Connection

August - September 2021 - #20

If our Saint Joseph was a refugee with Mary and Jesus today....  
Could we see beauty, goodness and truth in their journey to scale the border wall?

Inspirational Things

Year of Joseph

 

> New Prayer Cards available: You asked for it and now they are here! Unique St Joseph prayer cards available for your school, parish...

 

> St Joseph Resources + Journeying with Joseph: New Book by Mary Cresp rsj - fresh Josephite Essays for this year.

 

> New Mary MacKillop feast day: Seperate email with new image coming very soon...

Truth

 

> Towards an ever wider “we”: Discover truth via a new 5min video from Pope Francis to mark the annual World Day of Migrants and Refugees (26 Sept). “We are like so many grains of sand, all of us are different and unique, but together we can form a beautiful beach, a true work of art…"  + View the main WDMR website.

 

> The Box: This gorgeous short film (6min), freshly tells the truth about how life is for a child that happens to live life as a refugee…

Goodness

 

> Human Library: The short film "Unjudge Someone" shows us a way that everyone can embrace our neighbours... “Strength can come from our diversity but only if we embrace it.”  Discover more via this Ted Talk.

 

> Daily blessings: Short, powerful and good daily email blessings from the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids (they are free too!)

Beauty 

 

> Sharing the Faith through Art: Fr Orlowski says of his new painting of St Ignatius: “I think art is a great platform for ministry. ... Usually, in our ministries, we are limited to the so-called ‘Church Bubble’. It is very difficult to reach people outside this bubble” Read on...

 

> Praying with our creativity: Tips to help you, your students or community pray with a bit of beauty and creativity.

Food For Thought

 

“The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from [God]” 
~ Thomas Keating

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“Be kind to the poor foreigners. Remember that I was a foreigner once, and as such was never laughed at, nor unkindly treated.”  ~ St Mary MacKillop  

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“Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too.”  ~ W.E.B. Du Bois 

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