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IN MEMORY OF THE INITIATOR OF THE INTERFAITH MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA: THE JOYCE REBEIRO MEMORIAL LECTURE

The Joyce Rebeiro Memorial Lecture 

This lecture is in memory of our esteemed parishioner and friend , 

the late Joyce Rebeiro, 

a woman with strong social justice convictions and the strong courage 

and determination to make a difference.

Joyce’s legacy lives on as she continues to inspire us

to stand together for

Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation

(Editor's Note: 

Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation is a widespread movement within the Catholic Church.

This lecture is being organised by 

St Paul Apostle Parish

5 William Hovell Drive

Endeavour Hills, Vic 3802

26 September 2017

7.30pm to 9.30pm

The guest lecturer will be 

Sister Claire Griffin

Sr Claire Griffin has been a Brigidine Sister for over 40 years and during that time she has lived in different communities around Victoria and ministered as a teacher, a Deanery Resource Person, a Pastoral associate and a resource person with the Columban Mission Society. For the past 10 years she has been involved in International leadership within the Brigidine Congregation as well as doing some facilitation and planning with parish teams, parish councils and other groups. Since 2011 she has been an active member and volunteer with ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious against Trafficking in Humans).

The event is free but donations toward ACRATH are welcome.

Please register at

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/joyce-rebeiro-memorial-lecture-human-trafficking-tickets-34794785139

PLEASE NOTE:

In 1988, Joyce Rebeiro took up the groundbreaking position of access and equity officer in the City of Springvale. There she worked in her usual self-effacing manner to defuse racist and intercommunal tensions and was one of the instrumental founders of the faith communities network of Springvale. This was a first for Australia and it evolved into the interfaith network of the City of Greater Dandenong, which is widely recognised as the pre-eminent local government interfaith model in multifaith Australia …

THE INTERFAITH MOVEMENT

OWES MUCH TO JOYCE REBEIRO

Happy New Year to all the friends of the Ballarat Interfaith Network - "Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God"

This post was originally published on The Trad Pad on  2 January 2011.  

Happy New Year everyone ... 

particularly to those who did it tough this year.  

Please take on board the thoughts of Minnie Louise Haskins

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Happy New Year! May the year be kind to you and bring you blessings, wisdom, peace, and prosperity!  The last day or two has exhibited some coincidence. Firstly, Hay Quaker published, in toto, the poem The Gate of the Year by Minnie Louise Haskins.

 Minnie Louise Haskins

Picture from here

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year,
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown."
And he replied, "Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!"
So I went forth and finding the Hand of God
Trod gladly into the night.
He led me towards the hills
And the breaking of day in the lone east.
So heart be still!
What need our human life to know
If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife of things
Both high and low,
God hideth his intention.

Perhaps readers have heard this poem, or part of it, before.  It was made famous by the Christmas Speech of King George VI delivered in 1939.  You can hear the actual speech – it is quite moving given it is made at the time of the first Christmas of World War II – here.

Picture from here

Secondly, I decided to get out of the house for the first time since  Christmas Midnight Carols and Eucharist at All Saints, Mitcham and go to see the much lauded movie, The King’s Speech. It is the story of the relationship between the Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue, and King George VI.

The movie is being tipped as a frontline contender for an Oscar. In spite of competition from The Social Network in the bookies’ odds as set out here, it is hard to see how this movie could lose with its high proportion of former Academy Award winning actors.  The UK still produces the best actors – particularly in ensemble work as demonstrated in The King’s Speech – in the English speaking world.  However, it does an Australian heart good – particularly one coming from Queensland – to see and hear Geoffrey Rush mixing it admirably with such a talented cast. To think, this great man of Australian movies was growing up across Brisbane from me in the 1950s!

Those sitting around me in the packed movie theatre were clearly as impressed as I. 

I was however surprised at the ending. I don’t think, in such an historical movie, it is giving away much to describe the ending of this movie.  I thought the movie somehow would finish with the 1939 Christmas Speech. This is arguably the most famous, most remembered, and most quoted of all the King George VI’s speeches.  This doesn’t happen.  The movie concludes with the King’s Speech at the beginning of World War II.

Listen to the original speech here.