SYDNEY, Tuesday, 4th Oct 2022

The Edmund Rice Centre today released an informational resource for the wider community to help all Australians understand the importance and the detail of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Twenty Ninth Sunday of the Year

Jesus’ parables are deeply engaging and frustrating, as well as subversive little stories of an alternate universe made up of ordinary things like coins, yeast, wheat, sons, fathers, and widows. These very ordinary things reveal God in surprising, even shocking, or scandalous, ways.

Twenty Eighth Sunday of the Year

In Luke Jesus is forever crossing borders and seen in liminal places. On his way to Jerusalem to meet his fate, Jesus is at the border ‘between Samaria and Galilee’ where there is nothing, and people with nowhere to go gather. It is here that Jesus meets people. Crossing boundaries suggests that Jesus is changing places with outcasts and victims of fear and prejudice, untouchables, prisoners, and abused people. These outsiders, like the 10^th leper, the Samaritan, recognise what insiders miss. Do we examine our borders, neighbourhoods, social hierarchies, racial and class divisions to realise how much we may limit our encounters with God. Fear of differences deprives us from expanding our margins to meet new neighbours.