National Reconciliation Week, May 27th – June 3rd

After last year’s referendum result, this week is needed more than ever.

Disregard of Aboriginal prior rights to land was the ‘root of all evil’ in the colonisation of Australia.Archbishop Polding, Sydney, Pastoral Letter, 1869

The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia have a long history with the First Nations People of this land and are committed to Reconciliation.

To foster that commitment, you might like to read this list and remember:

Darwin

Tiwi Islands

Arltunga/ Santa Teresa

Wadeye/ Port Keats

Deacon Boniface Perdjert

Nauiyu/ Daly River

Nelen Yubu Missiological Unit/ Daly River

Nelen Yubu periodical

Parishes

   Darwin Cathedral

   Alice Springs

   Nightcliff

   Casuarina

   Katherine

   Tennant Creek  

Torres Strait

   Hammond Island

   Thursday Island

Wadeye

Wilcannia/ Menindee

Palm Island

Erskineville/ ACM, Aboriginal Catholic Mission

The MSC Brothers, Priests, Bishops, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the Lay Missionaries

And students in our schools, especially St John’s Darwin,

Students at Downlands, Chevalier, Monivae, Daramalan

• And at Monivae, Mick Dodson,

And acknowledging Pat Dodson, sharing 15 years of MSC life with us,

And his being named in 1997 The Father of Reconciliation