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PENTECOSTNewsletter TO ORDINARY TIME The Province of the Pacific,Third Order Society of St Francis.
MINISTER PROVINCIAL REFLECTION Index A conversation with an Australian outback station-owner: “With your station covering so many miles, what do you do about fences?” with our Minister Reflection - “We don’t erect fences. We dig wells” You’ve probably heard Provincial that story many times, but I was thinking what a good parable it is 1 for us. Of course, we are an Order. There are personal rules, a Justice Issues with TSSF commitment to peace, simplicity and care of creation; a commitment to live our loyalty to Christ in humble service. Peter Bargh 2/3
Parihaka 4 These, however, are never to close ourselves IN or shut others OUT – not fences but wells of invitation to the pure, sparkling, living AreaArea NewsNews water of Christ-Spirit.
5/65/6 Rev.Rev. DavidDavid Many of us have been working through the bible studies, stories and questions sent out over the past four months or so. They are 77 designed to help us think deeply, be challenged and encouraged so MelanesiaMelanesia 8/8/ that our Third Order life is transparent and life-giving and attractive. I am reading “Ask that Mountain,” the story of Parihaka by Dick SSF 1010 PeacePeace with Smith. It makes sobering reading. The charismatic Te Whiti gave Christopher John exemplary leadership. He was a man of courage and integrity and 11/1211/12 unwavering determination to stand against the greed and dishonesty nnn of unjust laws, particularly in relation to Maori land. On his release Next copy due Christmas, from prison, he was warned never again to hold a meeting at as I leave Dec 6th, it will Parihaka. He replied: ”If the grasshoppers find good new grass, they need to be in by Nov 20th will come; nothing will prevent them. to get it printed and out ”So – whether we use the gospel image of living water or Te Whiti’s before I go, unless someone image of good new grass, let’s renew our passion as a Religious else wants to do this? Helene Order. We have something precious and nurturing to offer our Theme PEACE in Action world.
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JUSTICE ISSUES Article written by the Reverend Peter Bargh tssf, from the Auckland Anglican Social Justice Group. Published in the July Talking Cents: an ecumenical group charged by the Auckland Anglican Diocesan Council to promote an alternative to current economic and political thought, and to encourage debate within the Church.
This community was founded at the height of the Christa Seva Sangha – Servants of British Raj in India. It was a Christian ashram Christ? where Indian and British Christians lived, worked The world is currently full of uncertainty. Amongst and prayed together. This was a prophetic move at our Five Eyes colleagues, Australia, the United the time where divisions between the imperial States and the United Kingdom are all facing British presence and rising Indian nationalism led electoral crises with the future direction of their to distrust from both sides, especially in the wake countries, and those others effected by their of the Amritsar massacre in 1919. decisions, up in the air. The ashram community was known as Christa In a less sensational way things remain Seva Sangha (CSS)– the servants of Christ. The frustratingly oblique in New Zealand, too, as the Anglo-Indian community believed that Christianity Child Poverty Action’s Group response to the transcended, and was being held back by, its budget conveys: association with British colonialism. Together, British and Indian members developed the “This is not the New Zealand we want and it is not principles by which the community would live. The acceptable.” John Key was referring to the high CSS principles form the basis for most and increasing numbers of homeless families with contemporary Anglican Franciscan principles. children. It is a surprise then to see this do-little budget from this Government who promised to The CSS principles focused around work, prayer prioritise alleviating child poverty.1 and study. These would have been recognizable to religious communities in India as well as to Griffith University’s Anne Coombs writes: “It’s as if European Christian religious communities dating the very mechanism we’ve created to organise back to the first few centuries of the Common Era. ourselves – government – has decided that the one In addition to these traditional personal and thing it cannot do is organise us.”2 One sign of this communal elements the CSS principles called for is that “our politicians are burying their heads in some of its members to be concerned with “the the sand.”3 At these times it is tempting for us to application of Christian principles to the use and do just that, too, to put our heads in the sand, or distribution of wealth;” this phrase survives in the the occasional ecclesiastical equivalent of head- contemporary Franciscan principles.5 burying...going on retreat! This expression of the Christian faith, coming as it Who better to lead well churched folk in retreats did in a culturally divided, colonial nation at the than those in religious orders? In June I attended beginning of the Great Depression, joined together one such retreat, which looked at the origins of with the practical expression of care found in the contemporary Anglican Franciscans.4 These nascent Franciscan community in Dorset and the origins lie in two groups of people who sought to SSF came into being. The SSF community has live according to Francis’ charism. In the 1930s subsequently been one of the “best kept secrets” these two groups came together in England and of Anglicanism.6 Franciscans have been as salt to the Society of Saint Francis (SSF) was formed. One the Anglican communities, engaging in prophetic of the groups had been based in Dorset, England, work of peace-making, social justice work and at what became Hilfield Friary, where throughout loving service. the 1920s they provided care to vagrants and began to live a community life. The other group, however, was based in India.
