masthead/Banner will need to provide the current informa- Submissions will be judged by a panel of qualified persons, with tion in a new format. http://www.cam.org.au/holyspirit/The-Spir- Fr Joe having the final vote in the event of the panel being un- it-Magazine able to separate two entries. The Front page will be published in colour and will need to be All decisions will be final and no further correspondence entered suitable for uploading to the website to meet future require- into. ments. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Tobin Bros Ring- Submissions clearly marked Spirit Magazine Masthead Com- wood in sponsoring our search for a new Masthead with the petition, need to be submitted by 0900 Tuesday 17 October in donation of the $100 voucher. print and/or online to Holy Spirit Parish House 120 Oban Road 10 SEPTEMBER 2017 SEPTEMBER 2017 11

“Faith | Family | Friendship” 12 SEPTEMBER 2017

World Refugee Day Andrew Hamilton | 13 June 2017 World Refugee Day is a remained to them to shape their lives, forced from their own nations to seek protection. It to live for years cut off from uncontrolled is a time to remember and treasure the little time for remembering. human contact, sometimes separated from things that give shape to our lives — the family members living in Australia. smells, sounds and sights of our childhood We remember we live world and their continuity with our lives Time, the garden of remembering, is for today, and to remember that for refugees them a desert of dismembering, further in a world of millions of these things have been stripped away. It is separating them from world from which a time to remember what has been done to refugees, and that many they fled and from the life that they longed refugees when they came to Australia — to to find. of our fellow citizens hold in our memory the smell and texture On Manus Island, Nauru and in detention of life on Manus Island and on Nauru, the arrived as or are the centres they have their self-respect hacked casual brutality, the mud, the barbed wire away by a daily regime that takes away borders of their world, the erosion of time, children of refugees. We their privacy, the civility they had hoped to the lies and sneers of politicians who held also remember what it find from representatives of a democratic them there, the slogans that trumped government and from the confidence that human connection. It is a time for shame is like to be a refugee, the canopy of law might shelter them. and for compassion for a people who have come to this. To remember is first of all not They may also have their physical and allowing ourselves to to forget, not to move on. It is the beginning mental health excised, leaving them prey of conversion. touch, hear, see, smell to depression and anxiety. And when they read contemptuous words spoken about World Refugee Day is also a time for re- and taste the bitter stuff them they feel themselves stripped of all membering: for putting back what has been that remains to them — their self-respect as torn apart, for greening boughs that have of their lives. human beings. been stripped of leaves, for fleshing what has withered, for welcoming back what We may remember refugees, but in their “The Australian body politic also calls out has been rejected. That means demanding own lives they are dismembered. The tiles for re-membering. Over many years it has that we take for granted as the dismembering stop — we shape the mosaic of our that people are taken off ordinary lives have been prison islands, are listened hacked out of refugees’ lives. to and heard with justice Many people lost parents, and respect, that they are siblings and children in the reunited with families and persecution and the terrors of allowed to get on with war they endured in their own their lives. It also means lands. With each loss part of connecting with people who themselves also died. are isolated, encouraging and paying respect to people who Their ability to plan their own have shown such resilience. lives, to practice their religion, to meet with like-minded The Australian body people in order to help shape politic also calls out for their society, and to have their re-membering. Over many children educated were also years it has been stripped cut away. Their losses are not of respect of people for just entries in a ledger. They their simple humanity, of tear at the heart of identity, hospitality to strangers stripping away the connections that breathe been stripped of respect of people for their and of compassion for the vulnerable. To existence into life. simple humanity, of hospitality to strangers re-member is to make whole, to return to and of compassion for the vulnerable. To integrity. In their flight many were also cut off from re-member is to make whole, to return to their families, from the rhythms of work Andrew Hamilton is consulting integrity.” and rest, from connections with town and editor of Eureka Street. village, from communicating in a language For refugees to remember is a challenge: to Tuesday 20 June is World that is shared, and from all the things that remember who they are and to wear their Refugee Day. allow us to call house and nation a home. abused humanity as a flag of worth and not www.eurekastreet.com.au. We acknowledge of shame. When people come to the fences of other Andrew and Eureka Street for this contribution nations asking for protection they face For Australians, World Refugee Day is a time - Do you receive Eureka Street? www. further dismemberment. In Australia they of remembering. It is a time to remember eurekastreet.com.au have been deprived of what freedom the human stories of those who have fled SEPTEMBER 2017 13

Shelah Baston

Name: Mrs Shelah Batson

Organisation: Evergreens

Explanation:

Shelah has volunteered for the Evergreens for 20 years. Her exemplary efforts include driving people to meetings and appointments, regular nursing home visits, and reading, cleaning and food preparation. Shelah is always pleasant and obliging and is a major asset. She has also been a member of the Maroondah Bush Walking Club since 1987 and currently serves as co- ordinator. Shelah is a mother of eight and will soon celebrate her 80th birthday, but always gives her time generously.

Batson Family - whilst some of Shelah’s family were able to attend the award ceremony some from interstate were not so it was great when they all got together shortly after the event. The Batson family at The Chirnside Park Country Club, enjoying dinner with their son Chris, who was down from The Gold Coast for work. Chris got to meet his youngest niece Kaitlyn for the first time.

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Spring is here so hopefully the winter ills to the fact that the devonshire tea is a For general information, please call Jean will disappear and our sunseekers will meal and the tour is almost as wonderful 9876-2204. return home safely. as the garden. P.S. COME ON IN, THE WATER’S GREAT Our Winter Warmer Program has been Pleases feel free to join us on these There have been numerous notices available and enjoyed by members and outings. For bookings call Shirley 9870- recently about Maroondah Council’s friends. 1396. Active and Healthy Ageing initiative, October 29th is the Quarantine Centre & Our monthly meetings continue on the offering a program of gentle exercise Museum at Sorrento. All entrance fees last Friday (usually with a guest speaker). classes at the new Ringwood Pool. If you plus the bus is $30. Morning tea and Visitors always welcome. Mass at 9.15 have been considering it but want to lunch is at your own expense. am. followed by morning tea in the Mary know what it really is like, I’m here to tell Bresnan Room. you. The cost is heavily subsidized by the November 10th is a trip to Coombe Council at only $6.70, and the water is Cottage. The cost will be $30 also, which Members are reminded, if possible, to really warm. The exercises can be as hard includes Devonshire tea and tour of the bring a plate and a gift for the raffle. as you want or you can take it a bit easy if garden and $5 for the bus. Those who did that suits. (Carole) the trip a couple of years ago can testify

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We acknowledge The TABLET and thank Mary Ryan from the Archbishops Office of Evangelisation for submitting this for us. 16 SEPTEMBER 2017

