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ISSUE 5, OCTOBER 2016 Multi-Award Winning Magazine for the Kimberley • Building Our Future Together Relationships Exhibition Education Package Published by the DIOCESE OF BROOME PO Box 76, Broome WA 6725 T: 08 9192 1060 F: 08 9192 2136 FREE E-mail: [email protected] www.broomediocese.org ISSUE 5, OCTOBER 2016 Multi-award winning magazine for the Kimberley • Building our future together Relationships Exhibition Education Package The REEP programme (Relationships tick them off. Perfect! Exhibition Education Package) is being With their Pre Activities completed both given a good workout by two Year 4 classes classes visited the Heritage Centre from St Mary’s College, Broome. accompanied by teachers, teaching The REEP assistants and programme is a parents. They suite of four were divided separate packages into two for each of Years groups of 3,4,5 and 6. thirty to work Looking for on activities feedback from from their REEP, Heritage Student Centre staff, Booklet. One Sarah and Helen, group interviewed remained in COVER: teachers Ms the Photo: Sr J Murphy rsj Hannah and Ms Bernardine Celebrating Mary MacKillop Pip. Both teachers Greene Room Feast Day at Ngalangangpum confirmed the while the School in Warmun with three- SSJG Heritage Centre Broome initial attention other went to legged races. Front from left, Mackenzie Webber, Paiden grabber for them the Bray and Vincent Ramsey. was the student workbook, and from that Relationships Exhibition. Later they they moved on to the digital Teacher’s swapped locations so all could complete the Manual. activities. They expressed surprise at the breadth of There was plenty of learning and plenty resources provided digitally. Just click and of fun as all finally gathered under the ‘Lord, make me an instrument of your peace’ there is a DVD all ready to play, laughed shady trees to enjoy a well earned lunch. Hannah. When asked about how easily the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi work units complied with the Australian The REEP programme is downloadable Curriculum Easy, said Pip, the curriculum from the Heritage Centre’s website codes are all there and all I need to do is heritage.ssjg.org.au KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY PROFILE is a publication of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Broome, published six times a Trevor Tough Bar year by the Bishop of Broome. Articles to do with the Kimberley Trevor Tough, a well-known are welcome to be submitted for Kimberley identity now publication. living down south in W.A., was recently honoured at ENQUIRIES the Kununurra Norforce Diocese of Broome depot with a bar in the PO Box 76, Broome WA 6725 premises. Tel: 08 9192 1060 Named after him, this Fax: 08 9192 2136 honour was in recognition Email: [email protected] of his contribution to SUBSCRIPTIONS Norforce as a foundation Subscription Rate $30.00 P/A member and as a long serving solider with an The opinions expressed in this exemplary record to his publication are not necessarily name. CAS those of the Bishop of Broome BROOMEDIOCESE.ORG 2 KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY PROFILE OCTOBER 2016 Viewpoint Symbol of mercy, pathway of forgiveness. This Holy Year is fast moving to a close Among the many innovative and with the Feast of Christ the King on the devout happenings that contributed to 20th November being the official end of our spiritual nourishment and the Year of Mercy and the conclusion of communion in faith during this Holy our Jubilee 50 Year as a Diocese. These Year was the Journey of the Cross, the past few months have witnessed some WYD Legacy Cross, which has now wonderful celebrations; all of them become, in so many ways, the Kimberley significant, prayerful and memorable. Cross. It has been piously regarded and Many festivities and events have been venerated by large crowds in every town held in parishes, in towns, or in local and in all the communities that have a isolated communities. Others have been significant Catholic presence. It became Diocesan based gatherings such as the our focal point in faith in the gatherings Jubilee Mass on 2 June in Broome or we had and in the celebrations that were humanity that we have services provided by the Diocese such as organized Kimberley-wide. It was at the been called to as true disciples, the salt the Christof Art Exhibition which centre of Confirmations on a number of of the earth in what is so often travelled beyond Broome so that others occasions and accompanied the otherwise a tasteless world. might enjoy its beauty. celebration of Penitential Rites in some The Year of Mercy beckons us still to very remote locations. appreciate the loving Mercy of God and I take this opportunity to thank the The Cross