The Pacific Calling Partnership, an initiative of the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education, has just released our 2022 Snapshot of Activities.  It can be accessed here and could be useful to anyone wanting to have a sense of what we do. 

Twentieth Sunday of the Year

Today’s gospel passage takes us into uncomfortable territory. Journeying from the land of Pharisees to the land of Canaanites, a woman - a Gentile, and an enemy -  forces Jesus to respond to the ‘bigness’ of God. Through a series of encounters with people, Pope Francis has in many ways reflected to us at the World Youth Day, and elsewhere of the wide embrace of God. No one is excluded which Pope Francis reminds us of when he says, ‘all are welcome.’ There are no exceptions. In Isaiah, God says, “‘I will bring foreigners to my holy mountain. I will make them joyful in my house of prayer, says the Lord, ‘for my house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples’”. 

A Juster(ER) Generation is a podcast series from the Edmund Rice Centre about conversations that matter.

In this episode ‘Alopi talks to long time Justice through the Arts Ambassador, author, screenwriter and many other things Melina Marchetta. Melina speaks to her journey to social justice and why the arts are an important way to raise awareness but also advance outcomes in social Justice.