Tui Motu Interislands Monthly Independent Catholic Magazine May 2015 | $7
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Tui Motu InterIslands monthly independent Catholic magazine May 2015 | $7 Pentecost . editorial the irrepressible Spirit oey often pops in on his walks only partly expresses the experience and Richards describes his experience of around the city, for tea and a mission of the Spirit . We find ourselves work in his first jobs out of school . Jchat about life and religion . Mid- pushed towards awe, surprise, delight, The second issue is the Trans- afternoon he caught me revelling in dancing, colour, music and poetry in Pacific Partnership agreement which the May design, the hot pink cover Spirited choreography . New Zealand, Australia and 10 other and everything fitting in . He began We learnt to recite the seven gifts of countries are negotiating . While the describing his experiences of God, the Spirit over our porridge as children goals were to relate in a neighbourly scrambling for words in his pentecos- but as catechism answers they never held way around trade, the secrecy now tal vocabulary before succumbing to the allure of the night sky, the abandon surrounding the negotiations and images, gestures, and finally the silence of ecstasy or the desolation of absence . the details being leaked are causes for of a mystic — there weren’t enough Nor did they have the feel of kindness, alarm . Joshua Freeman outlines how words . His telling tingled with his the support of advice or the generosity TPP would allow drug companies to memory of “thick presence”, “fantastic of faithfulness . They changed from hamstring the Government’s decision light” and “of being caught up” into a cardboard to real through experiences for our health system . Cecily McNeill oneness of goodness and love . Those like Joey’s, through attentiveness in the persuades that this agreement is no moments had erupted through his day-to-day, through relationships and good for our country . What would illness and still carry him through his through starkness and suffering . Every happen if we didn’t sign the agreement? ups and downs . aspects of our lives is grist for the Spirit Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law at The This is the living Spirit pouring out, as Joy Cowley writes in “Breath, Fire, University of Auckland responded to energising as differentiation, autopoiesis Love” and we are connected to every that question recently saying: “Nothing and communion in the evolving uni- living thing in the cosmic web of love as would happen to us . We would be free verse, as Teilhard de Chardin discovered, Ilia Delio suggests in “Mango” . to pursue trade and to make our own and breathing in the variety, uniqueness Two issues invite our attention in decisions as now ”. and community of our domestic part of this Pentecost edition . The first is the This is a taste of the Pentecost edi- the world . As Joey found when run- issue of wages . John Ryall explains why tion . Enjoy reading it through to our ning out of words to portray his expe- a living wage rather than a minimum Team’s last words of blessing . n riences, as Mike Riddell reminds us in wage is necessary and outlines the his article “The Dangerous God” and work of the Living Wage Movement in as our hot pink cover shows — prose New Zealand and elsewhere . And Ted Editorial . .2 An ecological reading of the gospel of Mark (part four) Guest editorial: Inspired by our young . 3 . 20–21 Elaine Wainwright contents Rob Ritchie TPP not good for us Letters to the editor . 4 . 22–23 Cecily McNeill Closure of Mana Recovery . 5 TPP and our health system Trish McBride . 24–25 Joshua Freeman The dangerous God . 6–7 Spirit – poured out in living water . 26–27 Mike Riddell Kathleen Rushton Brother Mango and eternal life . 8–9 Book and film reviews . 28–29 Ilia Delio Crosscurrents . 30 Breath, fire, love! . 10–11 Jim Elliston Joy Cowley Blood, sweat and teardrops . 31 Interview: The right thing to do . 12-13 Cavaan Wild Michael Fitzsimons A mother’s journal . 32 My gap year . 14–15 Kaaren Mathias Ted Richards Poem: The sea question . 16–17 Cover illustration: Pentecost, watercolour by Elizabeth Smither Glenda Dietrich Moore. [Used with permission of the Feral music and the Spirit . 