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Holy Saturday Vigil Saturday 4 April, 12 noon

Gathering together in prayer for asylum seekers

This year we will gather in Manly, in the mall outside the office of Prime Minister Tony Abbott

(17 Sydney Rd. Manly).

Last year's Holy Saturday Vigil was a powerful moment in the early life of Love Makes a Way - about 125 people of faith coming together from across the theological spectrum to pray for asylum seekers, and for the politicians who are responsible for them. It was that night, realising that we had 'something' more than an action or two, that the LMAW Facebook page (and thus the formal adoption of the name for an ongoing campaign) was born.

On Holy (Easter) Saturday we are inviting you to join us out the front of the Prime Minister's office for an Easter Saturday vigil for children and families in detention.

At Easter, Christians remember the death of Christ on Friday, and his Resurrection on Sunday. Saturday marks the day in between, the time between death and life, between grief and joy, between devastation and hope.

In light of Australia's shocking treatment of asylum seekers, especially children, we are taking the opportunity to join together nonviolently to challenge the government's policies and practice through a public act of prayer. We will be praying for asylum seekers, but also for Prime Minister Abbott, a self-confessed Christian, to have a change of heart, and to show the same love to asylum seekers that Jesus has shown us.

WHEN: Holy Saturday, April 4, 2015

TIME: Midday (for approx. 1 hour)

WHERE: Tony Abbott's Electoral Office, 17 Sydney Road Manly, NSW, 2095

BRING: Sunscreen, a hat, peaceful signs, and a passionate voice!

This event will not be a civil disobedience action, and it is open to people of all ages. We do insist that all who attend do so in a spirit of nonviolence, both in word and action (no offensive signs, t-shirts or slogans, please).

CYCLONE PAM AND THE PACIFIC

Kiribati president: 'time to act' on climate change

Anote Tong, president of Kiribati, is at the UN disaster risk conference in Sendai, Japan, and has been speaking about the effects of Cyclone Pam on his country.

'Cyclone Pam struck the Pacific ... with Vanuatu bearing the full savagery of Pam, with effects also experienced in the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and of course in my country, in Kiribati ...

We have heard that precious lives have been lost and a great deal of damage was done to infrastructure: homes, food sources, drinking water and communication and transport devastated.

Because of the scattered nature of the small islands that make up the Pacific island communities, it is not always easy to know full well the extent of the damage ... It will take a few days to provide much needed help because no one knows what the situation is in these remote island communities.

It is sad but it is the most vulnerable who have been affected the most and we cannot help them when they need us most.'

He extended his condolences to the president of Vanuatu, who is returning home from Japan today.

It is time to act ... Let us match the rhetoric of these international gatherings with pledges and commitments as leaders to do our best to improve conditions and lives of those who need it most.

For leaders of low-lying island atolls, the hazards of global warming affect our people in different ways, and it is a catastrophe that impinges on our rights ... and our survival into the future.

There will be a time when the waters will not recede.
Climate change has exacerbated the severity of natural disasters and frequency, that is worsening the impact on different communities in different parts of the world.
I argue ... that climate change and disasters are so integrated and so related.

REMOTE COMMUNTIES AND LIFESTYLE

What choice for Aboriginal peoples, asks Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

Dire circumstances

‘What choice?’ is the question the Bishops Commission for Relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has asked Prime Minister Tony Abbott after his comment that Aboriginal peoples are living in remote communities as a ‘lifestyle choice.’

In a statement released yesterday, the Chairman of the commission Bishop Christopher Saunders, asked: ‘Where is the lifestyle choice? Communities are under-serviced and patently there is insufficient listening to the voices of people in Aboriginal communities. We are forcing Aboriginal people out of their ancestral lands to live in regional towns. The reality is that when a community is closed down people and their families have nowhere to go, so they end up on the streets, separated from their land, heritage, family, culture and spirituality.

‘It is a basic human right to choose where you live but it seems that our government is giving people in Aboriginal communities the ‘choice’ to live in a community with only limited resources and services.

‘After 200 years of colonisation and dispossession, surely out of fairness we owe something to Australia’s First Nations in the way of respect and recompense. Recent research has found that where Aboriginal communities are supported to serve as models of landscape management or as the source of new community initiatives, they have far better outcomes in health and education. Like other Australians, they have the right to access basic municipal services.’

Today the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) said: ‘The Prime Minister’s use of the term ‘lifestyle choices’ is an insult to Aboriginal people. To dispossess another generation of our people will deal a further blow to health, education and living standard disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Additionally, the burden on other communities will increase as people are forced to move.’