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Simply having a greater awareness of Anglican FranciscanThe reality history is that ostriches, the proverbial head in the sand bird, can fall into the category of enjoying the sand that onlyour headsever put are their heads in the sand to turn the eggs in their nests buried in. Thankfully, it need not, however; especially– to bring if life the to others. We are called to proclaim the Good News awareness of the faithfulness of a small communityto in the India, world, and not to accept that things are dismal and there is no the subsequent revival of a well-known religious alternative. community it inspired, inspires us. The prophetic vision of CSS married with the practical care led to something that has brought life to others. Amidst the myriad issues facing us today it can help to focus on one. If we consider the growing issues of homelessness in New Last month’s edition of Talking Cents looked at the Zealand,rise of TINA signs – of hope can be seen in events like the Park Up for there is no alternative. TINA emerged whenHomes. Soviet-style There, the marriage between a practical expression of care communism was collapsing and it appeared that globalfor thosecapitalism who are homeless and a vision for how to house people was the best way to organize society.7 This was in the New triumphal Zealand is emerging.8 height of neoliberalism, although its fruits continue to be experienced now: the gulf between the rich and the poor grows ever wider; and, the question of the just distributionIn Depression-era of wealth British India, the ashram model spoke to the remains as poignant now as it has ever been. transcendent power of the gospel, which challenges the unjust structures of society, and shaped CSS– the Servants of Christ. How are we called to be effective servants of Christ today? The hope that inspired the principles of CSS, the hope to seek for a society that better reflected the heavenly vision they Footnotesshared, is one that is not bound by historical circumstance. Indeed1 it was their belief that Christianity offered a trans-historical hopehttp://www.cpag.org.nz/assets/2016%20CPAGBudgetAnalysis%20Summary%20v5.pdf that led them to take action that was grounded in their historical circumstance2 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/it-seems-like-a-good-time- – they founded an Anglo-Indian ashram and encouragedto-ask-what-are-governments-for their She argues that “[t]he focus on growth and security members to think about the structural challenges thatseems impeded to have blindedthe governments to all else.” 3 Ibid. in-breaking of that heavenly vision into the India of their4 Much day. of the following Franciscan history is drawn from material presented by Brother Christopher John SSF to the annual retreat of the Third Order, Society of Saint Francis in Auckland over June 17-19, 2016. 5 There are an overwhelming number of economic and Christasocial Seva justice Sangha “hopes that, in particular, there will be those among its Tertiaries issues facing us in our globalised world. Add in apatheticwho will and be ableanti- to further the special aims of the Third Order by contributing, through establishment sentiment together with growing inequalitytheir researches and the and writings, to a better understanding of the Church’s worldwide diminishment of transparent democratic structures andmission, processes of the use and distribution of wealth, and of all questions that pertain to human (as in the TPPA); the best response can seem likebrotherhood burying [sic].”our http://tssf.org/sample-page/the-principles/ Compare the CSS heads in the sand, agreeing that there is no alternativeprinciples to the the contemporary principles of the Third Order, Society of Saint Francis – current model which perpetuates and increases theseDay issues. 18. 6 http://www.s-s-f.org/ 7 http://www.auckanglican.org.nz/what-we-do/social-justice See the June, 2016 Cents, contributed by David Hall.8 http://www.cpag.org.nz/campaigns/
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National Retreat at Parihaka Marae, may happen in small groups in many towns- at least I hope so.(Editor Helene Young) Taranaki 2017, Date: Friday 10th March . Powhiri at 5pm to Sunday 12th March 2pm A Waiata to Learn