18–19 artist. www.glendadietrich.com] Peter Murnane 2 Tui Motu InterIslands May 2015 . guest editorial inspired by our young Rob Ritchie spent a week with a group The movement towards our Pākehā chefs and volunteers and a of young people “wwoofing” bicultural future seems hopeful . This concert by professional and amateur (volunteer work — associated group of young people represents a musicians and dance performers . Iwith the world wide organic farming generation well acquainted with the For some Pākehā who had lived in movement) on a whānau, extended Treaty of Waitangi — something the area for 25 years and longer it was family, initiative focussed on restor- unheard of half a century ago . Thanks their first visit to the marae and their ing an old hospital facility built on to the schools, families and church first event hosted by Māori . For some whānau land . As kaitiaki, guardians of the land, their dream is to create a “puna”, a spring, where whānau (Māori and Pākehā) can gather, rest a while and “drink some good water” . At the end of the week the young people offered me a ride home, some four hours away . It was an unfor- gettable trip . We discussed most of the things which communities in which they were Māori it was the first time Pākehā really matter: music, comedy, faith, raised, their familiarity with Māori had catered for them on their marae . culture and identity . culture was obvious to everyone shar- Surely such expressions of Reflecting on how they’d lived ing in the community venture . relationship and partnership are and worked alongside the whānau I The same whānau hosted a welcomed and needed . Then those believe I witnessed a Treaty partner- Matariki celebration (Māori New on both sides of the Treaty will move ship that really begins with the idea of Year) on their local marae . It included comfortably in each other’s worlds . n whanaungatanga, manaaki and awhi . pōwhiri a traditional welcome, an This simply means a mutual sense explanation of the marae, a display of Rob Ritchie is retired at Hokitika of belonging, sharing and caring for traditional artefacts and crafts, a twelve and trying to renovate his home to each other on life’s journey . course finger-food dinner provided by conform to tikanga Māori. address: Independent Catholic Magazine Ltd, Tui Motu – InterIslands is an independent, 52 Union Street, Dunedin North, 9054 Catholic, monthly magazine. It invites its P O Box 6404, Dunedin North, 9059 readers to question, challenge and contrib- phone: (03) 477 1449 ute to its discussion of spiritual and social email: [email protected] issues in the light of gospel values, and in email for subscriptions: [email protected] the interests of a more just and peaceful website: www.tuimotu.org society. Inter-church and inter-faith dialogue is welcomed. TuiMotuInterIslands editor: Ann L Gilroy rsj The name Tui Motu was given by Pa Henare Tate. assistant editor: Elizabeth Mackie op It literally means “stitching the islands together...”, illustrator: Donald Moorhead bringing the different races and peoples and faiths directors: Rita Cahill rsj, Philip Casey (chair), Neil Darragh, together to create one Pacific people of God. Paul Ferris, Elizabeth Mackie op and David Mullin Divergence of opinion is expected and will normally honorary directors: Pauline O’Regan rsm, Frank Hoffmann be published, although that does not necessarily ISSM 1174-8931 typesetting and layout: Greg Hings imply editorial commitment to the viewpoint Issue number 193 printers: Southern Colour Print, 1 Turakina Road, expressed. Dunedin South, 9012 3 Tui Motu InterIslands May 2015 letters to the editor God-image could exclude who have enthusiastically embraced letters to the editor people the gospel challenge of making an We welcome comment, I read with interest Fr Max Palmer’s option for the poor . discussion, argument, debate. letter re attitude changes for the Wendy’s thoughtful article coin- But please keep letters under better (March, 2015) . cided with the news that former El I note he did not mention his neigh- Salvadorian general, Eugenio Vides 200 words. The editor reserves bour’s (Australia’s) attitude to the dig- Casanova, has been deported from the right to abridge, while not nity of their human people . Certainly the United States to El Salvador . The changing the meaning. in 1967 Australian Aboriginals were general has been linked to the murder of We do not publish anonymous at last regarded as “people” and had three American Catholic sisters and one letters except in exceptional to assume the human mantle of being Catholic laywoman in December 1980, circumstances. Response considered as being created and fash- and although El Salvadorian amnesty articles (up to a page) are ioned in the image and likeness of God! laws mean that he will not be tried for welcome — but please, by (Bit hard to do immediately when you his crimes against the people, it is good negotiation. have never been considered a “person”!) that the Obama administration is revers- I wonder if our attitude that we are ing the protection afforded such men by created in the image and likeness of previous American governments . God, (i e. usually white, middle class, Susan Smith, Onerahi, Whangarei clean, literate and generally “nice” ), has contributed to the way we have and are getting out of poverty treating people who don’t come up to Pope Francis — Anna Speaking was a our image of God? Perhaps we have time to act on the message wonderful, open honest letter to Pope made God into our image and likeness .