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November 2004

 

 

 

43 South 04 - a personal reflection

by Patrick Fernando, parishioner

 

 

The mission is over! But is it really?

It was certainly most uplifting to have the Ridley mission team join our parish family for a week. The messages were certainly most challenging, and I personally found some of these disturbing. Nevertheless, I think it is good to be shaken out of complacency to be faced once again about the challenge of being Christian.

Without a doubt the whole experience was an uplifting one.

But as Stephen Savage put it, the mission is not over, it is just beginning for us. What really worries me, is that in our own neighbourhood there are so many people who know hardly anything about the good news of our Lord. They know far more about the footy or Australian Idol than about Jesus. The message to me is clear, I have no choice but to talk to others that, 'God loves you and I love you and that's the way it should be.'

 

And now from left field...
'VJ and Tiger pipped on final hole'

from The Tournament Org PR

Saturday 4 September dawned, as usual on the Eastern Shore promising a beautiful day - and also mind-shattering golf.

To launch the PGA (Parish Golf Action) Championship, a sumptuous breakfast, cooked by imported chefs from overseas, Pierre and Gaston, was available to players, supporters and sponsors.

Six teams pitched, putted, procrastinated and plied their perfidious potential against each other, and the result went down to the wire. Four teams ended up with a score of 39, and the last team to finish handed in a score of 38, which means that in nine holes, if only one putt had shaved the hole instead of dropping, the championship would have been decided by a five-team play-off.

No result has been received from the sixth team, which reported in by satellite at 10.49 pm EST Saturday night, that they were experiencing great difficulty in finding their last ball in the seventh hole, and were very close to Lauderdale School.

Congratulations to all players. The winners cheque of $US 737 000 will be forwarded to the team manager, as soon as we can find the SPONSOR.