IN THIS EDITION HOLY WEEK AND EASTER ANZAC DAY AND MORE

A MAGAZINE FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIANS | APRIL 2020

The angel said, ‘Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised as he said’. Matthew 28:5 APRIL 2020

03 Editor's Note 04 The Paschal Candle 05 From the Archbishop 06 Palm Sunday 07 Maundy Thursday 08 Good Friday 09 The Meaning of Easter 10 St George's Cathedral 11 From The Dean 12 Mission 2020+ 13 Rural Response to Bushfires 14 Flat Footed on Easter Road 15 Amana Living 17 Anglicare WA 18 St Bart's 19 Anglican Schools Commission 20 ANZAC Day 21 Goldfields 22 Anglican Children and Youth Ministries 23 Chaplaincy Guildford Grammar School 24 Book Reviews 26 Bunbury Bulletin 27 News from the Nor'West 28 Mandorla Art Award 2020 29 Theatre 30 Crossword 31 Around the Diocese and Province 32 Film Reviews 34 Where to Worship Purple Patch and Clergy News 35 Classifieds / Advertisements / Crossword solution

5 MARKS OF MISSION 1 To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom 2 To teach, baptise and nurture new believers 3 To respond to human need by loving service 4 To transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and pursue peace and reconciliation 5 To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth

2 Dear Readers

The April Messenger will be the last ‘hard NOTE EDITOR'S copy’ version for the next little while. In May the Messenger will be available online through the Diocese of Perth website.

In this uncertain time, the April Messenger brings news of the certainty of God’s love for the world in Jesus Christ. Contributors this month write of this gospel truth which unfolded from Palm Sunday to Easter Day.

The ANZAC Day article focuses on the Burma Railway. Our usual contributors speak to what’s been happening across education, aged care and social services, and there is a heartening article telling of the response of rural parishes here to bushfire communities elsewhere.

As Easter 2020 dawns, hear and hold onto the Easter cry from across the ages ‘Christ is Risen. Alleluia!’.

Come, Holy Spirit! Give us new confidence in your grace, new words for the mission we share, new strength to go where you send us, new spring in our step, as we set out to spread our faith in changing times, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

3 THE PASCHAL CANDLE member of St Stephen's, Lake Biddy. Michael was ordained deacon at St Anne's, Lake Grace, in1985. atStAnne's, Grace, Lake deacon ordained was of StStephen's, Biddy.member Michael Lake a was he where in 2020 at St John's, retirement his Albany, Grace since Lake from aparishioner been has Michael 4 THE PASCHAL CANDLE

Good News with the Apostles; who is your mentor, counsellor your mentor, is who counsellor Apostles; the with News Good Who brought you out of slavery to freedom; who gave who you the tofreedom; slavery of you out brought Who your happiness, your tensions, your challenges, your joys, your happiness, I am with you when you bring new life into the world. I remain here to alight be to those you leave behind, to light your way onwards as you come home to me. your joys, your cheers and your successes with you. your sorrows, your tears, your your doubts, fears. I am with you in the happiness of your marriage, THE FLAME ON THE PASCHAL ONTHE FLAME THE CANDLE to bring you out of the darkness into my light, to with be you in the dark times of your life. I am with you in the dark times of your life, You light me from the New Fire at Easter. to guide you through your life together. You me into carry my darkened Church I am the flame of yourPaschal Candle. I am with you in your happiness. I am with you in your darkness. I am the light of your darkness. to guide them as Iguided you. I am with you at your funeral I light your Baptismal Candle I am with you in your grief. I am with you as afamily, I shineI brightly to share to show alight for all. and friend. Who am I?Who weh; God; Yah- I am I am I am I am One …… AM the I Michael Lloyd 2013 Michael ourselves and for each other? we lift up our heartswhenwe aresofearful for world onthe othersideofthispandemic?How can Lord’s different songinastrange land, in thevery offaith?nourish thecommunity How dowe singthe When churches are closed, how do we and sustain takes topushthemaside. companions, andourinstinctistodowhatever it Absence andgriefbewilderment areunwelcome togetherwhenwe needitmost.break breadattable hear togethertheproclamationofCross,or disciples’ heartsbefore theResurrection. We cannot Our sacred buildings are locked and bolted like the new poignancy. speaking intoourenforced physical witha distancing may seemraw indeed,death andburial–theoldstory meals, nighttrials,separation,torture, crucifixion, room, thefoot washing, thelastofsomany shared For allitsfamiliarity- the cheering crowds, theupper year we canremember. Day willbeheardandlived differently fromany other journey fromPalm Sunday toGoodFriday andEaster This Holy Week andEaster, ofJesus’ thestory hope, before theLord whoholdsusinpiercedhands? reality, bringing questions,confusion,heart-break, he, like me,simplyneedingtolookintheface anew himself? Hadhejustbeenmaderedundant,orwas Had hebeenpraying for family andfriends,or flanking theopenscriptures. the lecternandusinghislighterlitoneofcandles The manlooked around,thenwent upthestepsto one candleinit,alreadylitby cathedralstaff. The votive was candlestand alreadyropedoff, only light acandle. younger manwhoasheleft looked for aplaceto There was oneotherpersoninthecathedral,a virus turns we everything know onitshead. to pray, toweigh thisnext stepfor usallas aninvisible Monday morningIleft theoffice tositinthecathedral, of worship were tocloseby noonthenext day. On came fromtheFederal Government that allplaces Less thanaweek ago,onSunday 22March, news T GOD'S EASTER PEOPLE he Most Revd Kay Goldsworthy AO |Archbishop Goldsworthy Revd Kay Most he people, andalleluiaisoursong. When allissaidanddone,we are God’s Easter brand new day. allowing faith toswallow upfear, following himintoa of us - walking with him all the way to the Cross, Christ may beaskingsomethingsimpleranddeeper Yet, above andbeyond itall,thecrucified andraised in handwiththeGoodNews. we canmuster, letting ourimaginationsrun wildhand on customandtraditionwithallthewitwisdom forresponsibility whatever thefuture holds,todraw No doubtwe arecalledtotakecourageand + Kay + 5

FROM THE ARCHBISHOP PALM SUNDAY different to Ihave what always thought. Iunderstood discovered that the word means something alittle I was reminded of this experience recently I when were desperate. almost ardentTheirs strong, and 6 ‘hosanna’ earlier something never I had experienced before, making our praise. atmospherecomplete The was and heartfelt of themselves from to they the whom God gave their high their banners and branches, nothing withholding core fromworshipped of the their very lifting being, circumstances throughin deplorable poverty, abject I was struck by the way these faithful living people, of joined in. as more singing louder becoming people ofThrongs residents joined us as we walked, the swell informal of Johannesburg. settlement the on outskirts processionSunday streets through the dusty of an to join aPalm aremarkable had opportunity I once imaginable: a female nursing mount un-military unthreatening, from the ‘the on east most approached Meanwhile, Jesus and gold’. sun poles, on glinting metal on mounted eagles banners, golden armour, helmets, weapons, horses,on foot leather soldiers, complete ‘cavalry with Jerusalem, and crashed his wayclanged into from an earlier empire. Pilate celebratedthe their Jewish people liberation trouble that might arise while to any curb would-be their completedemanded and submission, loyalty and to remindmajesty the Jewish pilgrims that Rome residence in the west. would in He all come his imperial to would up from ride Judea Jerusalem his coastal year duringEvery Passover, the governor Roman of Palm Sunday. first processions entering two describe that on Jerusalem book, book, Messiah.welcome In their their compelling longed-for the lips of the Passover crowds to eager receive and their God! was asentiment This readily that to came of echo those faithfulmighty Christians singing to out It meant, now!’ ‘Save demanding. save!’ ‘Please or –a more generous and more desperate.and Less way now, it originally meant something less adulatory praise you!’Jesus, ‘We or while we use And it in that About Jesus' Last Days in Jerusalem, in Days Last Jesus' About The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach Teach Really Gospels the What Week: Last The ‘hosannas’ to a word be of exultation, adore you!’ a ‘We The Revd Gillian Rookyard | Rector | Parish of Kingsley North-Woodvale of Kingsley |Parish |Rector Rookyard Revd Gillian The PALM SUNDAY seem rather and insufficient! pale Borg and Crossan I wonder we which will choose. Stallion donkey? or protest? or Parade Two processions. Two kingdoms. that Week. last week –Holy clash set Their both in kingdoms. motion the events of There wasn’t room for in Jerusalem both processions, empirePalm that on he Sunday. challenged first unlike dramatically a kingdom the oppressive and violent of of God's freedom; justice peace, kingdom and radical visual It was a demonstration and sacrifice. comingof the revealed that again his would arule of be love, humility, donkey, his with set face ‘like flint’ towards Jerusalem, submission.gates in hopeless Jesus opened a on riding through emperorconquering entering horseback on acity Pilate’s parade; imperial adeliberate of the parody as counter-procession aplanned Jerusalem to that of this event us to encourages Jesus’ consider into entry toAccording Borg and accountCrossan, of Mark’s into kingship. his would the nonviolent be entered who king defenceless donkey trotting colt her’. along beside her with little He ‘Hosanna! Please save!’ Please ‘Hosanna!

