Welcome to our Read at Home service for this week.
We also honour the grace, wisdom and challenge of the stories of the First Nations that are offered to us in NAIDOC Week 2020.
https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/2020-theme
In ‘The Time is Now – A Call to Uncommon Courage’ (2019),
Joan Chittister, a well known Catholic nun, writes –
It is the unwavering faith and the piercing courage of people from every level of society …the prophets of each era who prod the rest of the world into seeing newly what it means to be fully alive, personally, nationally and spiritually.
…these average
but courageous people
who forever seek the truth
defend the weak,
bring the peace,
and always, always, always, stand up
to protest injustice.