Download Bulletin for 24th & 31st October
Fr Hugh’s ALL SAINTS HOMILY
Wladimiro Costa Pereira, Renato Anglao,
Inspector Manzoor, Wayne Lotter, Berta
Caceres, Sr. Dorothy Stang. These are just a
few, a representative group of names, of
those who have been killed in recent years while defending people’s land, the land itself, endangered animals, the homes of indigenous people. I know you might be saying to yourself, ‘He is off on his Faith and Justice hobby horse again,’ and I have to admit that I am unashamedly doing so on this feast day of All Saints. There are many ways in which we can celebrate the saints, the great ones as Mary, to ourselves who St. Paul calls saints, but as the Climate Change
Conference opens, with many doubts as to its success, I want to celebrate those who give their lives for creation in different ways. Pope Francis, in Laudato Si said, “Here I want to recognize, encourage and thank all those striving in countless ways to guarantee the protection of the
home which we share.” That again is many of us, but some have gone further than most of us…