MAUNDY THURSDAY

The Revd Marc Dale | Rector | Parish of Highgate

On the night he was betrayed . . . MAUNDY THURSDAY MAUNDY

‘Having loved his own who were in the world, he deserve (Romans 6:23), it also gives us new life, and loved them to the end’ (John 13:1). Maundy Thursday transforms us into his likeness: gets its name from the Latin word for mandate or ‘For the grace of God has appeared that offers command. Christ’s mandate spoken and acted out in salvation to all people. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to the upper room, in Gethsemane, in Caiaphas’ house, ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self- under the Roman lash and on the cross was that his followers must love one another with the same love controlled, upright and godly lives in this present with which he loved them. age, while we wait for the blessed hope – the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus raised the definition of love to the highest Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem possible standard. He sacrificially met His followers' us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a deepest need for new life, forgiveness of sins people that are his very own, eager to do what is and reconciliation to God. He loved his enemies, good’ (Titus 2:11-14). forgiving them from the cross. It is that quality of love which he commands us to show to those who St John gives us the mandate in these words: ‘This don't seem to deserve it. is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live In the same way as our Lord loved sinners ‘to the end’ through him. This is love: not that we loved God, - to the uttermost - when he owed them nothing and but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning had nothing to gain from them, our mandate from sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so him is to do the same. Jesus does not love human loved us, we also ought to love one another’ (1 John beings because of anything attractive or loveable 4:9 -11). in us. St Paul says that ‘God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ The Maundy message is clear. Jesus loved us to died for us’ (Romans 5:8). The salvation Jesus won the uttermost. He held nothing back even from his in his passion and death is not only a spectacular enemies and his betrayers. That is the standard, the gift that rescues us from the penalty that we mandate and the new command.

7 GOOD FRIDAY T GOOD FRIDAY-AREFLECTION Leaning against the Christ and each other. each and theChrist against Leaning to believe daring not or was theend. it memories, with intimacy. perhaps other in their suffering each Sustaining invitedthis of to hope, against lean from theperiphery for entombment. Even Nicodemus his body preparing and washing carrying, him in life, holding, in his so death, did against leaned had who by kairos. Those eclipsed chronos of time, to outside –time seems always it do inas death still to stand seemed Time black. was sky lifeless.was The body, pierced, thedear from thewood, down Cut triumph. to seemed faltered darkness and hope Friday that On Leaning Against of theCross. truth thedesolate under Standing from above. spattered blood marrying ofground Golgotha, theencrusted of tear-falldamp aquartet making stayed, Magdalene mother, Mary and John aunt companions and anger, disillusionment, of denial, knew. –God grief But the rackedwith shame not like fled, of had them this. Most their brother ever would leaveRabbouni, –not them now, sentence, their thefirst that unbelieving only resolutely ‘Sure’, glorified. shall be hearing of they God thought, Son the when come has hour The crucified. flogged, mocked, Tough love: to theFather. going Iam betrayed, be Iwill them. prepared them, taught told them, He’d happen. would they never day believed The of theBeloved. dread losing crowd, thestench ofthe braying humanity, thepiercing dust, to to die. themselves The Golgotha theyas dragged for knell Messiah, miscreants and thedeath rolled Thunder Standing Under h e

Revd PamelaTurner|RectorParis h ofMtPleasant awakening love. awakening Friday’s grief, for in Good hoping gently alongside Walking new, it making in world, doing love. through torather is love. God something We then of what suffer not to us willing suffer,story, God we experience may but Friday, Good others on entering into alongside Walking the Walking alongside in theworld. shape cruciform own our in, casting Pressing us. with solidarity in died enter who one of the suffering crucified, Christ we as mourn Brothers Sisters and worldwide with of in it solidarity part until become we truly greatest story intoentering to Pressing empathy allowing and erupt. the in by listening, of Pressing feeling, aching, thecross. side from to theother enfold enough in us thestory all,us wide to hold enough –long in theafternoon lengthens it as cross is to intous not just lean, press in. of Press, the theshadow of asks this all day of days what But their backs. others bow toEasier step away. Pretend let unfolding, it’s apageant sellers. hot bun and cross clergy choristers, to readers, Friday.of grief Good and It’s theshock to easier outsource remove and step from theunfolding back ourselves drama to of it, pain thedreadful from theviolence, preservation ofFrom it’s thecross side our sleight of aneasy self- into Pressing THE MEANING OF EASTER

The Revd Canon Professor Scott Cowdell Research Professor | Centre for Public and Contextual Theology (PACT) Canon Theologian | Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn | Charles Sturt University

At Easter the truth of our human condition is laid bare, as As a result of the resurrection, the Spirit of this new the forces of status quo line up against Jesus. The mob, creation is released by God to shake our human condition the Romans and the Jerusalem authorities are united to its foundations. In a world that secures its stable order because they have found a sacrificial victim. Even Pilate by the regular manufacture of victims, there is now an

makes friends with Herod, where enmity had previously ‘advocate for the defence’ who takes the victims’ side. OF EASTER THE MEANING divided them. The graves of earlier slain victims are The wisdom of the psalms and Job has gone viral. opened on Good Friday as Jesus dies on the cross— Yes, God sends Jesus to the cross. But at a deeper the dark underbelly of every stable human religious and level this is God’s own self, more particularly the second cultural order is there for all to see. person of the Trinity, freely undergoing the unveiled horror Even Peter goes along with the crowd in denying of humanity’s false sacred in solidarity with its victims. Jesus, and he is only rehabilitated after the resurrection. The ‘admirable exchange’ of which Paul and the early Thereafter he joins Paul, another former persecutor and Church Fathers wrote, where God in Christ undertakes denier of Jesus, at the head of institutional Christianity this immersion in the full extent of human alienation so and its mission. Only such often painful healing of that we can come to enjoy a full immersion in God, is immature desire qualifies us for leadership in the Church. the three-dimensional truth behind our sometimes two- dimensional (and hence potentially off-putting) talk of Jesus’ resurrection is an unexpected shock rather than a Jesus dying for our sins. conventional mythological outcome. The crucified victim does not return as an angry ghost preparing to unleash So instead of deflecting an angry God, Jesus’ cross vengeance. Instead, the first words out of the risen reveals the fire of God’s love to burn away sin and evil. Jesus’ mouth, ‘Peace be with you,’ begin our induction This feels like divine wrath from the perspective of into a new creation with new rules. This is not the Pax structures and attitudes that manifest evil in our world. Romana, the Pax Britannia, or the Pax Americana but But this wrath is actually the force of love. a new peace beyond the settling of scores and the The resurrection is God’s great vindication of Jesus’ balance of terror: a ‘peace of God which passes all mission. It begins an arc of glorification, as the once- understanding’. dead Jesus comes to dwell among Christians as a life- Jesus’ resurrection has been understood by some giving Spirit from God. The preaching of God’s word, the liberal Christians as just one more piece of mythology, celebration of Christ’s sacraments, and our engrafting like the dying and rising deities of nature religion. But through liturgy, prayer and discipleship into Jesus’ the resurrection is different from myth. Jesus is not ongoing life and mission, are all dimensions of the universally welcomed by the crowd as their former resurrection for Christians to explore and inhabit. victim now divinised. Instead, only a few begin to catch The Revd Canon Professor Scott Cowdell, based at on to what is happening. Whether at Emmaus or in the Charles Sturt University in Canberra, is the author of eight upper room, it is only a remnant that is persuaded. This books, most recently René Girard and the Nonviolent God (University of Notre Dame Press) resurrection is no typical mythological confection.