led the processions in how we too have been called to be all many people involved in the towns and villages, and stood as a sign merciful to others. Mother Teresa had a celebrations and festivities. I am of hope while we prayed under the light wonderful saying: “if you judge people grateful for the tireless efforts of my of campfires in rugged outdoor settings, then you will have no time to love staff in the Chancery; they have in schools and in parks, on sites all over them.” If there was ever a time for us to worked very hard over the months, the Kimberley where people gathered. contemplate deeply the wonderful Mercy beyond any usual call to duty. The These past few weeks I have had an of God it is now. We have shared so schools and the Catholic Education image in my mind taken from the much this past year that has opened for Office have been major contributors Gospels; of Jesus leading a procession of us, I believe, moments of faith and to this effort to praise God for His followers into Jerusalem, towards the understanding, for which we must be goodness to us. Their dedication Capital where he was to be tortured and always grateful. Still now, we are in need during the Holy Year has helped us executed. It is to be found in Luke 14: of personal conversion and change that to remember the essence of who we 25-34. The Lord stops and reminds the God’s merciful love and forgiveness may are as Kimberley Christians and the crowd that they must count the cost if touch us fully. Mother Teresa once said: importance of recognizing our call to they are to be His disciples. “Whoever “Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not yet. holiness as disciples of the Lord. does not carry the Cross and follow me This has been a period of prayerful We have only today. Let us begin.” activity that has given to us all the cannot be my disciple,” Jesus says. He chance to focus on our vocation as reminds the crowd following that this Christians. The people in all the life of ours is at times torturous, it is parishes have been active too in this marked by constant disappointments, at important year of recollection as have times harrowing sadness and a sense of the priests and religious in the failure. However, the Cross we are Diocese. Of special mention are Mick asked by the Lord to carry is not a crown Connelly and Phil White who that removes all of this hardship or accompanied the cross on its epic restores us to some sort of journey around the Kimberley and comfortability but, rather, unites us in a cared for it at every stage. To you all, sense of divine purpose and affords us, I would most earnestly like to pass through Grace, the conviction that God on my prayerful good wishes in is all merciful and boundless in His love gratefulness for your part in for us. Jesus’ death and resurrection everything that has constituted the are the means to eternal life for us. Our Holy Year of special Grace for us as a communion with Him enables us to see Kimberley people. the rightful relationship with God and KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY PROFILE OCTOBER 2016 3 Office of Justice, Saint News Ecology and Peace St Edmund By Dr David Brennan, Editing and Publications Officer of the Australian Feast Day: November 20 Catholic Social Justice Council Born: 841 Died: 870 United in love Edmund was born in In the last issue, I wrote about the 2016 Social Justice Germany. He was an Statement from Australia’s Bishops, titled ‘A Place at the English king who was given Table: Social justice in an ageing society’. the throne when he was One aim of the Statement is to celebrate ‘the value, dignity only fourteen. But his high and significant contributions of older people to the life of the position did not make him community’. Another aim is to remind us that we cannot proud or snobbish. Instead, forget the needs of those who are marginalised or he took as his model the underprivileged. The Statement recognises that by the middle Old Testament king, David. of this century, the number of Australians aged 65 and over Edmund tried to serve God as well as David had. In will more than double. Mostly, this is a good thing – ‘the most fact, Edmund even learned David's psalms by heart. positive development in the last century of human history’. The psalms are beautiful hymns of praise to God Those words were quoted by the Bishops from the 2014 contained in the Holy Bible. document ‘Blueprint for an Ageing Australia’ by the leading King Edmund ruled wisely, showing kindness and think tank Per Capita. Two years later, Per Capita has joined justice to all his people. When Danish barbarians with the Benevolent Society and the Longevity Innovation Hub attacked his land, he fought them bravely.
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