{"id":25,"count":3,"description":"St Vincent’s community, Redfern has been celebrating Sharing the Journey since 2002.\n\nSharing the Journey is a series of reflections, a forum for guests from all walks of life to share a little of their life experience with others. It is normally held after the Sunday 10am Mass.\n\nOriginally held on the third Sunday of each month at the 10 am Mass, the guest would speak after the Eucharist or at the end of Mass following a very brief sermon. More recently the Journey has been less regular, and occurs after Mass.\n\nSpeakers in previous years included:\n\n2005 Apr 24 John Hill<\/strong>\n\n Member of the St Vincent's community, civil\tcelebrant and ex-priest\n\n2005 May 29 Susan Connelly <\/strong>\n\n Sister of St Joseph, a Congregation founded by Mary\tMacKillop. She is well known for her work on behalf of the people\tof East Timor, and through the Mary McKillop Institute of East \tTimorese Studies.\n\n2005 Jul 10 Sr Carmel Leavey, Sr Mary Britt<\/strong>\n\n Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia & the Solomon \t\t\tIslands who have been working for some time with the Edmund Rice \t\t\tCentre researching what happens to those who are deported from \t\t\tAustralia. Some horrific facts have come to light. The following \t\t\tpapers give some indication of what this work has involved.\n\n\n CASE STUDIES OF DEPORTATION FROM AUSTRALIA<\/a>\n\n\n DEPORTED \t\t\tTO DANGER<\/a> (PDF Document 746kb) \t\t\tA Study of Australia's Treatment of 40 Rejected Asylum \t\t\tSeekers\n\n <\/a>\n\n EDMUND RICE CENTRE DEPORTEE PROJECT<\/a> (PDF Document 114kb) \t\t \t Kath O'Connor Worked with Asylum Seekers and Refugees for the past 10 \t\tyears.\n\n\n Prior to this ministry, Kath was involved in primary \t\teducation for 20 years. Kath's activities include Migration \t\tAgent, lobbying, advocacy especially for the temporary protection \tvisa holders.\n\n2005 Aug 21 Phil Glendenning <\/strong>\n\n Director of the Edmund Rice Centre. He is also the National \t\tPresident of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation \t\t(ANTaR) and the author of the Australian Citizens Statement that \t\tis the basis for ANTaR's Sea of Hands. With a background in \t\teducation, Third World development and political science, today \t\the is primarily involved in peace and reconciliation work - \t\tespecially with youth - in Australia, Northern Ireland, Israel \t\tand Palestine, Rwanda and Aboriginal Australia. Previously he was \t\tthe national adult education and information officer of Caritas \tAustralia.\n\n2004 May 2 Jeremy Nelson <\/strong>\n\n Poet extraordinaire and Community member\n\n2004 May 16 Fr Patrick McInerney <\/strong>\n\n Peace and Islam\n\n2004 Jul 11 Judy Hunt <\/strong>\n\n Jesuit Refugee Centre\n\n2004 Oct 16 Jim Coombes ,\tSean Flood <\/strong>\n\n Compassion from the bench\n\n2003 Feb 9 Ralph Townsend <\/strong>\n\n Community member and long time Redfern resident\n\n2003 Apr 6 Michael Kelly <\/strong>\n\n Rainbow Sash movement\n\n2003 Jun 8 Chris Geraghty <\/strong>\n\n Author of Priest Factory\n\n2003 Aug 9 Fr Brian Gore <\/strong>\n\n Social justice campaigner\n\n2003 Marie Bashir <\/strong>\n\n Governor of NSW\n\n2003 Sr Veronica Brady IBVM<\/strong>\n\n Academic\n\n2003 Damian Grace<\/strong>\n\n Academic\n\n2003 Dec 14 Venerable Bhante Tedjahammo <\/strong>\n\n Australian born Buddhist Monk Sangha Lodge, 20 Victoria St \tLewisham\n\n2003 Alan Hockey <\/strong>\n\n Community member\n\n2002 Feb 17 Patrick Dodson <\/strong>\n\n Chairperson of the Lingiari Foundation\n\n2002 Mar 17 Dr Helen McCue\n<\/strong>\n\n Rural Australians for Refugees\n\n2002 Apr 21 Bishop David Cremin <\/strong>\n\n Aboriginal Catholic Ministry\n\n2002 May 19 Peter Manning <\/strong>\n\n The media – truth and principles from a Christian \tperspective.\n\n2002 Jun 16 Rev Dorothy McRae McMahon\n<\/strong>\n\n Uniting Church\n\n2002 Jul 14 Fr. Mark Raper<\/strong>\n\n Jesuit Social Justice\n\n2002 Jul 27 Rev. Bill Crews<\/strong>\n\n Exodus Foundation – 6pm Vigil\n\n2002 Aug 11 Madi Scarf, \tThea Manning<\/strong>\n\n The Church and young people.\n\n2002 Sep 15 Mark Yettica-Paulson <\/strong>\n\n Lingiari Foundation\n\n2002 Oct13 Fr Tissa Balasuriya, OMI <\/strong>\n\n Renowned speaker and author Fr Tissa Balasuriya OMI, was the \t\tkeynote speaker for last weekends inaugural Australian Reforming \t\tCatholics Conference. Tissa is infamously known for his book, \t\t"Mary and Human Liberation" which led to his excommunication in \t\t1997. He has also been active as a founder and director of Centre \t\tfor Society and Religion in Colombo. Following negotiations with \t\tthe CDF, his excommunication was rescinded he went on to found \tEATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.)\n\n2002 Oct 27 Susan Moylan-Coombs <\/strong>\n\n Member of the Stolen Generation 2002 Nov 17 John Wijngaards Theologian, in Australia to attend the conference for the \tOrdination of Women in the Catholic Church\n\n2002 Nov 24 Olfat Mahmoud <\/strong>\n\n Palestinian Director of ??\n\n2002 Dec 15 Stephen Crittenden<\/strong>\n\n Religion Report, ABC Radio National\n\n","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?cat=25","name":"Sharing the journey","slug":"journey","taxonomy":"category","parent":9,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/9"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}