Read more http://cathnews.com/cathnews/20725-what-choice-for-aboriginal-peoples-asks-acbc

Read full media statement http://cathnews.com/images/documents/media/150311%20ACBC%20Aboriginal%20peoples%20have%20te%20right%20to%20decent%20services.pdf

TRIBUTE TO FAITH BANDLER: PATRICK DODSON

1. Faith Bandler, AC also known as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing, was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage. She was a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders.
2. Born: September 27, 1918, New South Wales
3. Died: February 13, 2015, Sydney

   
   

   On the occasion of this morning's state funeral (February 24, 2015) for Faith Bandler the Edmund Rice Centre requests your assistance in distributing this tribute to Ms Bandler - written by Patrick Dodson, Yawuru elder from Broome, WA.
   

   
     In his inaugural address in Washington in 2008, the first American person of colour to assume the mantle of President of the United States, Barack Obama, challenged those who: “questioned the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans”. He challenged his countrymen and women to rise above mediocrity and imagine a world that was better for the accepting of the need for something better.
   
   Well perhaps that newly elected leader of the United States had taken his cue from this beautiful Lady of diminutive stature who yet possessed the courage, dignity and vision equal to any of the giants of Australian history.
   
   The scale of ambition that this dear Lady set for this nation half a century ago was to take the first steps towards righting the wrongs that had been a foundational flaw in the crafting of our Constitution sixty years previously – that most unacceptable of all exclusions that denied the humanity of those Australians on whose lands and seas the new nation of Australia had been constructed.
   
   The story of the achievement of the 1967 Referendum will no doubt be recalled and recognized on many occasions today and that is a good and important thing to do. However the life we celebrate today was not defined solely from this one significant achievement.
   
   Like the two other great Australians who lives we celebrated at State Memorial services in this city in past months the achievements of this lady were many and across the spectrum of the time in which she lived.
   
   Hers was a life of activism in Australia, whether for equal wages for Aboriginal workers, the rights of those who had been stolen into slavery from the islands of her father or the recognition of Indigenous people in the Constitution of the nation. For this Lady injustice was not defined by colour nor creed, nor racial origin. Injustice for her was simply unacceptable and when identified could not be tolerated or left in place to fester and corrupt the soul of the nation.
   
   Her activism was strategic and relied on building alliances and supporters through the strength of her personality and the belief that she had in the rightness of her cause.
   
   We met at her home in Sydney in early 1996 when I had gone to speak to her about playing a role in the Reconciliation Convention that was to be held in Melbourne the following year.
   
   She and Hans were the most gracious of hosts and the afternoon and early evening were spent, not reminiscing about 1967 or even of our plans for the Melbourne Convention but the work that that was still required on so many fronts that when resolved would ultimately lead to a more just and equitable Australia which in her mind was a work in progress with much work still to be done. We left that evening with her acquiescence to participate in Melbourne but with instructions for us on other causes and matters of injustice that required our attention and resources.
   
   Having agreed to participate in Melbourne she immediately assumed control of that part of the weeks planned events and the Reconciliation Council found itself with a branch in French’s Forrest.
   
   The recognition of this dear Lady and her team who were recognized at the Convention the following year was the highlight of the weeks celebrations and it was evident from the deference that was paid to her by her fellow workers and partners from the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) that the dear Lady was still the General Secretary and still in charge.
   
   But the lesson for us all in the life of this National Treasure is that injustice is not situational, nor finite. Our responsibility to confront injustice wherever it exists and to seek immediate remedy and restitution has no finishing line. The fight against injustice is a race never completed and there is no pretence that will allow us to ignore its reality.
   
   This dear Lady was confronted with the reality of injustice from the day of her birth and fought against its tide for her entire life.
   
   Her message of justice and humanity will not disappear with her passing into the spirit of the land and waters of her country where she travels today but will have its echo in hearts of future generations.

    

   

    

   PATRICK DODSON

   23rd February 2015

Aust Church groups condemn govt over child detention

Catholic social justice groups have condemned the Australian government over the report released by the Australian Human Rights Commission into the mandatory detention of refugee children.

The Edmund Rice Centre called for the ending of mandatory detention and Catholic mission said it found the report, released last Thurday,  "extremely disturbing."

THe ERC joined with 201 other Australian organisations and community groups to sign a joint statement calling all members of the Australian Parliament to take action to end the detention of children.

“Coordinated by the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA), the statement is a timely and necessary response to the report, and urges the Australian Parliament to introduce legislation to prevent children from being detained for immigration purposes in the future,” ERC Director and President of the Refugee Council of Australia, Phil Glendenning, said.

