Twentieth Sunday of the Year

‘God is like … mama, who doesn’t think supper is over until the last child is seated and fed’.

Your God is too small.. and so is our notion of what God expects…. What is God thinking about in these times of war, when the gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening and our rulers have abandoned the ideals of equality and justice? In such times God’s heart aches and it is a sin to be silent.’

Janes A Forbes Jr, Whose Gospel?

The Edmund Rice Centre wishes a warm welcome and congratulations to the Hon Senator Malarndirri McCarthy - Northern Territory stepping in as the new Minister for Indigenous Australians. We also extend a sincere thank you to the Hon Linda Burney for her work in the role.

Nineteenth Sunday of the Year

In John’s Gospel, Jesus confronts his listeners with the stark truth of why he has come, and what is needed to benefit from what he offers them. Today, Jesus is speaking about a personal God, a God among them, a God who can be touched and moved by the sight of people in distress. He claimed that he was the human face of God – God’s mercy and goodness. The ‘I am’ refers to God. Who does ‘this son of Joseph’ think he is?  People were not open to his identifying with this God and being sent by God. His, ‘I am the bread that came down from Heaven’ angered them. This had implications for them and for us. Can we be touched and moved by people in distress? His teaching by and large fell on deaf ears because what he was saying seemed too good to be true.