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As It Is In Heaven
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The fourth gospel
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Contemporary Art and Worship lecture
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To end the day
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Mission as Dialogue lecture
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Behind the Scenes at the Vatican lecture
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Pacific Calling for Climate Justice: A human rights framework?
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Making a Noise, Making a Difference: the media and social justice
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What happens when the goal posts move?
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Be still and know that I am God
As It Is In Heaven
Marie Biddle RSJ will facilitate a series of reflections based on the film,
As It Is In Heaven at the Aquinas Academy, Sydney, on the five Wednesday nights of October, from
October 1-29; 6-8pm ($90 per person; enrolments ahead of time appreciated)
The Fourth Gospel
Br Brian Beggs FMS will lead participants in an introduction to the fourth Gospel over five Tuesday mornings, from October 7- November 4, 10am - noon, at the Aquinas Academy, Sydney ($90 per person; reservations would be appreciated)
Contemporary Art and Worship lecture
Rev Dr Tom Elich will present Contemporary Art and Worship, the inaugural lecture in a three part free series, Christian Art and Spirituality Series. Dr Elich is the Director of the Catholic Liturgical Commission (Archdiocese of Brisbane), Director of Liturgical Studies at St Paul's Theological College and parish priest of Bulimba. He has been involved in international bodies including the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and the International Liturgical Society. He continues to take an active interest in contemporary art in Australia and overseas. Organiser say the talk will be of interest to professional artists, students of computerised and other visual art practice, textiles, jewellery, architecture, sculpture, theology, religious studies, and liturgy, as well as to the spiritually literate. The lecture, sponsored by COSSAG, the Cathedral of St Stephen Art Group, will be held on
Thursday, October 9, at 6pm at the Francis Rush Centre - next to the Cathedral of St Stephen, Elizabeth St, Brisbane. Acceptances and enquiries to
mollyjon@tpg.com.au
To end the day
The Choir of Newman College (University of Melbourne, featuring music from the Italian renaissance, will present Compline and Reconciliation by Candlelight on Thursday, October 9, in the Newman College Chapel, at 9.30pm This traditional evening prayer of the Church offers an opportunity for meditation at the close of the day. No admission charge and all people are welcome.
Mission as Dialogue lecture
Mission as Dialogue: Communicating in a Multicultural Church will be presented by Sr Mary John Kudiyiruppil SSpS - International Mission Secretary of the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, on Saturday, October 11, from 2 - 5.30pm at the Holy Spirit Home Function Room - 736 Beams Road, Carseldine, under the auspices of Australian Mission Network of Catholic Religious Australia (gold coin donation)
Behind the Scenes at the Vatican lecture
Mary Wright IBVM, a former Superior General of the Loreto Sisters international institute will present a public lecture
Behind the Scenes at the Vatican, in October. Drawing on her experience of Church government during her eight years in Rome as the world leader of her order, she explore some of the mythology and reality of the Vatican. Sr Mary has a doctorate in Canon Law from St Paul University, Ottawa, as well as degrees in Science, Education and Theology from Melbourne and Monash Universities and the Melbourne College of Divinity. She leaves soon to work at the Vatican in the Congregation for Religious.
The lecture will be presented at The Oratory, Newman College, 887 SwanstonStreet, Parkville, on Monday, October 13, 5 - 6 pm on behalf of the Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre.
Happiness ... among other things
Assoc Professor Michael Horsburgh (ret) will facilitate a series of conversations. Topics of conversation will include: The idea of happiness and how it appears in our society; can we have happiness without sadness? Is "well-being" the same as "health"? Is "disability" consistent with "well-being"? Is "healing" the same as "cure"? Do the Gospels and the healing miracles help us? These conversation will be held on Monday mornings from October 13-November 3, 10am - noon at the Aquinas Academy, Sydney. ($72 per person; reservations would be appreciated)
Pacific Calling for Climate Justice: a human rights framework?
This forum will open with Indigenous representatives from Australia and the Pacific speaking about the affects of climate change on their people.It will explore how an effective human rights framework can respond to calls for climate justice from our Pacific neighbours.
- What structures are currently available internationally that can be applied in Australia's neighbourhood
- What structures are currently available nationally that can be applied in our neighbourhood?
- Where are the gaps?
- Where are the stresses emerging?
- What structures do we need to put in place for the future?
The forum will be participatory and is open to as broad a range of organisations as possible. All who participate will be contributing to the outcome which will include
recommendations to be taken to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Pozan, Poland in December this year.
The Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) was initiated in 2006 by the Edmund Rice Centre. It began by inviting the support of the Catholic Education office in Wollongong, the GoodSamaritan Sisters and other organizations and individuals with Pacific connections. Since then, the Partnership has grown and endeavoured to put before the Australian community - and more recently the global community - the issue of climate change and how it is and will continue to affect our low lying Pacific Island neighbours.
The forum will be held on Saturday, October 25 from 9am-5pm at the Gleeson Auditorium, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield NSW. Cost $60 / $30 /$10.
Making a Noise, Making a Difference: the media and social justice
The Mary Ward Justice Lecture, Making a Noise, Making a Difference: the media and social justice, will be presented in Sydney at the end of October. Julian Morrow (The Chaser) and Maxine McKew (Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood, Education and Childcare) will hold a conversation facilitated by Anne Maria Nicholson (ABC) at Loreto Kirribilli, Sydney, Wednesday, October 29, 6.30 - 9pm. Entry is $10 and bookings are essential as seating is limited.
What happens when the goal posts move?
Religious, their colleagues and for those caring for aged religious have been invited to attend a seminar day, What Happens When the Goal Posts Move? lead by Sr Meagan Brock RSJ and organised by the CLRI (NSW) Aged Care Task Force. It will be held at the Good Samaritan Centre, 2 Avenue Road, Glebe, from 9.30am-3.30pm on Friday, October 31. The cost of $65 will include morning tea and lunch. Registrations are needed by October 16.
Be still and know that I am God
Centering prayer - Christian meditation and contemplation: a day with Trappist monk Fr William Meninger OCSO on his first visit to Australia. Each year Fr Meninger takes a limited time from his silent monastic life at St Benedict's Abbey, Snowmass, Colorado to travel and teach contemplative prayer. While in Australia, Father Meninger will present Christian meditation in the form of Centering Prayer as a teachable process that enables the ordinary person to enter into the experience of God He has written extensively on forgiveness, the loving search for God and on contemplative and centering prayer.
November 8 - Institute for Mission, 5 Marion St. Blacktown NSW 2154 (10am-4pm, cost $25 includes morning tea and light lunch)
November 9 - "Marymount" David Road, Castle Hill. NSW (10am-4pm, cost $25 includes morning tea and light lunch)
November 12 - The Crypt of St Patrick's Church in The Rocks - enter off Grosvenor Street , 10am - noon and repeated, 6 - 8pm. ($20, sponsored by the Aquinas
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