“Today, we are calling for the release of children and families detained in Australian and Nauru, and for allegations of child sexual abuse in Australian-funded detention centres to be referred to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.”

Catholic Mission expressed "deep concern" over the findings of the report. “We are very concerned about the findings of this report – particularly the insurmountable psychological damage that is being done to children who are still in detention,” said Catholic Mission National Director, Martin Teulan.

“This is an evidence-based, rigorous, and reliable report that highlights the lamentable conditions of immigration detention of children and the impact of these conditions on children in the long-term. The key human rights concern here is the prolonged damage that immigration detention does—and is doing­—to these children, especially on Nauru where 119 children remain with an uncertain future.

“We strongly believe that immigration detention is never, under any circumstance, in the best interests of the child. We therefore request the immediate release of these remaining children” Mr Teulan said.

GARRISON KEILOR REFLECTIONS

‘...if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.’

Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

‘Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.’

Garrison Keillor

‘One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.’

Garrison Keillor

‘God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.’

Garrison Keillor Happy to Be Here

‘When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.’

Garrison Keillor Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America

‘My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.’

Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days

LIFE STORY: DENNIS MURPHY MSC

Requiem Mass for FATHER DENNIS MURPHY msc: Eulogy by Fr. Malcolm Fyfe msc

Dear Friends, we have come together this morning to commend Father Dennis Murphy's soul to God, in the presence of his mortal remains, brought back to Australia for burial, after a well-attended Requiem Mass in Bangalore, at the request of his sister, Catherine, and other members of the family. We welcome all of you here for this Requiem Mass and we offer Dennis' relatives and friends our condolences and our union with them in prayer.

Today at this Mass, we want to celebrate the quite exceptional achievements of Father Dennis's life. And we are doing this in association with the liturgy of the Eucharist to which he was deeply devoted. Let me add that it will not be possible to do complete justice to Father Dennis's multilayered life-story and achievements: I can only endeavour to comment selectively on certain aspects presented from just one person's point of view. Last night at the Sharing of Memories you heard tributes offered by so many others who were touched by his life.

As Christians, our belief in what happens to us when our life on this earth comes to an end is supported by an array of Biblical texts. St Paul, for example, in his Letter to the Romans (Chapter 8) states: "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has made his home in you, then he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies, through his spirit living in you."

Again, St Paul's words in the Second Letter to Timothy (Chapter 4) provide a similar testimony when St Paul's own life was drawing to a close: "The time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing." With all his down to earth humility, I believe Father Dennis could well have used those words of St Paul: "The time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness".

The victory of Jesus over death and sin is the model and pattern of our own destiny. We too, are to pass through death to life in Christ Jesus and see God face to face for all eternity. And so, the sorrow and sense of loss that we naturally experience at the death of someone we have admired and esteemed, give way to a celebration of his personal gifts and of all that he achieved throughout a long and dedicated life. We will thank God for these achievements and for the privilege of having known him.

Father Dennis was called to eternal life on Monday of last week. He was 87 years of age, having been born on April 20th, 1927, at Maroubra. He grew up with a love of the sea and was a keen and competent body surfer. His father James, was a policeman and his mother Teresa, lived into her nineties. Dennis attended primary school at St. Anthony's, Clovelly and his secondary schooling consisted of one year at Christian Brothers College, Waverley, followed by four years at our Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Douglas Park. Needless to say, he was a very bright student.

A year's Pre-Novitiate or Postulancy, as it was then called, followed and afterwards came the Novitiate, with Fr Cuthbert Hoy as a very exacting Novice Master. In 1949, after Final Vows, he was selected to go to Rome, where he gained successively his Licentiate of Sacred Theology and his Licentiate of Sacred Scripture. These studies enabled him to get a good grasp of several languages including Italian and French, with the ability to read other languages such as Biblical Greek and Hebrew. While still busy with his Scripture Studies, Dennis was ordained in Rome on December 22, 1951, somewhat ahead of his fellow seminarians back in Australia. Indicative of that era was the mild scandal Dennis caused back in the Australian province by a photograph showing him digging at a biblical site alongside a female archaeologist who was only lightly clad because of the summer heat.

It was on Dennis's return to Australia in September 1956 that I first met him. During that year, as a sort of gap year between our Philosophy and Theology studies, Father Noel Mansfield and I taught at Douglas Park Apostolic School. The addition to the teaching staff for the final term of the academic year of a cheerful and iconoclastic Dennis Murphy was a breath of fresh air to what had been a confining and stuffy routine. Shortly after he had been given some duties at the Apostolic School, I paid a visit to his room and was surprised to find him seated behind a large desk that had absolutely nothing on it. I asked him didn't he have anything to do and his answer was that he was busy purifying his intention.

