PAGE 1 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 3 Inauguration Mass Prayer Tips On a Lighter Note Upcoming Events Contact Details GREETI NGS! 1st Issue Greetings Catholic Mission Voting for the Newsletter Name School of the Word INSIDE... Ignite Conference Fonda's Wedding Silent Retreat Working Bee Archbishop's Canonical Visit 2 1 Welcome to the first issue of our “Word Down Under” Newslet ter for our Brisbane communi ty! We are happy to share with you all that we have lived and enjoyed here in the Brisbane. God has kept our community bus y in the last few months, finding many creative ways for us to collaborate with his urgent mission here in Australia. We are very appreciative of all the members in our apostolate and the wider community that have shown us their loving suppor t in many ways from helping wi th our working bees and preparation for our Inaug ural Mass, and to working together in order to place as many people as possible in personal contact with God. We also thoroughly enjoyed sharing the Silent Retreat and School of the Wo rd events. We hope you are inspired and filled with hope as you read all about it! 3 4 5 6 10 Verbum Dei Missionaries (From left to right): Gabi, Frances & Claudia 7 and 8
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Inauguration Mass
Prayer Tips
On a Lighter Note
Upcoming Events
Contact Details
GREETI NGS!
1st Issu
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Greetings
Catholic Mission
Voting for the Newsletter Name
School of the Word
INSIDE.. .
Ignite Conference
Fonda's Wedding
Silent Retreat
Working Bee
Archbishop's Canonical Visit
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Welcome to the first issue of our “Word Down Under” Newsletter for our Brisbane community! We are happy
to share with you all that we have lived and enjoyed here in the Brisbane. God has kept our community busy
in the last few months, finding many creative ways for us to collaborate with his urgent mission here in
Australia. We are very appreciative of all the members in our apostolate and the wider community that have
shown us their loving support in many ways from helping with our working bees and
preparation for our Inaugural Mass, and to working together in order to place as many
people as possible in personal contact with God. We also thoroughly enjoyed sharing the
Silent Retreat and School of the Word events. We hope you are inspired and filled with
hope as you read all about it!
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V e r b u m D e i M i s s i o n a r i e s ( F r o m l e f t t o r i g h t ) : G a b i , F r a n c e s & C l a u d i a
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Along with the Federal elections, the missionaries had their own set of voting….for the name of the Verbum Dei Brisbane Newsl etter. The
missionaries said, “We thank everyone for their creativity, collaboration and love towards brainstorming the Newsletter name! The Holy Spirit
inspired some very creative and wonderful names. We are sure it was difficult for everyone to vote for their preferred name!” Here are all the
suggestions:
Testify
Witness
The Messenger
The Word
Voice of Truth
God News
Pax
Shine
Inspire
The Spark
The Flying Dove
Voice of Hope
Grace
The Good Shepherd
Epistle
Expression
Freedom
Authentic Expression
True Light
Light
Be
Be and Live
Total Expression
Entrusted
Chesed (Hebrew for Love with
mercy)
Milah (Hebrew for Spoken
Word)
Spoken Word
Lived Word
Gather
Ahavah (Hebrew for Intimate
Love)
Illuminate
Empower
Seeking Peace
Finding Truth
Way to Eternity
True Happiness
Real Love
Freedom through Loving
Unending Love
Continuing Hope
Sowing the Seeds
The Sower
The Word Speaks
Planting The Word
Connect
Connected
The Vine
The word is alive
The lamb of God
The light in the darkness
The Word is Tangible
Tangible
Tangible WordTangible WordTangible Word
SEED
SALT
True Word
Word of Hope
Word of Truth
Enlighten
Saving Message
Living Word
Word Broken Open
Illumination
Heading North
Word Down UnderWord Down UnderWord Down Under
Word Down South
Word Around
Word Surround
Surrounding Word
Encompassing Word
The Family of God
Foundations
Corpus Christi
The Disciple ScrollThe Disciple ScrollThe Disciple Scroll
Dialogue with God
The Word Dialogued
Disciples
Intimacy with God
The Word Encountered
Encountering the Word
The winning name was WORD DOWN UNDER whereas the runners up were TANGIBLE WORD and THE DISCIPLE SCROLL
CATHOLIC MISSION This year the missionaries have continued to participate in giving their missionary testimonies throughout the Archdiocese of
Brisbane in order to help Catholic Mission fundraise for the different
projects that Catholic Mission is undertaking in Australia and around the
world. We have had the opportunity to meet many different people from
different parishes within the Archdiocese and to experience their
sensitivity to the suffering and needs of our brothers and sisters who are
less fortunate than us due to famine, injustice and ignorance. We
especially have the privilege of sharing our missionary experiences during
our time here in Queensland and the importance of being missionary in
every situation with our testimony of l ife and our openness to share our faith with the people that God places in our path.
