Blessed are you - East Gippsland blessed are you who walk the scorching beaches and shelter in the ocean brushing burning embers God beside you blessed are you who weep with grief and sorrow and bear an ashen image of a life of green and growing God beside you blessed are you who face the firestorm’s fury and volunteer for…
Pope Francis’ 52nd World Day of Peace message in the year 2019, invited us to reflect on the theme “Good politics is at the service of peace”. The Pope’s message was that politics, though essential to building human communities and institutions, can become a means of oppression, marginalization and even destruction when political life is not seen as a form…
1. Peace, a journey of hope in the face of obstacles and trial Peace is a great and precious value, the object of our hope and the aspiration of the entire human family. As a human attitude, our hope for peace is marked by an existential tension that makes it possible for the present, with all its difficulties, to be…