At the start of the following year Noel Mansfield and I followed Dennis down to Croydon Monastery where we enjoyed 4 years of Scripture Studies from a 'guru' who had been intellectually liberated by the exegetical insights that followed on Pope Pius XII's ground-breaking encyclical "Divino afflante Spiritu" which the eminent bible scholar Raymond Brown would later describe as a 'Magna Carta for biblical progress'.

Interestingly enough, to use the simplistic division of theologians into the two categories, liberal and conservative, the Dennis Murphy of those days was quite liberal in his theological outlook. I believe with the passing of the years he moved quite distinctly to a more conservative hermeneutic, both in doctrinal matters and in religious praxis.

However, back in those early days, for 11 years, Dennis taught an up to date Scriptural theology and the languages of the Bible at Croydon Monastery. Subsequently, he never lost his interest in and love for Sacred Scripture and in its correct interpretation. I am sure he could have made a noteworthy career as a Scripture Scholar, but being a multitalented person meant he had to forego some possibilities in order to advance other options, ones that in his view had a higher priority. As it was, Dennis authored several books on Scriptural topics, as well as others dealing with our MSC charism and mission and the meaning of a Spirituality of the Heart.

In 1969, at the end of his 11 years teaching at Croydon, he transferred to St Paul's Late Vocation Seminary, where he was successively Lecturer for a year, Acting Rector the following year and then Rector for four years.

At the Provincial Chapter held late 1974, he was elected Provincial Superior. As Provincial he concerned himself with the welfare of the province's members in a very personable way, consulted widely and interested himself in our overseas Missions, with a special concern for our priests and brothers in Japan, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. He also had a special concern for MSCs working in the Northern Territory and for the wellbeing and overall development of Aborigines.

Dennis's 6 years as provincial from 1975 to 1980 witnessed great changes in the Church's outreach to the Indigenous. Halfway through that period Dennis asked me to go to the Top End. The Mission era was coming to a close and the Government espoused an approach of self-determination. Our Northern Territory Missionaries had traditionally been self-reliant men of grit and perseverance, with practical skills for pastoral work on remote aboriginal settlements and the capacity to endure isolation and a exacting lifestyle. The environment was challenging and outside support very limited. Dennis hoped for teamwork and a more unified approach.

In 1978, halfway through his six year term, Dennis oversaw the shifting of the Provincialate from Kensington Monastery to where it now is, at Treand House in Coogee.
After his term of office as Provincial finished, Dennis began 1981 as Parish Priest of Alice Springs. At the time I was the Religious Superior for the Northern Territory. Later that same year Dennis went to Rome as an Australian participant at the General Chapter and was himself elected as one of the General Councillors to the newly elected Father General, Cornelis Brown. This role was to last for 12 years. Dennis was a most trusted advisor of Kees Braun and both of them felt strongly that Missionaries of the Sacred Heart should be present in India. I was initially asked to spend some time in India, meeting Bishops and Provincials and after surveying the overall situation to draw up a comprehensive report for the General Conference held at Maracaibo in Venezuela late 1983. By this time both Kees Braun and Dennis were committed to the MSCs becoming established in India and as a consequence I spent the following 17 years there.

This is not the place to give a historical summary of the formation of the Indian branch of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. However its history and Dennis's story would eventually become entwined because ten years later, after finishing up in Rome, Dennis elected to go to India, where he ended up spending the next 20 years. Dennis' time in India and my time there had an overlapping period of nearly 10 years.

During his time in India, Dennis engaged in research into the voluminous writings of our Congregation's Founder, Father Jules Chevalier and endeavoured to communicate our Founder's message to our Indian seminarians. Later his research included further Scripture study, and when MSC India was marking its first quarter century, he wrote a history of the founding of the Indian Union itself. Up till now, however, this has not been published.
During the 3 years 2001 to 2004 he was Superior of the Formation House and Director of Students. For the following 4 years he was Spiritual Director for all our students on their way to priesthood.

Dennis led by example as much as by instruction. His was a piety of devotions: to the Sacred Heart, the Eucharist, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and to St Joseph. He felt that in many parts of the post-Vatican II Church, when people gave up the practice of traditional devotions, such as for example, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, they lost their interest in and commitment to the faith. Dennis also endeavoured to inculcate a simplicity of life and the practice of evangelical poverty, again by example. In this he followed Mahatma Gandhi's principle that we shouldn't ask others to do what we are not prepared to do ourselves. In this as in other regards, not all the disciples were able to imitate the Master.