VOTING FOR THE NEWSLETTER NAME
Gabi with Catholic Mission Ambassadors and Tamara after an appeal
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We have finished a ten week journey deepening on Christian Spirituality.
In this section we are going to stop and take a look back on what we have
learnt so far.
In the world around us we hear the word “spirituality” thrown around
often, as we heard in one of the talks, and it is quite common to hear people
say: “I am spiritual but not religious.” So today let us take a moment and
think: “What is Spirituality?”
There are various spiritualties within the Catholic Church which emphasise
different aspects about the life of Jesus. Furthermore, each spirituality
doesn’t just stop at emphasising an aspect but rather attends to ‘God’s will’
through that aspect, i.e. faithfulness to each spirituality is a way of living in
union with God and living out the Gospel. We looked at different aspects of
Jesus’ life and then saw how to live out these aspects in our life.
Week 1 We started with the Verbum Dei Spirituality which is a
combination of the contemplative and active aspects of Jesus’ life. We saw
that Jesus always spent time in prayer and lived in union with God the
Father and let the Holy Spirit guide everything that he did. However, he
also lived out his mission (the active part) by preaching the Word of God
wherever the Spirit led him (Luke 4:42-44, Luke 4:1-2). We were then
invited to live this out….
Week 2 We were invited to connect with the same Spirit who moved
Jesus to cure all the diseases around Him and to collaborate with
Jesus in the healing of the wounds of the world.
Jesus was able to cure any disease because He loved the people
regardless of their illness: “Great crowds came to him, having with them
the lame, the blind, the deformed, the mute, and many others. They placed
them at his feet, and he cured them” (Matthew 15:30).
What kind of love is God inviting us to give so that we can “cure” the
realities of our brothers and sisters?
Week 3 In the third week we looked at the life of Christ as an itinerant
missionary. He was constantly on the move and it was the Holy Spirit that
guided his movement (Luke 4:42 “I must proclaim the good news of the
kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent”). As
his disciples we too need to be more itinerant (not busy) and be constantly
moving (internally) to become more Christ-like (Luke 4:42-44).
Week 4 One aspect of Jesus’ life that stands out was that he constantly
attracted crowds of people wherever he went. This is because he wasn’t just
a teacher but he also lived out what he taught. He made the kingdom of
God a reality by living in a personal relationship with God and with those
around him. Through the passage of the Samaritan woman Jesus taught us
that to connect with someone, we need to first be humble and open to
whatever they might have to offer to us and then to begin to share with
them our experience of the life giving water (i.e. God) and teach them how
to live in a relationship with him (John 4:1-26, Luke 17:20-21).
Thus through the theme of Christian Spirituality throughout the past
couple of months may we learn to live our life to the fullness (i.e. the life
that we were created for) by living in communion with God and our
neighbour. Let us turn our focus towards Jesus, not just looking at him and
admiring him but imitating him.
(*N.B. To continue reading the summary of the other weeks, please see our
webpage: www.verbumdeibrisbane.weebly.com).
(Lynn Nazareth)
SCHOOL OF THE WORD
CHRIST IAN SPIRITUALI TY (MAIN READINGS)
Week 1 : The person of Je sus: His active and contemplative
aspect (Prayer and Preaching) (Luke 4 :42 -44, Luke 4 :1 -2)
Week 2 : Jesus’ mission as the healer (John 9:1 -10)
Week 3 : Jesus an itinerant missionary (Luke 4 :42 -44)
Week 4 : Jesus the teacher (John 4:1 -26, Luke 17 :20 -21)
Week 5 : Jesus taught by questioning and challenging people
(Luke 15:1 -7)
Week 6 : Jesus Proclaimed the Kingdom with his te stimony
of Li f e and Words ( John 2:1-11 ; Mathew 5:1 -12; Romans
10:13 -15)
Week 7: Living in solidari ty with others (Luke 10:29-37)
Week 8 : Inviting others to live in solidarity (Exodus 3 :7 -
10; Deuteronomy 31:1 -8; Joshua 1:1 -8)
Week 9 : Human dignity (Luke 19:45 -46; John 2:13 -17.)
Week 10: Fullness of human dignity (Gen 37 :26 -28,