9 ST GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL

The Revd Gareth Gilbert-Hughes | Precentor CATHEDRAL

The days before Easter climb like ancient stairs that them fall into a mush. For Palm Sunday, if we’re have been worn away by the feet of millennia of not in complete lockdown, we can find a park to pilgrims. We clamber awkwardly over these days we walk in, gather fallen branches of gum leaves and call ‘holy’: faith compels us. This year, it is likely we bring them back to hosanna Jesus the servant-king shall not be able to gather in our church buildings to into our homes. That day, we read the Matthew walk these steps, and we shall need a good dollop Passion (26.14-7.66): we can read it dramatically of imagination to sustain faith. with someone being the narrator, someone reading Jesus’ words and others speaking the other The Jewish feast of Passover — Greek/Aramaic characters, or we can meditate quietly on it. Come Pascha, Hebrew Pesach — with its themes of Maundy Thursday evening, we can wash feet at exodus from slavery, death of the firstborn, sacrifice home, our own or the feet of those with whom we of the lamb, blood on the lintels and the hurried meal live. On Good Friday, we can sit in front of a cross of faith’s refugees, is greatly treasured by Christ’s and read the John Passion (18.1-19.42). And on people because Jesus reframed the narrative in a Easter morning, we can rise early and light a candle way both cosmic and personal: freedom for all from to remember our baptism into the life of our risen sin and death, through Jesus’ sacrifice. The first Lord. Christians kept all-night vigil for Pascha, but one night couldn’t contain this explosion of the peaks We shall live-stream services with the Archbishop and troughs of the story of salvation. from the Cathedral this Holy Week. Keen-eyed Egeria wrote down all she experienced in fourth-century Jerusalem for her ‘dear ladies’ (who perhaps funded her pilgrimage). In the Holy City, our spiritual omphalos, she witnessed how the passion and resurrection were told in real-time and real place, carved into the calendar and graven on the geography, a dramatic journey, from the triumphal entry through the city gate flourishing palm branches to the descent without the city wall to Golgotha and the vigil of hope at the Emptied Tomb. Holy Week services blur and disintegrate: it’s hard to tell where one ends and another begins. We exult with palms and then we hear the Passion Gospel. We hold our damp-footed love-in and then rip the cloth from the table and kneel in the dark. We stand under the Cross to understand. We feel our way through the blindness of Saturday’s theological no man’s land. In this time of coronavirus, the hope in the midst of the bleak is needed more than ever. I wonder how we walk these holy steps when we are unmet and dispersed. Their fluidity can be a strength, but it can also make

10 HOLY WEEK The Very Revd Chis Chataway | Dean of St George’s Cathedral

A travel website promoting tourism to Jerusalem THE DEAN FROM for Easter this year, is selling the experience as a ‘meaningful experience in the city where you’ll be walking in Jesus’ final footsteps’. With the chaos to travel caused by the coronavirus pandemic, I doubt this will come to reality for many. But anyone who has taken a tour of the Holy Land, will have had that wonderful experience of connecting with the accounts of Jesus’ ministry and teaching, his death and resurrection, in the land where he walked. It is thanks to the remarkable journal of a Western fourth century ascetic called Egeria, that we have detailed accounts of similar pilgrimages to Jerusalem. She, like the religious tourists of today, was drawn to Jerusalem to pray in places previously known only through her reading of Scripture and the stories of her religious contemporaries. But it is from her accounts that we have a clear description of the kind of worship that occurred during Holy Week. So we know that in the fourth century, Holy Week services were clarified and consolidated into the pattern of services similar to what we now celebrate today. Holy Week services then spread from Jerusalem to communities around the world, because they gave worshippers an experience of walking with Jesus in his final footsteps. More than at any other time of the Christian calendar, Holy Week brings Jerusalem into the local congregation. So when it comes to congregations planning to enact the complex liturgical diet that Holy Week offers, it is tempting to try and recreate what happened. It is tempting to revert to a ‘representational piety’1. is always the danger that the worship is taking us

I remember attending an Easter service in another back to Jesus, rather than revealing Jesus among denomination, which finished their passion play with us. How can our worship open us to the crucified a resurrection scene. The actor, playing the corpse and risen One in our midst? For that we need symbol and wrapped in a shroud, sat up and started walking and code, such as bread and wine, water and oil, about. It was like watching a remake of the movie preaching and the proclamation of Scripture. The Mummy and did little to evoke the mystery of the resurrection of Christ. The worship of the Middle Holy Week has this mixture of joy and foreboding Ages was full of representational piety which later at every service, for we know how the story ends. reformers rightly criticised, and such attempts to Every service combines the doom of the Crucified enliven the worship worked against the rememorative One with the joy that suffering and death are not the piety they had inherited and which Egeria had last word. Holy Week is worth the effort, if entered experienced. The problem with such representational into sincerely and expectantly. If your travel plans piety is that it replaces the symbolic meaning of our have been disrupted this Easter, let what the Church worship with superficial pictures and dramas. Having offers in Holy Week bring Jerusalem to you. a donkey for one’s Palm Sunday procession may be entertaining and engaging for the children, but there

