BULLETIN 22 NOV 2020
PARISH
Federal Member Dave Sharma MP inspired by Canice’s Kitchen
Our Federal Member, Dave Sharma MP, visited Canice’s Kitchen this week. He was impressed by the Kitchen’s sustainability and ability not only survive but to grow through COVID. Alongside a daily meal service, the Kitchen now provides additional support to its guests. In addition to regular visits from Orange Sky Laundry and Thread Together, we are providing weekly access to St Vincent’s Homeless Health, an employment and coaching service, as well as a community participation program which will offer guests the chance to work alongside qualified chefs to gain skills and confidence.
BULLETIN 15th NOVEMBER 2020
33rd Sunday of the Year, World Day of the Poor, end of NAIDOC week, priestly ordination and mass of Thanksgiving for Eka Tanaya SJ, Confirmation of 3 children by our Bishop (with International Children’s Day on Friday), 40th anniversary of Jesuit Refugee Service!
The Bridge Community Newsletter November 2020
The Bridge Community Newsletter November 2020
Dear friends,
The year is fast coming to a close and I want to give you some of the flavour of our two houses. Recently I had a visit from a young friend, Joe Finsterer. He is studying film production and has done a 5 minute video interview with myself on our life here in The Rectory.
BULLETIN 8th NOVEMBER
Preventing Exploitation of the Environoment he International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict calls to mind Pope Francis. The day itself is
an initiative of the United Nations. But like Pope Francis when he speaks of threats to human life, to peace or to our environment, the day speaks strongly and makes connections that we may have missed. The naming of this day brings together war and the environment, two things that may seem to be unconnected. The Pope, too, would have gone on to link these different scourges to inequality, which feeds wars and junks the environment.
Bulletin 1st November
The Communion of Saints –
At the beginning of November in the Catholic Calendar there is a flurry of heavenly feasts. All Saints Day, which celebrates those who are in paradise, is followed immediately by All Souls Day, with its focus on the dead who still need our prayers. The feasts themselves go back to early medieval Catholicism. They became a source of division at the time of the Reformation when the preoccupation with releasing souls from purgatory was seen by the Reformers as manipulative, mercenary and lacking in a proper trust in God’s mercy.
BULLETIN 25TH OCT 2020
Love: what’s the big deal?
Your friend has just fallen in love. The couple talk for hours, but when you try to get details of who this other person is, it’s frustrating because your friend hasn’t got much factual information at all!
Some people think that the opposite of love is hate. I don’t think so! You have to care about someone to hate them. Not having noticed they exist despite their being always around might be the opposite of love. Or is it when you know all their details, but have not taken the slightest interest in them?—they’re just a cipher, or a customer, or a client.
BULLETIN 18TH OCT 2020
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BULLETIN 11TH OCT 2020
BULLETIN 11TH OCT 2020
Who is my brother?
The upcoming movie ‘Francesco’ comes at a time when Pope Francis exhorts us to read and embrace his latest encyclical, ‘Fratelli tutti’ that he signed standing at the tomb of Saint Francis of Assisi last week..