Accommodation: Marae style sleeping with some He hōnore, he korōria 1; couches available. A house hopefully available for those Maungārongo ki te whenua Whakaaro 2 who wish to sleep off site. Limited beds available off pai e Kingā tangata site, booking on first come, first served basis. katoa Cost: Estimated $120 -180 for weekend, may be Ake ake, ake ake Āmine extra for the house. (price confirmed after Te Atua, te piringa, Toku oranga (2x) Chapter!) Honour, glory and peace to the land Content:Marae speakers “Parihaka, yesterday and today” A May good thoughts come to all men film “the Parihaka story” for ever and ever, for ever and ever. Amen. The Lord is the refuge and my life. Speaker ++ Philip -topic to be advised. 1. This is derived from the angel's words to the shepherds th Please book with our treasurer Blair before 20 when Christ was born; "Kia whai kororia te Atua i runga November 2016. Any questions contact Helene. rawa, kia mau te rongo ki runga ki te whenua, me te whakaaro pai ki nga tangata." "Glory to God in the highest, Peace Walk/ Hikoi and on earth peace and good will toward men." (Luke 2:14) 2. Whakaaro is pronounced whaka-aro, with doubled short "a" sounds. It is not whakāro, with one long "a" sound. This event touched many hearts and every day ______An several 100 people marched with others joining the extract from Ask That Mountain, by Dick talks held between 3-5pm, telling stories, sharing Scott: ” In the hurts listening with respect. first days of New Zealand’s land war,on 29 March 1860, the British warship Niger stood off the coast of Taranaki On the final day about 500 turned up for the finaltwenty five miles south of New Plymouth and hurled walk and some joined for the walk onto Parihakashells and rockets at the mission station at Warea...the bombardment continued for two days and nights but Marae.It was an amazing and powerful experience. bush cover and the long range tempered its destruction. Mayor Judd was given the Parihaka Peace DrumA combined military and naval force was then sent and asked to bring it on. This is the first time aoverland from New Plymouth...The settlement of Pakeha has drummed on the Marae since theWarea, along with its flour mill, food supplies, farm soldiers came in Novemeber 1881, as happenedimplements, livestock, eel weirs and canoes had been especially singled out for obliteration ...Warea, then the children went in front, it was a very healingunfortified and undefended, burned all night and into the walk, with many tears and later songs. next day and only the church...was left standing to mark the site of fourteen years of mission settlement... inland The thing now will be to keep the momentum Warea’s defensive pa on Mahanui hill...with warriors of discussion going and hopefully explore the ready for battle was left strictly alone. It was a selective structures that create racism and separation. search and destroy operation and the marauders were safely back in New Plymouth within four days. (p.11-12)” As there were many from all over New Zealand this
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Waikato welcome by Raechel, a cup of tea was followed by “Some of the Waikato group members sharing a sharing of what we had been doing. Members the joy of fellowship when we gathered at St present were Dorothy, Raechel, Val, Nettie, Andrew’s Church in Cambridge for our August Claudia, Barry and Walter. A special welcome back meeting. We have been studying Chasing to Barry who is looking at where God may be Francis by Ian Morgan Cron and discussed calling him. what the Church might look like in light of the As St Clare’s Day was the 11th Dorothy led a challenges reflected in chapter 10. Social sharing on Clare. We were briefly asked what we Justice and Care of Creation were integral to knew about St Clare, with some interesting the conversation which we took the next step snippets read from “Praying with St Clare” by asking how we may best reflect the love of God Ramona Miller OSF and Ingrid Paterson OSF. in all its diversity and complexity to one St. Clare refused to be defined by the traditional another when many live at a distance and we ideas for women of her day – It was expected that usually meet bi-monthly. We continue to if a women joined a Religious order their dowry explore what this might look like so we may was given to the monastery- Clare refused and reflect Jesus’ words, “they will know you are gave her dowry away to the poor. She believed my disciples if you love one another.” Christ came into the world poor and died with Let us all appreciate our early spring with joy! nothing and so this is the desire that both she and Sandy Francis held onto - seeking nothing for themselves and their followers. She had her own community Rule recognised after a long struggle just before she died. Dorothy lead us through one of the meditations from the book Gazing at the San Damiano Cross encouraging us to “Place ourselves with Clare before the Icon and using her words “gaze upon (Him),consider (Him), contemplate (Him) to move into prayer. Allow yourself to imagine the feelings that Jesus has for you as He gazes upon you.” “Look into the mirror and notice the physical changes that have happened over the years. What about spiritual changes?”