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In the beginning we couldn’t even see ourselves. disciples say to the crucified and raised Lord at Emmaus on the first Easter Day. ‘Don’t you know First, it was individuals scurrying away with bulk what’s been happening in Jerusalem in recent days? pack toilet rolls. You must be the only person who doesn’t.’ Rowan Then it was supermarket trolleys of bottled water Williams points out that Jesus says, in effect, ‘I’m and canned food jostling the toilet paper. going to tell you the whole story. And, ‘beginning Then it was shoppers scuffling in the aisles, fisticuffs, with Moses and all the prophets’, he retells the with depleted shelves as a backdrop. story of what’s been happening in Jerusalem until it makes sense; and, as bread is broken across the First, it was pathetic, then comical, then disturbing, table, the disciples realise that a completely new but as some have pointed out, such curious and kind of sense has been made of their story, their life amusing and unattractive behaviour didn’t come out and their environment, by this encounter with the of nowhere. risen Christ.’ As human rights specialist Dr Cristy Clark says, We each devise a Lent rule to open our hearts such actions are the flowering on forty years of afresh to the gospel, as if it all depends our efforts, neoliberal ideology and economic polices telling us imagining that we can and will pull ourselves up by that we are on our own, defending our own patch our own boot-straps – just like we’ve got everything when no one else will, scrambling over each other to else ticking along pretty well. Only this year, this fairly get ahead, the survival of the fittest. ‘When society predictable business-as-usual world is unravelling is organised around the idea that everyone must before our eyes, leaving us flailing and floundering, look after themselves or suffer the consequences, scared of where we could be going, confused about then the logical outcome is for people to focus on what we can do about it, if anything, and blind to their own self-interest. Driven by fear and a system where it might end. that not only rewards selfishness but actively punishes the opposite, people behave accordingly Except, as Archbishop Rowan reminds us, ‘The – by stockpiling, or going to work while waiting for resurrection enables people to retell the whole medical test results.’ story of God’s dealings with his people through the centuries as this gradually comes into its focus and climax in the death and resurrection of Jesus. To talk of ourselves as redeemed sinners is to talk of ourselves as having learned how to tell our story differently. Or, to put it in a rather condensed way, the unredeemed sinner is a person who has not yet learned how to tell a different story about themselves, but only the story of failure, the story of loss, the story of guilt.’ Telling the human story differently, of course, is both once-for-all reality, and an everyday happening as we open ourselves to the truth which sets us free, seeking grace to live the new life. Overturning the entrenched neoliberal lie – which, after all, has been So we find ourselves caught flat-footed in the hanging around rather longer than Dr Clark’s forty- pandemic world of Lent and Easter 2020, confused year fantasy! - is not for the faint-hearted, and takes about a virus which spreads effortlessly, a virus more than one colossal push, just as idol-worship of calling into question just about everything we take the almighty dollar runs unchallenged to the point of for granted, stopping us in our tracks, upsetting all global insanity. our plans, reminding us that we are not in control, As we perform the daily, even hourly, hand- demonstrating how illusory human strategy and washing ritual of the pandemic world in which power can sometimes be. For all we know and we find ourselves, lets pray for one another, not understand, for all we can manipulate, there remains just ourselves, but our sisters and brothers too, a deep and dark mystery we cannot fathom, let particularly the most vulnerable – that we may tell alone control. the human story differently, that God’s Easter people ‘Don’t you know what’s been happening’, the may act out an entirely different future.

14 A STORY OF HOME

The Revd Jeni Goring | Senior Chaplain | Amana Living AMANA LIVING AMANA The story of Easter is the story of hope. Hope that we are loved and remembered by God, hope that the world as we experience it can be changed, hope there is something more beyond this life. Our community is crying out for hope and seeking it wherever it can be found. Appalled by disastrous bushfires, floods and droughts; confronted by racism, sexism and ageism; challenged by homelessness, family violence and drug abuse. Online, radio, television and social media, we are bombarded by all that is wrong with the world. And yet, after our CEO, Stephanie Buckland, was interviewed on radio about our No One Dies Alone Companion Program, Amana Living was inundated with more than 400 people offering to keep vigil with residents who would otherwise die alone. Perth is known as a generous community and this is evidence of kindness, compassion and selflessness offered when an opportunity arises. One person reaching out in loving service to a stranger in need. Jesus showed compassion to all who came to him for help, offering healing, wholeness and hope. People looking for hope found the courage to approach Jesus. A hemorrhaging woman braved the threat of punishment to chase the hope of healing. A group of friends, unable to get their paralysed companion close enough to Jesus to be healed, took the roof off the building and carefully lowered him right in front of the Healer. Hope is not for the timid or complacent. Hope is for the courageous, insightful, active souls who will search it out. To find, nurture and sustain hope takes effort. Hope needs to be encouraged and practised. Hope has a purpose. Hope believes life has value. Hope confirms some control. Hope affirms life. Mother Julian of Norwich, a contemplative nun of the 14th century, writes of hope. She suffered great physical pain and sought hope in reflecting on the suffering of Christ. The story of Jesus is the ultimate story of hope, his crucifixion, death and resurrection. Mother Julian looking out on the snow-covered ground saw the tiny green shoot of the daffodil pushing through the frozen, white expanse as a symbol of hope. She writes, “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” For Australians, a symbol of hope is life after a bushfire. Some species of Eucalypts and Acacia have seeds that only germinate after the heat and smoke of a fire has been through. Bright green shoots of life in a blackened landscape. Life from death. Creation from destruction. This is the hope of the Easter story.

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ST BART'S ST The Revd Ross Jones | Chaplain | St Bart’s

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18 travel overseas holidays, these of school course tensAs of and of families thousands students, staff sense. guidelines. and practises common are These good thethe with Eucharist,Archbishop’s in accordance for worship, especially necessary as arrangements are Concurrentlyout. we have implemented alternate a ‘no for touch’ policy now. means handshakes That including acrosspractises our implementing schools, Wechange. have implemented heightened hygiene government unless for requirements Zealand New notice.further Exemptions considered will be only (not matters travel) personal untilschool-related travelworldwide for ban on students and staff At the time we of have writing, implemented a are involved, is and COVID-19 nodifferent. always must implemented be young when people as well highest standards aspossible adults. The we as are for responsible children understandable, haveCommission the This been first isto respond. Schools authorities including theSchool Anglican infectious disease. global nation. our Now nation is struggling to a manage Australian bushfirestask largeis a enough for any Rebuilding homes, businesses and lives after the of the human condition. to part be make of from panic buying supermarkets? It seems of illness are far from desirable. we But do what minds and lives. of loss life The levels The is tragic. takenhas it as significantly people’s hold of hearts, of the and world, well country every inhold pretty far from immune. taken has Coronavirus (COVID-19) set has in, the world over.uncertainty Australia is Easter,This life is sodifferent for everyone. and Fear The Revd Peter Laurence OAM | CEO Anglican Schools Commission Schools Anglican |CEO OAM Revd Peter Laurence The EASTER INALLTHISWHERE'S always. Happy Easter. Happy always. resurrection story, yesterday, same the is and today the coming months. in the Christ, But our hope and it COVID-19 what will for mean about us in reason to Therewas is ahead. uncertain good be were disciples The as they fearful knew not what than right now. news togood share always, and nomore importantly Christianssame. we As have agreat of message arising of hope from story remains despair The the Easter condensed. is Day alittle holidays that mean the journey from Palm to Sunday when in a school understandable perfectly but celebrations’.‘Easter context, Unusual parish in a usually our with which Week, schools combine the with In begins all journey this, of April Holy by government.imposed assist, should we to need respond to such measures systemsoftware will which across our schools is fortunate toASC have alearning management where 21st into comes technology century play. The that students continue can to at home. is learn This the closure of and how schools we would ensure responding to gatherings and even mass on bans include could These measures to COVID-19. restrict toWestern increase Governments Australian decide should plans the made has Australian orASC the Together authorities, other educational with notdecision ours. holiday until notice, further of but that course is their recommendation that they not do travel overseas on that it is our strongest staff all school advised has To an extent we are in unknown territory. ASC The thiswhat will as mean they return to our schools. inCOVID-19 many of the countries they will visit and there the level is adegree about of nervousness of

