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Mission

Mission. “ “On Mission until our last breath.” 25 th General Chapter.

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Mission

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  1. Mission

  2. ““On Mission until our last breath.”25th General Chapter The past century is a large part of many of us...we are experiencing the continuing expansion of our self awareness. I believe we can and must be bridges...we are not finished...and we know bridges get walked on! We are facing a prophetic role no-one would have imagined forty years ago. It often seems to me a dark path – no-one has been here – no-one can tell us how to do it.. But the Holy Spirit, the Great Connector, is doing the guiding, and we know well that we can trust the leading of the Spirit. “Old men and women ought to be explorers, Here and there does not matter. We must be still and moving Into another intensity for a fuller union, a deeper communion... ...in my end is my beginning T.S Eliot Trust in the Providence of God

  3. Welcome “To undertake the Journey Without understanding the Destination.” Retreat Day 5 Welcome Back!

  4. In God and For God Jen Charadia

  5. In God and for God Mary MacKillop 1881

  6. Rising every day in God Hands that never fail for God Hope for the new day in God Instrument of love for God

  7. Every breath a breath in God Every word we speak for God

  8. In God and for God In God and for God

  9. Let us be ever in your grace Let all we do be done for you Awake to the presence we are in

  10. The work of our hands only for you

  11. In God and for God In God and for God

  12. All our strength contained in God Hearts that we might tend for God

  13. Every step a step in God Welcome to the stranger for God

  14. The ordinary done in God All our hearts desire for God

  15. In God and for God In God and for God

  16. Let us be ever in your grace Let all we do be done for you Awake to the presence we are in

  17. The work of our hands only for you

  18. Let us be ever in your grace Let all we do be done for you Awake to the presence we are in

  19. The work of our hands only for you

  20. In God and for God In God and for God

  21. “There are two futures: The one I Plan And the one that meets me! And the one that meets me ... Is God’s future.”

  22. One Inclusive Open Welcoming Whole Holistic Becoming Sent avposte,llw xlv

  23. From the Tradition The Four Marks of the Church Four Descriptors of Catholic Christian Community ONE • HOLY • CATHOLIC • APOSTOLIC

  24. ONE WTT Deuteronomy 6:4 `dx'(a, Ÿhw"ïhy> WnyheÞl{a/ hw"ïhy> lae_r"f.yI[m;Þv.WTT "Hear, O Israel! YHWH our God, is one! Leviticus 19:18 18…You shall love your neighbour as yourself: Luke 10:27 "You shall love YHWH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and …your neighbour as yourself."

  25. Apostolic ? Sent?

  26. MISSION Mission can be described as an encounter with mystery in unexpected places and in unsuspected ways.

  27. A Community ‘not on’ about something bigger than itself…dies

  28. Do Justice jP'v.mi

  29. Mishpat Context - Shalom ~Alv' God’s Will – Wish for Health, Wholeness, Healing, Liberation, Freedom for all humanity within the context of creation. The Goal of Salvation is Shalom Shalom – soteria> salus> salvation Derived from the Hebrew Root – to lift up – to redeem, to make whole, to deliver, to restore, to save[vy `[;yvi(Am [;veAhWhy"[.v;y> [;WvAhy>, Messiah, Hosea, Isaiah, Joshua Jesus

  30. Do Justice ~ Mishpat ~ jP'v.mi To uphold was is right according to the Tradition of YHWH’s Will (Shalom – Peace – Wellbeing - Health, Wholeness, Healing, Liberation from all from all that oppresses and denies and crushes Life) in both legal proceedings and in the conduct of Life. This justice is based on the kindness and mutuality which recognizes the needy and responds in ‘familial’ identification. To be in ‘Right Relationship’ with the Divine Presence in all (Self- Others - Creation).

  31. Mission ~ Discipleship ~ Service Hospitality – SacrificeThe Capacity to Transcend Diakonia - Koinonia Jesus called forth a collective movement – a community – not one individual leader to continue to live and proclaim His unique Vision of bringing about the Reign of God – here and now – in his time. Where two or three gather in My Name…there will be conflict – but I will be with you! Love one another – it is a simple and as difficult as that!. (Leunig

  32. Tika - Context Maori Spirituality a creation-centered spirituality. It’s foundation is God the Creator, the Source of all being. Its goal is to acknowledge, enhance and restore the Tapu of created things while acknowledging the Tapu of the Creator.

  33. Tapu- as Context for Tika Flowing from the Source - Matapuna A State of Well-Being – Having a sense of order A Sense of Peace, Joy, Mission, Outreach. Tapu= Things that bring dignitiy, worth and value to a person – and contribute to those things that are about a person. Tapu = Sacredness through the linkswithAtua.

