In Brisbane this is Black History Month
2 International Day of Co-operatives
2-9 NAIDOC Week
2 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday
9 – 15 National Diabetes Week
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Just Dates June
June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
3 Anniversary of Mabo Decision (1992)
4 International Day of Innocent Children / Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989
12 World Day Against Child Labour
12-18 Men’s Health Week
16 International Day of the African Child
17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
18-24 Refugee Week
23 United Nations Public Service Day
26 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking / International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
30 Introduction of Unemployment Benefits Australia
Some more Community Celebrations you might like to mark with me!!
Just Dates: May
30 April -6 Heart Week
5 International Day of the Midwife
6 World Labyrinth Day / / World Naked Gardening Day
6 – 14 Bike Week (Qld)
7-13 International Composting Awareness Week Australia
7 Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy / Mothers Day
8 – 13 National Volunteer Week
10-16 Schizophrenia Awareness Week
14 – 20 Food Allergy Awareness Week
15 International Day of Families / Al Nabka
17 International Day Against Homophobia / World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
21-28 National Palliative Care Week
22 International Day for Biological Diversity
25-31 Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories / Spinal Health Week
27 – 3 June Reconciliation Week
29 White Wreath Day / International Day of UN Peacekeepers
31 World MS Day
Community Celebrations you might like to mark with me!!
Just Dates March
11-12 Purim [Judaism]
12-18 World Glaucoma Week
13-14 Holi Mahotsav [Hinduism]
13-20 Coeliac Awareness Week
18 Earth Hour
21 Eliminating Racial Discrimination Day / Harmony Day / International Day of Nowruz / World Forestry Day / World Poetry Day / World Social Work Day
23-29 Arthritis Awareness Week
24 World TB Day
Just Dates October
1 International Day for Older Persons
4-10 World Space Week
9-15 Mental Health Week
10 World Day Against the Death Penalty
13 World Sight Day / International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
16-22 Anti-Poverty Week
17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
22 – 30 National Children’s Week
24-30 Disarmament Week
Jane Street Community Garden
A recent promotional clip for the Jane Street Commity Garden in West End. Thanks to Starts at 60 for the interview and opportunity to step into my new role as a garden ” expert”
Easter Feasting
Maquette for tapestry ‘Resurrection’ 1986 John Coburn
There are no eggs in this post. However you will find a feast of images, text and music that I am mulling on during the great season of Easter. This is a post that will be added to and developed as we explore the themes, the stories and the mystery of this celebration.
On Easter Sunday my Facebook feed included this beautiful set of images of the L’Arche Community in Syria:
فإن كنت وانا السيد والمعلم قد غسلت ارجلكم ، فأنتم يجب عليكم أن يغسل بعضكم أرجل بعض . يوحنا 13:14 غسيل الأرجل في السفي…
Posted by Alsafina – L’Arche Syria on Saturday, 26 March 2016
Jean Vanier has written a text on the washing of feet that invites us into the sacrament of touch.
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Image above: Mikhail Nesterov “The Empty Tomb,” 1889
Eastertide Reflection (Mk 15:40-16:2): The Women’s Witness of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection by Ched Myers
Welcome to Easter Monday, one of the strangest public holidays we claim in the land of the long weekend. In fact Tasmania even gets to have a holiday tomorrow for Easter Tuesday.
It doesn’t quite have the feel of Boxing Day with the sales and family BBQs. There are no Myer windows to watch a diorama. In fact whereas Christmas has a bit of cuteness with the Bethlehem creche., Easter is a bit hard to market with the image of an empty tomb. The Myer window in Brisbane that usually hosts a Nativity setting is plastered with an Easter sales poster this week.
Even the music is muted. Bing Crosby put “White Christmas” into the standard repertoire for December but his rendition of Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade is now just a curiosity. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir have outviewed him with their rousing rendition of Christ the Lord is Risen Today, but you won’t hear it at your local shopping centre.
The eggs and chocolates will be half priced today and will drop off the shelves by the end of the week to make way for the next eye catching marketing ploy for our holy dollar. Pity really that those advertising gurus don’t realise that there are 50 days of Easter and a pretty sizable market of Greeks, Russians,Serbs and assorted Orthodox will be doing it all over gain on May 1 without the advantage of aisles of edible bunnies.
So, the challenge is to baffle friends by wishing them a “Happy Easter” over the next 49 days as you catch up at the footy, the pub and the supermarket. You can really cause chaos by wishing the staff at checkouts a “Happy Easter’ as they have probably been re wired to chant “Have a nice day” for the rest of the year.
Today’s reading: The Challenge of Easter James Martin SJ The Wall Street Journal
Easter Glory 2016 St John’s Cathedral Brisbane