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ANGLICAN SCHOOLS COMMISSION ANZAC DAY had served atGallipoli.Mathieson spokehad served ofhow that day were someolder Australian soldierswho Day. Among Mathieson’s congregationattheservice Easter Day in1943 fell onthesamedateas Anzac sodden groundofthecamps. waste andtheconsequentriskofdisease acrossthe with even moredisastrousresults,spreadinghuman the prisoners’ hutstoflood, andthelatrinesalso to continueworking atnight. The heavyraincaused torches, andcampfires were usedtogive poorlight guards tokeep uptherateofproduction.Lanterns, were cajoled, threatened,andtormentedby the the moredangerousanddepletingasprisoners lives. The arrival ofthewet seasonmadethework all season campaign,whatever thecostsinprisoners’ of theBurma-Thailand railway before thecomingdry The result was thedecisiontoensurecompletion them by sea. needed amoresecuresupplyroutethanthatafforded campaign. ButthatmeanttheirBurmesearmy in Burmaifthey were toregaintheinitiative inthat Japanese believed they hadtogoontheoffensive of aJapanesedecision.Inearly1943 tactical the frequently drove thesick towork. Itwas alltheresult nights, sometimesuntildawn, andtheguards enforced pacecaused. The menworked intothe year, thatthe regardlessoftheprisonermortality determined tofinishtherailroad by theendof enforced labour began, when the Japanese were It was during this year that the ‘Speedo’ period of 1943 was probablytheworst year oftheircaptivity. Railroad. Japanese prisoncamps,fromJava totheBurma personnelinvarious shipmates andotherservice naval chaplain shared thebitter experiences ofhis the Royal Australian Navy. This undaunted Australian oftheChaplains’unique inthehistory Branch of POWs); andhisexperience asaJapanese POW is (though there were a number of army chaplains as imprisoned workforcemember ofthisinvoluntary as anaval chaplain Mathiesonwas anabnormal newly acquired Asian empire. A Methodist minister, subjugated workers tobuildtheinfrastructure oftheir army ofalliedprisonersusedby theJapanese as until theendofwar. Hebecamepartofthevast Sunda StraitandMathiesonwould remainaprisoner the Japanese. Hisshipwas sunkinthebattle ofthe group of Australian sailorstobecomeprisonersof and fifty ofHMAS survivors Perth’s crew, thelargest Java inMarch 1942. Hewas oneofthethree hundred Imperial Japanese Army whenhewas captured in Chaplain Keith Mathiesonbecameaprisonerofthe University |Murdoch Religion and Chair, Theology |Academic History of Church |Professor Strong Rowan Revd Professor The ANZAC DAY ON THEBURMA RAILROAD 1943 20 by Jesus’ resurrection. disciples of Christ had their defeat turned to victory the sameway, hesaid,thedemoralisedanddispirited JustAnzac Day becamea‘symbolofvictoriousliving. which had kindled ‘our ideal national spirit’ so that a defeat, Mathiesonpointedoutthatitwas adefeat Reminding themthat Anzac Day actually remembered of hope. remembrance andsacrifice,butthey were alsodays of evil. Both Easterand Anzac Day were days of that they could use in their owna victory experience against him,heaffirmed thatChristgave themalso the sinanddeathhatredthatwas ranged truth over thattheresurrection of Christ was avictory of bothEasterand Anzac Day. Asserting theChristian experiencing war gave themabetter understanding From Rowan Strong, Chaplains in the Royal Australian Australian Royal the in Chaplains Strong, Rowan From 2012), ch 8. ch 2012), Navy: 1912 to the Vietnam War (Sydney: UNSW Press, Press, UNSW (Sydney: War Vietnam the to 1912 Navy: the life. its close,await of withconfidencethevictory our land,andeventually when thislife draws to a worthwhile contributiontotherebuilding of over andwe arehomewe shallbeabletomake now at our best, that by &by when the war is life fullandfreewhenpeacereturns. Let uslive Christ astobetransformed thereby; &thence? in &frustrated asnow, toalife sotrusting in resurrection fromlife circumscribed&hemmed resurrection fromdeathtolife, butalso,of to rememberthatnotonlyistherehopeof of purpose,mateship&cheerfulness, and rathertolive inthe Anzac spiritoftenacity refuse todeteriorateinbodyormindspirit; God, totriumphover to ourcircumstances, account. Byourspirit,&throughthegraceof It ispossibletoturn thistimeoftestingtogood have broughtuspartial eclipse. We arePOWs. together bringus. The lasteighteenmonths Today onemessagethatEasterand Anzac

GREEN SHOOTS

The Revd Dr Elizabeth J Smith | Senior Mission Priest | Parish of The Goldfields GOLDFIELDS

By the time Tropical Cyclone Damien reached the Yet all the images from nature that we use to try Goldfields, it had mellowed into a lovely, lingering, and understand resurrection are just that – natural! generous, gentle downpour that refreshed the bush, And for human beings, there is nothing natural the gardens and our souls. I enjoyed driving in it, about resurrection. Human bodies, buried, simply swishing carefully through surface water on local decompose, rather than growing into new human roads. I did not complain about getting lightly soaked bodies. We’re not insects, to be recomposed from our while checking the rain gauge in the front yard. genetic material as fascinatingly as the caterpillar’s Walking in the park over the next few days, the plants metamorphosis into the butterfly. seem greener already. Some of them probably are, What happened to Jesus Christ has no precedent, since they have the clever capacity to change their and no physical explanation. It was truly a new thing, leaf chemistry in hot, dry weather. The earth seems and it truly was God’s doing. softer. The birds seem louder. It doesn’t take long for To help convince us of its truth, we have the the gum trees to push out tender new shoots. astonishing accounts of the women who first visited The thirsty earth doesn’t stay damp for long after the empty tomb. We have the contagious experience Damien’s brief visit. We are waiting for the next of other early disciples who met and recognised gift of rain to renew the deep-down reserves that the risen Lord, in spite of their natural doubts. We sustain the bush, the animals and the birds between have centuries’ worth of the songs, poems and the random rainfall events out here. If rain is the art of believers expressing their faith that God had occasional treat, dust is the everyday reality. truly acted. Some of us, like Paul, have our own As a metaphor for resurrection, how helpful is life- unaccountable, out-of-sequence encounters with renewing rain, and the growth that follows it? It the Risen One. belongs with the other 'natural' images for God’s In this mix, the natural images, like the sound of rain saving work that we find in the Bible and elsewhere. on my roof or the the new leaves on the gum trees The fourth gospel, for example, has Jesus comparing a week later, support our assertion that God always his own death and resurrection to the grain of wheat desires life for all creation. They prompt our gratitude that 'dies' to produce a harvest. I’ve also heard for the many ordinary ways God expresses that Easter sermons with a spotlight on the life cycle of desire. Although the green shoots are simply natural, butterflies, where the caterpillar inside the chrysalis they still spark wonder in us. They point us to the mysteriously melts down, before the adult insect extraordinary wonder of love that is truly, eternally, emerges, unrecognisably changed. heart-mendingly stronger than death.

21 ANGLICAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRIES

Mark Davis | Team Leader ACYM

‘Daddy guess what? Jesus is his own Son,’ proclaimed many of the life stages of Fowler's theory, the section my four-year-old with a confident voice from the that stands out the most to me is adolescence and backseat of the car. how this affects and shapes what someone's faith CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND CHILDREN might look like. I'm always amazed at how my three children absorb, process and understand the information they hear Although many parents may not agree with me, from either the stories we tell them or from church- adolescence is an exciting time in the development of based children's programs they have been to as we their children. Not only is it the time when they move have moved around the Diocese. from being a child to an adult, but it's the time when the young person starts to form their own ideas for Each Sunday, no matter what church we have gone to, the first time. Rachel and I are always very keen to hear what our children have learnt. We do this not because we don't For a lot of parents, this period can be shaped by trust those leading the groups but because we want arguments, disagreements and the slamming of doors. them to know that they can talk with us and share with Although I have a few years to go yet, I know before us if something didn't make sense. it happens it's not something I am overly concerned about because we have started to lay the foundations When I started my first position in youth ministry, now. people who had been in it for a while told me that you begin to think about ministry differently when In creating the space now at the ages of eight, six you have your own children. I used to nod, smile and and four years of age to talk with our children about dismiss their comments with some quick response. faith and what they think it means, hopefully means But even though our eldest might only have turned that they will still want to talk with us when they are eight, I am increasingly becoming more aware that teenagers. what she hears and sees of the Christian faith now Like Easter, adolescence is about new life and the will shape what she believes in years to come. challenges that it can bring. But adolescence is also Recently within the Wollaston Certificate in Theology, more to do with the hope of the Easter message rather I spent some time talking through some of the faith than the pain of the Easter story; although for those in development theories with the small group of students the middle of this transition, it might be hard to see who were part of the Introduction to Youth Ministry the benefits. Module. Later this year, ACYMC will be running information The module that I enjoyed talking through the most sessions and training on understanding the teenage was by a man called James Fowler, who attempts to years. If you're an interested follower, please visit our show how a person’s faith grows over time. Facebook page for more details. Although many interesting points can be pulled out so www.facebook.com/groups/ACYM.Perth.Diocese