Homily by Fr Frank O’Dea

The National Council of Priests of Australia However, in breaking news, Pope Francis has In this same issue of The Swag, the much (NCPA) puts out a quarterly magazine called replaced the prefect of the CDF with a new respected retired bishop Pat Power says we The Swag. man, Spanish Luis Ladaria Ferrer. need a church which is more humane, more humble, less clerical, more inclusive, more It has excellent reading material and I would Hopefully the new man will bring much- open, which finds unity in diversity and a encourage all of you to subscribe to it. needed reforms. church which truly reflects the person and The current issue has a number of very Francis Sullivan has made these values of Jesus. good articles on the sex abuse crisis and the recommendations: When allegations of abuse and cover-up disastrous state of the church today. Church leaders who never put victims ahead were made, the bishops called in lawyers to I’ll start with an article by Francis Sullivan of the church’s reputation should be held defend them. who is CEO of the Truth, Justice and accountable. Thus it became a battle between lawyers for Healing Council of the Catholic Church The church needs people with the right the prosecution and defence. and represented the church in the Royal skills to govern the church and must include Commission into child sex abuse. What they should have done is to read the good lay people including women. gospels and hear what Jesus said. He says that when he began his role he had no real sense This is what bishop Pat Power of the extent of the abuse meant by saying we need a church thinking that maybe the which truly reflects the person and church had 100 paedophiles values of Jesus. in its history. One of the most frequently In fact the records show that mentioned problems is clericalism, 1,200 priests and brothers the notion that clergy are superior have had allegations of abuse to the laity. made against them. This began about the year 300. He says the figures speak of a Prior to then the only priesthood moral disease that profoundly known in the church was the infects not only the religious priesthood which came from orders and dioceses but the baptism, the priesthood of the wider Catholic community, faithful. a fact not lost on the Royal Commission. All of us are priests and we all can Church leaders must move away from celebrate the Eucharist. At one point the 5 senior archbishops sat privilege, comfortable life styles and mix together in the witness box, attempting more with the people. About the year 300 the leaders of the church to explain the way in which clericalism, were ‘ordained’, giving rise to two kinds of He quotes Pope Francis saying we need celibacy, power, institutional might and priesthood. to become a church which is bruised, other issues played a part in the entire hurting and dirty because it has been out In my opinion, for what it’s worth, this is one scandalous affair. on the streets, rather than a church which of the biggest mistakes the church has ever Francis says, “My sense is they toiled in is unhealthy from being confined and from made. vain and there is now a deep malaise clinging to its own security. The ordained were put on a pedestal and compounded by a simmering anger within Church leaders should publically commit given titles such as Father, My Lord, Your the community about the church and child now to a public consultation and Grace, Your Eminence, Your Holiness. sexual abuse.” deliberative process on all issues within the The bishop’s house came to be known as Pope Francis set up a committee to Catholic community that are the source of the palace and Cardinals were called the investigate this grave matter. respectful dissent and even disengagement. Princes of the Church. One of the committee was Marie Collins Francis Sullivan says, “What Members of the hierarchy became very who was herself abused. has shocked and confronted wealthy and privileged. She has now resigned because of the This about as far from the gospels as you resistance and lack of cooperation by the me the most about the child can get, yet as leaders they should be Congregation for Doctrine and Faith. sexual abuse is that it took shining examples of the followers of Jesus She also denounces the ‘clericalism’ in some place in a church. The very living lives of simplicity. parts of the Roman Curia and the reluctance An urgent need is to have women in of the CDF to implement the Commission’s fact that the church was on responsible positions of authority. recommendations even after Pope Francis trial rips at the heart of what had approved them. They need to break through the stained the church is meant to be.” glass ceiling. SEPTEMBER 2017 17

Homily by Fr Frank O’Dea

Some believe that if women had some He tells the story that he was driving one various levels in the church.” responsibility for the placing of priests in day, stopped at lights, a car pulled up The pope has already set up a committee to parishes, those accused of abuse would not alongside, the driver noticed Kevin was a look into the matter of reintroducing women have been moved from parish to parish as priest and called out, “Off to abuse some deacons which the church had for over a has been happening. more children are we?” thousand years. The wrongs of the church go right to the top The cruelty of the remark is that Kevin Dillon The church is sometimes called the barque of the church’s structure. has done a huge amount of ministry for or ship of Peter. victims of sex abuse. I went all the sessions of the Victorian It has run aground on the rocks of scandal Parliamentary Enquiry except the first one a As if things couldn’t get worse, now Cardinal and is in danger of breaking up completely, few years ago. George Pell has been charged with sex battered by the failure of the hierarchy to abuse. On one occasion Archbishop Denis Hart told handle the sex abuse crisis according to the the enquiry that he wrote to the Vatican He is one of the nine cardinals whom the teachings of Jesus. asking how to deal with a priest who was pope appointed as his special advisers, the 2 To help to re-float the barque we must throw SEPTEMBER 2013 accused of sex abuse. so-called C9, and is in chargeof of my the way Vatican to pe rform an act of kindness to someone I don’t kno w. Today, I’ll giveoverboard a sincere compliment the baggage to the someone church has who Bank. 22-24 Holy Spirit Fete News He got an answer 14 years later. seems down. 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Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary time Michael Bowden Matthew 16. 13-20+ were nothing in the face of this alliance. a legalised union then we are acting in an arrogant rocklike manner rather than in a Now when Jesus came into the district of But Jesus said something different at the just and merciful manner demanded by the Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, end of this discourse – “don’t tell anyone!” Gospel. ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ This warning by Jesus has been examined And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, for years by scripture scholars and in Mark My principles for acting on this matter but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah is called the Messianic Secret. I’ve written are then firstly Humility. The gospel will or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, essays on it – which I can’t remember now! be accepted by others when it is seen as ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter Maybe because there is no way for me to being comprised of gentleness, peace and answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of contextualise the topic in the time of Mark compassion. We will convince others of the living God.’ And Jesus answered him, and Matthew. What the warning meant to God’s Love when we live in God’s Love with ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For Mark’s audience and Matthew’s audience patience and understanding of the needs of flesh and blood has not revealed this to may have little relevance our present day. others. Secondly Justice should guide our you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, thinking. We should not deprive others of So what lesson can we draw from Jesus’ you are Peter, and on this rock I will build something that in the legal structure of our aphorism? Perhaps humility and trust my church, and the gates of Hades will not nation (not the religious belief structure) simultaneously. Perhaps as Catholics we prevail against it. I will give you the keys of is available to all except those who are should be very reluctant to be standing the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you same sex oriented. And thirdly Trust or its on the steeple of our cathedrals and bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and synonym, Hope. Hope is the eschatological pronouncing to the Australian public that whatever you loose on earth will be loosed understanding that we are called to make same sex marriage is a terrible abomination. in heaven.’ Then he sternly ordered the the Kin-dom come in the here and now, right This is not the war we need to fight. On disciples not to tell anyone that he was the now for everyone. We can’t afford, because close examination the issue is not one for Messiah. we reckon we are right and we stand on The Catholics, except in so far as the principle of Rock, to attempt to exclude anyone from the Reflection Justice should be our rallying call. I have not joys of the Kin-dom. heard one politician or advocate of same How should we think about Church? As sex marriage demand that a Catholic priest The Catholic Church in Australia is in a good Catholic boy growing up within a be required to marry a same sex couple. deep do dos. The Church is in a severely Catholic matrix it was easy for me, as for my How is this a problem for the institutional compromised position. Grandstanding peers, to adopt an approach to Catholicism Rock? Yet if the Biblical value of Justice is about sex at the moment is absolutely not that was triumphalist. From this gospel at the heart of our theology we Catholics available to the Church when our clergy, we take a theme of a Rocklike Church. We are required to offer to others the right to and bishops through their failure to manage grew up thinking our Catholic Church could a sense of equality, equity and opportunity their priests, are guilty of the worst period of withstand anything. We felt in Melbourne that we expect for ourselves and all sustained sexual abuse in Australian history. in the 50s that we were involved in a war humankind. Insofar as same sex couples Let’s get off our rocky steeple and live against both secularism and Protestantism. and their parents and families feel that there generous, humble lives as our founder did. Enemies on every side. But we were strong, is a discrimination operating that forbids we had God on our side and Peter the Rock Remember, Jesus told his disciples “sternly” these couples from experiencing the joy of as well! For sure the powers of the enemy to keep their mouths shut.

