Letters

The power of one (letter)

Brian Harris

Contents - Jul 2004 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Separation of Church and State? - Michael Gilchrist Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion - Michael Gilchhrist Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer - Joanna Bogle News: The Church Around the World Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond - Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation - Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain: 'Sure, it's a bit of a hill' - Paul Russell Letters: Synod (letter) - Lance Eccles Letters: Courageous lead (letter) - Tom King Letters: Ineffective system (letter) - John Mulholland Letters: Catholic schools (letter) - George Simpson Letters: Dating the Gospels (letter) - Fr G.H. Duggan SM Letters: Informative talk (letter) - Frank Bourke Letters: Gay lobby (letter) - Alan A. Hoysted Letters: Abusive letters - Maureen Federico Letters: Christian models (letter) - Brett Powell Letters: Christians the most vilified group (letter) - Arnold Jago Letters: Disappointment (letter) - Cathy Cleary Letters: The Passion of the Christ (letter) - June Forester Letters: Parish concerns (letter) - Peter Gilet Letters: No kneelers (letter) Letters: The power of one (letter) - Brian Harris Letters: Sacred Heart (letter) - V. Mulligan Letters: CD response (letter) - Melanie and Christopher Duluk Books: Flee To the Fields - The Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement - Peter Chojnowski (reviewer) Books: An Essay on the Restoration of Property, by Hilaire Belloc - John Ballantyne (reviewer) Books: Ethics and the National Economy, by Heinrich Pesch - John Williamson (reviewer) Redemptionis Sacramentum (Sacrament of Redemption) abridged version - Fr M. Durham Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books Reflection: No time to pray? Try contemplation - Fr Leo J. Trese

The power of one can be amazing, such persons as:

* The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, who lived under the Nazis and the Communists and saved poor Jews at the risk of his own life. When he goes to God he will have the title of "Pope John Paul II the Great".

* Bob Santamaria played a major part in saving the Australian people from the all too real threat of communism.

* Archbishop Daniel Mannix, who strove to strengthen and direct Catholicism in Victoria and beyond in a practical and saintly manner, and helped many people to see there is a crucial link between church and state.

* There are those people who do their humble jobs to a heroic degree and who offer their works to God.

* Lastly, Saint Thomas More of whom it was said that in season and out of season, come what may, he put his God first and paid for it with his life.

BRIAN HARRIS
>Hadfield, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 17 No 6 (July 2004), p. 15