Following the meditation we celebrated the Eucharist before we shared as usual a delightful lunch. NOTICES 1, Reports due at St Francis-tide to Dorothy 2. Next meeting on Monday 3rd October at the Napier
NB Address Correction Cathedral (Transistus) followed by a pizza tea at NIC Dorothy’s ($5.00). Claire Stewart, ,P O Box 12 Our 3. NATIONAL RETREAT - Parihaka 10th March )5pm)to Coromandel 3543 meeting 12th March (2pm). BOOK before 20th November with 1436 Tiki Road (Not 146) began Blair our Provincial Treasurer. Queries: contact Coromandel 3506 (not 3056) with a Helene. special Many thanks for all your effort to ensure good communication! Arohanui, Sandy
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Christian peace making into one, all presented with a touch of humour. and the Many comments, one SFO even saying he was Just War theory going to re-think everything he thought he knew about war and Pacifism; the Each year Auckland Group meet with the presentations and talk of the morning had Secular Franciscan Order. We were the hosts 'blown him backwards’." Amen! Diane when we met on 6 August at St. Andrews, concluded with a report on our ongoing Epsom, home to Em and Richard. It was a joy contact with the Foundation for Relief & to be together for some very thoughtful and Reconciliation in the Middle East, a UK thought provoking presentations. We began organisation supporting Canon Andrew White with a splendid morning tea courtesy of Janet in Baghdad and her koha bowl brought in $80. and her team. (The hospitality overflowed to 4 Anne Scott displayed white poppies and peace ice-cream boxes of goodies for the City materials too. Mission next day!) After our shared lunch Janet told us the Br. Philip from Hillsborough Friary led Morning moving story behind the tradition of making Prayer, reminding us that the day was doubly paper Cranes, from a little girl terminally ill, significant, celebrating the Transfiguration of and then demonstrated making them. We all Jesus and remembering the atom bomb had a go, some with better results than others. dropped on Hiroshima. Next a short SFO This was interwoven with Bronwyn telling us presentation about St Francis and the Mayor, of her visit to Hiroshima and reading poignant followed by small (mixed!) groups for letters from children who had survived discussion. Hiroshima. Children of the A-Bomb: Testament
Peter presented a very powerful session on the Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. topic of Christian Peace Making & the Just War Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where Theory, acknowledging the work of Pip, Em there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, and Margaret in bringing it all together. From faith; where there is despair, hope; where there Pope Francis the peacemaker, to the Just War is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Theory and criteria including ‘only as a last O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be st resort’, to peace initiatives in the 21 century. understood as to understand; to be loved as to We learned so much, gained a fresh love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in perspective and a short history lesson rolled of pardoning the boys that and we girls are ofpardoned; Hiroshima. it is inCompiled dying that we are born again to eternal life.