All will be revealed in the NEXT edition of The Spirit! SEPTEMBER 2017 19 Dear Mamas in the School Yard

This is a post that has been forwarded you know that she holds her child tightly often end in disaster. People have stopped anonymously... food for thought as they sob because they have yet again inviting them now. It will probably break not been invited to a party that you are your heart to hear that she has had to seek Dear mamas in the school yard, I want to hosting? Later that night when they are therapy & medication to cope with the write you this letter in the hope that it may fast asleep, she also cries with sadness for stresses of her daily life. And in her darkest help you to understand. I am writing it on her child and a pain in her heart that she hours she has contemplated leaving this behalf of the mother of the child who has cannot make go away. Did you know that world behind. I want to also let you know a behaviour issue. The one who who’s child most days she holds her phone close and that your child cannot catch a behaviour may be in your child’s classroom. The one is filled with anxiety as she expects the issue from being associated with this who’s child may at times be disruptive and school to call and say that there has been family. They do not have a contagious need lots of attention from the teacher. The yet another incident at school with her disease. What you & your child can learn by one that no doubt, the whole year level will child. She can’t relax & enjoy the time to being friends with them is a very valuable already know about! Did you know that herself. You probably couldn’t know that lesson in life. You can teach your child this mother has probably cried an ocean by now she has very little friends in her life how to have empathy & compassion for of tears for her child? She has probably anymore. Having a child with such high other individuals who have challenges. been through more than you or I could needs has meant many appointments, You can teach your child to lead the way in ever imagine. Maybe her child has a formal social skills groups and therapies. It has showing kindness and acceptance to the diagnosis like Autism or ADHD, but that also meant she is left exhausted and wiped children who need it most. You can do this really shouldn’t matter anyway. Maybe she out each and every day, and barely has by leading by example. That lovely mother is still grieving for the fact that her child enough energy for her husband, let alone needs more than anyone else in your life – a will face so many more challenges in their even attempting to reach out to one of friend. Someone to listen to her and show life than yours. She is still a mother, like you her few friends left who understand. And if support, without judgment. Even just a & I, who just always wants the very best you took the time to actually get to know simple smile or hello could lift her spirits for her child. Did you know that she hears her she might share with you that even immensely. We teach our students that your whispers and feels your disapproving members of her own family make her feel ‘excluding’ is a form of bullying, yet other looks? She knows all too well that you do like it is her fault. That she is a bad parent parents seem to do this to each other all not want your child to interact with hers and responsible for her child’s behaviour. of the time. Yes there may be times when in any way because of their behaviour. Did Most events or outings that she attempts you are together that issues may arise, but 20 SEPTEMBER 2017

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A gentleman by the name of Charles Edward In the 1940’s Charles purchased additional the memory of the family and its history. The Godbehear, a Methodist Minister, and his land and the property grew from 30 acres streets surrounding the home today include wife, Jane Elizabeth (Ruby) Goldsmith, to 70 acres, stretching as far across as Rosebank Avenue, Goldsmith Avenue and purchased thirty acres of land in Ringwood Kalinda Road. After completing school at Lockheart Road. in 1916. They brought their three children, Wesley College, Charles’ sons, Charles and The “Rosebank” property is still owned Charles William, Jack Goldsmith and Fay Jack, assisted their father in the running of by Tony Stewart, the grandson of Charles Dorothy, from Lockheart in New South the property on a full-time basis. Daughter and Ruby Godbehear, and son of Fay and Wales, and set up home on their new Fay completed her education at Methodist Earle Stewart. In honour of his family, over Ringwood property. Ladies’ College and soon married Earle a decade ago Tony restored the beautiful Stewart, who pioneered the Ringwood- During 1923 “Rosebank” was built. It was a home to its previous grandeur. Upon visiting Warrandyte bus service. The bus depot was grand home of its era. The beautiful gardens Rosebank North it does not require a lot of operated from “Rosebank” during the war surrounding the house were created by the imagination to set yourself back in time, the years, providing a service to the public and Reverend himself. He planted two Golden property has been beautifully decorated and the Army barracks located at Park Orchard Cypress trees and a date palm, which remain furnished, its romantic character, ambiance Chalet. Earle Stewart and Jack Godbehear in the garden today. He also planted a large and old world charm, evoke feelings of served in the war, leaving the Reverend and display of standard roses surrounding the yesterday providing a unique location Fay to run the bus service. house, hence the name “Rosebank”. After to enjoy a wonderful dining experience! moving into “Rosebank”, Charles occasionally In 1944, Reverend Charles Godbehear Rosebank North Restaurant & Bar is open carried out wedding ceremonies. Continuing passed away, leaving his two sons to run 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner, along this tradition Rosebank North as it the orchard. Charles continued to live at furthermore providing a wonderful venue currently operates once again performs “Rosebank” with his mother, Ruby. In 1959 for private functions, special celebrations, wedding ceremonies and receptions. the land was sold off, and after being sub- Weddings and Events. Make it a sure place divided and built-on, streets were named in to visit!

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Pope Francis has made some thought I have never been comfortable with the ‘Catholic’ stamped across your forehead, provoking comments since he was elected fact that people can be treated so poorly metaphorically speaking, doesn’t make to the highest office at the Vatican. while working in a Catholic workplace, you a good person or a good citizen. Life They’re not just throwaway lines, but a or any workplace for that matter. Work experiences tell us that. genuine attempt to make people think: to environments that are the antithesis of It is necessary, as Pope Francis says, to think about their lives; think about their what Jesus preached about and what he practise what you preach. And he’s right relationships with their family and friends exemplified during his earthly life. Jesus when he says it’s better to be an atheist and to think about their church in the 21st spoke about love, mercy, respect, and even than a hypocritical Catholic. Being true century. loving your enemies. Not that many of us to yourself is far more important than would find our enemies easy to talk to let Several months ago the pope came up pretending to be something you are not. alone love but that’s another story! with another pearler when he said it was We acknowledge the generosity of the better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Pope Francis has often told Catholics, both author and The Majellan family magazine Catholic. “It is a scandal to say one thing priests and lay people, to practise what for allowing us to reprint these articles. and do another”, said Pope Francis. “That their religion preaches. In addition to the is a double life. There are those who say, most recent comment about atheists, soon Majellan Publications ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I after his 2013 election he said Christians [email protected] belong to this and that association.’ “Some should see atheists as good people if they P.O. Box 43 of these people should also say ‘My life is do good. Quite so. www.majellan.org.au not Christian, I don’t pay my employees Good citizens hail from a variety of Brighton. Vic. 3186 proper salaries, I exploit people, I do dirty backgrounds and cultures and some business, I launder money (I lead) a double are not religious. Having the word life. There are many Catholics who are like this and they cause scandal. How many times have we all heard people say ‘if that person is a Catholic, it is better to be an atheist’. Our Journey The pope’s comments reminded me of an through argument my late mother had with my Vietnam younger brother many years ago when he said Mass was no longer for him. A 2nd - 15th March 2018 bright and rebellious teenager, he decided CHINA church wasn’t cool, and besides, it took up

