The Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education (Pacific Calling Partnership initiative) supported a tour to Sydney and Canberra of two prominent Pacific Elders- His Excellencies Anote Tong, former President of Kiribati, and Tommy Remengesau Jr., former President of Palau. A public webinar was jointly hosted by The Australia Institute and Edmund Rice Centre.

Twenty Fifth Sunday of the Year

We are a shrewd lot in this world

If there is a buck to be made

We will make it

If there is power to be gained

We will gain it

If there is a way to come out on top

We will damn the ones below

As we climb

We are a shrewd lot in this world

Twenty Fourth Sunday of the Year

The three stories Jesus tells us are how God feels about each one of us. We see God’s passion for all people; and God’s mercy and compassion is to recover, restore, all that is lost. They speak of God’s passion who looks at our world. How do we share that passion in our desires for the world and its people? When facing complaints about his poor taste in dinner companions, Jesus responds with these stories. The image that emerges is that God is not reasonable in human terms because God’s favourites are the broken people who we rub shoulders daily.