22 CHAPLAINCY - GUILDFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL

The Revd Canon Dr Philip Raymont | Senior Chaplain CHAPLAINCY

To be a chaplain in an Anglican school is a privilege; Having been a school chaplain for over ten and half you have the opportunity to first, remind students, years I am conscious that for many students and their families, and staff members, that while we live families, while having left the school it remains their in an increasingly secular Australia we also live in an primary point of contact with an understanding and increasingly religious world! World Economic Forum experience of the Church. Not only might they return statistics note that by 2050 the number of people for marriage, and subsequent baptisms, there are affiliated with a religion is expected to grow by requests for funerals; particularly from those who 2.3 billion whereas the number of people unaffiliated have made a longstanding and dedicated contribution, with any religion is projected to increase by only but also from those for whom the circumstances 0.1 billion. Secondly, a chaplain is able to of death are tragic. Just as fascinating are the unapologetically profess the unique qualities of the former students, and sometimes families, returning Christian Gospel as a way of life and belief system; not to services associated with Old Guildfordians’ least to people who are not well versed in the tenets functions or House functions, and by virtue of living of the Christian faith or for that matter Anglicanism. in a city where ‘one degree of separation is a lot’ I find myself regularly ‘bumping into’ or being sought out by former students who are only too willing to discuss matters of faith. These observations raise a question for our schools, which are always keen to keep in contact with former students for networking, philanthropy and well-being reasons, and for our Church: how do we continue to minister to these people and their needs, if for whatever reason, though they have left their school, they continue to value it as central or important to their faith journey?

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BEYOND ORIGINAL SIN, RECOVERING

HUMANITY'S CREATIVE URGE

S on h ht irley Claug Diarmuid O’Murchu believes in a world which is fundamentally good – the world of Genesis before Augustine’s legacy which began to develop an idea of original sin and guilt. Because that inherited Christian story can undermine hope and optimism when it begins to focus on sin and depravity, O’Murchu makes a compelling case for a starting point of ‘original blessing’; that humans indeed have a fundamental goodness. He calls for the creativity embedded in the opening chapters of Genesis to be ‘reclaimed, rehabilitated, and articulated afresh’. Addressing the topic from an anthropological and paleontological base, O’Murchu believes we are not, and never have been ‘a perfect species’ as such perfection ‘makes no evolutionary sense‘. A growing body of anthropological and paleontological evidence shows that when humans remain very close to Diarmuid O'Murchu the natural world – to the earth, soil, water and land – they tend to get it right $39.95 (but never perfect). Likewise, he argues for respect of the belief in the Great Spirit of indigenous peoples who understand their relationship with the sacred earth. Bruce Sanguin says ‘Diarmuid O’Murchu has done us all a great favour by highlighting the dead end that is Original Sin and replacing it with creativity as the hallmark of humans’. O’Murchu, likewise says of that ‘one wonders why the theologians still go on trying to make sense of a doctrine that has wreaked so much havoc and paralysed so much human creativity’. ‘Christianity’ he says, ‘is a highly creative religion’. In a world so inundated in violence, Christianity stands out with a bold, alternative vision - the enduring force of nonviolence. Other authors who focus on nonviolence include John Dear and Walter Wink. Walter Wink fits well into this review as he is frequently cited as claiming that the God whom Jesus reveals refrains from all forms of reprisal and demands no victims and that Jesus, not being passive in the face of injustice and evil, reveals a way to fight evil without becoming violent ourselves. ‘It is a way - the only way possible - of not becoming what we hate.’ Along this line, O’Murchu then suggests we engage in a more direct and discerning manner on what exactly the death of Jesus means within the context of his empowering mission. Rather than being caught up that ‘dead end’ of original sin, he asks us to look beyond the glamorised violence and imperial propaganda of Jesus’ time, to that which is life-giving and creative. He believes that what ensured, was an experiential conviction that Jesus was more alive after his death than even during his earthly life and that ‘what does matter is the empowering transformation of the first followers (especially the women), those in whom Jesus was truly risen and through whom the empowering message of the gospel would spread throughout the whole creation’. O’Murchu draws on the views of the Jesuit priest, Palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the religious and scientific revival of de Chardin’s ideas through researchers such as Thomas Berry, Ursula King and Ilia Delio. Authors and theologians such as John Dominic Crossan, Mircea Eliade, Rene Girard. Matthew Fox and Elizabeth Johnson are referenced and respected throughout this book. Diarmuid O’Murchu has written over a dozen best-selling books and, based in Ireland, conducts workshops and retreats throughout the world. This new book is carefully researched and it makes straightforward reading from start to finish. At times, the reader even feels as if they are in an audience with the author, surely a compliment to the author who is tackling a thorny topic.

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THE LION EASTER COLOURING BOOK

S on h ht Twenty lives that illuminate the Christian Way irley Claug This beautifully presented book is not just a colouring book, rather it is an extremely well- told rendition of the Easter Story, in appropriate and suitable language for children. It is also, unexpectedly, a lesson in the culture, art and history of Jesus’ day. We might find the little cat, mouse and lizard hiding within the intricate drawings, but these creatures were also common in ancient times. The line drawings are skilful as, not only are they superbly attractive, they also echo the culture, food, animals, architecture and history of Jesus’ day. Illustrator Felicity French reveals not only her flair for art but also presents the reader with a chance to discover hidden images and subtle messages within. The author, Antonia Jackson, captures the Easter story in a depth not always found in children’s books; a teaching and learning experience with a gentleness and understanding of what young minds can absorb. This final message captures the Jesus Resurrection narrative in appropriate young language: Antonia Jackson ‘I want you to carry on my work, spread the good news I have told you about God. Show $9.95 people how to live as God’s friends. Go and tell everyone in the world about God’s love – the love that will last forever.’ With its careful choice of words, this rendition of the Jesus story makes it one of the best Children’s books available. The team producing this book have also written several other similarly beautiful and valuable books on the Nativity, the Psalms and Bible Verses to colour. All books available at St John’s Books Fremantle.