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REMEMBRANCE OF DAVID BRADDOCK
Father David Braddock, times. He was an encourager, advisor, a great 24th June 1927 - 2nd September 2016 confessor for those who wanted this, and respecter of each person and their journey. He was a person Notes from Eulogy who knew his own mind – some may say stubborn. God says: Do not fear your death. ‘Perhaps he was the closest to being a mystic of For when that moment arrives anyone many of us know or knew’, so said several I will draw my breath and your soul members. will come to me like a needle to a magnet; Mechtild of Magdeburg. When I was a novice there were four of us exploring at the same time and while we had our It was an honour to represent the Third Order, own Novice Counsellors, David and Thea were to give thanks for David, and acknowledge his walking with two of the group, and as an added years of commitment to TSSF, and reflect on what extra we used to all get together with them and he gave many. explore our commitment to following Christ in the way of Francis and now, I would add Clare. We David joined the Third Order having been a often had our meetings in their home and I can companion in another Order, when his spiritual remember the generous hospitality as we sat in the director said to him: “Now there is another Order in chapel cum study in their Northcote home, shared your part of the world, you should join up with the Eucharist and discussed that which was the them.” He had recognized his need for a Rule of topic of the day. When they moved into Life. One member recalls him saying that a Rule of Knightsbridge, we were all enamoured with their Life is ‘a prop for human frailty’. I wonder if he little chapel cum study – what holy spaces. would have said this now – I suspect not. Not that long ago he was asked: What does David decided to invite Brother Brian SSF to take a Francis mean to you, he became immediately mission in the Glenfield parish where he and Thea present and spoke so lovingly of the Little Poor were, so began his journey with Francis. He was Man and the simplicity and generosity that he professed in 1970 and almost immediately became showed, following the example of his Lord, that the Auckland chaplain. He was chaplain again in for more than 40 years had underpinned David's 1982 in Nelson where he and Thea were pivotal in own life and ministry. I can remember as a novice creating a Third Order community. There were two hearing David say that he had come to understand tertiaries and a small group of companions in Francis and appreciate him more since his Nelson when they arrived. Thea and David retirement. David with Francis was able to say: organized several retreats and are remembered for ‘My God, my all’. those and for the gift they were to all who attended. I finish with the final verse of St Francis of Another member offered a Bible verse he often Assisi’s Canticle of the Sun used - Micah 6, verse 8 – What does the Lord require of you - but to do justice, and to love Be praised, my Lord, through our sister Bodily kindness and to walk humbly with your God? Death, from whose embrace no living person can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! He was indeed a man who walked humbly with his Happy those she finds doing Your most holy will. God. He was also someone for whom the The second death can do no harm to them. Contemplative life was important. Liturgy was also Praise and bless my Lord, and give thanks, important – the Auckland Third Order Eucharist and serve Him with great humility. was developed by David and Thea together. with thanks to Anne Moody One of the delights of David was his sense of May he Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory. humour, which could be wicked and irreverent at
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Melanesia, Solomon Islands
We, Sarah Hart and Blair Matheson, have just returned from a wonderful 6 days on the Solomon Islands. We were so graciously and generously greeted and looked after by our sisters and brothers there.
The regional chapter for Melanesia was held while we were there. Jimmy, the new Regional Minister Provincial for Melanesia worked so hard to make sure this was a really well organised, run and administered event. We truly are grateful to have been present and able to help them while Chapter occurred over the weekend. What a wonderful group of woman and men. We were excited and delighted to see such great outcomes for the Chapter Honiara Sept 2016 Using Rose’s plain Third Order in the Solomon's, English daily principles for morning prayer
Jaimee, who is Jimmy & Daisy’s daughter with Tau cross given to Chapter
Regional Chapter attendees Honiara , Sept 2016
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We learnt so much being with them and especially about some of the amazing ministry work they are all involved in. The feeding ministry to the prostitutes, disabled and poor in the squatter camp by the river, helping the Catholic sisters who run the centre to abused women and children and the work in numerous areas of education from pre-school through to high school was both inspiring and challenging. There are more fantastic things to share about the Franciscan mission and ministry in the Solomon Islands both at the NZ Chapter and in the next TAU. Sarah Hart and Blair Matheson
L to R, new team for tssf Melanesia: Regional Treasurer Daniel Sade (Guadalcanal), Regional minister Jimmy Maeigoa (Honiara), Regional Formation Director Sam Faga (Makira), Regional Novice Counsellor George Ngangafu (Honiara, in front),Bishop Protector tssf Rt Rev Alfred Karibongi (Makira) Regional Convenor David Raurau (Savo) Regional Chaplain Rev. Divine Kabau (Honiara absent) TAU 9