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These beautiful terracotta goblets were decorated by each child making their First Communion as a memento of this very special occasion. They looked so beautiful on the altar and in the foyer of Holy Spirit Church with the children’s individual pages displayed alongside - A lovely bright vision to begin Sunday mass. Congratulations to all the children and Thank you to all the efforts of the parents and teachers in preparing them for this special event. Sunday August 20th

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First Communion 26 SEPTEMBER 2017

A Snapshot!

At home I love to draw, read, watch tv shows and spend time with my family Name: Bryony May My favourite gadget is my electronic devices. Role in the Parish/School: I’m loving drawing, trying out new subjects and making I am an ex Holy Spirit student and a member of the new friends at school. parish. Friends say I am a funny and loyal person who you can My earliest memory was playing on the beach at Loch always depend on. Sport, collecting shells and watching the sun set with my family. The last big belly laugh I had is when iade my friend laugh and he spat chocolate milk everywhere. At school I always have fun spending time with my friends and trying new things especially in the two art I’m always being asked how I can be a year younger classes I am doing. than everyone else in my year level but still taller. My parents always tell me try my best always be kind to My favourite games are the card games up and down people. and spoons I wish I had super powers like flight and invisibility. At the moment I’m reading a sci fi fantasy book called first life and three different manga series. My most embarrassing moment was laughing so hard in class with one of my friends that we both started If I were a car I’d be 1967 Chevy Impala, which is the car crying. from one of the series I have watched.

Around the Parish High Spirits coordinator Ana Saro welcomed The Marriage Mass celebrated at St Also this week at St Anne’s we are her first group of primary school aged Anne’s on Sunday 30th July. celebrating All Nations mass. As children to a Baptismal preparation class Mass was well attended by parishioners well as acknowledging the continued on Sunday. There are currently 7 children from Holy Spirit. The mass celebrated the suffering of many refugees by taking up a enrolled who are seeking to commence longevity of marriages by conducting a special collection, we are also celebrating on their spiritual journey guided by the special blessing during the service and our cultural diversity. All parishioners are Catholic Faith. This class arose due to the giving the participants prayer cards. After invited to wear something that reflects volume of enquiries of families wanting the service the celebration continued their heritage and to bring a plate of food their school children to learn about God and with the presentation of certificates, that also reflects their history. I am sure faith. accompanied by a glass of champagne! there must be someone French in our congregation- another bottle of champagne perhaps?!?

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I AM WHO I AM

When you look in the mirror, do you really Why do I say this, Well quite simply, all place and just meditate and that peace and recognize the person looking back at you? healing of mind, body and soul, begins from calm will come back. the inside of us and is then transmitted to When in the company of others do you SO in conclusion, we must take control of the outside of us. Healing does no occur wear a mask? If we are really honest with our own lives. We need to take time out from the outside first, it is always from the ourselves, I included, both these two issues every day and to work at getting our inner inside first. apply to each and every one of us. selves right. We must never self criticize Through mediation you learn the ancient ourselves. AS I pondered on these issues a story from art of stilling the mind, and in the case of the Bible came to mind, and it happened At the last count planet earth has nearly depression, which simply is self-destructing about 6000 years ago. A man named Moses 6 billion people. No one is the same; we thoughts. Anxiety being thoughts of fear, was one day taking care of his sheep, and are all very unique and special in our own for the now, and future events. By stilling then the next moment, he was talking to right. Therefore we don’t need to compare the mind of these harmful thought patterns God. Moses realized that God knew his ourselves to anyone else. As our own inner you can turn those thoughts around and name, so wanting to know the name of God, life becomes more focused, calm and at generate thoughts of love, peace calmness he asked for his name and God’s reply to peace, we can truly proclaim to the world and power. Moses was “I am who I am”. and ourselves, “I AMWHO I AM “ and what So how do we maintain a life style of inner inner power that will release in us – WOW! As I reflected on these words, “I am who I peace, which then leads to a real sense of am”, I came to the conclusion, do people Len Moore peace and joy. Quite simply it means a really know who you are let alone do you change of mental attitude. Len leads a Meditation at Holy Spirit Chapel really know yourself or myself, and quite on the ………..TBA often for most of us the answer has got to Every time a negative thought comes be NO. to mind, for example: I feel bad, or I feel worthless, we must react with a positive Thank you Len for submitting this article How do we turn this around so we truly thought, for example: I feel good, I feel and a reminder to us all of the need to believe that “I AM WHO I AM”? My personal empowered etc. STOP! I’ve already tried it a couple of journey so far has taken me on numerous times when I couldn’t sleep and it WORKS! different paths in my life from career I truly believe now, for all of us to grow, changes, a religious belief and finally to from the inside out, we must practice daily, Join Len on Tuesday Mornings when he joining an inspiring Toastmasters Club. without fail, at being peaceful and calm leads a Meditation Group at Holy Spirit within ourselves. If at times we lose it, we Chapel 9.15 - 10.00AM However, through all these ups and downs, must get away by ourselves, find a quiet twists and turns of life, my guiding light for many years now has been Christian Meditation. Simply put, Meditation means focused thinking. So for those who wish to knowhow to meditate, you only need to practice for around 20 minutes or so each day, of which time you can walk away from the demands of life, the noise etc and just sit or lie down. You mediate by just focusing on breathing deeply while saying a continuous mantra – a single word (e.g. Peace or calm or a simple phrase like, I am feeling very calm within myself) As you practice this over time, a strange thing actually occurs. Your mind begins to slow down and you become more relaxed calm, focused and at Peace with yourself. In today s world, mental illness such as Depression and Anxiety are so common now. That I truly believe, and here I speak from personal experience of having suffered from anxiety for many years. The Holistic approach to depression and anxiety is through the ancient art of meditation and not through prescribed drugs. 28 SEPTEMBER 2017