RED ALERT - DOES THE FUTURE HAVE A CHURCH Reviewed by Rob Bath | South East Bendigo Parish

I remember Gil talking about this book. It was planned about The vexed issue of music is 15 years ago and now finally we have it in print. Gil has had vast dealt with in a chapter titled experience in pastoring and encouraging local churches over the ‘From discord to Harmony years so his observations and thoughts have much relevance for making the most of our the Church universal and local today. music’. Gil writes about the change in people’s He spends time surveying how the world has changed in the preference with the note last 200 years both theologically (no absolutes, everything is that in the 50s and 60s relative) and culturally. Many of the changes that took place in we sang songs, the 70- the 1900s where previously Christians with a strong faith had 90s we listened, now we a concern for the needy in society and were heavily involved watch songs, consequently - abolition of slavery, founding of hospitals, trade unions, some churches turn the orphans, homeless and welfare of animals. Many of these are songs element in their time now taken up by government agencies with a complete secular together into a rock concert agenda squeezing out Christians from grass roots ministry and – dim the lights, band out decision making. the front, music rather loud Gil Cann The bulk of the book is how the church leadership can respond and nobody sings. Gil gives to these changes especially at a local level. A local pastor is some practical advice to the seen as a facilitator encouraging every church member to use leaders of music that would enhance and encourage the body their gifts and abilities with the challenge that our worship is of Christ instead of disharmony. 24/7 and not just on Sunday mornings (Romans 12:1). When The last two chapters I found very challenging and encouraging. the local church meets on a Sunday it is a family reunion. The chapter ‘Tough times ahead the need for real courage’. Experiences are shared about situations during the week, time Acknowledging that the secular world seeks to limit church and of prayer for concerns and also how God has answered prayer Christian involvement in the world because we do not accept during the week. A repeated verse in the book is Hebrews their modus operandum - if you stand for biblical truth you are 10:24-25. labelled either a bigot or an extremist - the call is to stand firm . . . to go home saying ‘what a wonderful speaker’, ‘what and be courageous. marvellous worship’, ‘what an uplifting experience’ when The last chapter ‘An attitude of gratitude – living in the grace of we have done little or nothing to listen, encourage and God’. It is summed up in these words and I quote ‘Nothing is support each other is a gross distortion of what a Christian more important for any church than this: that all its members gathering should be (p205). marvel at the grace God extends to them. This is a daily reality. Comments are made that the Church gathered becomes the As followers of Christ, to live in an attitude of gratitude is a daily church scattered so that Sunday, or when the time the whole calling – something for which we are forever grateful to him’. group meet is a time to catch up, give praise, pray, hear Highly recommended. corporately from Scripture with appropriate application for Monday to Saturday worship of each ‘family’ member.

25 BUNBURY BULLETIN

BUNBURY The Revd Dr Lucy Morris | Diocesan Secretary

The Diocese is working with its people across and a blessing given for the occasion. An Open the region on the impact of the Coronavirus. Day was arranged for 17 March for all who were Preparations for a wide range of possible interested in visiting. decisions are well underway and by the time The Diocesan Safe Church audit is well underway this postcard is printed, it is likely the situation with the first phase nearly completed. The will be very different to today’s circumstances. second phase will be looking at how the current Priests and lay leaders are thinking about how Safe Church policies and practices are matched to continue to support and provide pastoral and by people’s actions and decision-making in practical care and worship in an environment parishes and by the Diocesan team. This is part where there is great concern for people’s health; of the Church’s commitment to and compliance and, how these arrangements and decisions will with the Safe Ministry to Children Canon 2017 be communicated on a regular basis to its people. and with its own QA system. The outcome of the We reported last month on the opening Audit will be published on the Anglican Church of celebrations of the new Diocesan Office at Australia’s website once it is completed. 11 Oakley Street, Bunbury on 20 February 2020 The Diocese also currently has full time Priest- with Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy AO and Bishop in-Charge vacancies in the Parishes of Busselton Ian Coutts, together with members of Bishop-in- and Williams. If you are interested and would like Council and Trustees and others from across the more details, please contact The Ven Julie Baker Diocese. The new name plaque was unveiled by through the Diocesan Office on 08 9721 2100. Archbishop Kay together with prayers being said

26 NEWS FROM THE NOR’WEST

Jocelyn Ross OAM NOR'WEST

Senior Minister Philip and Elke Knight amongst boys and the promotion of habits of announced to their much-loved church family at obedience, reverence, discipline, self respect and St. Matthew’s, Port Hedland, that Philip has all that tends towards true Christian manliness’. accepted an appointment as Vicar of St Mark's, Boys Brigade meets Thursday evenings on the Forest Hill, in Melbourne starting in April. ‘It has Cathedral premises. been a great privilege to serve the saints at St Our link Diocese in Uganda, Karamoja, is to have Matt's for the past 14 years and to be part of a another visit from Bishop Gary and Christine pretty special diocese. We will miss our NW family Nelson and accompanying them, the Senior and friends greatly but look forward to what God Minister in Kununurra, Daniel Faricy, this coming has in store for us in Victoria.’ A connection already April. Christine and craft ladies are making aprons made is with two members of St Mark's who have from printed tea towels (preferably with Australian been praying for them as BCA supporters ‘so God motives) for ministry wives in the Karamoja has been and is very good and gracious to us’. Diocese. They can be unpicked and used as a The Knights started in January 2006, and Philip curtain or a tea towel for the very poor families must be one of the longest serving parish priests there. in the Diocese since the 1970s. We are so sad to see them go, but they will be great ambassadors In Dongara, the priority is on evangelism this year. for our Diocese. The town is very community focused, and church members want to be more intentional in their Last month, St. George’s Church, Bluff Point friendships, taking opportunities to share the love farewelled Margaret Glass, an English PK of Jesus. Minister Matt Morrison’s new walking (Preacher’s Kid!), a much-loved member of companion is Chewy, the Labrador pup! Dog Mothers’ Union and valued teacher at Bluff Point walking is a great way to make friends quickly!!! Primary Teacher for many years. A great mentor to many, a lay reader/preacher in the 80s, the list Carnarvon’s Senior Minister, Brian and Annie goes on! Fyffe, are on Long Service Leave and touring USA! Houston, snow in New Mexico, New Thirty members of the Holy Cross Cathedral Boys’ Orleans, Washington – sounds wonderful! Brigade were welcomed and dedicated at the start of 2020 during the 10am Service recently. Jesus is risen! He is Lord!! Boys Brigade aims to ‘advance God’s kingdom

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27 MANDORLA ART AWARD 2020

For 25 years, The Mandorla Art Award has been to the public from Saturday 16 May to Saturday operating in Perth, Western Australia, as a unique 6 June. STALA Contemporary is a new gallery space invitation to artists from all backgrounds to submit which occupies the trendy up-and-coming arts hub their works which are inspired by biblical scripture. affectionately known as the ‘Pickle District’, which Over time, this National Christian Art Award has is also home to some well-known creative venues grown to include submissions by some of Australia’s which call this area home, including the Janet Holmes most celebrated contemporary artists, including Brian a Court Art Collection, the Linton and Kay Gallery and McKay, John Coburn and Anh Do. the Cleaver Street Collective. MANDORLA ART AWARD 2020 AWARD ART MANDORLA This award is held biennially (every two years) Please show your support for contemporary Australian and the significant prize money donated by major artists! What’s more, this remarkable exhibition is sponsor, St John of God Health Care, attracts leading free to visit, and members of the public are welcome contemporary artists from all over Australia to create to spend time at the gallery and see the unique way a variety of inspired works of art, from canvases and artists from all over the country have brought their digital prints to crafted sculptures. As this award is the own personal understanding to this scriptural verse. only one of its kind in Australia, this is an incredible Gallery opening times are from Wednesday to chance to view the creative collection of artworks Saturday from 10.00am to 4.00pm. that is inspired by the scriptural verse of Micah 6:8: Note that artists will be in attendance Saturday He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and afternoon 16 May from 2.00pm to provide insight into what does THE LORD require of you, but to do the process of their craft and final product. justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly Following the finalists’ exhibition, selected works will with your God? be chosen to tour to New Norcia Museum and Art This carefully selected verse from Micah 6:8 is taken Gallery and St John of God Healthcare. from the Old Testament of the Bible and relays the Whether you are an admirer of art, a seasoned art idea of what it means to be a good human being in collector or simply one of those in the market for that they are fair to all (just), kind and humble. It is an biblically inspired works of art, you will be pleased apt call to everyone to consider what it means to act to know that these one-of-a-kind artworks will be as a good human being in such an uncertain world available for sale. and to embrace others in neighbourly love. To keep up to date please follow us on social media This year’s exhibition will be held at the STALA @mandorlaartaward on Facebook and Instagram or Contemporary Gallery in West Perth and is open www.mandorlaart.com.

