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Edmund Rice Centre
for Justice & Community Education
Edmund
Rice Justice Bulletin
Christian Brothers
Provinces
St Francis Xavier Province Qld & Darwin & East Timor
St Mary's Province NSW & ACT
St Patrick's Province Vic, Tas, Ghana, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and
Zambia
Holy Spirit Province WA & SA
Christian Centre for Social Action
Presentation Society Justice Committee
Conference of Leaders of Religious Congregations in
Victoria (CLRCV)
Order of Friars Minor - Franciscan Friars
Sisters of St Joseph (NSW)
The Mary MacKillop
Institute of East Timorise Studies, St Susan Connolly
Prayer
THE MAGNIFICAT
The cantile of Mary (Luke ch 1 verses 46-55)
My soul glories the Lord
my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour.
He looks on his servent in her lowliness;
henceforth all ages will call me blessed.
The Almighty works marvels for me.
Holy his name!
His mercy is from age to age,
on those who fear him.
He puts forth his arm in strength
and scatters the proud hearted.
He casts the mighty from their thrones
and raises the lowly.
He fills the starving with good things
sends the rich away empty.
He protects Israel, his servent,
remembering his mercy,
the mercy promised to our fathers,
to Abraham and his sons for ever.
A CONTEMPORY PRAYER
Creator of nature and humanity, of truth and beauty we pray: Hear our
voice, for it is the voice of victims of all wars and violence
amoung individuals and nations;
Hear our voice, for it is the voice of all children who will suffer when
people put their faith in weapons and war;
Hear our voice when we beg you to instil into the hearts of all human beings
the wisdom of peace
the strength of justice
and the joy of fellowship;
Hear our voice and grant insight and strength, so that we may always respond
to
hatred - with love
to injustice - with total dedication to justice
to need - with the sharing of ourselves,
to war - with peace.
O, God hear our voice and grant unto the world your everlasting peace.
Amen
What you can do!
We urge Australians to request that the Australian government:
- Reconsider its obligations to East Timor, our neighbour, on grounds
of justice and fairness.
- On these grounds, provide more than fair terms
in the current Timor Gap agreements, to assist the new nation
to be self-sufficient and prosperous, to share our good fortune.
You can help by :
- SMS, phone or write to your local member of parliament
- writing to the appropriate members of parliament. See
the 'Submissions' link for details.
- buying a bumper sticker to both raise awareness of the issue with the
general public and to raise funds to help further continue this process
- sending us a donation. See
the 'Donations' link for details.
- educating others about this situation. Refer them to this website -
www.saveeasttimor.org