The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

•FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS •Interestingly, in 1482, the feast was officially •St. Bernard (d. 1153) wrote, Truly, O Blessed •The title, Our Lady of Sorrows, given to placed in the Roman Missal under the title Mother, a sword has pierced your heart.... our Blessed Mother focuses on her intense of Our Lady of Compassion, highlighting He died in body through a love greater suffering and grief during the passion the great love our Blessed Mother displayed than anyone had known. She died in spirit and death of our Lord. Traditionally, this in suffering with her Son. The word through a love unlike any other since His suffering was not limited to the passion compassion derives from the Latin roots (De duodecim praerogatativs BVM). and death event; rather, it comprised the cum and patior which means to suffer with. •Focusing on the compassion of our Blessed seven dolors or seven sorrows of Mary, Our Blessed Mother’s sorrow exceeded Mother, our Holy Father, Pope John Paul which were foretold by the Priest Simeon anyone else’s since she was the mother of II, reminded the faithful, Mary Most Holy who proclaimed to Mary, This child [Jesus] is Jesus, who was not only her Son but also goes on being the loving consoler of those destined to be the downfall and the rise of her Lord and Savior; she truly suffered with touched by the many physical and moral many in Israel, a sign that will be opposed her Son. In 1727, Pope Benedict XIII placed sorrows which afflict and torment humanity. and you yourself shall be pierced with a the Feast of Our Lady of Compassion in She knows our sorrows and our pains, sword so that the thoughts of many hearts the Roman Calendar on Friday before Palm because she too suffered, from Bethlehem may be laid bare (Luke 2:34-35). These seven Sunday. This feast was suppressed with the to Calvary. ‘And they soul too a sword shall sorrows of our Blessed Mother included revision of the calendar published in the pierce.’ Mary is our Spiritual Mother, and the the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt; the Roman Missal of 1969. mother always understands her children loss and finding of the child Jesus in the •In 1668 the feast in honor of the Seven and consoles them in their troubles. Then, Temple; Mary’s meeting of Jesus on His way Dolors was set for the Sunday after she has that specific mission to love us, to Calvary; Mary’s standing at the foot of September 14, the Feast of the Holy Cross. received from Jesus on the Cross, to love the cross when our Lord was crucified; her The feast was inserted into the Roman us only and always, so as to save us! Mary holding of Jesus when He was taken down calendar in 1814, and Pope Pius X fixed consoles us above all by pointing out the from the cross; and then our Lord’s burial. the permanent date of September 15 Crucified One and Paradise to us! (1980). In all, the prophesy of Simeon that a sword for the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the would pierce our Blessed Mother’s heart •Therefore, as we honor our Blessed Mother, Blessed Virgin Mary (now simply called was fulfilled in these events. For this reason, our Lady of Sorrows, we honor her as the the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows). The key Mary is sometimes depicted with her heart faithful disciple and exemplar of faith. Let image here is our Blessed Mother standing exposed and with seven swords piercing it. us pray as we do in the opening prayer of faithfully at the foot of the cross with her More importantly, each new suffering was the Mass for this feast day: Father, as your dying Son: the Gospel of St. John recorded, received with the courage, love, and trust Son was raised on the cross, His Mother Seeing His mother there with the disciple that echoed her fiat, let it be done unto me Mary stood by Him, sharing His sufferings. whom He loved, Jesus said to His mother, according to Thy word, first uttered at the May your Church be united with Christ in ‘Woman, there is your son.’ In turn He said Annunciation. His suffering and death and so come to to the disciple, ‘There is your mother.’ (John share in His rising to new life. Looking to •This Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows grew in 19:26-27). The Second Vatican Council in the example of Mary, may we too unite our popularity in the 12th century, although its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church sufferings to our Lord, facing them with under various titles. Granted, some writings wrote, A...She stood in keeping with the courage, love, and trust. would place its roots in the eleventh divine plan, suffering grievously with her century, especially among the Benedictine only-begotten Son. There she united herself, Catholic Education Resource Centre monks. By the fourteenth and fifteenth with a maternal heart, to His sacrifice, and Thank you to Carmel Hill for submitting this centuries, the feast and devotion were lovingly consented to the immolation of this article. widespread throughout the Church. Victim which she herself had brought forth (#58). SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL

Vinnies is always looking for volunteers for a variety of assistance. Whether it be helping out with our Parish Conference, making sandwiches for the Food Vans, or helping at the Call Centre in Mitcham. Don’t stay home and worry about the world - Get out into it and use your gifts to help others in a most practical way.Cant do that? Well what about collecting after mass on Vinnies $2 Sundays

In helping others we help ourselves too. SEPTEMBER 2017 29

Loreto – Margaret Mary Flynn

Leadership is a gift of service. In religious brought her many gifts to this challenge. with the wider public and has worked life it is a complex task of caring, organising, In particular she has devoted much energy tirelessly to ensure that clear processes are encouraging, challenging and finding the to the legal, financial and organisational in place to enable future province leaders to path by walking the particular stretch of setting up of Loreto Ministries, to serve both be engaged with what is happening road that comes up while you are in that and support the Loreto Schools and other but also to be freed by having professionally role. It’s not a job you can set aside as you works of the province into the future. This skilled co-workers to carry forward the go home, because these people are your life has required constant dialogue with chairs management and planning. During this time she has also served the wider church by her presence on boards and professional committees. But on another side, perhaps only members of her council would have seen Margaret Mary’s high level of concern for the sisters themselves. A range of ideas, plans and initiatives have been constantly called into service to support our wellbeing and active participation in ministry. As new arrangements have been needed for our older and more fragile members, she has felt deeply as we grappled with each change that has been required of women who have given their lives in service to God and others, seeking new ways to give companions. It is not a job that you apply of school councils and background work in opportunities for spiritual and personal for. It is a call you accept and do the best selection and formation of new people who support. you can to give it all that you can. have accepted generously the call to serve in a variety of ways. As we welcome Wendy Hildebrand into this Margaret Mary Flynn finishes six years of role in our province, we can say a strong this service to the Australian and South East In the forefront of her planning and concern, thank you to Margaret Mary. She has served Asian province of the IBVM. To take it up the Margaret Mary has kept a focus on East us with love and every gift she has. We have role of Province leader, Margaret Mary left Timor and Vietnam, where new members been blessed to have her at the helm during a much loved and very effective ministry and new missions are developing. She this time of change. in Catholic Social Welfare in Forbes and established in the Philippines a novitiate western New South Wales, where she was that can serve possible new members from Words: Christine Burke IBVM on the front line in developing services for different sectors of our far-flung province, www.loreto.org.au/farewell-margaret-mary/ rural and indigenous people. During her and women from other provinces. She has time as province leader, she has tirelessly found ways to upgrade our communications

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Cars 3’ has a message for kids — and for grownups