2018 Judge Anne Ryan from the Art Gallery of NSW Photo credit: Henri Pham

28 THEATRE THEATRE Anthony Howes

Anthony presents more news of arts and entertainment every Sat from 10am till 12 noon on Capital Radio 101.7 FM & Capital Digital

The following events were correct at the time of publication - please check with the theatres regarding the cancellation of performances or otherwise. I have a suggestion. With so much gloom and doom For ticket and booking information, telephone the WAAPA dominating our lives at present, it might be a good idea to Box Office on 9370 6895 (Monday to Friday: 9.30am- look to our theatres for some refreshment which is both 12.30pm and 1.00pm-3.30pm). positive and entertaining. I thoroughly recommend you Now I have a suggestion for fun theatre especially for checking out the production schedules of the community children (and anyone to 80 and beyond!). At the State theatre in your area. The independent theatres, with their Theatre Centre from 22-27 April is a production called The highly talented amateur actors and technicians will often 91-Story Treehouse. This stage adaptation comes from provide drama which is both international in its outlook, the series of books by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. and high in the abilities of those concerned. Think about The 91-Storey Treehouse has been short-listed for a it, anyway. Speech Pathology Award and was listed for ABIA Book Of course, if you are quick off the mark when Messenger of the Year for Younger Children. The stage adaptations appears this month, the West Australian Academy of have also been successful throughout Australia, including Performing Arts will certainly provide excellence and The 52-Storey Treehouse winning a Sydney Theatre Award quality performance. To start, their dance company for Best Production for Children. Just so you know what Link Dance, as part of WAAPA’s new partnership with it is all about, I am told that in this adaptation Andy and the Perth Theatre Trust, presents Well, a double bill of Terry are going to be challenged like never before! Mr Big contemporary dance works in the Studio Underground of Nose has sent his grandchildren to the Treehouse, and they the State Theatre Centre from Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 don’t want to just sit quietly. The big question: can Andy, April at 7.30pm, with a matinee performance on Saturday Terry and Jill master this extreme babysitting challenge? 4 April at 2.00pm. Working with the company is visiting What does mysterious fortune teller Madam Know-It-All guest artist Rainer Behr, a long-standing member of actually want? And will the Big Red Button really destroy Pina Bausch’s internationally renowned dance company the world? Great family fun, indeed. Bookings at www.ptt. Tanztheater Wuppertal. I am told that Well is a season of wa.gov.au or by telephoning 6212 9292. dance shaped by the most innovative, ground-breaking ideas in the contemporary dance world.

Finally: Although 3 July is opening night at Crown Theatre, and this is April, I urge you to book now for Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment production of the Bernstein/ Sondheim musical, WEST SIDE STORY. Why? Because as the UK’s Times stated - ‘WEST SIDE STORY: The No 1 Greatest Musical Of All Times’. Bookings and information at www.ticketmaster.com.au.

At WAAPA itself in Mt Lawley, early April presents the Third Year Acting Students in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Roundhouse Theatre season plays from 3-8 April (except Sunday) with evening s at 7.30pm and a matinee on Saturday 4 April at 2.00pm. This production is directed by Sean O’Shea. Meanwhile, the Enright Studio is the scene for The Wild Cherry Project which runs from 2-7 April (except Sunday) and with a matinee on the Saturday at 2.00pm. The project sets selected scenes from Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard against a performance of the Australian playwright Daniel Keen’s Wild Cherries. Guest director from Melbourne, Melanie Beddie, is in charge of the production which investigates displacement and identity.

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AROUND THE DIOCESE MILITARY WIVES

Mark A Hadley | Reviewer

FILM REVIEW A skilled communicator and writer for more than three decades, Mark has scripted and produced TV shows including The Christ Files and The Life of Jesus, as well as reviewing films, TV programmes and children’s books Rated M Distributor TRANSMISSION Release date 16 March 2020

There are some films that male be doing, and begins badly. The women reviewers watch which they feel involved are so tone deaf and divided somewhat unqualified to judge.The that their singing sounds more like, ‘… Hours is one; Pitch Perfect another. the incantations of a bunch of witches.’ Drama or comedy, they address But as they find music that conveys issues of a deeply personal nature for their real feelings, a new and beautiful women which men can appreciate voice emerges. When they decide to but never fully experience. Military put lines from the letters they write to Wives falls into that category. It’s a their husbands to music, it was enough true story that presents the pain and to send this reviewer reaching for his longing wives, mothers and lovers go handkerchief: through as they watch their dearest ‘10:30 tonight I’ll be looking at the depart for dangerous territories, moon. possibly never to return. I think, like That’s 1:30 for you. many men, I was unaware of their Will you be looking there too? quiet suffering. Yet, like all viewers, These are the simple things there is something I can take away That help me get through.’ from the way they learn to cope. And that in a nutshell, is the question Military Wives is directed by Peter Military Wives poses. How do we get Cattaneo, the mind behind the 1997 comedy The through the hardest times in our lives? For the characters, Full Monty. It’s a parallel film in some respects, both it begins with community and a shared understanding of concerning groups who take comfort in each other’s the pressures. As good as these are, it becomes clear company as they confront risky situations. Military something more will be required: sacrifice for the sake of Wives is set on a military base in the north of England the other. I’m reminded of the words of Tim Keller when where the families of the enlisted are farewelling their he describes what a true friend is: ‘They’re the sort of loved ones as they leave on a peace-keeping mission in person who says, ‘I’ll do whatever it takes. I will not let Afghanistan. you fall’.’ Kate is ready to sit with the wife of a soldier Kristin Scott Thomas plays Kate, the prim and proper who’s been killed in action, despite the dark memories it wife of the brigade’s commander. This is the fifth time raises of her own son’s loss. Likewise, Lisa is prepared she has seen her husband depart for a tour of dangerous to sacrifice the perfect lyric because it pains her older territory. Playing opposite is Sharon Horgan as Lisa, the friend to hear it sung. And when we see something like wife of the newly promoted Regimental Sergeant Major. this being played out on the big screen, we will naturally Her informal responsibility is to keep up the spirits of long to live in such relationships. Sadly, studies suggest the loved ones left behind, though she’d much rather that, despite our numerous technologies, we’ve never remain ‘one of the gang’. When Kate, the Colonel’s wife, felt more disconnected from those around us. However, decides she’ll take a hand in organising respectable the Bible assures us that a Military Wives relationship is and non-alcoholic pastimes for the women, a choir is within reach of us all. formed. The stage is set for a tussle between two very When Jesus Christ’s enemies wanted to insult him, they different personalities, but neither Kate nor Lisa are called him a, ‘friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ – the aware of the life-changing effects their little musical greatest outcasts in his society. Yet the Bible draws a exercise will have. line between everyone who has rejected God and that Military Wives is inspired by a true story which has label ‘sinner’, for the sake of showing us just what a resulted in a now world-famous choir formed entirely of friend he can be for us: those married to the military. As such, it presents real, ‘But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While appreciable pains. In a single conversation, two wives we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’ express both the uncertainty that clouds their days and I’m not ashamed to say I was moved more than once their inability to do anything about it: by the sacrificial love Military Wives promotes. But I Sarah: I feel sick all the time. Every time the phone rings was comforted too. I could recognise the community every time the doorbell rings. How do you cope? Do you and shared understanding, and particularly depth of talk about it? devotion displayed, because I’ve experienced it in my relationship with Jesus. If you want to enjoy a feel-good Maz: Let’s have some wine. film, thenMilitary Wives is for you. And if you want to The choir begins as a means of just keeping their feel what it so lovingly displays, then the Bible says you minds off the dangerous work their loved ones might can have that too.

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