With Dennis's passing, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have lost an iconic personality, a very gifted but simple man of God, a person greatly revered by the worldwide Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, dedicated to the best possible formation of so many religious and priests, and in these last 20 years, much loved by the many seminarians and parishioners who came to know him during his time in India.

During Dennis's later years in India he had more than one close brush with death. I remember one morning when I came across him, his face an ashen grey colour. He had had a cardiac episode during the night but didn't want to disturb anyone. We rushed him to the nearest hospital where the doctors told me he had only a few hours to live. But Dennis lived another 15 years.

A few weeks before Easter this year Dennis had a fall, which he tended to make light of. Cellulitis ensued and one thing led to another. The last time I had a telephone conversation with him was during Holy Week. A few days later, on Holy Saturday, he was admitted to St John's Medical College Hospital. St John's is a Catholic Hospital under the aegis of the Indian Bishops' Conference. It averages about 5,000 outpatients per day. It is situated about six kilometres from our parish and main formation house in Bangalore, but because of the traffic, getting there by car can sometimes be not much quicker that by walking.

Whatever about that, Dennis was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit a week after Easter. When it seemed he had only a few days of life left to him, I went across from Darwin to accompany him during what was expected to be those final days. At best, he could only recognize people, smile occasionally and hear what they were saying. He was unable to speak. Often he was not conscious and not in a position to communicate whether he wanted treatment to continue. The doctors were committed to doing everything they could to stabilize him but the 5 weeks in Intensive Care ultimately saw him deteriorate to the point of no return.

The Indian Missionaries of the Sacred Heart want to pay tribute to the doctors and staff at the St John's Hospital for the care and attention they showed Father Dennis throughout his illness. And I would like to acknowledge the practical concern, the unwavering care and affection that the MSC Community in Bangalore displayed towards Fr Dennis throughout his ordeal. During those final 6 weeks, there was always an MSC confrere in attendance at the hospital, night and day.

The MSC Union of India has asked me to pass on their condolences to the Australian Province. And, as I said earlier, we extend our condolences to Dennis's sister Catherine, to his nephews, nieces and other relatives present here today.

As we continue to celebrate the Eucharist this morning, thanking God for Father Dennis's life and achievements, we should remind ourselves of those words of Jesus that we heard this morning from the St John's Gospel: "I am the bread of life – he who comes to me shall not perish. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he shall live forever. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day".
Father Dennis had a special devotion to the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. At his prompting, the Taizé-style hymn, "O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine, all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine" is heard many times a day like a mantra at the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church and Formation House over there.
And Dennis had another favourite hymn. As a result of his urging, one now hears it at the end of Sunday Masses at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church in Bangalore. It is a rendition of the beautiful prayer called the Anima Christi, addressed to Christ in the Eucharist. It begins with the words:

Soul of Christ, sanctify me
Body of Christ, save me
Blood of Christ, inebriate me
Water from Christ's side, wash me
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
Then looking ahead to the fragility and mortality of the life of each one of us, it continues:
O good Jesus, hear me...
In the hour of my death call me
And bid me come unto You
That with your Saints I may praise You
Forever and ever, Amen.
"In the hour of my death call me and bid me come unto You."

In the hour of Father Dennis's death, we can believe that it was Jesus who called him and bade him to come to Him, so that with all the Saints he could be with God and praise Him forever.

And so, we can be sure that Father Dennis, who was so faithful to the teaching of Christ and his Mission, so devoted to the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and to his Mother Mary, under the title of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, is already enjoying everlasting life, peace and light in the Kingdom of God.

Movies & Priests.  Peter Malone msc

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Missionaries of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic religious order of brothers and priests established by Jules Chevalier in 1854 in France. The ‘MSC’ are dedicated to making the Sacred and Compassionate Heart of Jesus, known and loved by everyone, everywhere. The ‘MSC’ are also “Missionaries” and this characteristic also finds its way into the ministries it creates, one of which is music.

In Australia (and internationally) there are two MSC members who are well-loved and well-known for creating beautiful music used primarily in the Catholic Mass but also for private enjoyment be it spiritual or non-spiritual.

In the words of James Maher msc:

“Hymns and spiritual songs communicate a particular spirituality and a particular theology.

They can powerfully proclaim a gospel of love and liberation or they can narrow and distort the

gospel message. They can invite us into intimacy with a God who loves us, or they can reinforce

our fears and false beliefs. As a Missionary of the Sacred Heart, my desire is to live and promote

a spirituality consistently based on God’s compassion, revealed especially in the humanity of Jesus.

Through words and music, I desire to give expression to a spirituality that recognises the reality of

the Divine in the daily joys and struggles of life, and in the desires of the human heart.”