Paul Asay | Jun 16, 2017 high-octane vanity, and Lightning McQueen or painted by nobody,” he tells another Aleteia .org was the top dog — the preening king in this vehicle. “They way too valuable… I come world of anthropomorphic autos with all by each one of ‘em with my best friend Disney and Pixar’s latest animated romp the swagger of Puff Daddy. “I am speed,” he Lightning McQueen. I don’t fix these. I want rolls into theaters, with something children says. “One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for to remember these dents forever.” need to hear. breakfast.” Again, Pixar uses America’s ultimate symbol If the average 7-year-old boy had a drivers’ But Lightning gets lost, both physically for status and excess and flips it on its head. license, he’d race down to the nearest and spiritually, and he finds himself in a Now Cars 3 is here. Lightning McQueen’s in multiplex like Lightning McQueen. backwater called Radiator Springs. There the spotlight again, but he’s not the fastest he learns that life is about more than racing The average parent, meanwhile, might want car around anymore. A new breed of race and winning: It’s about enjoying the ride. It’s to slam on the brakes. cars (led by the sleek Jackson Storm) is about the friends and family you have along passing him by. No one wants to say it, but Oh, there’s nothing particularly wrong with with you. everybody knows it: Lightning’s a has-been. the Cars movies, to be sure. They’re fine, When Lightning meets Doc Hudson, a entertaining fare for the kiddos. But most Our materialistic world nods knowingly. legendary race-car in his day, he’s floored. “I adult-folk stick the flicks in the realm of the Youth, in this culture, is king. Kids spend can’t believe it!” Lightning says. “Just look at Pixar also-rans. If films like Finding Nemo, their young lives trying to reach age 17, and those trophies!” Inside Out and the Toy Story films are in then fritter away the rest of it trying to stay Pixar’s penthouse, the Cars series are stuck “You look,” Doc says. “All I see is a bunch of there. We slap on our anti-age cream and in the basement. empty cups.” hide our paunch to look younger. We go skydiving and, yes, buy sports cars to help Or so they say anyway. But I wonder The movie tells us that our cups — our us feel younger. whether we, as a culture, are selling these achievements, our possessions, our often movies short. Sure, they may not jerk the shallow selfish goals — are empty. They’re Something tells me that Lightning won’t same pint of tears that, say, Up might. not necessarily bad things, but they don’t go gently into that good night. The trailers But the films still have some good and really satisfy in and of themselves. It’s what make it look like a Rocky sort of story — surprisingly sophisticated messages in play. we fill them with that’s important. a car gunning for one more chance at And it conveys those messages by using greatness. But at the same time, knowing If ever Pixar made a throwaway film, it’d be — and subverting — the prime symbol Pixar’s (ahem) track record with Cars, the Cars 2 — the only film in Pixar’s canon that of American culture, independence, and studio may have more to say about the has a Rotten Tomatoes “freshness” rating of excess: The car itself. subject — and our often messed-up cultural under 50%. (It weighs in at 39%, or certified priorities. Even in the trailer, Cars 3 suggests We Americans love our cars. We have for “rotten.”) But even here, we see some subtle that what we often value in this world is of decades. We sing about our Pink Cadillacs sublimation of American standards at work. no real value at all. That trophies, however and Little Deuce Coupes. We ogle the dearly earned, are just empty cups. It’s what Ferraris and Teslas that cruise past us on the you fill them with that counts. highways. Even though the best and fastest automobiles tend to be made outside the “The racing is the reward,” Lightning says in States, the car culture is quintessentially the trailer. “Not the stuff.” American. For many of us, cars are an In America, cars are the pinnacle of “stuff.” extension of our personalities. We align We dote on them, baby them, work ourselves with manufacturers (Ford or like the dickens to buy them and then Chevy? Ferarri or Lamborghini?). We trick See, Lightning’s not really the hero of slavishly show them off. They are objects of out our rides. We salivate over them as this flick: Instead it’s Mater, the rusted, adoration. Objects of envy. 8-year-olds and then buy when we try to bucktoothed, hayseed tow truck — the stave off middle age. Pixar gets it. The studio knows full well how sort of vehicle that Puff Daddy wouldn’t popular cars are — especially among the Cars can represent freedom and status, be caught dead in. Granted, Mater’s not little boys that are the Cars’ movies’ biggest excess and youth. And most especially, particularly heroic from the get-go. He fans. they’re a symbol for our sometimes overtly messes up plenty, and other characters materialistic culture. When rappers want — often suave and savvy sports cars — But then it takes the next step — suggesting to tell us how rich and powerful they are, underestimate this junky jalopy. And little to those car-crazy boys that there’s they don’t rattle off bank accounts: They talk wonder: Mater embodies everything that something more worthwhile yet than those about their cars. our car culture — heck, culture itself — fancy vehicles of freedom and fantasy. avoids like a pothole. He’s ugly in a world Even as they root for Lightning, they’ll get “I don’t want the Chrysler that looks like that values beauty. an important lesson or two in what really a [Rolls-Royce] Phantom,” rapper Puff matters. What’s really valuable. And maybe Daddy says in a commercial for his new But Mater suggests that, far from being they — and you — will re-discover that documentary, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop. “I want ashamed of his dilapidated appearance, he’s the real treasure is sitting right there in the the Phantom.” kinda proud of it. movie theater. The original Cars inhabited this world of “I don’t get them dents buffed, pulled, filled SEPTEMBER 2017 31 Around the Parish Update on Fr Kevin Mogg A few of his old priests friends live there too which makes life more enjoyable for him. Fr Kevin has recently moved from his home at George Maher House Clifton Hill into Silvio, Dominic and Tina with Fr Kevin after Justin Villa another lovely home overseen the big move (Russell by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. FR’s brother and Margaret his sister in law Father Kevin was hospitalised a couple of missed out on being included in the happy months ago but recovered speedily from a snaps) Peter Keightley from St Macartans brief illness.. he had some respite time at St also was a great worker on the day. From: Helen Konynenburg [email protected] Catherine’s Nursing home in Balwyn untilSubject he : Visiting Sue Hoskins in her new home! Date: 20 August 2017 11:12 am was ok to move into his new place. Fathers’ To: Helen KonynenburgAs [email protected] know Father Kevin loves hearing family members and some parishioners about any of the Holy Spirit families - feel helped him move his precious belongings free to drop him a line at Justin Villa, 2 and he is now enjoying his new abode. Caravan

Many of you know or will remember Sue Anne Maree Fraser, visited to see her new Hoskins from Holy Spirit school, Football abode and share a welcoming lunch. club, or when she worked as part of the team Here is the view from her back yard - Well, at the Parish House. the bevy of beauties is not a permanent Sue had just moved to the next stage of her fixture of course! life, having sold her home in Marcel Court Close to the beach and with an already and moved to her lovely new home in Safety established community from years of Beach Saturday . holidays in the Safety Beach Caravan Park, On Saturday 19 August, Mary Ryan, Tina and family nearby Sue is delighted with her Toomey, Helen Konynenburg and new home. We wish her well as she embarks on this new stage of her life. The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