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A moment in God's presence; I take of my shoes - my ambitions Undo my watch - my time table; Take off my glasses - my views Put down my keys - my security; To be alone with you - The only True God
After being with you;I put on my shoes - to walk in your ways Strap on my watch - to live in your home; Put on my glasses - to look at your world; Clip on my pen - to write up your thoughts; Pick up my keys - to open your doors Amen Amen
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INSTRUMENTS OF PEACE
A few Franciscans were very active in work for peace and justice. They were like the We all know that peacemaking is somehow in “professional activists.” They were well the Franciscan genes. But do we always see it educated in Franciscan sources and had a in action? This is a question I’ve been grappling range of contacts with others. Many were with recently. After four years of hard work I’ve very finished my PhD thesis at Otago University’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and just graduated. able communicators. But some were not always easy to live with back in their So what about the peacemaking? I was convents or friaries. “Professional” peace interested in looking at what motivates activists can be so concerned with peace in Franciscans as peacemakers as well as their outside ministries they don’t work for it their stories of how they saw themselves as in their home life! (This is not just peacemakers. I chose to do this research in Franciscans I’m talking about here!) Sri Lanka among the Catholic Franciscans there. There has been more than 30 years of Some Franciscans were highly committed to civil war in that country, pitting the ethnic peacemaking through the witness of their majority of Sinhalese against the Tamil community life. These were often minority. Franciscans were on both sides of communities of mixed ethnicity. You can that divide. What made for even more easily imagine how impressive it can be if interesting results was that there are a someone sees groups which are separated number of different congregations of by civil war managing to live together under Franciscans there. I met members of five the same roof. This witness didn’t come different Orders of friars, three different easily but needed lots of continuous work Orders of sisters, and several different together. Secular Franciscan fraternities. For some, the effects of the war were too Everyone might be inspired by Francis but great. Pressure from outside groups, or each one receives that inspiration in different differences in their friary or convent life were ways. too great. They escaped into external ministry perhaps as a relief from the Some of them take a devotional approach to unhappy life back home. Francis. He is a person to pray to, to ask favours of, to make offerings to at his Some spoke of new identities they created statues. These Franciscans felt he was a for themselves. Sri Lankan church life is saint who could help heal them. The trauma fairly structured for many. There are expected of the war is immense and despite the roles for priests, sisters and brothers. Some current peace, the wounds remain very deep. broke out of these moulds. For example, one These people were like “wounded healers” sister I interviewed, earlier was living in a as they tried to find healing for their own refugee camp. She and other sisters had wounds as well as being signs of hope and taken off their habits and wore the usual healing to others. clothing of Tamil women. A Sinhalese army officer came to interview her. He thought she officer came to interview her. He thought she
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PEACE CONTINUED There are lots of stories like these, as well as simple ones of faithfulness in daily life, despite huge difficulties.
So – what is the Franciscan peace “thing”? I’m not sure I’m much closer to understanding that! Perhaps it comes to being open to the radically questioning, yet in a sense deeply conservative, vision of Francis. Place God at the centre, and then those God loves – all of humanity and the whole of creation, especially the most despised. Look for the relationships. Is God’s love made manifest? Before peace can be made by exterior activism, there needs to be peace and healing in internal relationships. A faith which is open to the wisdom of other traditions can help sustain us in this journey. And knowing Francis, his words, his life, his prayer, can help us create our own identities as Franciscans of peace and live out the promise of that Franciscan “peace gene”.
For some more reading see the article in the forthcoming issue of Anglican Taonga. And if you really want the full experience my thesis, all 100,000 words plus appendices, is available online at the Otago University research archive: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6521 Congratulation to Br Christopher John on completing his Ph.D, a huge effort which those at Convocation heard him share a little of it. If you want to congratulate him personally here is his contact details: Society of St Francis Hermitage of St Bernardine, PO Box 46, Stroud NSW 2425, Australia- ph +61 -2 4994 5372 fax +61 -2 4994 5527 mobile +61 -439 006 161 (when I’m in Australia, or by roaming elsewhere); +64 -21 052 4074 (when I’m in New Zealand) or at: [email protected]
Br Christopher John’s two academic supervisors, Prof Kevin Clements and Dr Heather Devere;
Br.Christopher John at a Franciscan peacemaking Christopher John in his new hat! workshop for Secular Franciscans in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Br.Christopher John at a Franciscan peacemaking Christopher John in his new hat! workshop for Secular Franciscans in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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