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Moving from Denial to Sustainability via Wonder
Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington believes that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature.
Our goal should be to look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; to be spiritual is to be constantly amazed
-Rabbi Abraham Herschel
Haydn has degrees in Ecology, Eco-toxicology (MSc) and Social Ecology (PhD). Time: 9.30am-12.30pm.
Place: Catherine McAuley Room 6 Victoria Road, Parramatta, NSW, 2150
Parking: In grounds or church parking area opposite
RSVP: valda.rsm@gmail.com
- Mary Oliver
8 February 2019 - World Day of Prayer, Reflection and Action Against Human Trafficking
Pope Francis has declared the feast of St Josephine Bakhita, which is celebrated each year on 8th February to be the World Day of Prayer, Reflection and Action Against Human Trafficking. St Josephine Bakhita is the patron saint of victims of slavery and of Sudan. Australians are being urged to work together, through grass roots action and corporate governance, to end slavery around the world.
Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH), Catholic Religious Australia (CRA—) of which the Sisters of Mercy Parramatta Congregation is a member— and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) join the call for a fourfold commitment to: slavery prevention, victim protection, legal prosecution of perpetrators, and partnerships for change. This commitment begins with awareness raising and action to eliminate slavery in all its forms at a diocesan, parish, school, family and personal level.
Your Invitation to the 5th Australian Catherine McAuley Symposium
The Catherine McAuley Symposium is an initiative of the office of the Vice-Postulator for the Canonisation of Catherine McAuley.
We invite you to join us to hear Sr Mary Pat Garvin RSM (Americas) present 'Catherine McAuley - Social Mystic'Date: Saturday, 9 March
Venue: Catherine McAuley Rooms, Convent of Mercy, 6 Victoria Road, Parramatta
Parking: in grounds or chuch parking opposite
Details of the venues - any of which you are welcome to attend- can be found here (PDF)
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In the Service of the Transmission of Faith: December Prayer Intention of Pope Francis
We are all invited to join with Pope Francis and his worldwide prayer network in praying this month's intention: In the Service of the Transmission of Faith.
Let us pray that people, who are involved in the service and transmission of faith, may find, in their dialogue with culture, a language suited to the conditions of the present time.
Text of the video:
If you want to share your faith through the word, you have to listen much and carefully.
Let us imitate the style of Jesus, who adapted himself to the people He had in front of Him so as to bring God’s love to them.
Let us pray that people, who are involved in the service and transmission of faith, may find, in their dialogue with culture, a language suited to the conditions of the present time, in their dialogue with people’s hearts, and above all, by listening much.
- Pope Francis, December 2018
We invite you to post a prayer or reflection in our prayer space