The Feast of the Exaltation of the pagan temples had been built on top of crucified alongside Christ, devised an Holy Cross, celebrated every year on it. The Cross on which Christ had died had experiment to determine which was the September 14, recalls three historical been hidden (tradition said) by the Jewish True Cross. authorities somewhere in the vicinity. events: the finding of the True Cross by In one version of the latter tradition, the Saint Helena, the mother of the emperor SAINT HELENA AND THE FINDING OF three crosses were taken to a woman who Constantine; the dedication of churches THE TRUE CROSS was near death; when she touched the built by Constantine on the site of the Holy True Cross, she was healed. In another, the Sepulchre and Mount Calvary; and the According to tradition, first mentioned by body of a dead man was brought to the restoration of the True Cross to Jerusalem Saint Cyril of Jerusalem in 348, Saint Helena, place where the three crosses were found, by the emperor Heraclius II. But in a deeper nearing the end of her life, decided under and laid upon each cross. The True Cross sense, the feast also celebrates the Holy divine inspiration to travel to Jerusalem in restored the dead man to life. Cross as the instrument of our salvation. 326 to excavate the Holy Sepulchre and attempt to locate the True Cross. A Jew by THE DEDICATION OF THE CHURCHES This instrument of torture, designed to the name of Judas, aware of the tradition ON MOUNT CALVARY AND THE HOLY degrade the worst of criminals, became concerning the hiding of the Cross, led SEPULCHRE the life-giving tree that reversed Adam’s those excavating the Holy Sepulchre to the Original Sin when he ate from the Tree of In celebration of the discovery of the Holy spot in which it was hidden. the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Cross, Constantine ordered the construction Garden of Eden. Three crosses were found on the spot. of churches at the site of the Holy Sepulchre According to one tradition, the inscription and on Mount Calvary. Those churches HISTORY OF THE FEAST OF THE Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (“Jesus of were dedicated on September 13 and 14, EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS Nazareth, King of the Jews”) remained 335, and shortly thereafter the Feast of the After the death and resurrection of Christ, attached to the True Cross. According to Exaltation of the Holy Cross began to be both the Jewish and Roman authorities a more common tradition, however, the celebrated on the latter date. in Jerusalem made efforts to obscure the inscription was missing, and Saint Helena The feast slowly spread from Jerusalem to Holy Sepulchre, Christ’s tomb in the garden and Saint Macarius, the bishop of Jerusalem, other churches, until, by the year 720, the near the site of His crucifixion. The earth assuming that one was the True Cross and celebration was universal. had been mounded up over the site, and the other two belonged to the thieves 32 SEPTEMBER 2017

Holy Spirit Community Fete 2017 Save the date - Saturday 14th October. Our fete is fast approaching and it is time to start getting excited! The Fete Committee are busy preparing for another fantastic day filled with wonderful food stalls, fun rides, treasures to find and great entertainment. With so many generous family, friends and parishioners in our community we now need your help to ensure another great day that is imbued by the wonderful Holy Spirit community feel.

Volunteers Wristbands and Rides We still need numerous volunteers Wristbands are $40 - one wristband covers all rides. Subject to height to help out on our fete stalls, please restrictions on some rides. consider volunteering on a stall and Wristbands will be available for purchase at Holy Spirit the week prior to the help us create another remarkable fete. Wristband sales will not be available on the day of the fete. fete! We have made it even easier to volunteer, all you need to do is visit the fete website www.holyspiritfete. org.au and click on the volunteers button. Handmade Gifts Stall If you require any assistance please With so many talented and generous family, friends and parishioners in our contact Sharon Garcia on 0402 884 community we are looking for donations of handmade gifts that can be sold 455 or Wendy Zito on 0422 936 334. on fete day. If you do not have access to a Art work, hair ribbons, knitted or crocheted items, jewellery, cards and any computer please contact the parish other handmade items would be greatly appreciated. house on 9876 3077 to help you Handmade Gifts can be dropped off to the parish house or please contact book a time slot. Sharon Garcia on 0402 884 455 or Wendy Zito on 0422 936 334 for more information.

Donations, Donations, Donations Sponsors Donations are the backbone of our fete. Donations of goods and time, Support from our sponsors is donations from school families, parishioners and the community are all what especially important to making our makes our fete tick. fete happen. Where you can, please We are now looking for the following donations of new and second hand make an effort to support those who goods: support us. -Trash and treasure To get involved or for more -Books information call Mark Johnstone -Clothes and shoes on 0432 048 952 or email fete@ -Toys holyspiritparish.org.au These items can now be dropped off to the shed at the front of our school. As the days get closer we’ll also be looking for any plant donations. SEPTEMBER 2017 33

Holy Spirit Fete Cake Stall

Our amazing cake stall will be back again at our fete this year and we need your help to make it even bigger and better! The cake stall is one of the highlights of our school fete and is only possible with the help of parents, students, grandparents, parishioners, families and friends who bake for this amazing stall. We need everyone’s help to make sure we have plenty of delicious cakes and treats to sell. The more people who can help bake, the better our display and of course the more money we can raise for our school. Closer to the date each family will be given a cake plate and there will also be plenty of extra cake plates available from the school office and the parish house for those who are able to bake more for our big day. All baked donations can be dropped off to the parish house on the Friday before fete day from 8:30am and on Saturday 14th October from 9am in the church hall.

Why not donate ingredients? Donated baking ingredients would also be greatly appreciated. Any baking items from the list below are used by the stall holders team to make so many of the wonderful cakes and creations you will find on fete day. A basket has now been set up in the school office and in the parish house for all donations.

Caster sugar Nestle Sweetened Brown sugar Condensed Milk Raw Sugar Desiccated coconut Icing Sugar Good quality cooking choc Flour Choc chips Vanilla extract Almond meal Baking powder Arnott’s Milk Arrowroot Biscuits Arnott’s Marie Biscuits Arnott’s Tic Toc Biscuits

Please contact Sonya Pote on 0437 125 785, Francis Martuccio on 0409 177 672 or Lou Gurgone on 0419 526 505 for any further details. Your continued support and generosity enables the cake stall to be the success that it is! 34 SEPTEMBER 2017

Subject: Child Safety Standards

“Every child has the right to feel safe and Child Safety Standards were developed to: a training course, it is not because you are be safe.” not trusted, it is to do everything we can to • Establish a minimum and compulsory achieve the safest environment possible for This statement from CatholicCare, who have benchmark to create and maintain safe our children. been commissioned to run the Child Safety environments for organisations training in the Archdiocese, would seem providing services to children. As has been advertised in the word obvious to everyone. But how do we as a for several weeks, The Archdiocese is • To generate a cultural change whereby community ensure that our parish is a “Child offering training courses on Child Safe everyone becomes aware of the need Safe and Child Friendly Environment”? standards. We will also be offering training to promote the safety of children, not within the parish in the near future. I We all need to be aware of new Victorian just assume it. encourage everyone, whether you are Government legislation and the Archdiocese • And to encourage the prevention, on a parish committee and/or roster or of Melbourne’s policies regarding Child detection and reporting of child abuse not, to participate in one of these training Safety. in organisations through a clearly opportunities. The more parishioners who Pope Francis has urged the whole church to defined process. participate, the more empowered our community will be. “...find the courage needed to take all • A child’s right to safety and protection necessary measures and to protect in every is part of Victorian law. A child safe Finally, to quote Francis Sullivan (Truth, way the lives of our children, so that such environment is everyone’s responsibility, Justice and Healing Council) from his crimes may never be repeated.” although in our parish setting, some statement to the Royal Commission: people will be more involved than In Victoria, children are protected under “This Commission is not only about the past. others. current protection laws, new criminal More importantly is is about today and the offences within the Victorian Crimes Act, How do we make our parish a “Child Safe future, about ensuring institutions are as Government Standards and policies and in Environment?” safe as they possibly can be for children.” a parish context, the Archdiocese and Parish This is an ongoing, evolving process. A “Words are important, but the measure of policies and practices. “Child Safe Environment” does not just rely commitment can only ever be gauged by The new criminal offences which have now on any one component, such as a Working actions.” come into practice are: with Children Check. It is child centred, “The wrongs of the past must be repaired, aiming to protect children from all forms of “Grooming for sexual conduct”, survivors of abuse must be shown the harm, physical, sexual or through accident. compassion and justice they have been “Failure to protect”, and The only way we as a community can calling for, child Safety must be embedded achieve a safe environment, is for us all to “Failure to report”. in the culture of the Church.” be aware of the importance of child safety, These offences can result in imprisonment and actively participating in the efforts to Please take note of the Compulsory education for periods of 3 to 10 years, and it is comply with regulations. If you are asked to sessions that are being offered at various important that we make ourselves aware of get a Working with Children Check, a Police times to bring us all up to date with these the implications of this legislation. Check, provide a reference, or undertake standards. ! 30 JUNE 2016 4 SEPTEMBER 2013 4 SEPTEMBER 2013