  34. Tika is demonstrated through Tikanga which seeks to acknowledge, address, enhance and restore the Tapu and Mana of Atua, Tangata and Whenua. When Tapu and Mana are fully restored then dignity and worth, value and sacredness are brought to life in the “being” with the potential for power. Tika

  35. Journey ~ Risk ~ Trust

  36. Context of the School Community Implications for • Serving Community (teachers, auxiliary staff, BOT, parents, caretaker, local priest) • Children • Designated Leadership What custom, structures, processes would support the value of Justice/Right-Relationship/Tika?

  37. Time to reflect on Transformation – Transformation is a messy matter.The distance between an acorn and an oak, a caterpillar and a butterfly, a rally and a riot, a sinner and a saint…admits of many strange twists and turns.The scenes are not always beautiful. The process is not always painless.In the midst of transformation we can only be assured of unknowing. The past offers no hope of return. The future offers no promise of arrival.Attentiveness to the Journeybecomes the important activity but always in reference to the unknown.We must, as the Peruvian Proverbindicates…Create the Path…by Walking.

  38. Create a new heart, Holy God, beckon our lives through your word, open our eyes to your call, united as one for your world. Heighten our minds to your thoughts, heal us of pride and of hurt, may we go forth in your name we pray our hearts change. The heart of the cross, lowly and poor, calls us on. God, it is you promising hope, promising truth. Restless, the hearts who yearn for your peace in this land. Deepen the dream justice brings life, justice redeems. A New heart for a New World.

  39. The Spirit of God has been given to me And the giving has not been in vain. The Spirit of God has been given anew So that anyone seeking the truth, The life and the way May know Jesus Christ is God's name. Make sure your prisoners go free, Make sure your blind people see, Otherwise, I've wasted my time Walking around Galilee. Make sure the poor hear the word, Make sure your children are heard, Otherwise, I've wasted my pain Hanging there in my agony. Make sure the hungry are fed, That the homeless ones all have a bed, Otherwise, I've wasted my life Coming on back from the dead. Be sure when breaking my bread, That courage and joy have their head. Otherwise, I've wasted my love Pouring my spirit. my blood. Dream Lady – Kevin Bates

  40. Living from the Heart 1. Mary MacKillop... ‘had an extraordinary capacity to work in the way that the spirit of wisdom works. For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, incisive, unsullied , lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, shrewd, irresistible, beneficent, friendly to all human beings, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed. • She understood and treasured the gift, abilities and dedication of her sisters, and her assessment of the needs of the time, and of the Church structures within which she worked was insightful and accurate. • Above all, it is apparent that her life, her decisions and her actions grew from her profoundly living relationship with God. This was the deepest foundation and the keystone of all she was, did and decided.

  41. 2. Mary MacKillop’s way of being in the midst of enormous complexity inspires awe. In the midst of changing and seemingly chaotic conditions, the unreliable modes of Church authority, uncertainty at every level, with her primary consideration the well being of her sisters and her openness to the guidance of the Spirit, she somehow seemed to navigate the stormy seas of her times. She had the courage which is such a central component of any desire to change. She could see the big issues and she confronted them ...She was firmly planted in her own Centre, in her ground of Being, in her essence in God. She was ‘true in her heart’. This was her secret. Scripturally, the word ‘heart’ describes the centre and essence of the person, the pattern f their wholeness, and the dwelling place of God. It was a primary aspect of Mary MacKillop that she was true in her heart, and it was from this true heart that there came her capacity for spiritual discernment and her ability to see with clear perception. Seeing with the eyes of the heart as she did, she had the capacity to feel and express her emotions truthfully as she lived and spoke from her centre. Her letters reveal a woman ‘true in her heart’ as Jesus was true in his heart. It was deep in the heart of Jesus that she found her own heart. She writes, ‘when storms rage, when persecutions of dangers threaten, I quietly creep into its deep abyss. And securely sheltered there my soul is at peace though my body is tossed on the stormy waves of a cold and selfish world. Elizabeth Cain

  42. God’s Gift ~ Grace ~ at the Core of Spirituality Grace... God’s own Spirit imparted freely and immediately to all human beings. It is God’s own self-communication, which permeates the world at its inmost roots. Not a separate thing or a special gift that shows up every now and again, grace is the animating force of all human history, present even before Jesus Christ. Co-existent but not identical with our race, it comes to expression wherever people express their love in car for others, creative art, literature, technology, all the good, critical dimensions of responsibility, and trust, even in darkness. E. J. 42

  43. God Help us to change. To change ourselves and to change our world. To know the need for it. To deal with the pain of it. To feel the joy of it. To undertake the journey without understanding the destination. The art of gentle revolution May the Spirit of God shine through us today as we move on to create community for the sake of God’s Mission Amen

  44. Be Calm and Full of Hope

  45. We give thanks to the Spirit of God dwelling at the heart of our existence. May the Justice of God act through us. May the Compassion of Jesus shine through us. May the Spirit of Truth and Integrity guide us in wisdom in our lives and through our Ministry of Leadership Amen Blessing

  46. Safe journey Home Now0n your Cowasaki!! Ka Kite Ano!!

  47. We come inThanksgiving.

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