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VALE Gail Gaine 1/5/1936 – 4/12/2016

Gail was an inspiration within our parish for many years – I’m sure A much loved lady who is sadly missed by her loving family , friends many of you will remember Gail with her brightly colored walking and collegues. stick and later, a walking frame – But always with a smile on her face I was fortunate to receive copies of some of her favorite pieces from and that DETERMINATION! many writers and philosophers, which she copied in her beautiful handwriting into her Anthology of poetry and prose. I would like to share this piece with you – Unfortunately I am not sure of the author – I think Pablo Cassals “Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two plus two makes four, and that Paris is the Capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like FromThis photo: Don was Schroder taken on [email protected] 2, 2016 at her granddaughter you. And look at your body, what a wonder it is! Your legs, your SubjectRachel’s: St wedding. Paul's Her grandchildren grabbed hold of the arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a wheelchairDate: 14 Augustand swung 2017 her 1:21 around pm “dancing” with her on the Shakespeare, a Michaelanglo, a Beethoven – You have the capacity danceTo: floor.Helen She Konynenburg loved it so [email protected] for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you This photo was supplied by Gail’s daughter Celia, and we thank then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one her for sharing. another. You must work – We all must work – to make this world worthy of its children” -- Best wishes always, AND…………. Gail’s life was never simple, however, her story is truly inspirational.

“The love of one’s country is a natural thing. But why should love DonHaving left school in 1953 at Year 12 Level, Gail returned to study stop at the border? Our family is one – each of us has a duty to his for the first time in 1969 as a single mother with six children. brothers. We are all leaves of a tree, and the tree is humanity” She gained her General Nursing Certificate with Distinction and continued studying achieving her Bachelor of Education in 1983 Pablo Cassals – Joys and Sorrows. From Gail Gaine’s Anthology withLynette 9 Distinctions. and I had Her the career included positions as Nurse Educator, Deputyprivilege Director of…gwood.docx of Nursing, Lecturer of Gerontology and Assistant Director of Nursing Services – A stellar career indeed.

OPENING of ST Pauls Church Ringwood

Lynette and I had the privilege of being invited to the opening of the new St Pauls Church in Ringwood. This took place on 18th of June and Archbishop Philip Freier and Bishop Paul Barker officiated and tribute was paid to the original inhabitants of the land. It was a lovely ceremony and the impressive building features a striking stained glass window which came from Christ Church, Heathmont . Heathmont, Ringwood Ringwood East and Park Orchards now form Mullum Mullum Anglican Parish and we extend our best wishes to all the good people of our neighbourhood church. Don & Lyn Schroder 36 SEPTEMBER 2017

eye and admire Ned Kelly’s “criminal” aborigines and our struggles with a harsh, Pope Francis bravado. Traditionally we are egalitarian, raw land and climate. But many Australians has introduced us to a number of “new” anti-authoritarian, self-reliant, critical of still have the whisper in their minds and words: “mercy”, “tenderness”, “warmth”, fun-denying wowsers and suspicious of the shy hope in their hearts. How can we “conversation”, “dialogue”, “pilgrim”, preachers with all the answers. We like learn to live and speak about Jesus in an “discernment”, “synodal”, “joy” and “beauty”. religion with its “sleeves rolled up” and understandable and attractive Australian practical religious leaders who share our way? On the 9th August, he introduced lot, like Mary MacKillop, the SVdP and another word, “noisy”. During his General One strong trend in Australian culture that the Salvos. Unfortunately, the Churches Audience, he told two groups of sisters, “Be has helped us cope with heartbreak and have too often been moralistic, sectarian, always joyful, and even . . . noisy!” and he tragedy has been humour. We have an doctrinal and serious. We Christians need encouraged them to “witness everywhere exceptional ability to laugh at ourselves and to learn to laugh and present a happy but the beauty of your consecration to God and “take the mickey” out of the over-serious relevant face. to the Gospel.” and the pompous. Even in our iconic Australia has never been a particularly tragedy, the inevitable defeat at Anzac Cove, This has been a constant theme for Francis. religious nation and some have called us the ANZACs used irreverence and humour In the Joy of the Gospel he tells us that the most secular nation on earth, but that to face the hopelessness of their situation. you cannot argue someone into believing is debatable. We have an Australian way of because “only the beauty of God can We will be much more credible when we being religious. Manning Clark described attract” [EG #15]. He questions what kind have learnt to speak of the beauty and our approach as, “A whisper in the mind of missionary disciples we will be if we suffering we have found in our own lives in and a shy hope in the heart.” There is a are Christians who look like “Lent without a friendly, humble, appreciative and light great reluctance in Australians to talk about Easter” #6, or people “who have just come hearted way. And especially when we “look religion and spirituality and a distaste for back from a funeral” #10? We must live the more redeemed” and have learnt to laugh. extravagant display. Interestingly John Gospel in a free and happy way for it to be Thornhill in his book Making Australia Fr Noel Connolly SSC is a member of the credible. Frederick Nietzsche once wrote (1992) entitled his chapter on religion The Columban Mission Institute in North that for him to believe in Christ as the Embarrassing Subject. Sydney and a lecturer in Missiology at both Redeemer, “his disciples would need to look the Broken Bay Institute and the Catholic more redeemed”. If our faces and lives are However, that does not mean we are Institute of Sydney. not suggestive of joy, beauty, tenderness irreligious. There is an inarticulateness about and freedom then we can hardly blame our Australian spirituality and a silence before We thank Mary Ryan for submitting this secular brothers and sisters for thinking mystery. Theologians like John Thornhill, article. there is nothing in Christianity, certainly Tony Kelly and Ross Langmead believe this Mary Ryan Co-ordination Adult Faith nothing attractive and joyful. suggests not a lack of spiritual depth but Formation/Paris Liason a silence that reveals wisdom. 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